Talk:Quatermass (TV serial)

Untitled
GordonH 11:03, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Does anyone know the locations used in this series? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hostroute (talk • contribs) 11:03, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

It shouldn't be too hard to get this to GA status. I'll give it a brush up. -- Escape Artist Swyer Talk to me The mess I've made 01:00, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

SF rating
I've rated this as B for the SF wikiproject. It looks basically ready for GA to me.

Small improvments?:

1. Sourcing, as usual. Mostly looks fine, but a couple of stray uncited claims, such as..."It was this version of the story that Kneale was most pleased with."

2. Plot seems slightly overlong. The length of the programs is shorter than many films, so it's plot shouldn't need to be much longer here - even though it is cut into 4.... Hmmm, looked again, maybe it is fine now, as whole article is long.

3. No Video cover / book cover / poster available for fair use?

Good luck with GA!Yobmod (talk) 13:36, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Comments
Posting here because as a major contributor to this article I don't think I'm allowed comment on the GA page. - Joe King (talk) 19:11, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
 * From past experience, this won't pass GA unless the lead is rewritten to meet the requirements of WP:LEAD. I'm generally useless at these summaries and don't have the time to redo it now anyway - I presume Escape Artist Swyer, as nominator is up to the task?
 * Not happy that the episode titles have been made up to full subheadings - what value does it add to the article? I can't see anyone looking at the TOC and wanting to jump to the summary of episode three. Unless someone wants to provide a strong counterargument, I intend to revert to the old formatting 24 hours from now.
 * Thanks for your help. I'll happily rewrite the lead. I made the episode titles subheading because I thought they looked neater. I have no objections to the old formatting if you want to revert it. -- Escape Artist Swyer Talk to me The mess I've made 19:24, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
 * How's that? -- Escape Artist Swyer Talk to me The mess I've made 20:34, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Minor quibble about terms for the 'alien'
This article uses the terms "aliens", "alien machine" and "alien force".

Of these, only the latter is vague enough. The nature of the alien presence is very ambiguous (and this is one of the strengths of the serial). Ascribing plurality ("the aliens") or a particular nature ("the alien machine") is in line with some characters' theories and assumptions, but the serial's story doesn't ever explicitly confirm those theories. So unless anyone has a strong objection I'll replace the two slightly presumptuous terms with the more vague one! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.60.90.102 (talk) 12:20, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 1 one external link on Quatermass (TV serial and film). Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20091027041339/http://geocities.com/skrzydla/ to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Footnotes

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at ).

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 16:42, 16 July 2016 (UTC)

Requested move 28 July 2018

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: moved as requested per the proposal below. Dekimasu よ! 18:32, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

Quatermass (TV serial and film) → Quatermass (TV serial) – Current disambiguator is non-standard under WP:NCTV, and is the result of an undiscussed move in January 2016. More importantly, it's redundant – it was initially broadcast in the UK as a TV series, and was only subsequently released as a theatrical film (and not widely so). This is not the only TV series that has also been released theatrically (in the case of Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series), its pilot was actually released theatrically before the pilot aired on TV!), and none of the others are disambiguated this way. So, bottom line: there's no reason to use a non-standard disambiguator here, and "TV serial" is sufficient to disambiguate this from the other versions of "Quartermass" (see: Quatermass (disambiguation)), and so the article should be moved back to its pre-January 2016 title. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 20:18, 28 July 2018 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.