Talk:Tintin and Snowy

message: For you Tintin fans, here are two userboxes to set up for placement on your userpage.
	
--PremKudvaTalk 05:11, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Userbox  

message: I think we should split Tintin and Snowy to Tintin and Snowy j@5h+u15y@n
:Disagree at the moment. MadMaxDog 00:51, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree, Tintin and Snowy are two distinctive characters. WoodElf 12:02, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not the point. Articles of barely half a page (Snowy) which have a perfect fit where they are do not need to be moved. Once it gets longer, no objection. I would not revert it if somebody did it, but its not necessary. MadMaxDog 12:41, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

text: Note that Snowy has his own article in the Danish, French, Spanish, Farsi, Dutch, Portuguese, and Swedish wikipedias. You can compare how they deal with shorter articles. Rigadoun  (talk) 19:27, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, I agree. Don't have an article for Snowy. He doesn't do much at all. Tintin, on the other hand, is the most important character, and deserves his own article. So split. 75.57.96.7 17:08, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Split Article

message: Can we find out why Snowy barks "Wooah" rather than "Woof" in the English editions? I've tried finding out but failed. Other dogs say "woof" such as in The Black Island. I wonder if a Belgian speaker can figure it out. --Robauz 01:40, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  '''Wooah Wooah''' 

message: Aztually Henri Fourcat from the book Tintin and Alph-Art seemed to to somehow interested in meeting Tintin with a possibly romantic interest.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.240.189.109 (talk) 16:42, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Romantic Interest 

message: The previous description for this field read "Tintin is a renowned journalist and adventurer, Snowy his canine companion."  This is a one line in-universe description of the characters, not their abilities.  Consistent or notable abilities the two have exhibited I would think should belong here.   Tintin's marksmanship is one (he warns some people he's holding up that he's a crack shot in one of books), I don't recall if Snowy has any outstanding abilities beyond what a dog is expected to be able to do.  BrokenSphereMsg me 22:28, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abilities/powers field in infobox 

message: Wow, someone NEEDS to add something about the racism in TINTINS comics, they were blatantly racist against the Jews in a time when the world did NOTHING to help us from the NAZIS!ZionistLionist (talk) 09:39, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Umm, there is little blatant racism against Jews, mostly some bad stereotyping. On the other hand, there is no evidence I know of that Hergé was forced to put in any anti-semitic stuff, they were his own prejudices. Fram (talk) 12:40, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  RACISM! 

message: Don't change the article itself, just the title. 75.57.110.28 (talk) 02:16, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Move to "Tintin"

message: As Tintin fans may know, Hergé was raised a Catholic, although later there were various alterations to his outlook. Much about the character Tintin is deliberately obscured, his age, his family, his political party and so on. That includes his specific religion, which is largely irrelevant to his actions. However the religious background of the heroes shows many places in the books: Temple of the Sun -- reference to Haddock's "guardian angel", Tintin in Tibet and The Red Sea Sharks -- devilish and angelic versions of characters arguing morality, in Red Rackham's Treasure Haddock prays (in mockery, if nothing else), and knows the location of St. Peter's in Rome by longitude and latitude by heart. Also in Red Rackham's Treasure, Tintin knows that John the Baptist was called "The Eagle of Pathmos", and that he composed The Apocalypse there. That his religion is not Buddhist or Muslim is implied by Tintin's actions with characters who are. That he is not Jewish is implied, not only by Hergé's own goof trying to remove the "Jewish" name from The Shooting Star, and getting it wrong, but also the lack of Jewish symbols in Tintin books (whereas a Christian cross appears various places). Nor is there anything to suggest he was an atheist, a Hindu, a Taoist, etc.
This is not to go so far as to say even so much that Tintin was raised Catholic, but he understands Catholicism, and he treats it with at least the same understanding and tolerance he does other major religions. 24.130.12.229 (talk) 04:36, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Tintin and Catholicism

message: Why does Tintin's profile have Alter ego and Abilities sections? He's not a DC/Marvel style superhero.Zainker (talk) 21:45, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It's because certain comic book fans don't grasp the concept that "comic book" doesn't mean "superhero".  I've removed those fields, and hopefully future editors will be perceptive enough not to try to shoehorn this character into their narrow genre conventions. - 67.39.251.254 (talk) 18:20, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alter ego? Abilities? 

message: I'll assume there was some sort of comprehensive discussion about this already, leading to the current format, but I cannot be arsed to trawl through the archives and need to ask here: why is the article entitled "Tintin and Snowy"? It seems a bit silly to me. I'm a big Tintin fan and I don't see it as a serial documenting the adventures of Tintin AND SNOWY... It's Tintin. Herge's adventures of Tintin!
Sure, Snowy's an ever-present, but there's enough info for a separate article on him at least. I really doubt whether any other encyclopaedia (written by actual lexicographers) would entitle the article in this way. The main reason for this is public referral, i.e. what do you call this comic serial when you casually talk about it with others? Yeah, just Tintin.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.92.99.63 (talk) 10:10, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: and Snowy