Template talk:The Wire

message: I tried to revert what looked like a vandal edit, only to find it had already been reverted.  Sorry about that.  It would help if popups were giving me the correct version.  However, it was wrong when I tried to revert back too. Will (Talk - contribs) 23:18, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
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message: I see that we've already got the new starring characters on the template. Good work. We could put two more sun reporters up before seasons end. I'd consider Whiting, Klebanow and Fletch and I'll be back with reasons once the premiere airs!--Opark 77 (talk) 21:39, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: New characters

message: I've restored "Politics" and "Journalists". Politics is the sections header for the plot summary on every episode guide and the show's politician characters include those at state level so "city hall" is not really appropriate. The journalists header is a link to the Journalists of The Wire article and is therefore consistent with the useage elsewher. Journalists is more widely known than "newsroom".--Opark 77 (talk) 07:54, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It just seemed odd to me that some of the section titles, like school, streets, and docks, referred to places, while the ones I edited referred to groups of people. I was also trying to make it a bit more like the "cast and crew" section on HBO's website, which sorts the characters by The Law, The Street, The Paper, The Hall, The Port, and The School. thebogusman (talk) 22:26, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The HBO wensite categories are a lot narrower than what we use on wikipedia. I think necessarily so because we cover far more of the ensemble than the HBO website. We don't use the law because we now have 3 subdivisions for that section - Police, Command and Courthouse. We don't use the Port because we use the docks instead on most of the coverage here. We do use the school and we do use the street although we have additional sections for drug dealers, and kingpins. I think the hall is an oversimplification as stated. I just think its more important that we cater to a reader unfamiliar with the series than that we pattern ourselves after the HBO website.--Opark 77 (talk) 10:41, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I understand that many of the HBO categories have become to too broad to adequately differentiate among all the characters introduced in five seasons. I just feel like there should be more consistency w/r/t word usage in the section titles; as they are now they look awkward (maybe it's just me). thebogusman (talk) 20:12, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps it isn't the categories themselves that feel forced, but the uniform number of names in each category where it doesn't make sense.  Slim Charles, for example, is not a dealer; he's an enforcer.  But there's already six  "street" people listed, and only five dealers.  Since Slim is an important character, he has to go in there somewhere, but he definitely doesn't belong in this category.  It  also seems odd to have "Herc" in the Court section, since he spent most of the series as a police officer.  Beadie, even though she works on the docks, is a police officer, as well.    She doesn't really fit in with the rest of the people in that category, all of whom are dock workers.  I think HBO's categories make sense, although I don't know that I'd put Levy in the "Street" section or "Prez" in the "School" section.  Nevertheless,  requiring that all categories include EXACTLY six characters doesn't make sense. 74.72.191.108 (talk) 07:44, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Section titles

message: As Spiros is the second in command under The Greek, isn't it logical that he would be categorized as a soldier, in a similar manner to Wee-Bey and Partlow, both of whom were the number twos in their respective organizations?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Frebel93 (talk • contribs) 13:47, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spiros 

message: The Wire portal was recently deleted. I've removed the red link from the template. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 11:47, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Link to deleted portal removed