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[edit] Name shortening

In the new series, the character is still called Lt. Theo Kojak, but a portrait from his early days in the police captions "Captain Theocrates Kojakias", suggesting that he shortened his (probably Greek?) family name.

Early in his career he was a captain but now he's a lieutenant? This sounds rather unlikely, especially since the contributor doesn't mention a demotion. Is there any way to verify this statement? The paragraph could also use some copyediting for clarity. Canonblack 22:48, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

I'd like to offer a screenshot of the image, unfortunately I can't. I might offer a reference: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439375/board/nest/19497277 , previous-to-last post (Mon Sep 26 2005 19:43:07). Might be wrong. Monkeycheetah 10:25, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Unfortunately message boards are not suitable sources for wikipedia. I've removed the section for now but if it can be better explained and referenced please feel free to reinsert it.--Opark 77 11:33, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Language

This page needs to be translated into English...badly. Can anyone make heads or tails of any of the run-on sentences in this article?

Sign your posts. Barely, but I did what I could. Unfortunately I had to jettison a lot of verbiage that was completely unparsable, so if someone notices something missing or if I "mistranslated" the garbage that went before, please replace.--Canonblack 19:16, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Much of the unreadable nature of the article was the work of Gcollinsii, who is now attempting to add more gibberish to the article under the guise of "more information". I've reverted his most recent changes, but I suspect he will continue to crap this article up until it's as unreadable as it was yesterday. The material he tried to add was a near duplication of two unparsable run-on sentences that I removed last night. I'm sorry, but I can't be diplomatic about this. I'm sure he knows what he's talking about, but he has demonstrated here and in other articles that he has zero ability to communicate it to others. --Canonblack 19:30, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

I've made another attempt to copy edit the article.--Opark 77 11:33, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] car

What car is Savallas driving? Maybe a 1970 Buick Skylark? I just can't make it fit... -- 790 09:48, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New York Police Shows?

"This show set the tone for three popular 1990s New York City crime dramas, Law & Order, NYPD Blue and Homicide: Life on the Street." - Wasn't Homicide a Baltimore crime drama? We should reword this. Celebith 11:40, 17 April 2007 (UTC)Celebith

[edit] THIS ARTICLE NEEDS SERIOUS REWRITING

This article needs SERIOUS cleanup .It is very poorly written. Ernst Stavro Blofeld 19:47, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

I have re-worked this article, modelling the style after the Fantasy Island article, which also features 2 series with the same name. I cleaned up some grammatical errors, divided article into relevant sections and also inserted infobox so it is inline with other TV show articles. I think it is much improved from before but if there are still some complaints post them here and I will see what upgrades I can make. HeMan5 03:58, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
  • I'm not a Kojak fan, but I'm sure that a real fan is able to get rid of the trivia section. The irrelevant information needs to be weeded out, and all the relevant info needs to be worked into the article proper. Kusonaga 16:11, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article assessment

I've had a look over this article as requested by Ernst Stavro Blofeld on my talk page. I have rated this article as start class because of the relatively short length and lack of important sections like critical response, production etc. and as mid importance because of the awards recognition mentioned. These categories are arbritrary and are subject to review by any editor who feels confident to do so. Please note that a more formal assessment by other editors is required to achieve good article or featured article status. I used criteria from the television wikiproject guidelines here, article about TV series guidelines here and the assessment guidelines here.

I think the first step to improving the article is to get some sources. Reviews are a good place to start as they often contain citable background information along with critical commentary. With the recent release of DVD boxsets there should be some around on the internet. The section on the reimagined series needs to be expanded. Some important information is missing regarding the original series - how many series were there in the first run? How many episodes in each run? --Opark 77 11:33, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] What does word *kojak* mean

Elvis Costello has an album named Kojak Variety, which I assume derives from some earlier meaning of the word *kojak*. I checked the [[[1]|Urban Dictionary]] but most of the definitions derived from the show, e.g. a bald white guy or to drive into an impossibly convenient parking space. Does anyone have an answer to this? Carl Ponder (talk) 18:39, 27 January 2008 (UTC)