Talk:Terry Pratchett

message: Sir Terry has been for a long time involved with the Society of Authors, including being Chair. The article should mention this.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.44.189.150 (talk) 09:58, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Society of Authors 

message: "Known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre"? Quite a misleading understatement. This suggests that at least some of his work in the fantasy genre is deadly serious. That's not true. All of his output is consistently comical, with jokes coming reliably at least once in five sentences, although he is, of course, trying to combine this with suspense, drama, message, and conworld merits.--91.148.159.4 (talk) 18:19, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I would argue that many of his works aren't comical; some of the Tiffany Aching books, as well as many Watch (or Ankh-Morpork in general) books play the tropes as straight as possible(and in the case of one Tiffany Aching book, veer strongly toward gothic horror).  Also, Pratchett writes satire, which isn't always 'comical' in the standard sense (witness Gulliver's Travels, which Swift wrote as a satirical indictment of English high society). 2001:569:BD76:EA00:D24:C194:918F:8CA7 (talk) 09:07, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  Monstrous Regiment, and The Truth have strong elements other than comedy. He was serious about some things.   Midgley (talk) 18:12, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "frequently comical"? 

message: A list of published books should be added to this article.  The same type of list can be found in articles for other authors.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mccon012 (talk • contribs) 14:46, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: the Bibliography is detailed enough.  rdunnalbatross  12:53, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Not its not, for example the Book "Shaking Hands with Death" by TP is not mentioned at all. 2A01:599:618:5DA1:C84D:DB9C:DDD0:1D9F (talk) 23:06, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: plus the fact that #Bibliography is not working at f* all... 2A01:599:618:5DA1:C84D:DB9C:DDD0:1D9F (talk) 23:07, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  list of books 

message: It is so ironic that an article about a successful literary professional is itself so ploddingly and tediously written, and so bogged down by dreary minutiae, that one suspects some kind of earnest, literary trainspotter was behind its laboured construction.
It is so leaden, and there is too much of it, so one cannot contemplate any attempt to breathe some style into the great, lardy thing, therefore, this remains Pratchett's uninspired Wikipedia legacy.  --174.16.20.36 (talk) 08:39, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: So fix it.  WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:simple/complex 13:42, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Why should I? There's too much of it. It would require a time-consuming, wholesale rewrite. It would also be tedious; I couldn't be arsed, frankly. --174.16.20.36 (talk) 20:42, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Well then chances are it will never get done, but thanks for bringing it to everyone's attention.  WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:simple/complex 15:22, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Literary trainspotting. 

message: there have been 2 feater films made now color of magic and the hog father if someone could update would be good thing Lurch42024 (talk) 08:45, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Film 

message: I see, several months ago, someone replaced my copyright-free svg image of Terry's arms with a non-free image.  That's cool if that's what the page wants, but Terry owns the right to the image that is there now.  (I don't see anything that indicates he released it into the public domain.)  My rendering of the arms only showed the shield because I don't have the skill to show any of the other elements, but when depicting arms, the shield is the only part that must be shown.  There are many examples of this throughout wikipedia.  Sorry for the long delay in commenting on this.  Cheers.  A1 Aardvark (talk) 21:59, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: The Arms Currently Displayed

