Talk:List of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter characters

Zerbrowski's ancestry
The final statement of the proposition:

"Another friend and member of the spook squad, Zerbrowski is the stereotypical rumpled, smart-alec, but highly competent detective and a loyal friend to Anita, and is of Italian descent."

has no quotation or source, is not verifiable, and presents an opinion.

Is it commonly known that surnames like Żebrowski, Żuławski, Janowski, Kowalski, Wiśniewski, etc are typical or popular Italian surnames, while surnames like Merloni, Marconi, Mastroianni, Mussolini, Moricone etc are typical or popular Polish surnames???

The opinion that Zerbrowski is Italian is totally isolated and absolutely unsupported.

89.79.181.142 (talk) 04:18, 24 October 2016 (UTC)MSz

Taxonomy of Nikolaos
The phrase:

"Based on the description, Nikolaos has some of the traits of what Hamilton later describes as a nighthag - a Vampire that could draw power from fear, but she lacks the tell tale sign of decomposing on her victims during sex and/or feedings."

looks like unsupported and aimless speculation on Nikolaos' bloodline that shouldn't be included in an encyclopedic note.

Decomposing on victims during sex and/or feedings is what rotting vampires do, rather to amuse themslves then from needs. Rotting vampires need to change form to decomposed one in daylight and when gravely injured. Nighthags incite fear in everyone close to them automatically, without any effort or decision. Being nighthag is not restricted to specific bloodline, while ability to rot (change form to decomposed one) is restricted to Morte d'Amour bloodline.

The fact that Nikolaos was killed by sword alone, proves that she was not a rotting vampire - the question how to kill a rotting vampire is addressed detaily in:
 * Bloody Bones;
 * Bullet;
 * Affliction.

There are two named nighthags: Colin from Blue Moon and Moroven/Nemhain, described with many details in Crimson Death. Moroven is a sourdre de sang - her own bloodline, and there is unique vampire of her bloodline outside Ireland: Damian. Thus Colin is of other bloodline, hence there is no bloodline of nighthags. Moreover, Colin attributes his strength in part to to fact, that his second Barnaby is a rotting vampire, so Colin himself is not a rotter.

There is no way to know all bloodlines, so elimination of what Nikolaos is not has no value.

It is a misconception to eliminate non-existent bloodline of nighthags by eliminating possibility of being a rotting vampire.

It is pure speculation to eliminate possibility of being rotting vampire by noticing the lack of favorite pastimes of rotters.

It is outside both logic and simple reason to conclude that Nikolaos lacks of something on premise it was not stated in the book. For instance there is no tell tale sign of Nikolaos drinking blood, yet one can not reason that Nikolaos is not a vampire. Or: there is more than 1500 individual creatures in all Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter texts - appearing, mentioned, historical, mythical, fictional, etc. For less than 50 of them their legs are descibed or mentioned. Does it mean that 97% of creatures of Anitaverse are legless?

--89.79.181.142 (talk) 02:14, 3 November 2016 (UTC)MSz

"This article needs additional citations for verification."
This page has been tagged with an editorial request for almost 6 years. What is a practical and useful response?75.83.201.81 (talk) 20:00, 22 January 2018 (UTC) Wrong. This page needs to be written anew, without all the childishness, misconceptions, misinterpretations and plain errors. I tried to correct it (and other pages on Anita Blake Vampire Hunter), but whenever I delete something stupid, someone removes all my edits. 89.75.53.231 (talk) 14:37, 25 September 2018 (UTC) MSz

Citation
https://www.reference.com/pets-animals/group-leopards-called-165b58b4b1f3b481#

Is this source reliable?75.83.201.81 (talk) 20:08, 22 January 2018 (UTC) Doesn't matter. The source states plainly: A leap of leopards usually consists of a mother and two or three cubs. 89.75.53.231 (talk) 14:25, 25 September 2018 (UTC) MSz