Talk:List of fictional scientists and engineers

message: This page is redirected from the page for listing fiction heroic scientists. This page itself should be the "List of fictional scientists and engineers."
I say wechange it so what is already up gets put in a page for heroic scientsts, and we use this page to list to list the lists. list of things like heroic scientsts, mad scientist, evil geniuses, and other such people.
Corrupt one 03:29, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A NEEDED CHANGE 

message: Are heroes of a more comical flavor suitable for inclusion? An example I just added is the boy genius Dexter (cartoon character), who some times, in some ways, is a hero, but equally often just makes a total mess (bad luck, obviously).  --Wernher 07:28, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Comical 'heroes'

message: I just noticed that there is a suitable category for this article: Fictional heroic scientists (hmm, I feel inclined to add " and engineers" to that one). In that regard, I started to wonder whether we should rather rename the present article to List of fictional heroic scientists and engineers (i.e., swap "fictional" and "heroic") ? --Wernher 03:30, 26 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Article title change?

message: I was wondering this because archaeologists (like Indiana Jones) don't really deal with empirical data. They deal with interpretations of history. History itself cannot be analyzed empirically because mostly we are left with previous individual's often subjective account of the past. What archaeologists do most of the time is try to achieve a more objective interpretation of the past based on what is already known or written. Doesn't that just make them another type of historian?Mr. ATOZ 18:11, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Last I checked, archeology was considered a science. A sometimes controvertial one, that's true, but the purpose of this page isn't to expose or settle this debate. We should just stick with the accepted convention that archeology is a science, until the issue is settled. --Ritchy 01:46, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are archaeologists really scientists? 

message: Maybe I am mis-remembering, but it seems to me that the universal translator was a gift from the Metrons in the TOS episode where Kirk battles the Gorn. ChrisWinter 03:29, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Toshi Sato invented universal translator?

message: The section "Scientists and engineers in anime and Japanese video games" should just be "Scientists and engineers in animation and video games", seeing as there are obviously more animated programmes and video games than anime and Japanese video games. Also, Star Trek shouldn't have its own section, seeing as there are a lot of scientists in other TV programmes. This looks like a pretty biased article.
I also changed "Gordan Freeman" to "Gordon Freeman", its correct spelling.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Coozins (talk • contribs) 00:08, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Less-specific catergories 

message: I changed the title of "Scientists in Anime and Japanese video games" to "Scientists in animation and video games". The title was too biased. There are other video games than Japanese ones, you know, and Anime isn't the only type of animated programme that exists. 
I also added three scientists that I thought were worth mentioning: Albert Wesker and William Birkin from Resident Evil 2 and Dr. Zoidberg from Futurama.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Coozins (talk • contribs) 22:07, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changed titles 

message: This article needs third party references to verify both the accuracy of the article and the notability of the subject or it is likely to suffer the same fate as List of fictional characters by IQ. Chillum 15:00, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not referenced 

message: I've only read the first book of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lensman , but it's considered a fairly important series and I think there are like a *billion* scientists in it. :)
-Robin  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.13.139.233 (talk) 04:27, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lensman people? 

message: You need to understand that Wikipedia is for everyone, not just Star Trek nerds. Just because you like Star Trek it doesn't mean you have to make an entire section dedicated to it on every Wikipedia page. This is as irrelevant as having a section dedicated to dark-haired fictional scientists.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.160.86.100 (talk) 18:27, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I have reinserted the heading. I have no objection to merging the list, but if anyone else does so then please arrange the entries into alphabetical order. – Fayenatic London 09:00, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed Star Trek section 

message: See Category talk:Fictional women scientists and Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2014 July 15#Category:Fictional women engineers. – Fayenatic London 09:02, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categories for women