message: "Discworld novels often include a modern innovation and its introduction to the world's medieval setting, such as a public police force (Guards! Guards!), gun (Men at Arms), submarine (Jingo), cinema (Moving Pictures), investigative journalism (The Truth), the postal service (Going Postal, although the narrative describes a previous service that collapsed), or modern banking (Making Money). The resulting social upheaval serves as the setting for the main story and often inspires the title."
There are several errors here. While polices are depicted as rather modern in his works, it is far from a modern phenomena. Investigating journalism was around in the Roman empire, and possibly before that. The most efficient postal service documented is the one implemented by the Aztecs using stationed runners, that could deliver messages from border to border within a day. Modern banking is often considered invented by the Knights Templar, but there are evidence of baning dating back much further. In fact the earliest known laws (the Code of Hammurabi) incorporate regulations of banking. Of course Terry is known to give these services a modern look and feel, but they are far from modern innovations. Also there was guns around at the medieval period, but in Europe they was considered blasphemous and anyone using them would have been subject to a witch hunt. However after the Mongol empire of Genghis Khan spread into Europe using firearms, Europe realized that without firearmes there was no way to resist invading armies from outside the Christian world and even the popes personal guard was armed with the weapon. And on a side-note there was awesome hand-held flamethrowers utilizing "greek fire".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.112.38.78 (talk) 22:32, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The use of 'modern' is accurate both scientifically and linguistically; in a historical context, 'modern' refers to events that occurred following the end of the Middle Ages (with the accepted start date being sometime in the 16th century).  The most-accepted 'end date' for what we consider 'ancient history' is the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE.  The first firearms were invented in China in the 13th century, which places them firmly in the modern era, with Europe seeing them in the early 14th century (and they weren't blasphemous, they were dangerous -- a misfire could remove limbs if it didn't kill the user outright).   The Mongols and Aztecs were again 13th and 14th-century societies.  The first 'bank' that wasn't simply a money-changer or a kingdom treasury was established in 1157 in Venice and   the first civil investigative forces were employed in Ancient China (c. 1200-c. 1600 BCE) (both of which are pre-Modern Era, so I won't quibble on those points :)) 2001:569:BD76:EA00:D24:C194:918F:8CA7 (talk) 10:05, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ancient vs Modern stuff 

message: If you look at the article for Broad Chalke, nr Salisbury, it's stated that Terry Pratchett lives there, and it's west-south-west of Salisbury. This article says he lives in a village north-west of Salisbury - which is correct?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.238.100.56 (talk) 22:46, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where he lives? 

message: I've added Sir Terry's personal coat of arms.  Cheers. A1 Aardvark (talk) 09:32, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coat of Arms 

message: I'm no expert on heraldry, but the image of Pterry's arms looks *nothing* like the blazon (there's a joke in there somewhere, I know).  Is there anyone qualified in the heraldic art that can verify that the image is correct? 207.216.8.30 (talk) 18:14, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Error of Arms

message: Hi
I can't edit this myself I don't know why.
Reference 115
^ "Saurio interviews Terry Pratchett". laideafija.com.ar. no date. Retrieved 15 March 2008.
has an old link. The new one is http://www.laideafija.com.ar/especiales/pratchett/PRATCHETT_interview.html
Also, the date of the interview is January 2002, in La Idea Fija #4.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ignatzniemand (talk • contribs) 05:14, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I've edited the reference. You can edit a reference by editing the text it first appears in (the publishing history section). Jarkeld (talk) 08:08, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correction in References 

message: It says in the wikipaedia article on Terry Pratchett that he has shied away from "feature films". Perhaps that means that they have not been released in theaters, but I have seen four movies based on Diskworld novels, that I borrowed from the Minneapolis, MN central library. Soul Music and Wyrd Sisters were animated. Colour of Magic and Hogfather were made with live actors. Perhaps these were made for TV or direct to DVD, and thus don't qualify as "feature films" but I don't understand why they are not mentioned in the article. They are all worth seeing if you like Pratchett's work. ````
11/23/2011  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.135.241.46 (talk) 18:54, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: A bit late but: They are mentioned in the section "Television" and were mentioned also by the time you asked that question (cf. ). Regards SoWhy 13:55, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Movies based on Discworld books 

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message: in the article footer links library catalog data.
I have provided two formal references to the CILIP website (now refs #13, 14): 
* [ref name=medal2001] (Carnegie Winner 2001). Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. CILIP. Retrieved 18 August 2012.[/ref]
* [ref name=prdir2001] "Press releases for the 2001 Awards, presented in 2002 ". Press Desk. CILIP. Retrieved 18 August 2012.[/ref] —note, the P.R. archive does not provide month and day until 2002/2003
They are now underutilized for the mere fact that Pratchett won the 2001 Carnegie Medal. Three of the contemporary press releases feature Pratchett and The Educated Maurice .... One is the full transcript of his acceptance speech, for which this biography elsewhere cites a secondary source.
--P64 (talk) 19:42, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources

message: : second of two sections posted at once
Writing career (now sec. 3) comprises two subsections without any general preface. The first is Awards, essentially a prose list. The second is Fandom. The heading "Writing career" is both misleading and odd when considered beside the next section heading "Writing". 
Considering the contents I wonder whether "Writing" (now section 4) belongs in advance of both Interests (2) and "Writing career" (3).
--P64 (talk) 19:42, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Writing career

