Talk:The Hero's Journey

Clean-up proposal
My intent is to begin clean-up of the following four over-lapping Joseph Campbell-related articles:


 * The Hero with a Thousand Faces: An article which I understand to be a discussion of Campbell's seminal 1949 book, which applied the term monomyth to the underlying structure of the Hero's journey.
 * Monomyth: An article which appears to be focused on the application of the monomyth structure in modern movies and other writing.
 * The Hero' s journey (phrase): An article which is very similar to the Monomyth article - that is, a discussion of the Hero's journey concept outlined by Campbell.
 * The Hero's Journey (note different capitalization and spacing): An article limited to a discussion of a separate book and documentary with that title about the life of Joseph Campbell.

The first step was to try to clean-up and re-focus the The Hero with a Thousand Faces article and the Monomyth article (only). There was modern application material in the The Hero with a Thousand Faces article that looked like it belonged in the Monomyth article, and explanatory material in the Monomyth article that looked like it belonged in the The Hero with a Thousand Faces article. Hence, the first step was to duplicate the material into what looked like the "proper" article.

The intended next step will be to then clean-up both articles - by deleting and summarizing material to better focus those two articles on their two subjects (book vs. modern application).

The following step after that will be to start a discussion about merging the Monomyth article and the The Hero' s journey (phrase) articles. Those two terms are usually used synonymously; I'm not sure that the confusion caused by two articles with almost identical topics is worth whatever benefit might be derived (but that's two steps down the road here).

So, to summarize - This is a proposal about cleaning-up these four Campbell-related articles, with the first step being cleaning up The Hero with a Thousand Faces article and the Monomyth article. (I'm going to post parts of this in all four articles). NorCalHistory 13:49, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Page move
I recommend moving this page to the title of The Hero's Journey (documentary). --Elonka 17:23, 7 June 2007 (UTC)


 * The documentary is a commercial product and is very limited. For objectivity, you should exclude it or allow other info and links. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.188.181.182 (talk • contribs) June 23, 2007
 * You raise a valid point, that there are no secondary sources confirming the notability of this book and film. If such cannot be located, I would support merging this information to the main Monomyth article. Also, could I please ask you to sign up for an account?  It's free, and would make communication much easier. --Elonka 18:10, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Why did you change the old Hero's Journey and Monomyth page? It was all combined and much better. There are many facets to what is known as "The Hero's Journey"; if you want wiki to really be a reliable source, then you need to include all that you are excluding. Your attempts at conciseness are degrading the overall quality. Further, why is this page not editable? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.194.121.22 (talk • contribs) 08:40, 29 June 2007


 * The articles were merged because they both covered the same concept and there was no need to have two articles on it. If you feel there's any information that was lost which should be in there, feel free to add it back yourself. As for the page not being editable, that was due to a recent flood of self-advertising spam, resulting in semi-protection. If you create an account and wait a few days, you won't have to worry about that. --Infophile (Talk) (Contribs) 17:56, 2 July 2007 (UTC)