Talk:Secondary characters and settings in The Adventures of Tintin

Noncompliant template

The are no citations in the article and it appears to be written from someone's personal knowledge of the topic. The images violate WP:FUC #8, the text violates Wikipedia:No original research and Wikipedia: Verifiability, and there is not even tertiary sources to justify the names of the characters. Based on the article alone, there appears to be no reason to keep this article. I did not put the article up for deletion because today's featured article, The Adventures of Tintin, includes Secondary characters and settings in The Adventures of Tintin as an important link. Please work together to get this article in compliance with Wikipedia policies, keeping in mind that , per Wikipedia:Verifiability, "if an article topic has no reliable, third-party sources, Wikipedia should not have an article on it." -- Jreferee 18:27, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

• It's in the to-do pile. There are references, by the way, just that they aren't displaying, and I think the point about justifying the character's names is a little over the top. Sometimes I regret adding that line to Wikipedia:Verifiability, and if this is the way it is used I'm going to get around to removing it. You are quoting it completely out of context, unless you are asserting that there are no reliable third party sources for an article on the secondary characters and settings in The Adventures of Tintin. Hiding Talk 19:56, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

• I'm not sure of the context in which you took the statement, but my adding a guideline statement and a burden of evidence statement to the three noted policy violations distracts from discussing the policy violations. Thus, I struck through that portion of my prior post. -- Jreferee 19:36, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

• There's only two, there's no original research in the article. It fails verifiability, granted, but I need to request books from the library again before I can fix that up, and I personally have my hands full elsewhere right now. It is in my to do pile, and I think I have a part of it stashed in a sandbox. I think what is here at the moment is useful to readers, so I think we can ignore a few rules to better suit our readers. The templates make the case for what is there. Once I get through with the featured review of Superman I'll try and get back to it. As to the context of the text at WP:V, it means that "if an article topic has no reliable, third-party sources, Wikipedia should not have an article on it." That means that if an article topic does have reliable third party sources, Wikipedia should have an article on it. Since this topic does have reliable third party sources, we should have an article, and we do. So we're compliant with policy. I would hate to think, though, that policy compliance is becoming some sort of inclusion criterion. Wikipedia is about starting from scratch and building collaboratively. Sometimes things look a mess when building. That shouldn't be a reason to start from scratch all over. Hiding Talk 13:28, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Uncomfurted

"Rawhajpoutalah: Uncomfurted country" ~ What the hell does "uncomfurted" mean? The only words I can think of that resemble it are "unconverted" and "uncomforted", neither of which seem to fit the context. Branfish 22:33, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Benkalish.gif

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Lead needed

Say no more. Rich Farmbrough, 00:40 10 December 2007 (GMT). 00:40, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Poldavia

This fictional country is not a creation of Hergé; it was used to embarrass the left-wing deputies in France at the time; see http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pold%C3%A8vie Opera hat (talk) 17:20, 14 February 2008 (UTC)