Talk:The Black Island

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message: Between June and August 2008, there was a display in Valencia, Spain, of many memorabilia of Jordi Tardà's collection on Tintin. One of the panels in the display said that Methuen had requested a partial rework to better reflect Great Britain, followed by a statement that corroborates Wikipedia in that Bob de Moor was sent to the island to take pictures and drawings. However, the display stated that it was Hergé's initiative to completely redraw the book from scratch instead of only doing it partially as originally requested.
As I recall, the panel with this amount of information was actually a reproduction from the Tintin magazine of the 60's, which would make the latter a primary source and therefore eligible as a Wikipedia reference. I am going to check it and edit the information here.  SrAtoz (talk) 18:52, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extent of the British rework 

message: In my UK edition of the book the Thompsons are performing aerobatics and win the cup, making me think that it's not an air race as given here.
Blue painted (talk) 11:20, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Air race or aerobatics display? 

message: First of all, let me just say thanks to the author(s) of these articles. I've really enjoyed being able to check out a well-written, comprehensive Wiki article after reading each Tintin adventure. It's amazing to see how many of these have made it to GA (and even FA in a few cases). Keep up the good work!
There are a few issues with this article though, that I think should be addressed (if possible). I also left some comments at Talk:The Broken Ear, and if anyone's watching this page and wants to help out, then it might be good to check out that page as well.
*When discussing the changes made for the 1943 version of the story, it's said that the television screen was depicted as being in color, "despite the fact that such technology was not yet available in the United Kingdom". I find the phrasing here to be rather odd, since it implies (even if only indirectly) that the technology was available in some countries at the time, just not the United Kingdom. I'm not familiar with the history of color television; looking at the Wiki page on the topic, it does seem that some early prototypes were made at least as far back as 1908. However, the Wiki page, Timeline of the introduction of color television in countries, suggests that color television wasn't actually adopted by any country until the 1950s. The way that things are presented in this article might not be inaccurate per se, but I do find myself wondering whether it would be better to cut out "in the United Kingdom" from the end of that sentence and simply say that "such technology was not yet available". I have no idea how Farr phrases things, but in the back of the 2011 Little, Brown and Company edition of the comic, there's a trivia section that says Hergé "colored in the television screen...years before color television was possible!" This might not be as scholarly of a source as the others that are being used in the article right now, but I'm sure that we could use it, in the event that anyone is uncomfortable about deviating from Farr's specific phrasing.
**Agreed; I've removed the "in the United Kingdom" wording and added an additional link. Midnightblueowl (talk) 19:25, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Jpcase; thanks for pinging me! I probably wouldn't have seen your comment otherwise. Best, Midnightblueowl (talk) 09:49, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks for the response! No rush, but are you able to address the other issues that I've raised, both here and on the the other two Tintin talk pages that I've mentioned? In addition to those, I've also just left some notes on the talk page for King Ottokar's Sceptre. --Jpcase (talk) 03:34, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: , I'll try to get to these issues in the next week or so. Best, Midnightblueowl (talk) 09:58, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  A few issues