Talk:Dwight Schrute

Dwight's secret offers

why was my paragraph on how to respond to Dwight's secret offers deleted?

Single-episode jokes are not encyclopedic. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Trivia belongs on a fan site, such as Dunderpedia. -- Raymondc0 02:20, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Dwight's Wildest Fantasy

why was my paragraph on Dwight's wildest fantasy deleted?

Single-episode jokes are not encyclopedic. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Trivia belongs on a fan site, such as Dunderpedia. -- Raymondc0 02:20, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Possible Convict?

Is Dwight an ex convict? Drug Dealer?

Wikipedia does not engage in speculation. -- Raymondc0 02:20, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Deleted Age Source

Not a fan myspace page. It is the real deal. It was created since the page managed by the actor who plays Dwight received too many messages and didn't have enough time to keep up his own live version of a myspace page (all this was on Pam's myspace page). This is why a "Temporary Dwight" was set up, not maintained by Rainn Wilson but just for the fans.

It's not entirely clear the page was created by Rainn Wilson. Pam's myspace page says that Rainn took down his page; it doesn't say that he created a placeholder. My reading was that a fan created the placeholder with the intention of giving it to Rainn if he decides to come back. Even if Rainn created it, the age presumably hasn't been updated as time passes, so it's not accurate. -- Raymondc0 14:37, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Age

Is there any evidence that Dwight is in his late 30s?

Grandfather

Couldn't the reference to Dwight's grandfather in an Allied Prison camp also be a rather dark joke about an unfortunate friendly fire incident? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 206.51.197.75 (talk • contribs) .

How es-Schrute of you. BabuBhatt 06:11, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Maybe we should take out the Amish Dweide Schrute reference, because that scene was cut from the actual episode.

It was cut originally, but they put it in an episode in season 2. Even so, Greg Daniels says the deleted scenes are part of the story, so it would still be accurate.

POW stands for Prisoner of War, so the hypothesis about killing fellow soldiers is pretty silly, and should be removed immediately. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.149.44.242 (talk) 03:07, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

One of Dwight's grandfathers was supposedly on the Nazi side; he makes reference in Dunder Mifflin Infinity to an attempted visit to his grandfather, hiding in Argentina, and then he mentions that his visa application was protested by the Shoah Foundation. Rick 13:08, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Bigoted?

I think calling Dwight deliberately sexist and bigoted is a bit of an exaggeration.

It seems to me that Dwight is influenced, to a large extent, by nazi or extreme right thought. He's made comments about how he has superior genes and expressed some rather authoritarian views. And, remember that speech to the other salesmen? Is anybody else picking up on that? Should it be mentioned in the article? --talk to me crimes against humanity16:53, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Dwight didn't write that speech, it was written for him by Jim as a prank. His comments about superior genes are just about himself and his family and are purely out his own arrogance. Authoritarian maybe, but Nazi is taking it a little far.

I wouldn't say nazi or rightest thought, Dwight seems to be very influenced by conventional Amish beliefs. For examples: he calls his knowledge of the German language "pre-industrial and mostly religious," like a modern, conservative Amish community might use. The memo he sends around in "Women's Appreciation" requires things like no makeup, long sleeved blouses, and muted colours. Finally, when he shows his farm to Andy and Angela, he has a clearly Amish-looking pastor who only speaks German. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.28.147.112 (talk) 07:27, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Title

Considering he has no office, no increase in pay, and Jan Levinson tells him "you are not a manager," chances are that he is not really an "assistant" anything, and the title is just something his boss made up. Hence, the change in his title on the page. --VonWoland 19:12, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

There is also the fact that Michael Scott tells him in a later episode (I forget which one) something along the lines of "It's basically made up" about the title "Assistant Regional Manager". Qutezuce 06:40, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

I thought that Dwights title was Assistant to the Assistant Regional Manger!?!

