Talk:Les Cités obscures

French verb "ignorer"
In the Counter-Earth section, the quote from the French was mis-translated into English. The French infinitive "ignorer" is what is known as a "faux ami" - a "false friend." It doesn't mean in English what it appears to mean. Rather than "to ignore," it is generally translated as "to be unaware of," or "to be ignorant of." This was changed to more accurately reflect the French.

The List of Stories and Other Publications
There seems to be some confusion about the number of books in the series, as well as the exact spelling of their names.

For instance, the comic-book “L’ombre d’un homme” only gives its own title as well as other titles of the series written in all caps. The Urbicande Albums Page seems like a reliable source to some extent. Some things remain unclear to me, however, like why it lists “L’enfant penchée” (1996) with -e- and “L’Enfant penchée” (2007) with -E-. The Wikipedia list lacks some titles of the Urbicande listing and vice versa.

Apparently it will require some extra philologic work to put together a complete and accurate list. – Jippe 09:28, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

And whats the word on English editions? LamontCranston (talk) 15:11, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Cites obscures etpv.jpg
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BetacommandBot (talk) 20:43, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Wrong (imho) redirecting on albums
Half of the albums in this article have a blue link to a real article about the album. But the other half are only blue links redirecting to one of the makers: François Schuiten. It gives a false impression in this article these album-articles already exist. Red links or not linking at all will encourage readers more to write articles about these albums. --Sonty567 (talk) 03:50, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I removed those redirecting links. Sonty567 (talk) 04:07, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
 * They really need to redirect here and be removed from the footer template. There is nothing wrong with using redirects instead of red links but they need to be used properly. (Emperor (talk) 12:06, 24 September 2009 (UTC))
 * Still, red links also exist to urge people to create articles. As the other articles have remained for years, it can't be a matter of notability. Back then, I had uploaded all the covers at small sizes under a friend's account, but within three days or so, all covers were deleted where I hadn't written the articles for them yet, while those that had already been implemented into their respective articles by then were not deleted. Still, it frustrated me enough to stop working on it. That's why half the links remained red in the end. A few months down the road, somebody re-directed them all to Schuiten's article. --2003:71:4E3F:3379:79D7:6279:95A6:3AA3 (talk) 01:59, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

The Golden Compass
If we're including Mars et Avril under Multimedia expansion simply because of the set design by Schuiten being similar to his mise-en-scene in Fever in Urbicand, then we should also include The Golden Compass (2007), another film where Schuiten did the production design and that hence looks much more like an adaptation of his The Road to Armilia from start to finish and smack down to a t than anything like the original book by Pullman. Thoughts? --79.242.222.61 (talk) 19:25, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

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