# Talk:The Blue Lotus

Is "accuratesse" supposed to be a French word? The correct translation for "accuracy" would be "exactitude" or "précision". Hugo Dufort 01:05, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Probably pseudo-intellectual "French". Google only turns up usage in Dutch. - mako 10:30, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
Dutch isn't the only language to have such a word. Danish and German both have akkuratesse. In Danish, the word is slightly posh or archaic. Valentinian T / C 10:41, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
"When it finally allowed publication in 1984, some pictures of the examples of Western prejudice were altered or even taken out completely"
any reference or links to this ?

I think it is wrong. I have a recent Chinese edition. I rewrote the text completely. Mlewan 12:28, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

This fictional country was not an invention of Hergé's. See http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poldavie. Opera hat (talk) 19:20, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

…is a traditional children’s rhyme, used for many activities (skipping, bouncing balls, or (as we tended to do) choosing a person for another purpose - selecting the finder in hide-and-seek). It may have been quoted by the Ahlbergs, as the book uses characters and situations from many traditional nursery rhymes, but they didn’t originate that formula; if you google it, you’ll find many references to the same basic rhyme. Also the Ahlbergs only started publish (according to Wikipedia) about the time "Blue Lotus" came to English, so I’d doubt that there is any connection at all. Jock123 (talk) 08:45, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

I don't think it's accurate to include this among cultural references, since they're only in the translated edition. The article should rather include the equivalents from the French original. 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 20:08, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

The link in the lead from blue lotus is currently [1] piped to Nelumbo nucifera, one of several posible meanings of blue lotus and it seems an unlikely one on reading the current articles. Andrewa (talk) 06:51, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Howso? 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 14:41, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Hi Midnightblueowl, I made a couple of minor tweaks on the refs where the sfn wasn't working. There's a couple of others to look at where the wrong year is either in the template or in the biblio:

FN15 - Thompson 2001: Biblio has 1991
FN21 - Assouline 2012: Biblio has 2009
FN49 - Lofficier & Lofficier 2012: Biblio has 2002
FN65 & 66 - McCarthy 2004: Biblio has 2006
Hope these help! Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 06:13, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

Got the rest of them for her. —Prhartcom (talk) 16:47, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

This review is transcluded from Talk:The Blue Lotus/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.
Reviewer: Brigade Piron (talk · contribs) 08:15, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I'd be happy to review this one. I have had some very minor involvement with the article, but I still believe myself impartial enough to carry out a decent review. If anyone objects, they can carry on the GAR where I leave off.
My comments to follow, but it's a nicely written article! Brigade Piron (talk) 08:15, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

If anyone was wondering about the reference to Sir Malcolm Campbell that was removed from the colour version: it's in a newsreel that Tintin watches when hiding in the cinema. The scene was published in Le Petit Vingtième on 21 March 1935, not long after Campbell broke the land speed record in Blue Bird on 7 March at Daytona Beach. Opera hat (talk) 13:29, 12 February 2022 (UTC)

On "this day in history" it says this story began serialization in 1942 but that does not seem to correspond with any information in this article. 2600:4040:22F0:A900:C7A4:2CE8:D137:7792 (talk) 07:47, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

Thanks! I raised the error at WP:ERRORS. Fram (talk) 08:00, 9 August 2022 (UTC)