Talk:Artemis Fowl (series)

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Artemis Fowl (series) was a good article nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There are suggestions below for improving the article. Once these are addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Reviewed version: July 23, 2007
Artemis Fowl (series) was a good article nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There are suggestions below for improving the article. Once these are addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Reviewed version: October 21, 2007

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[edit] Sixth Book: Small Information

I read in a magazine that book six will contain a character named Dr. Kronski, a hypnotherapist. It should be noted that the hotel Artemis stayed in during Opal Deception is called The Kronski Hotel.

Do you remember which magasine that was? If it's true, it would be great to add, but without a source, it's just a rumour. :(

At least Eoin Colfer mentioned it in his post on AFC-forum... --Ninnnu 19:33, 10 November 2006 (UTC)


K... Proof! Me —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.19.14.16 (talk) 15:12, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] title for the 'good guys'

Shouldn't there be a title for the 'good guys' part of the main characters section, seeing as there is a title for the villains part? - jlao04 07:35, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Yes, there definitely should be. -007bond aka Matthew G aka codingmasters 21:45, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Titles

If you look closely, the new covers change the titles of books 2-4 ever so slightly...

Are these title changes offical? Should the article names be moved? Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony is the only one with a definate "and the" title (i.e., that's the title it was originally released with), so we're fine there. I just wanted to check first.

First of all, this sort of thing belongs on the WikiProject talk page when there is one. Second of all, you are not the only person to of noticed this. I do not believe they should be changed, but a note should be put in the articles about this title change. -007bond aka Matthew G aka codingmasters 21:41, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Spoiler Warning?

Just browsing through here for info on the sixth book and i noticed there is no spoiler warning at all for the info on this page, despite the fact that the character descriptions and such contain some detailed events in the later books in the series. If i was still reading the first or second books, discovered this page, and without warning found out that Julius dies, Holly resigns and Artemis gains magic, I'd be quite annoyed. Now that i think about it, i cant see how keeping it as it is and just adding a Spoiler Warning will help any newcomers to this great series, they will be forced to look away from the page. I'd just cut down the character descriptions and make them less revealing. 82.10.87.36 18:25, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GA Failed

Hello, I failed this GA nomination because of several reasons. First there are no citations for a number of sentences. Things like "The author of the series summed up his books with the line, "Die Hard with fairies."" needs citations to links that verify that he did indeed say that. Another problem is the use of jargon that is unexplained. People who have absolutely no idea who or what Artemis Fowl is would be confused by things like "Hybras" (they won't know its an island in the middle of time which is inhabited by demons). See WP:MOSDEF for more information. Once these issues have been taken care of, put it up at WP:GA or contact me and I will be happy to review the article again. Thanks. --Hdt83 Chat 08:06, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Main Characters I've noticed in the main character list Minerva, Qwan and n01 have been listed. I do not beleive they deserve this status yet as they have only appeared in one book. It should also be taken into consideration that Cudgeon who is a major character in two of the books isn't listed here.

They missed a Bad Guy. There is a totally cool Russian Mafia chick who hires Mulch to break in and kill him (book four?) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.64.127.45 (talk) 02:22, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

I'm just going to keep adding to this as I work:

  • the phrase "child criminal mastermind" (first paragraph) sounds pretty awkward to me. Anyone have a revision idea?
  • There's a quote from one of the books on the character list, Juliet. I believe it's from the first book. Can someone confirm?
  • the phrase "criminal child genius" on the character list, Manerva sounds awkward too.
  • the phrase "video professional" under fairies, Argon confused me. I'm not sure what the author was getting at. Anyway, what's his official title?

Does anyone have ideas for anything that should be added to this page? justice 18:08, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

And I just noticed, on the movie section, it says confirmation is provided below for the film coming out in 2008... no it's not. Does someone have that, or should we rewrite that section? justice 12:55, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

  1. I have fixed it, does it seem better?
  2. It is from the third book.
  3. Again, changed.
  4. It was already changed. <DREAMAFTER> <TALK> 02:52, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Failed second "good article" nomination

This article is far from GA status. There is comprehensive lack of inline citations, with huge entire sections without even a single inline ref. The formatting of two of the scant references is unacceptable, being just a url. Titles, authors and retrieval dates for web references are a necessity. The article is also lacking entirely in some key areas. It's at this point no better than a list of characters. There should be prose section giving an overview of the entire series and its writing and publication history. There should be absolutely be sections on the sales, the critical reception of the series, and how the books compare to one another. VanTucky Talk 22:39, 21 October 2007 (UTC)




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Alot of schoolshave this whole seiries and alot of librays. But be aware that " Artemis Fowl: The eterny code" has barly any bad words. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.48.16.200 (talk) 21:29, 15 January 2008 (UTC)