message: 'His latest Discworld book, Snuff, is the third-fastest-selling novel since records began in the United Kingdom, selling 55,000 copies in the first three days.'
The record is now redundant and should be changed to past tense (The Casual Vacancy sold 125,000 in three days), although I find the original claim itself dubious, since the later Harry Potter books sold millions in their first 24 hours, let alone three days.--Allthestrongbowintheworld (talk) 18:52, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It can be reliably sourced (see ) but your point is correct in that the wording is misleading - the source for it says third-fast selling "hardback adult-audience novel" (which obviously excludes Harry Potter since those are children-targeted books even if adults read them). I'll change it but you need to provide a source for that The Casual Vacancy claim since the current source in that article does not back that. Regards SoWhy 19:05, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair enough. There we go. The Casual Vacancy sold 124,603 copies in three days, to be exact. --Allthestrongbowintheworld (talk) 19:38, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, I changed it :-) Regards SoWhy 09:43, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Snuff 

message: :File:Arms of Sir Terry Pratchett, OBE.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 02:24, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Why? --Roly (talk) 08:50, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: See Wikipedia:Possibly_unfree_files/2013_March_4#File:Arms_of_Sir_Terry_Pratchett.2C_OBE.jpg, but it seems to have been recreated as own work at :File:Terry Pratchett COA.svg, which seems fine, as COAs design is, I think, not copyrightable, only the particular rendering is. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:40, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

text:  The infobox includes |signature = Terrys-signature.jpg --now hidden-- which previously generated redlink . Perhaps it's another file that has been deleted. If not then perhaps corrupted by a vandal. --P64 (talk) 00:08, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  Regarding the signature, it's deemed copyrightable according to US law - even if you own a book with a signature, you don't own the right to reproduce it, and so on, not unless Terry has signed an appropriate waver for you... see :Commons:Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Terrys-signature.jpg. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:40, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: File:Arms of Sir Terry Pratchett, OBE.jpg

message: :: The infobox includes |signature = Terrys-signature.jpg --now hidden-- which previously generated redlink . Perhaps it's another file that has been deleted. If not then perhaps corrupted by a vandal. --P64 (talk) 00:08, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  Regarding the signature, it's deemed copyrightable according to US law - even if you own a book with a signature, you don't own the right to reproduce it, and so on, not unless Terry has signed an appropriate waver for you... see :Commons:Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Terrys-signature.jpg. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:40, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Signature

message: no longer supports the fields influences and influenced. Its template documentation now instructs (twice): "No longer supported. Please move cited/citable instances into prose."
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See Talk: Ray Bradbury#Influences/influenced for some more explanation with cross-references.
--P64 (talk) 23:58, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Influences/influenced 

message: Could some fan look into the adaptations here and in Discworld, especially radio plays, and decide what belongs where, sort it, and provide references? Based on what i found at radiolistings.co.uk, the BBC plays could even be expanded into separate articles so that their titles no longer refer to the books... (Not sure if a stand alone articles are worth it, though). Thanks WikiHannibal (talk) 23:57, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Some (all?) of the BBC radio adaptations: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03mz1wb/episodes/guide —80.192.180.160 (talk) 20:05, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

text: If you leave an edit unsigned then a robot will usually do it for you, but you can always sign yourself by typing four tildes (~ 4 times) or by clicking on the signature and timestamp button at the top of the edit window. Both methods, I believe, work even if you have no account; they use your IP address. As for your question, I'm not sure if boardgames count as adaptations; I suppose they do but I don't know anything about them. --Roly (talk) 08:50, 11 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adaptations 

message: I am not sure if it is worth mentioning, but there is a species of spider named for Terry Pratchett, Anelosimus pratchetti.  (Full disclosure, I just wrote that article).  I am not sure if it warrants mention in this article, but thought it might be worth consideration.  --TeaDrinker (talk) 02:24, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spider named for Pratchett 

message: I saw that Amazon use two different names for the The Long Earth #3. Both "The long childhood" and "The long Mars" are used. Is there anyone who knows which one is official, or is there a US/UK difference in the naming? Haaninjo (talk) 14:02, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: No, there is no link with the country, they just changed the title, if I remember well. It was first The Long Childhood, now it is The Long Marshttp://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/terry+pratchett/stephen+baxter/long+mars/10071612/.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.202.59.204 (talk) 12:33, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Long Mars or Long childhood? 

