Talk:The Witcher

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Contents 1 Names, etc. 2 Loads of cleanup 3 Partial merge, rename, and cleanup proposal 4 Contradition needs fixing 5 Fair use rationale for Image:Wiedzmin plakat.jpg 6 HEXER band?

[edit] Names, etc.

Since it's now official that Gollancz will use "witcher" not "hexer" (along with CD Projekt), I changed the articles. I also made some minor changes:

• "The Last Wish" will be the name of the book in England
• "Baptism of fire" is more frequent form than "by fire"
• "season of contempt" is "okres pogardy", I see no reason for not using "time"
• the correct word for books is series not cycle
• added some missing capitals

[--anonymous]

I changed "contempt" to "disdain" as it seems more accurate. [--anon.]

[edit] Loads of cleanup

I've done all manner of cleanup. Some of the salient bits to keep in mind:

• Short story, article, TV episode, individual comic book issues/stories, and other "short bit" titles are put in "Quotes Like This". Names of novels, comic book series, TV series, magazines, games, etc., are Italicized Like This. If the comics have an overaching title, it should be done in italics, and the individual story names put into "quotes". A series name ("Blood of the Elves") should also be done in quotes, not italics.
• Until each story/book actually is translated and published in English, the titles of these works should be ordered, and wikilinked, in the following fashion, because the English titles are not titles at all, they are estimated translations, and thus if asserted as the titles they are bare original research guesses at what the eventual English titles will really be: Krew elfów (Blood of the Elves) (1994)
• Do not create redlinks to characters, empires, races, etc., in minor works of fiction like this. Such things should be described in the prose of the main article, and/or assembled into lists of characters, etc., in the the main article.

— SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 12:08, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Partial merge, rename, and cleanup proposal

Merge content in from Krew elfów that would help explain the Witcher universe. Clean up Krew elfów article (all those pointless redlinks especially). Rename The Witcher to Blood of the Elves or something else otherwise more descriptive of the fictional universe and of the series, and finally rewrite the article to be about that instead of about Geralt the Witcher as a character. Basically the 3-article set we have on this overall topic is a real mess - unfocused and confusing in intent, and does not agree with how we do things at the English Wikipedia. Compare Middle Earth and Lord of the Rings: One major article for the fictional universe, one for each notable work pertaining to it, and sub-articles on things like characters, races, etc., only when the main articles get too large and must be split, and even then only for notable examples - minor ones go in "List of..." articles (again, only when the main articles for the universe/works are so large that guidelines recommend that they be split; the lists should otherwise remain as sections inside the main article). — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 12:08, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

• Redlinks removed.
• Support page rename.
• Support rewrite.
• In current state, I don't support the merge, because it would only further clutter a page thats already messed up.

xCentaur |  talk  20:17, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Contradition needs fixing

The intro says that then entire series/universe is called "Blood of the Elves", but the section on the books implies that this really only applies to the novels. — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 12:08, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

As far as I know, the title actually only applies to the first novel of the series. --217.197.68.83 14:25, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Wiedzmin plakat.jpg

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BetacommandBot 04:50, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] HEXER band?

What has the HEXER band in common with the witcher to be mentioned in the links section with the link to their myspace profile? --SkyHiRider (talk) 17:07, 6 June 2008 (UTC)