Talk:Vampire hunter

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[edit] Dame Integra Helsing?

I changed Sir Integra Helsing to Dame Integra Helsing. I've seen a little bit of Helsing but not to a great extent, but since Integra is a woman her title should be Dame, the female equivalent to Sir. Does anyone else agree?

I don't know if she is referred to as such in the anime, but if she is referred to as Sir perhaps the storywriter just made a bit of a mistake.--Kiyosuki 07:06, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

I removed the reference entirely. This isn't an article on Helsing, it's an article on vampire hunters in general, so going into great detail on any fictional reference is pointless. You say you don't know if it's Sir or Dame, so leave all that for the peole working on the Helsing article to worry about. If we do decide to include any details from fiction, the most obvious one to expand would be the original Dracula novel's Abraham Van Helsing, the granddaddy of all vampire hunters. Articles should list things by how notable they are to the topic and notable in general. A lot of young kids here like to add a lot of info on anime or videogames because that's all they are familiar with, but then that doesn't make the references notable overall. DreamGuy 18:55, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Castlevania

Dreamguy I don't know if you play video games, or how you regard them, but mentioning Bloodrayne over Castlevania is just wrong. Castlevania is a long going series that everyone in gaming circles knows about and generally regards highly, and its known outside of gaming circles as well a lot more than Bloodrayne is. Bloodrayne may be getting its own film (Be Uwe Boll no less. Ahg), but its not even close to being as classic and well regarded a series as Castlevania is. I won't argue with you about any other detail but this one single detail. Please let it stay. Its like mentioning Dracula 2000 over Interview with the Vampire. Castlevania is to vampire fiction in video games, what Mario is to video games in general. If there has to be just one reference to a video game example of vampire hunters it should be Castlevania. This is the only change I ask you. I won't ask for anything else. Its in the long run a minor detail, but being someone who follows video games like a form of art I think its wrong to mention Bloodrayne of a classic and well known series. --Kiyosuki 12:03, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, evidence shows your claims are wrong. I've heard and seen BloodRayne for sale in stores, seen advertsiing for it, and even news articles mentioning it. Never heard of Castlevania except for on Wikipedia, where its fans seems deadset on listing it everywhere. BloodRayne also has the film, released now. It's far, far more notable that Castlevania. But thanks for (snicker) playing. DreamGuy 02:56, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Sorry Dreamguy, but the Castlevania series is a lot better known than Blood Rayne. Don't assume that it's not popular just because you aren't familiar with it.

If Wikipedia constitutes evidence, then there's something to Kiyosuki's claim. Castlevania goes back to 1986, BloodRayne only to 2002. The Castlevania article lists 23 games (plus related games); the BloodRayne article indicates there are two games (a third in progress), a comic, and a movie. Saying that BloodRayne is more notable than Castlevania is like saying CGI is more notable than cel animation.—TheCert 04:59, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removing Hellsing Reference

Erm.. Hellsing may be an organization however, I do think that the article blows it way out of the water. While hellsing itself is a fairly large organization its important to remember that they don't send an entire military after one vampire which is what the article suggest. I feel deleting the hellsing comment will not harm the article.