Talk:Calvera (character)

Article issues
The article suffers from several shortcomings at the moment. I have made some (rather minor) grammatical changes and reorganized the article a bit to be more in accordance with the Manual of Style. --Crusio (talk) 12:20, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) It contains a substantial trivia section, which is discouraged by WP:MOS. The information in this section should be incorporated in the rest of the article or, if only trivial, deleted.
 * 2) The section on the character analysis should be rewritten. Instead of a list of citations, it should be made into a coherent section analyzing the character.
 * 3) The interview with Eli Wallach is completely out of place and the quotation is way too long. It should be shortened and moved to the article on the movie or on the actor (or deleted completely).
 * 4) The "Further Reading" section is too long and the significance of these books for the current character description is unclear. Some only seem to contain an in-passing mention of the character. If others have useful information, that should be incorporated into the article and the book turned into a proper reference. A "further reading" section should list works that discuss the subject so much that it cannot all be included into the article. Books that only mention the subject on 1 or a few pages should be used as references, if at all.
 * "Further Reading", or "Sources", or name it as you wish, contains of some undoubtedly reliable sources. I did not cite them of two reasons: some of them allmost repeat other sources, which are mentioned in reflist, and second, much more important - their content is not in a public domain. So I simply don't know, is it legal or not to cite them. -- SerdechnyG (talk) 19:41, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
 * "Character analysis" - allmost all of cited experts are professors. Significant detail, isn't it? Please, write it there, what you deleted earlier. -- SerdechnyG (talk) 19:41, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
 * It is perfectly legal to quote individual sentences from books and articles, providing you give a citation. It is also legal to summarise what is said, giving a citation.--Toddy1 (talk) 19:50, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
 * All right. I'll try. But you also can do it right now, helping me and all M7 fans. Besides, I re-edited this chapter in a new, much more convenient way. -- SerdechnyG (talk) 20:19, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

Did a bit of cleaning on this article, including rearranging into more useful sections that resemble other character pages on Wikipedia. Removed some sections (Trivia, Further Reading, Character Analysis) that seemed ungodly big and/or out-of-place in such an article. Edited grammar and spelling (used to working with ESL writers), as well as some sentence structure. Moved information in removed sections into existing sections. Of course, being Wikipedia, if you don't agree with my changes, feel free to make your own or revert. I saw this in the delete queue and thought I'd have a go at it. vernajast&#124;is super serial 19:34, 17 March 2010 (UTC)