Talk:List of assassinations in fiction

message: I do not understand this page. Why are not for example all Agatha Christie novels listed here? What is the definition used to distinguish an "assassination" from a "murder"? Why does the article not contain thousands of titles? Mlewan 06:53, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criteria? 

message: Really now, what is the criteria where?  Nearly every one of Shakespeare's tragedies has an assassination:
*Titus Andronicus
*Richard III
*Richard II
*King John
*King Lear
:If the plays are appropriate as involving true assassinations, please feel free to add them to the list, in chronological order.  Nihil novi (talk) 21:30, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Shakespeare??

message: I guess I see this page as being about history and politics, and the sometimes violent expressions thereof. Never once occurred to me that I was building a Death page.
Varlaam (talk) 03:41, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Project Death?

message: The old Wikipedia rules encouraged the linking of any and every date you could find. The new rules want to see all such cases delinked, all minor and trivial cases.
This page deals with the assassinations of world leaders. Such events are typically listed on the corresponding WP pages for the years in which they occur because of the significance of those events.
On this page, if a fictional Mafia leader gets whacked in 1963, then 1963 is not linked. That is a fictional event. But when JFK is assassinated in 1963, that is a major world event and it is linked.
The new Wikipedia rules specifically allow for the linking of dates in the situations that you will find on this page.
Varlaam (talk) 05:22, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Linking of dates

message: I am one of the Editors of this page.
Do I personally agree with the inclusion of everything that is listed here? No, I don't. Does everything here conform to my personal, totally subjective, definition of the "a" word? No.
But this page intentionally casts a very wide net. It is not expected that every person will agree with everything that appears here. I would expect the vast majority to quibble over this book or that film. Part of the purpose of this page is to allow individuals to clarify their own personal opinions about precise definitions by looking over a very broad assortment of events, both fictional and historical, as they are detailed here.
So, if you, as a reader, don't like that specific film title, please bear in mind that 200+ individuals a day, people like yourself, Wikipedia users, have been looking at that for one year, two years, three years, and not had a problem with it.
Please keep an open mind when reading our page. We hope you discover something new.
Thank you. Varlaam (talk) 05:39, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: What belongs on this page?

message: I cleaned up the James Bond references in the novels section. For one thing, although the character is described as an assassin, he almost never is depicted as carrying out this aspect of the job (his "licence to kill" is usually applied in self defence situations). The original list also suggested that From Russia with Love was about the Andres Nin assassination, which was an error; it's referenced, but the book has nothing to do with assassination otherwise. Similarly, I'm going to revise references to the Bond films because only in a couple of cases is Bond actually shown on an assassination run (though assassinations by others do occur).68.146.81.123 (talk) 13:05, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Bond

message: .Vampire.  Under Global Commission on Assassinations, the presumption of the fake death is crossed with The Wicca religious tradition.  By asserting Mona Simpson's Death, one is de-modernizing art.  This new category is an appeal to reality.Julzes (talk) 03:51, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  New category 

message: This list, formerly, made a distinction between genuine historical events and purely fictional ones, by making the date of the historical event a link.
That (subtle) distinction has been eliminated with the general abolition of date links throughout English Wikipedia. (Not all languages of Wikipedia support this particular convention.)
However, for the record, the vast majority of stated dates in the list are historical.
Varlaam (talk) 14:33, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historical vs. non-historical dates 

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message: Why not arrange the authors' names in alphabetical order? It is difficult to find an author!68.100.116.118 (talk) 02:57, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too disorderly