message: Section "Life", subsection "Alzheimer's disease and death", Please change "Pratchett died on 12 March 2015 from final complications with Alzheimers, according to his publisher. Tweets from his account just after his death included one saying "Terry took Death’s arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night."" to: "Pratchett died on 12 March 2015 from final complications with Alzheimers, according to his publisher. Through his tweeter account, it was announced with three tweets:
AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER.
Terry took Death’s arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night.
The End. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dimitris.m.stathis (talk • contribs) 16:50, 12 March 2015‎
 by someone else - this page has had over 80 edits in the last 3.5 hours - Arjayay (talk) 18:41, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: As he pointed out in a talk or essay published in A Slip of the Keyboard, he advocated control of the circumstances of one's death, and noted at one point that in Oregon State, something like half of the people who purchased medications related to "assisted suicide" never used them - he inferred from this that it was the sense of control, of power, that mattered, the realization that they were there to be used if they were needed- they were not always purchased by people with a morbid insistence on dying immediately, far from.  (I mention this I hope unnecessarily, detecting some implication of irony read from the fact that this advocate of "assisted suicide" died of natural causes. It's clear from how he understood what he was advocating, that there was no contradiction/irony/whathave involved at all. Might not need to be said, of course :) ) Schissel | Sound the Note! 18:57, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Announcement of Terry Pratchett's Death 

message: to the mp3 with [John Mullan] tells as Date the 18 December 2009, but the Guardian Website there says: 18 June 2010, the url seems to proof the 18 Dec 2009-Date but... I have learned, that this sometime is wrong -- Hartmann Schedel cheers 20:11, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: This video from the same event has a publication date of 19 December 2009. --Nick RTalk 22:34, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: thank you for your fast response and for the Link to the Video -- Hartmann Schedel cheers 23:11, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference # 161. (atm) 

message: Currently the Wiki page has it that Pratchett's daughter posted the tweets announcing her father's passing. According to this page, they were actually posted by his assistant, Rob Wilkins (the article mentions a statement from Pratchett's literary agent): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-31859675 --62.49.5.196 (talk) 03:25, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Since the tweets appear on both Rhianna and Terry(and Rob)'s Twitters, it's likely that both are true. Rob posted on @terryandrob, and Rhianna posted on @rhipratchett (with shaking hands and tearful eyes, as she later mentions). I believe the tweets were posted on Terry's twitter before they were on Rhiannas, if that's considered worth mentioning. The difference seems to be about 4 hours, but I'm not sure how to precisely date/time tweets.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.9.181.181 (talk) 09:56, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Final tweets 

message: Reference #53 appears cited as a source for a quote from Pratchett, but the cite is only a link to the Wikipedia page of the "Front Row" radio program. Please cite a verifiable source! 
Cpt. Samuel Vimes (talk) 08:49, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference #53. 

message: A movement has started to honor him via reference. An initial Reddit thread spawned a wide variety of ways to add the header after one redditor mourned the loss, quoting Going Postal. The BBC wrote a short article about the phenomenon. Indrora (talk) 09:32, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  I think the article could do with coverage of the effect of Pratchett's death, the people who wrote and spoke about him, memorials, fan reaction, the "bring back Terry Pratchett" petition and so on. Popcornduff (talk) 11:28, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  I second this idea. Also a website gnuterrypratchett.com has been set up with instructions on how to set this up for a variety of server platforms. The movement has also started to be picked up by various news outlets The Guardian, The Telegraph. Leeraven172 (talk) 23:20, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I would love for someone who knows the code to do this. Google search results already has a "GNU Terry Pratchett" in their overhead when you look up his name! Here are the GNU Instructions, to any soul who might find them...I wish I could do it myself but it's all Klatchian to me.     --GymLeaderRebecca (talk) 15:39, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  GNU Terry Pratchett 

message: As with people that attempt to avoid real world upsetting their private lives, Terry Pratchett appears to display a certain dis-like of realism - or seeing the world as it is. Might not a section on any such lack-of-realism add depth and insight into Terry Pratchett's view of the world? Might it even highlight his Death Fixation?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.44.109.90 (talk) 21:47, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I’m guessing you did not read Pratchett? Rgds ✦ hugarheimur 22:33, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Pretty obviously, and of course unsourced. The IP seems here only to attack TP without sources. Well sourced criticism is of course fine. Dougweller (talk) 06:41, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Getting Lost in Magic?  

