Talk:List of The Adventures of Tintin characters

message: Anyone else thinks the intro is extremely clumsy and weasel-worded.  Do list pages really need more than a functional intro? Mezigue (talk) 13:02, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It certainly is quite selective in its sourcing, taking the most extreme (reliable) source instead of the middle ground. The second source in the intro doesn't seem to be available anymore? (The website is, but the specific article not). Fram (talk) 13:16, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intro 

message: In the article Allan Thompson is said to be originally Haddock's first mate (In the Crab with the Golden Claws). However in the English translations he appears as Captain of the "Sereno", a smuggling ship in the Red Sea in the Cigars of the Pharaoh. Chronologically Cigars comes before Golden Claws in the chronology of the English translations. Is that true in the other translations and in the original Belgian version? I have not corrected the original since I am not sure that what is shown in the English translations is universally true.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.221.152.231 (talk) 02:22, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: In Finnish, it's also Allan Thompson in Cigars of the Pharaoh. Someone (with better english than I have) should correct the article. 193.66.64.147 (talk) 15:57, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Where does Allan (Thompson) first appear in the Tintin Universe?

message: Where is Gibbons in the Red Sea Sharks?
In the Dutch edition he is not mentioned anywhere. Is he in the English?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jcjlf (talk • contribs) 14:39, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gibbons 

message: Reading through the page it states that Sir Francis Haddock was a member of the French Royal navy, yet in the comic and 90's animated series the Unicorn is siad to have been part of the royal fleet belonging to King Charles (I or II depending on the source.) At least that is the case in the english translations. Was Haddock's heritage changed when translated from French to English or is this page simply wrong?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.186.149.152 (talk) 02:00, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Haddock's hetitage 

message: The addition <quote>The names Castro and Alcazar are both translatable to 'castle' or 'fortress'</quote> was reverted, likely in good faith, but I see no reason for the removal. The information is worthwhile, and relevant. One could say a reference is wanting, but that can be indicated in ways more subtle; and anyway the same could be said for half the statements on this page. Which is why I took the liberty to revert the removal. Discussion welcome! Jan olieslagers (talk) 19:54, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: That's fine. The IP that added it didn't say what language they were referring to and I did not find the answer upon a cursory check, so I had reverted it. There is an awful amount of WP:OR in this article so what's one more. Prhartcom (talk) 21:01, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, thanks for not going to war over this petty detail. I will gladly agree not everything is solidly founded round here, but frankly we can be a bit more tolerant on the lighter subjects, can't we? otoh that the language is S^hw^ha^hhSpanish ought to have been obvious. btw You might be interested to learn about the Siege of the Alcázar you will then remember it is Spanish! Nothing but good,  Jan olieslagers (talk) 21:29, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Sure, no war here. My cursory check should have gone on a bit longer; I found it now, here and here. I don't happen to agree that we should go easy on the lighter subjects or even that Tintin is a lighter subject; there are dozens of critical analysis books on my shelf about it. That's part of my problem: I need to re-read them all, searching for mention of characters from the books so that this article finally gets a WP:reliable source. Cheers. Prhartcom (talk) 21:44, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Castro vs. Alcazar 

message: Today I got in contact with a couple of people from [Hergé Genootschap] because I saw that Moulinsart had a small model on offer that shows Tharkey.  As a mountaineering historian I've been working on a translation of the memoires of Ang Tharkay, one of the most famous sherpas in the history of mountaineering.  The English edition of the book will be published this month, check here [The Memoir of Ang Tharkay].  As you can see on the French page of the Tintin characters [Liste des personnages des Aventures de Tintin]you will see that Tharkey is based on the sirdar that was a member of the 1950 expedition that climbed Annapurna, and I learned that Hergé talked to Maurice Herzog who was the first to summit this 8000m peak - the first Eight-thousander to be summited, BTW.  Ang Tharkay was landlord of Tenzing Norgay who summited Everest together with Ed Hillary in 1953.
Sorry for my odd way of adding links in here.  I've been off Wikipedia for too long and only make the occasional edit, only where I deem it fit.  Feel free to improve the links that I put in here.
Qwrk (talk) 21:07, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Qwrk, this is indeed fascinating. Let me look more into it. The last thing we want to do is add information based on what we wish happened in the past, rather than what actually happened. Notice the Liste des personnages des Aventures de Tintin article does not cite a source for this claim, so it is possible they are revising history. I have a large collection of Tintin material written by all the world's "Tintinologists", and if anyone knows the answer to this, they would. That is with one exception: With your expertise on mountaineering, perhaps you can locate a reliable source in your local library that provides this fact you are asserting, which the Tintinologists may have missed but the mountaineering community found and documented. Please check for the existence of this in your community and I will check in the Tintin community. Best, Prhartcom (talk) 21:23, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The President of the Dutch [Hergé Genootschap] sent me an article today, but I fear you'll not be able to read it.  Feel free to send me your email address and I'll happily forward you these two interesting PDFs that show original photographic material from the 1950 Annapurna expedition and what Hergé finally made of it by using these as templates that appeared in Tintin in Tibet.  Qwrk (talk) 21:34, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Qwrk, I have sent you that email and look forward to reading the material. Prhartcom (talk) 22:31, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Prhartcom, you should have two PDFs sitting in your inbox right now and for your convenience I have CC'd both gentlemen of the Dutch Tintin Society with whom I've been in contact.  Enjoy :-)  Qwrk (talk) 06:45, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tharkey 

message: also good to keep in mind the bowler-hatted Thompson and Thomson characters are named Dupond and Dupont in the Belgium French-language original. And that despite the bowler hats and English re-lastnaming, Thompson and Thomson are never openly said to be British(?) in the English Tin tin translations.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:21B:D600:226:8FF:FEDC:FD74 (talk) 10:26, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: As far as I can tell, the nationalities of all characters whose nationality is explicit in the books is already cited.  If you see any missing, feel free to add them. Mezigue (talk) 12:19, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Helpful to list each character's said nationality 

message: There is no confusion in the book about what happened to the “seemingly resurrected” mummy, as the article suggests. It is destroyed by the ball lightning, and the later appearance in the dream is only a nightmare. This is borne out by the fact that the nightmare mummy still wears the grave-goods left behind in the cabinet, and we know for certain that the bracelet is in the possession of Calculus. No suggestion that the mummy has been reanimated in anyway, not even by the magic of the Incas. Jock123 (talk) 19:06, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rascar Capac… 

message: Is this name Belgian-French original ? Or in other words was the name-combination Herge's idea, or a British translator's ? There is no clear source. Boeing720 (talk) 02:58, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Original. Opera hat (talk) 14:02, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Müsstler ? 

message: Why arent The Sondonesians under the antagonist section? They (most of the time) obey the orders of Rastapopoulos and even almost kill Snowy. I get that they are misinformed, but the same goes for Spalding and those pilots Niels de Groot (talk) 09:27, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Sondonesians 

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