Talk:Mule (Foundation)

Changing picture of the mule
I am going to change the picture of the mule to simply the cover of the book Foundation and Empire as having that picture there with the caption below is a huge spoiler for anyone who has not yet read through the book. Uniqueuponhim 12:52, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Alias: Magnifico
I really think we should make a paragraph or two about how the Mule disguised himself as his own clown and travelled with Toran and Bayta Darell. This is included on the article Foundation and Empire, so it should just be a matter of reading what information there is there and retyping it on this article. I am very busy so I won't be able to perform this task at the moment. Slartibartfast1992 20:45, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Scrawny?
At 120 pounds and 5' 8", the Mule would have a Body Mass Index of 18.2. The latest recommendations are that we should all have a BMI at the lowest end of the normal scale, which would be 18.5. So, by today's medical science, the Mule is the healthiest character in the books. How times change. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.49.247.73 (talk) 04:58, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Foundation and empire cover.jpg
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Deep Purple - The Mule
Did anyone knows if the song "The Mule" by Deep Purple is written after Asimov's Mule? --Lessio (talk) 14:59, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Yes - see the article on for the song which links to Ian's web pages where it is confirmed.

http://www.gillan.com/qa-62.html

80.3.80.20 (talk) 11:33, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

Deletion of images
In fact the images do match Asimov's description of the character as noted in the Origins section. The other is a metaphor. Both images have their rationale for fair use in this article clearly stated and have been accepted as such for 7 years. Their arbitrary deletion vastly reduced the quality of the article and needs a better justification than the arbitrary and false ones given. Lycurgus (talk) 08:14, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I respect your reasoning, but in a marginal case, I believe we are expected to err on the side of caution with regard to claims of fair use. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  18:14, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't see any way for those images to stay. I touched this off by asking a question on the medic copyrights board, about the appropriate tag to use when adding the original character portrait, from the first publication in Astounding, to the article. The discussion there ran against using the image at all, and the same arguments apply to the cover images, more strongly. If an illo of this sort can be justified, the covers are a fairly bad choice -- they're fairly generic Punchatz faces, that he used minor variations on for a batch of covers in the mid-60s, from some A.Merritt exhumations to more recent stuff, including Asimov, in Avon's sf line to the paperbacks of Dangerous Visions. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 18:53, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

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