message: Please change 
After his death, Pratchett's daughter Rhianna wrote in three tweets from her father's Twitter account:
to
After his death, Rob Wilkins wrote in their joint Twitter account @terryandrob:
Colin Smythe
Personal knowledge as Sir Terry Pratchett's agent.
92.30.19.66 (talk) 23:33, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. EoRdE6(Come Talk to Me!) 00:29, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Here's a source (BBC):  —Midgrid(talk) 11:21, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

text: The confusion seems to have arisen because Rhianna posted the same three tweets on her own account.—Midgrid(talk) 11:50, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

text:  Thanks for the source. Done. Popcornduff (talk) 15:19, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 17 March 2015 

message: "Press Officer for the Central Electricity Generating Board in an area which covered three nuclear power stations."
The source cited for this paragraph says 4 stations not 3. As did TP on BBC Desert Island Disks at 23:15. As does the author's bio in (UK) editions of the first dozen or so Discworld novels.
Hackneymartian (talk) 17:07, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I've made the edit, thanks. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:43, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  How many power stations 

message: Is using surnames only a US affectation?
Sir Terry was English, and that is the more usual way to refer to him in non-US English  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chrisboote (talk • contribs) 10:10, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: This is part of the Wikipedia "Manual of style", specifically the section MOS:LASTNAME. This encourages consistency across the encyclopedia. -- John of Reading (talk) 10:46, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

text: If he's a knight he's a "Sir". Please do not presume to speak for about fifty million people. We do tend not to use the "Sir" repeatedly as after the first time the point has been made. Britmax (talk) 12:01, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Quite. I am certainly a diehard Royalist and even I would find use of "Sir Terry" instead of "Pratchett" throughout the article to be overly obsequious. -- Necrothesp (talk) 16:16, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why 'Pratchett' instead of 'Sir Terry' throughout? 

message: “Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide.  No escape from reality. Open your eyes, Look up to the skies and see…”  Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen
Since Pratchett said he focused on fantasy because, "It is easier to bend the universe around the story", might it not be useful to highlight the ways people use fantasy to bend others to there views on the universe?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.20.255.60 (talk) 10:42, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Interesting idea but I don't see how. This is meant to be an encyclopaedia article about this one person, not a repository for literary theory or criticism, or a comparative piece on other writers. If you could find a reliable source which addresses this issue and specifically with regard to Pratchett then maybe, yes, but I think your proposal above possibly too broad and unlikley to be reference-able - sorry to be so negative! Best wishes DBaK (talk) 11:01, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Escaping to Fantasy Island 

message: Hi, I found a mod for a game called Oblivion, whose info page states that Terry Pratchett contributed very much to it (http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/28977/?). The info page was written by the mod author, and unfortunately it thus counts as a primary source. I was wondering if a podcast of the mod author mentioning Sir Terry's work on the mod, such as in the Morrowind Modding Interview series (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhUNP1i3k44), would be a valid reference?
Thanks for any input!
Solistide (talk) 23:45, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: If this isn't described in independent reliable sources, it isn't of encyclopaedic significance. This article isn't an exhaustive list of everything Pratchett ever did... AndyTheGrump (talk) 23:50, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Terry's contributions to Oblivion mod "Companion Vilja", et al

message: Need a few more of his reference influences here, such as Brewers, Straight Dope, Phrase and Fable and Charles Panati. There are influences such as T H White and  Lovecraft etc. not mentioned. Slightnostalgia (talk) 17:33, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-fictional influences? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Pratchett left a $100,000 scholarship to the University of South Australia - http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-28/sir-terry-pratchett-scholarship-uni-sa/6809714. It's probably worth mentioning in the article. Perhaps a new "Legacy" section? Mitch Ames (talk) 02:59, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scholarship 

