Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Artemis Fowl/Artemis Fowl (series) draft

Characters?
Let the discussion begin :) I'm totally in favor of creating a characters section, but the "main characters" heading under the "characters" heading that's there right now in the series page is kind of annoying. Any feedback? I c eUnshattered  [ t ] 21:00, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
 * First the issue about whether this page should actually exist here needs to be debated... Calvin 1998 (t·c) 21:02, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Would it be at Artemis Fowl (sersies)/Draft? LegoKontribsTalkM 21:09, 14 September 2008 (UTC)\

Page was moved from Artemis Fowl (series)/Draft to current location per discussion here. Now let the discussion resume... Calvin 1998 (t·c) 21:16, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I think that the page should continue to exist as a summar of the event and characters contained within the series. Then, if a person wasn't looking for specific informaiton, they could just come to this page. For instance, the Characters, i think they should be on a seperate page with just their names and races listed on the main page.  Cdmajava talk 


 * I'm not sure it makes sense to embark on a separate characters page--at least, not yet--better to expend our efforts on cleaning up what we have. And I do think it's handy to describe characters on this main series page, if we can do it a bit more succinctly. I'm in favor of dropping some characters.


 * Icy, what don't you like about the "Main characters" head? Would you prefer not to distinguish between major and minor characters? I think it's a valuable distinction--unless we do away with the minor characters. There's a thought! -Beth (Bthoenen (talk) 05:49, 2 October 2008 (UTC))
 * There is a separate character page at List of characters in Artemis Fowl (although that one is for the entire series), by the way. And just make sure you follow WP:WAF... Calvin 1998 (t·c) 06:05, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your feedback, Beth. As there's already a separate list of AF characters as Calvin remarked, I think to keep size down and maintain focus, just mention characters which play important roles in the series. Oh, and does anyone think Juliet is a main character? I'm kind of debating the question myself... I c eUnshattered  [ t ] 20:25, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Possibly. She is talked about quite a bit in the Lost Colony. The problem is whether the list for "main" characters for the entire series should include the main characters from all the different books (thereby including such characters as the Paradizos, the Extinctionists, etc.) or just the "main characters from the story" (ie the Fowls, Butlers, most of the LEP (Root, Cudgeon, Foaly), Koboi, Mulch, etc.) Calvin 1998 (t·c) 22:43, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I've always considered Main Characters* charries that are essential to the general plot of the series. Thus, not Spiro, and possibly not the Extinctionists, and maybe not Paradizos. I c eUnshattered  [ t ] 22:55, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 * We could stick with the "Characters" head and make two sections under it: Main and minor characters. List the main characters but under the minor characters section, just link to the complete list of characters. Agree with making the "main" character section only the main characters of the whole series, not each book.KJacket09 (talk) 08:30, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Series overview: what do we want in here?
I thought I'd work on the series overview sect., but I don't have a clear idea of what the entry for each book ought to include. At the moment the content seems kind of random; each of the following are included in at least one entry:


 * Title and ref to book's main article. Of course we want to keep these.
 * Plot synopsis. Clearly we want one for each book--but a brief one, right?
 * Indication of book's place in the series. I'm in favor of including this, perhaps as the first or the last thing in the entry.
 * Notes on other media, e.g. film adaptation or graphic novel. I say this kind of thing belongs on the book's page, not here.
 * Publication dates. Too much detail for an overview? I think so, given that the pub dates for the first and last books appear in the first para of this article.

Thoughts?

Is there anything not listed here that ought to be included for each book in the series?

-Beth (Bthoenen (talk) 06:14, 2 October 2008 (UTC))


 * Hm... the book's place in the series is rather obvious, which is why it's only on the first and last (go ahead and add them if you want though). We definitely want a really short plot synopsis on each one. I don't see the problem with a short note on other media, but since we already need a section on it, mention in the books' sections should be light at most, in my opinion. Publication dates... maybe. Since we don't even have much other than that on the books' articles themselves (other than critical reception, that is), I don't think we should/need to add anything else. There's better places than that to give focus to :) Calvin 1998 (t·c) 06:31, 2 October 2008 (UTC)


 * My issues with mentioning other media: first, it's likely to change--a movie comes out, another one goes into production, etc.--and the rest of the content in this section is pretty static (which means low maintenance). Second, new media info is redundant; the same info exists in the books' main articles. (The instance I checked, describing the film adaptation of the first book, was a direct cut'n'paste from the main article--a single sentence, but no briefer that the main article's treatment of the subject.) While duplication isn't always a bad idea, it's worth considering whether it's worthwhile. The likelihood is high that notes on other media won't be updated consistently in all the places they occur. -Beth (Bthoenen (talk) 23:03, 2 October 2008 (UTC))