Talk:Fourth Wing

Character list
Οἶδα - hi! Saw your reverse of my edit removing the character list. I guess 'notability purposes' wasn't the best descriptor for my edit summary. I based the decision to remove on a few things, one being the lack of character lists on other book articles (which maybe isn't a proper justification), and another being flaws that I perceived within the character section - namely the typos (character names are incomplete/spelled wrong/etc.), formatting, and the lack of consistency in terms of which characters are included (some are relatively minor characters included in the list while other more important characters seem to be absent).

I am not at all opposed to having a list of characters on this book's article or others, I just didn't want to leave up a section that felt idiosyncratic and I didn't necessarily see much benefit to improving the section vs. simply removing (at least for the time being). I can work on improving its format and details, but I figured I'd start a discussion here just to explain my thinking and see if you have any insights on the best way to improve this part of book articles in general.

Thanks! Reedturner (talk) 18:30, 1 January 2024 (UTC)


 * I think the section is a good addition to the article, though I'm always in favor of copy-editing and expanding it. What's there seems like a great starting point. Darkage7 [Talk] 20:11, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you for explaining your edit I sort of figured you may have been concerned with the quality of the list, and thus considered its exclusion more warranted than its inclsusion. However, I could't be certain because I have not read the book myself and I've reverted unwarranted removals of such lists before. I noticed you rewrote the character descriptions and I don't see any issues. However, it is probably worth noting that character lists are not generally needed when a comprehensive plot section is created (MOS:CHARACTERS). Seeing as the plot summary is straightforward, I reckoned a character section would be of value. Οἶδα (talk) 08:51, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

Navarre
Fictional country of Navarre? That's a real place, wasn't there even a shout out in the book? 37.29.210.107 (talk) 13:20, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Plot
Plot summary is filled with superfluous details, left open-ended and is painfully obvious as written by AI. At the very least, run it by GPT-whatever once again and prompt it to stick to the facts. Anon842 (talk) 21:29, 18 June 2024 (UTC)