Talk:Sandworm (Dune)

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[edit] Sandworm description

They are cylindrical creatures with no significant appendages, though with trifaceted jaws. Are the jaws described this way anywhere in the books ?, or is this taken from their depiction Lynch's Dune. If so then it's not canon. Harani66 13:03, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] General tightness, wording, some wtf moments

For instance:

Their experiences will be discussed below.

Not necessary.

What about adding the information from Brian Herbert's Legends of Dune prequel series? There it tells that a Zensunni inhabitant of Dune named Selim was the first to ride a sandworm.

Also, what does Paul Muad'dib's melange tolerance levels? It seems like more extended backstory than is needed.

I'm a wee bit new and could use some direction here as to whether I should really edit this or not. I didn't see much in the manual of style or the guidelines. --Desert moon 22:48, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

For dealing with BH's stuff, we seem to have settled on a consensus to cover it as thoroughly as FH's actual work but to clearly delimit where BH/KJA's stuff begins and ends (defaulting to FH stuff, in other words). --Gwern (contribs) 01:42 8 October 2007 (GMT)

[edit] References

This has been mentioned in other comments here, but the article needs a lot of references, probably line-by-line in most cases. There are no specific sources for the large amounts of "scientific" material and descriptions, and I have a feeling there is information from the Herbert novels, film, miniseries, prequels, Dune Encyclopedia and someone's imagination all mixed together. I'm putting this on my own to-do list, but in the meantime if anyone is feeling adventurous ...

Oh, and I fully intend to "be bold" and merge the sandtrout stub back into this article; there is really not that much unique material there (if any) and I can't image that there's an article's worth of material that could ever be added. — TAnthony^Talk 19:03, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

OK, I've merged sandtrout in and begun a major rewrite, including proper quotes and sources. I've removed a lot of the extraneous melange material that doesn't directly relate to the sandworms and is already in that main article. — TAnthony^Talk 04:43, 23 February 2008 (UTC)