Shouldn't the title of this be "Dwight K. Schrute" since that is how Dwight is most commonly known? 75.35.21.221 05:46, 28 May 2007 (UTC) JT

Dwight is most commonly known as "Dwight Schrute" without the "K". There is no mention of the K in Dwight's talking head in the Pilot when he explains the history of his name. In "Health Care" he thrice identifies himself as "Dwight Schrute" when calling Jan. His sign says "Dwight Schrute Workspace". Jim calls him "Dwight Schrute" in "Hot Girl"; Pam calls him "Dwight Schrute" in "Office Olympics". Dwight introduces himself as "Dwight Schrute" to the real estate agent. Jim calls him "Dwight Schrute" in "Halloween". He identifies himself as "Dwight Schrute" when checking on Oscar in "The Secret". He introduces himself as "Dwight Schrute" to Gil in the same episode. He identifies himself as "Dwight Schrute" when making a sales call in "The Carpet". He wins his "Salesman of the Year" award under the name "Dwight Schrute". He introduces himself to Jake as "Dwight Schrute" in "Take Your Daughter to Work Day". He introduces himself to the urine lady as "Dwight Schrute" in "Drug Testing". He identifies himself as "Dwight Schrute" when he tries to answer the phone call from the in "Conflict Resolution". He introduces himself as "Dwight Schrute" in "The Convention". He identifies himself as "Dwight Schrute" when caling Jan in "The Coup". His imaginary book is authored by "Dwight Schrute" in "Branch Closing". Andy calls him "Dwight Schrute" in "The Return". Michael calls him "Dwight Schrute" in the same episode when he discusses his departure and again when he introduces his return. He introduces himself as "Dwight Schrute" at the press conference in "Women's Appreciation". He answers the phone "Dwight Schrute" in that same episode. Michael announces to the office that "Dwight Schrute" is the new regional manager.

On the "K" side: He is called "Dwight K. Schrute" is when Michael makes him branch security manager. Jim calls him "Dwight K. Schrute" when narrating into the recorder. Jim also uses the K when making the fake certificate of appreciation in "The Negotiation". Michael tell Dwight to give the letter transferring power of the branch to "Dwight K. Schrute".

At no point has anybody ever said "Dwight Kurt Schrute". The renaming of the article to "Dwight Kurt Schrute" is unjustified in my opinion.

It is clear that he commonly goes by "Dwight Schrute" and the K is only to add an air of formality. -- Raymondc0 14:19, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Kurta Pyjama not a Sari

Hey Dwight was wearing a kurta pyjama in Season 3 episode 6 "diwali". A Sari is worn by women, it's what Kelly was wearing.

Spoiler

I made a very sloppy edit and moved the spoiler warning to the top of the page. It took a billion tries but I think I got it right. The intro line spoils the 1/11 episode plot. 68.102.160.254 07:36, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

William Joel vs. Billy Joel

Nobody knows him as William Joel, even the article is titled Billy Joel. Please don't change this again, it doesn't make sense. Why would you delete a good wikilink for Billy Joel for a bad one for William Joel? -Mike Payne 19:46, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Dwight/Copyedit tag

Did the person that wrote this article want to see how many times they could use the name Dwight? Reads horribly. Please go back to English 101. Needs clean-up. 166.82.206.146 15:53, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia, the web site that anyone can edit. That includes you. -- Raymondc0 17:23, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Name

The fact that his father and grandfather were both named Dwight Schrute doesn't necessarily mean that his full legal name is Dwight Kurt Schrute III. It never says that there's a "the third" in his name in any episode, unless I'm forgetting something. MattW93 03:42, 11 July, 2007 (UTC) Im not sure what episode it was in (later found to be "The Negotiation"), but once Jim gave Dwight a certifiate that had his full name on it.

