Talk:Nyarlathotep

message: The Dark Pharaoh: a hairless man with dead black skin and hooves for feet; this form is peculiar to Egypt. This form and the previous two appear to be slight variations on the same Mask.I'm concerned about the wording here getting out of date as new entries are made - indeed, I wonder if it already has, as "The Crawling Chaos" is probably not one of the two forms intended. I'm not qualified to rework it correctly though, not knowing the original intent. nae'blis (talk) 17:46, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ambiguous wording 

message: I actually came to this page hoping that there would be a pronunciation of Nyarlathotep. Maybe someone who knows how to pronounce it could include the pronunciation near the top of the page, in the usual spot one would place it.
--magiluke 00:11, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: I removed the following text because I can't figure out what it means. No reference was given, so I don't what to make of it:
Nyarlathotep (the Crawling Chaos): A desert noise cult whose namesake has convicted some to create "loathsome sounds from beyond".
-,-~R'lyehRising~-,- 16:06, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ambiguous text 

message: The Nyarlathotep in the mythos section contains information that appears to be original research since it does not say where it comes from. This section could be greatly improved by providing verifiable information.-,-~R'lyehRising~-,- 16:24, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think this article would greatly benefit from junking the table as well as the section noted by R'lyeh Rising. Nareek 01:34, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original research 

message: Something interesting I just noticed, and which you should try if you have Firefox: If you type "Nyarlathotep" somewhere, Firefox's spell check wants to correct it into "Charlatanry" (as well as "Charlatanry's" and "Charlatanries"). Given his original role as a scientist who stuns the public with miraculous experiments and the narrator's doubts of his authenticity, I hesitate to see this as a coincidence... Maybe Lovecraft had a basis for this name (even though he claims he dreamed it)? Anyone know the logic behind Firefox's spell check? Thoughts? Arjunkster 21:00, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The first eight letters in the name -- n, y, a, r, l, a, t, and h -- all appear in the word "charlatanry", though it's in the sequence h, a, r, l, a, t, n, y.  That's probably the spellcheck's rationale for suggesting that correction.  Tsunomaru (talk) 21:25, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Uh, eh, øh... no. It can't mean anything. It is meaningless and senseless. Rursus dixit. (mbork3!) 12:58, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Nyarlathotep" could mean something? 

message: The "And through this revolting graveyard of the universe" quote is from Nyarlathotep, not The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. I corrected it. Vultur (talk) 09:54, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corrected quote attribution 

message: Seriously, this character was used by many writers and got several alternate interpretion and forms. Yet this article said nothing. L-Zwei (talk) 06:22, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  No section for Nyarlathotep in non-Lovecraft's work? 

message: Section Film promotes products at Miskatonic "University" a commercial site selling a few videos, T-shirts and little more. I think the section might be a case of WP:PROMOTION, and should be deleted. Rursus dixit. (mbork3!) 10:11, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Scanning history I didn't find the time when and user who added the section. I'm going to see if the're are similar suspected promotions/advertisements in other articles. Rursus dixit. (mbork3!) 10:19, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

text: I found the following using Special:LinkSearch: just two article links of which the one from Miskatonic University is justified. I think the "promotion" is not blatant and serious. Anyone more knowledgeable about the article on Nyarlathotep may do as he/she wishes. Rursus dixit. (mbork3!) 10:25, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section "Film" 

message: Nyarlat-Hotep (like in Im-Hotep) or Nyarla-Thotep (like in "thought")? Rursus dixit. (mbork3!) 13:00, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation?

message: Unless I'm mistaken, the image used on this page depicts Azathoth, instead of Nyarlathotep. The creatures playing the pipes are a giveaway, frequently associated with Azathoth but never with Nyarlathotep, as far as I can tell. A more accurate image ought to be found.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.66.159.92 (talk) 00:12, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Image

message: In case anyone can find some sources, take note of this diff to cut and paste with references. Casliber (talk · contribs) 00:07, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  For sourcing sometime..... 

message: Would here be a good place to mention this? In Hugh Cave's mythos tales The Isle of Dark Magic and The Death Watch, Nyarlathotep is referred to in relation with "the black lakes of Hali". In one passage from The Death Watch, a character invokes him thus: "Harken to me, O Mighty Nyarlathotep! You who rule the midnight forests by the shores of Hali, hear me..."
Wasn't sure where else to discuss this. 72.5.59.139 (talk) 03:38, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Connections to Hali 

message: The entry lists Ahtu as sourced from from an RPG. It actually comes from David Drake's Than Curse the Darkness, anthologized in New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (1980).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.42.208.184 (talk) 15:52, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  1. Ahtu 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The character Nyarlathotep originally appears in the Grimoirium Imperium attributed to Dr. John Dee which he claimed to have received in 1581 from a fraudulent medium named Barnabas Saul. A link to the original work can be found here . The origin story of Nyarlathotep and the entire Cthulhu mythos needs to be completely revamped to reflect the true origin story, but I lack the time to do so myself. The pdf link provided should have sufficient information to go on for anyone else so inclined. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.214.169.69 (talk • contribs) 2 March 2017 (UTC)
:Lovecraft wrote on several occasions that Abdul Alhazred was completely fictional. Therefore this source, which says it is derived from the works of Abd Al-Hazred (another version of the same name) is also completely fictional. Removing from the article. --‖ Ebyabe talk - Welfare State ‖ 09:41, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Grimoirium Imperium

message: This article is undersourced and needs to be rewritten to meet Wikipiedia's guidelines and standards. There are some information in the article that is unsourced and should be either given proper citations from reliable sources or removed from the article if none can be found. The writing style and tone of the article does not fit with Wikipiedia's guidelines and standards of being encyclopedic in tone and style and should be rewritten so that it fits with these guidelines. Information in the article needs to be reformatted and reorganized so that each piece of information fits into appropriate sections. The article should be structured under these sections and sub-sections:
Section- Appearances: Notable appearances in literature
Sub-sections- Canon: All stories published by H.P. Lovecraft); Non-canon: All stories by authors other than Lovecraft (This should not include only name mentioning or Stephen King's Randall Flagg, those go in the Popular culture section)
Section- Concept/creation
Sub-sections- Inspiration: The character's development by its creator H.P. Lovecraft; Development: The name of this sub-section can be renamed but this is essentially about the character's development by other authors.
Section- Characterization: Pretty self explanatory what this should entail.
Section- Popular Culture: The character's appearances in popular culture (This should be structured as a well written paragraph rather than bullet points).
--Paleface Jack 18:04, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation and Rewrite 

message: I can't believe no one's mentioned this yet, but I really feel that the Table of Forms ought to have a column stating the work or works in which each form originally appeared, or failing that, citations linking each form to said works. It really seems like the sort of information that one might expect to have been in the table from the getgo.
I might try and do a deep dive to try and track those attributions down myself later on, but if anyone here already knows some of them, please feel free to chime in. --BrokenEye3 (talk) 11:16, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table of Forms Attribution