Talk:Scarecrow (DC Comics)

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I'm deleting this unless someone can find a reference, i've never seen this anywhere else. 67.174.248.87 (talk) 12:18, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Reference?

message: wouldn't the show merit it's own section? 96.236.219.47 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 18:49, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brave and the Bold 

message: I think DCIncarnate has the right idea and intent by removing a LOT of cruft and fanplot, but I agree with JoeLoeb taht it may have gone too far. I'm not a fan of losing the publication history materials, so if we can review the edit and let DCI justify his work, and let JL reply in a calm manner, about what he'd like to see return, we can get somewhere. YEs? ThuranX (talk) 19:18, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like there is some give and take finally; I have thrown in an edit as well. Hopefully this style of working will fix things. ThuranX (talk) 20:09, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know how to add in ideas in the history section. All I want is to improve it and give some background to the film and TV stuff instead of just voiced by ... That's it.(JoeLoeb (talk) 17:55, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: So propose some changes to those sections back here, and leave publication history alone for now. I'd recommend finding sources which discuss the cartoon and movie versions, either in regard to how the actors portrayed the character, how the writers approached the character, or how the character matched/differed from the comics version. Real World content instead of lots of plot. ThuranX (talk) 18:05, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I give up. Screw it up as much as you want. (JoeLoeb (talk) 02:51, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent Major Revision. 

message: Before this gets moved again... and the alternate page that was created has been moved to Scarecrow (comics)/Suggested SI for the time being...
Yes, Wikipedia naming conventions hold that a dab phrase be used when more than one article would use the same title. And yes, the same conventions hold that the phrases be such that the specific subject is easily IDed.
However, the convention also takes into account that dab phrases are also assigned based on how likely a particular unique subject is going to be searched for and how many topics exist for an article title, or a tighter subset of it.
In the case of characters named "Scarecrow" in comics we are already talking about a very limited subset of the articles that would use the title "Scarecrow". As the suggested set index shows we've got 3 articles and an "umbrella" note about the adaptations of a single character in literature, so 4 items. Of the four, 1 (the adaptation) is more likely to be searched for under Scarecrow (Oz). And another is more likely to be looked for under the name the publisher is using to differentiate it from their "other Scarecrow" - Straw Man (comics). Of the two that are left, the DC character, is the more likely to be looked for under Scarecrow (comics). All that requires is for a hatnote to the other article primarily focused on a comic book topic that shares the base title.
Since that is what we currently have, there isn't a need to move things around.
- J Greb (talk) 22:11, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
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