Dunder Mifflin

I am going through several articles and changing instances of "Dunder-Mifflin" to "Dunder Mifflin" (no hyphen) as it is the proper "spelling" of the company name (see Talk page at Dunder Mifflin). Just leaving a note to say that I've gone through this page. :) Fieryrogue 19:43, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Why the "Kurt"? i.e. a proposal to move

Virtually all links go to [[Dwight Schrute]], and there aren't any other people, fictional or otherwise, named "Dwight Schrute" who are notable enough to have an article on Wikipedia. Honestly, I'm not sure why this hasn't already run afoul of WP:NC (CN). I propose to move the page to "Dwight Schrute". Lockesdonkey 22:09, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Seconded. (See discussion under "Title" above.) -- Raymondc0 00:05, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Too much trivia

The "Interests" section is nearly all trivia - single-episode jokes. I propose large-scale pruning. -- Raymondc0 16:18, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

This page is out of control. It is nearly twice as long as the entry for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an actual person as opposed to a fictional character in a popular sitcom. Not even Captain Ahab gets his own Wikipedia page, and he's a far more notable fictional character. I propose large-scale pruning. -- Raymondc0 (talk) 17:36, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:55, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

new name: character in real life

This is a proposed new for the behind the scenes heading.

I came here because I did not know who Dwight is. Presidential candidate John McCain mentioned him as a Vice Presidential choice. Some news reports didn't say it was a joke. So people do come here to find out facts. If the section is eliminated on the reason that it's trivia, then the information is forever lost. It also shouldn't be a sentence hidden that's hard to find.

I am a neutral observer. I didn't know who Dwight was. I came here to see why McCain wanted him as VP. The last section (along with an easy to find heading) made it possible. Therefore, keep some sort of heading and do not delete all the information using the reason of "trivia section".

That said, I want Dwight as VP. Why not even President! Ha ha! DianeFinn (talk) 15:28, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Schrute Bucks

"Creed made 2.1 million copies of a single page of the Bucks that Dwight was forced to accept."

I don't remember this in the episode, was it a deleted scene? 24.46.232.183 (talk) 04:32, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Copyediting/Removing

This article needs to have a major trimming, and copyediting done, before it can even think about going up for GA, much less FA. Mastrchf (^t/_c) 21:38, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Image:Office2.08 02.jpg

There wasn't enough room in the edit summary box for this suggestion: An image depicting Dwight as the victim of one of Jim's pranks might be an appropriate replacement for Image:Office2.08 02.jpg in the co-workers section. Bradley0110 (talk) 14:15, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Inconsistency

Is it worth noting that there have been multiple inconsistencies between Dwight's blog and the actual NBC show itself?

Two examples are as follows:

In the show, Dwight is afraid of robots, meanwhile on the nbc.com blog, he explains that people should be afraid of Androids and not robots.

Additionally, on the blog he states that werewolves aren't real, yet on the show he states how he once shot a werewolf but it transformed back into his neighbor's dog.--136.142.46.33 (talk) 17:43, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Incorrect Link

The link (reference #19) should point to the office episode "Take Your Daughter to Work Day," & not general information about the real "Take Your Son or Daughter to Work Day." I would've corrected it myself but it's a rather large article and my computer is mighty slow. Giovnni (talk) 23:51, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Fixed it. Thanks for the heads-up. Mastrchf (^t/_c) 00:25, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Revolver fired in Fun Run

In the article it says the revolver Dwight fires at the beginning of the run is a Smith & Wesson Model 686. I'm definitely not an expert on revolvers, but from looking at it compared to pictures I'm finding online, it definitely does not look like one. It looks much more like a Colt Python, particularly when you look along the top of the barrel. Those horizontal notches. The Model 686 does not have those. Although the grip does not look like the standard Colt Python grip, so I'm a little unsure. Can someone with more knowledge shed some light here? --76.248.84.243 (talk) 02:23, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

My S&W 586 (not 686) has ridges or grooves or whatever you wanna call them, atop the barrel, length-wise. Sorry that's not the conclusive answer you were looking for. 76.113.104.88 (talk) 10:16, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Absorbed Twin