message: *Lie-to-children
I've embarked on a Quality improvement project for Lie-to-children, first introduced as a phrase in The Science of Discworld.
If you've got recommendations for additional secondary sources that could be utilized to further improve the quality of the article, please suggest them at Talk:Lie-to-children.
Thank you for your time,
— Cirt (talk) 02:34, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quality improvement project - Lie-to-children 

message: While I agree with the movement of the punctuation today - and it appears to be correct for the Engvar in which this article is written - the previous punctuation inside quotation marks was correct for American English lol. Newimpartial (talk) 01:18, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Not according to the Manual of Style. See MOS:LQ. Nitpicking polish (talk) 14:12, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Kewl. I didn't know there was a house style on that point, much less one I agree with. Colour me enlightened. ;). Newimpartial (talk) 01:23, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I did not know about MOS:LQ either. A good find...  — Gamall Wednesday Ida (t · c) 21:58, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Today's punctuation edit

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message: the wiktionary entry linked to defines this term as a temporary release from imprisonment. really? imprisonment for what? when? if this isn't facetiousness or vandalism, the lack of detail is a significant omission.Toyokuni3 (talk) 19:19, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd say it was carelessness. I've clarified it. It was the 2nd definition, day release from work, which is this case was a strict apprenticeship. Thanks for spotting it. Doug Weller talk 20:16, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Day release?

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message: "Seriously Relevant: Parody, Pastiche and Satire in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Novels" a chapter in a 2018 Springer book  Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Note that it doesn't say that his early novels were parody, but " that the development of the Discworld novels is marked by a movement away from straightforward pastiche towards parody and travesty. Over time, the emphasis has shifted from the source text to the new text, and pastiche has been replaced by increasingly sophisticated parody and satire, which Pratchett uses to create a fantasy world with a very real and relevant edge to it."
Some but not all of the text is here. Doug Weller talk 14:29, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the source. For those interested, most of the book can be accessed on GBooks by appending the page number you need, e.g.  will display page 145, PA146 will display 146 etc. Do that to read all pages. Regards SoWhy 14:46, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parody in Terry Pratchett - a source 

message: Recently, Pratchett has become embroiled, posthumously, in a controversy where 'gender critical' activists have attempted to co-opt Pratchett as an assumed supporter of their cause; close associates and even his daughter have rebuked this claim. It's reached the media mainstream and op-eds and such have arisen. How, if at all, should this be included in the article? It's worth reminding of recency bias and our implicit drive to avoid it. DMT Biscuit (talk) 16:19, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I’m not convinced this is in any way relevant to this particular article (as opposed to, perhaps, our Feminism-Appropriating Reactionary Transphobia article). Cheers ⌘ 22:58, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Gender Criticial' controversy  

message: I was surprised by the absence of the early Tiffany Aching books in the Children section. 173.178.67.88 (talk) 19:46, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Added. Dan Bloch (talk) 19:11, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tiffany Aching : children - Young adult 

message: I've just reorganised the article, with minor edits to certain paragraphs to avoid repetition. Main thing is moving his interests under the "Personal life" section (save for the award he sponsored in his final years, moved to "Career," and the posthumous one which is now under "Death and legacy") and the "Works" section which is now entirely under "Career." I notice there's several discussions going back many years that echo issues I have w/the article as it currently stands, and a couple no-one's mentioned yet, such as the introduction leaving a lot of key things out (Good Omens isn't mentioned at all in the article until the "desparately needs editing" list of collaborations.) Lot more work to be done, but this is a start, I feel. FreeBard42 (talk) 15:49, 18 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reorganisation 

message: Excuse me for bad english, I am not native speaker.
I would like to draw your attention to the fact that two antiviruses from the web service VirusTotal recognize the official site of Terry Pratchett as malicious, and one antivirus recognizes this site as a phishing one. Please keep this in mind and do something if necessary. Jet Jerry (talk) 16:25, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: This has nothing to do with Wikipedia; I'd recommend contacting Penguin Books, who run the the site mentioned. There's nothing we can do about it. (VirusTotal frequently has false positives, by the way). BastunĖġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ! 16:53, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text:  I meant that you could just remove the URL from the section Terry Pratchett#External links, if you think it might make it safer for people to click on it. Jet Jerry (talk) 17:57, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  VirusTotal on www.terrypratchettbooks.com