Talk:Time Out of Joint

message: Why is she an anachronism in 1959? That was the year (according to the monroe article) that she made "Some like it hot"! NOT knowing who she is is the anachronism.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.216.146.105 (talk) 19:10, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marilyn Monroe 

message: I removed the bit in the lead section talking about the connection to the Truman show. This isn't a matter of opinion. It is forbidden per Wikipedia policy to make 'your own' analysis. You don't get to say that one inspired the other unless a reliable source says that (An interview with the director, and so on). You don't get to say that the themes are similar. Again, that's your own analysis of the themes in the two works. "But it's obvious!" you say. Doesn't matter. We don't write our own analysis, no matter how obvious it is and how many people agree that it's obvious. You only get to reprint the opinions of others
"But lots of articles do this!" you say. That's right. And every one of those articles, no matter how many hundreds of thousands it may be, is wrong. That's the dirty secret of Wikipedia: A substantial amount of its content is really poor quality, even by its own standards!. We help improve and clean up all this garbage content, all this content that is an embarrassment to a serious encyclopedia, by removing it, and demanding sources.
tl;dr - Anything at all related to the Truman Show must go until reliable sources are found which make the case for these comparisons. Reliable sources do not include some Joe Blow's blog and his musings on how the two seem similar, by the way
The relevant policy:
WP:Original Research
Read it, read it good. Make sure you really understand it. A great number of articles are full of "original research" and need to be chopped up, one by one — TheBilly(Talk) 15:51, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proof of the Truman Show connection 

message: I remember seeing a movie when I was a kid during the 80's.  This movie was about a entire town that thought they were living in 1950's America but in fact were living in 1980's Russia.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.83.75.110 (talk) 21:52, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You are right that The Experts was a movie; it was absolutely awful, and had nothing to do with this novel. Idontcareanymore (talk) 18:13, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was this ever a movie? 

message: To chime in on the whole "has the same premise as story X" business: Of course many P.K.Dick stories deal with the protagonists immersed in some kind of artificial or imagined reality, but what comes to my mind specifically is the short story Precious Artifact: It is about a man who comes to realize that his familiar surroundings are somehow fake, and he is finally told that he is the only human left alive by the aliens after they have conquered Earth.
The similarity is, that the main character is kept in an artificially upheld environment, where he is expected to just continue living his normal life. This is in contrast to most PKD stories, where the "alternate" environment is something extremely special.
I'd have to reread it, to be more precise. Also I'd have to look up when it was written. PKD often reused ideas from short stories for later novels, so there actually might be some relevance here. --BjKa (talk) 11:26, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Precious Artifact'' 

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