The article had listed the fact that Dwight had absorbed his twin and called it Chimerism, linking to the chimera (genetics) page. However, this is actually something called twin embolisation syndrome, also known as vanishing twin. Chimerism may be a result of VTS, but it is not VTS. It is a condition where an organism has more than one set of DNA. I edited it to link to the right page (absorbed twin). Maladroitmortal (talk) 23:21, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

regarding Dwight's occupation

shouldn't it say "assistant to the regional manager" like that, i'm pretty sure his title changed in the middle of the series, and he just crossed out "to the" on all his business cards, i feel Wikipedia should be the same.

thanks, Homsarstrongbad150 (talk) 01:44, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

That's not his official title, so no. —C Teng^(talk) 01:31, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Dwight and Angela 'discovered'

I believe Phyllis discovered Dwight and Angela in "Weigh Loss part 1', and not in the "Goodbye Toby" episode. Dwight and Angela resume their affair in "Goodbye Toby". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.34.149.132 (talk) 04:33, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

Schrüter ist der Coolste

oder sollte ich sagen Schlüter? wer weiss... das die amis den namen in schrute ändern mussten! verdammte einwanderungsbehörde!!

As Recyclops

Dwight, like many superheroes, has a secret identity, Recyclops. At one point in his life, recyclops ws deathly threatened by polluticorn, his arch enemy. After recyclops became evil, he vowed to destroy the world he once loved. Despite this, he and polluticorn remain enemies, and his new philosophy seems to be: "Humans are bad for the environment."

birthday

Isn't that facebook post about his birthday just about Rainn Wilson's birthday? It doesn't specifically say either way, so I'm not sure if that facebook reference really says anything about dwight.Joeytje50 (talk) 17:14, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

One of Dwight's many nicknames/aliases

I was trying to add "Mr. Poop" to his list of nicknames/aliases/what have you, because in "Take Your Daughter to Work Day" (S2E18), Meredith's son repeatedly calls Dwight "Mr. Poop", but it kept telling me the edit was bad. Can someone who isn't new add it in there for me? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Swaller67 (talk • contribs) 05:34, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

Merge

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

The result of this discussion was No Consensus. First of all, opinions are divided: We have one in favor of the merge (Boone jenner), one against it (Mezaco), and one undecided but leaning against (myself). Also, Boone jenner seems to have lost interest, since he hasn't posted here since making the proposal, even though his contributions page shows he has edited since Mezaco and I posted here. Finally, I've noticed that the nominator never tagged the proposed destination article (a requirement per Step 2 of WP:Merging), so we can't form a valid consensus here anyway.Martin IIIa (talk) 01:15, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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Another character from a dead TV show with his own page? Lots of trivia and in-universe references. This isn't The Office Wikia [1]. A lot of this information could be compacted into a listing on List of The Office (U.S. TV series) characters Boones 03:53, 6 December 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Boone jenner (talk • contribs)

I'm not sure whether merging the article is a good idea or no, but your reasoning is invalid. The fact that The Office has been discontinued is irrelevant; this is an encyclopedia, not a newspaper. All that counts is notability. As for "Lots of trivia and in-universe", per WP:RUBBISH, surmountable problems are not a valid argument for merging or deleting an article. If you're finding trivia and inappropriate in-universe references, then just remove them.--Martin IIIa (talk) 14:55, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

I also disagree with a merge. There are countless television characters with their own page, notably the major leading characters from major shows. In this case, an Emmy winning show for Best Comedy. For example, Pam Ewing from Dallas hasn't been on the show since 1988 but has her own page. Edith Bunker from All In the Family left the show in 1979 but has her own page. To be really fair, you would also need to needlessly cull of hundreds upon hundreds of character articles of TV shows, movies and books from multiple decades. This is not a valid reasoning for this merge. --Mezaco (talk) 06:09, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

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