Talk:Countdown (Polystyle Publications)

Discussion: Should we merge this article with TV Action (comic)?
Disagree -- I think we should keep the two apart, as they are now, and try to develop the differences. -- Beardo 01:09, 21 November 2006 (UTC) Strongly Agree -- They are the same book, with the same numbering scheme. Also, the name went through several slight permutations, including TV Action + Countdown. It's really quite futile trying to separate them if you look closely at the evolution of the title. CzechOut 12:54, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

This was a memoir
The article was written in a chatty, digressive, anecdotal style, without references. I suspect it was written by someone who worked for the paper.

The style was very non-encyclopaedic. I've tried to fix that, but the article probably needs additional tightening in places I've missed. I've also removed some material that was either repetitious or that could be regarded as padding. Given the lack of sourcing and the highly anecdotal (not to say tangential) nature of much that remains, a great deal of what there is could still be excised under a strict interpretation of the rules. Nonetheless, the article gives a rewarding glimpse of the world it describes, and will be of great interest to many of us who read successive variants of the paper when we were children. I think it would be a shame to lose this in the cause of rigour.

(I remember seeing Dennis Hooper's signature on an introduction he wrote to a 1973 holiday special, and copying it in a bit of empty space next to it.) Notreallydavid (talk) 06:18, 29 May 2017 (UTC)