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Talk:The Hollow

message: The Labours of Hercules was published in 1947, between the publication of The Hollow and Taken at the Flood. Because this book of short stories comprised material published previously, I have omitted it from the series in the infobox. --Sordel 17:24, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The sequence of the Poirot novels

message: I am reporting what looks to be copyright violations. That is that that was taken from page. I am tagging the portion of text that is identical. I understand that the trivia written at the website could be from Wikipedia, except that the text in Wikipedia cites the website as the source, so it appears to be a direct violation. I marked a couple of sentences, with hidden text, that appear to be copied and pasted and while it is only a couple it still is word for word. There may be more on the page, but I don't have time to compare the entire article. MagnoliaSouth (talk) 05:15, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I know this a few years old, but there was a violation removed shortly after being added, which Magnolia was referring to here. I fixed up some poor paraphrasing, so things are good other than that. 💵Money💵emoji💵💸 19:46, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright violations? 

message: This book describes a character as "a Whitechapel Jewess with dyed hair and a voice like a corncrake ... a small woman with a thick nose, henna red and a disagreeable voice." I think there should be some mention of these antisemitic stereotypes within the article. The article about the play has a passing mention of antisemitism. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 10:51, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Antisemitism
Talk:Mrs McGinty's Dead

message: Shouldn't this be Eva Kane all the time? ChKa 19:04, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eva King 

message: The final scene is not faithful to the novel. Bentley is paired off with Maude Williams (who is not blonde in the film), not with Dierdre Henderson. I have tried to post this information but somebody always keeps changing it. If you want to verify the info, you can do so by actualy watching the film online, and here's a link to that final scene. AlbertSM (talk) 16:18, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Mrs_McGinty%27s_Dead#Agatha_Christie.27s_Poirot|Final teleplay scene]] 
Talk:Muirfield

message: I think we can do better than this! I'm starting and improving on a lot of E. Lothian topics but I think this piece can get a truly global perspective. Deizio 15:59, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expand 
Talk:Starship Exeter

message: Does anyone know why the  box is displaying over text?  Unclosed HTML? — Arthur Rubin |  (talk) 22:40, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken box 
Talk:A Pocket Full of Rye

message: On Publication History there is
"1954, Dodd Mead and Company (New York), 1951, Hardcover, 211 pp"
What does 1951 mean here? It doesn't seem to be making sense in this context... Typo for 1954? Could someone check this?  
--Nedergard (talk) 17:32, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It was a typo - now corrected.--Jtomlin1uk (talk) 09:46, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Publication history

message: This page is an ideal example of the format in which Agatha Christie novel articles (as well as articles of novels from other authors) should take.  There is the introduction, and the plot summary...which explains the exposition, rising action, and climax to the reader in such a way as to be informative but not long-winding or monotonous.  Additional information and external links follow at the bottom. I think other articles of Christie's novels would be better served to be follow suit in this structure. --User:Cjwils3 (talk) 3:48, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Ideal article

message: The plot summary contains multiple errors. I'll fix it soon.
Machiajelly (talk) 19:08, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Plot summary changes by Gravidef were reverted because that summary is much longer, and longer is not better in this case. My description of reverting the changes failed to provide my reason for doing it. The summary now restored is just at the limit of length suggested by Wikipedia for the plot summary. Improvements need to stay within that length.  --Prairieplant (talk) 06:03, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot summary errors
Talk:Hickory Dickory Dock (novel)

message: How did they manage to get the mouse sequences?
:(Cut from article (00:14, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Morden tube station. The Hickory Road exit was fictional --Judithcomm (talk) 07:15, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

text: Thanks for this info --Judithcomm (talk) 07:15, 11 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  TV Adaptation 

message: There's no mention of beer in the novel. The unnamed person brings her brandy, so I've changed the text.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Machiajelly (talk • contribs) 21:07, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poisoning of Mrs. Nicoletis
Talk:Destination Unknown (novel)

message: I have today edited the plot summary for this novel. I've just finished reading the novel, and the previous text was very inaccurate: e.g.g. heroine's name misspelt; pearls not radioactive etc. I have also slightly rolled back the spoiler, since with a novel called Destination Unknown, it does seem to be a rather unreasonable spoiler to say where the destination is. I know that how far an entry in Wikipedia should protect the reader from spoilers is controversial, but I hope that the edit reflects the entire plot of the novel without compromising the experience of reading it.
Sordel 19:52, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have filled in the rest of the plot summary. In the five years since your post, the controversy over spoilers has pretty much been settled in their favor. If Wikipedia were a literary magazine or a fan site or some other kind of publication with a particular agenda, it might be appropriate to hide information to protect the enjoyment of potential readers of books and viewers of movies; but this is an encyclopedia and therefore – in theory, at least – a source of complete information on the subjects it covers, including the plots of movies and published fiction.--Jim10701 (talk) 22:37, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Plot Edit

message: There was a song in the charts in the Summer of 2007 called Destination Calabria that contained the lyrics "Destination Unknown". You don't think it could have been a reference to the book do you?
Anon  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.145.242.20 (talk) 23:39, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Destination Calabria
Talk:The Pale Horse

message: I took out a redundant, repeated word.  Incidentally, in the sentence it is from, I don't follow why the "Marple" TV series should be thought to be influenced by the "Poirot" adaptations.  It's an interesting crossover point, though.
Even more incidentally, I wish some Christie fiend could explain to me, about this story, how Edith Binns could have identified a photograph.  It's not as though SHE could have spotted Mr Osborne as the gasman, or whatever. 
Oh yes, I should have corrected the spelling of Osborne's name.
Rogersansom (talk) 16:09, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: My Edit
Talk:The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

message: This reminds me of the 1958 Nero Wolfe story Champagne for One. 124.158.32.30 (talk) 21:31, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:The Clocks

message: What evidence is there that Colin 'Lamb' is Superintendent Battle's son?  I'm willing to believe it but it would be helpful if the article mentioned the evidence for this theory. Drfryer (talk) 22:44, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Colin Lamb's parentage? 

message: An anonymous editor took a lot of trouble to produce the following list of characters which I am replacing in my own edit with a list more in keeping with the general style of such lists. I append it here for those who are interested.
*Edna Brent-She realized too late that some of the facts the police recorded were sheer fiction.
*Miss Martindale-President of a secretarial school her testimony on events was accurate to the precise minute--too accurate.
*Sheila Webb-Her routine life was livened by an extremely dead corpse when she arrived at a strange house filled with very familiar objects.
*Mr. R.H. Curry-It seemed that he came to the Crescent just to keep an appointment with murder.
*Miss Pebmarsh-A blind teacher, her knowledge of Braile was even more useful outside the classroom.
*Colin Lamb-He followed the wrong address and stumbled in to the wrong crime; in fact, everything looked upside down, until he viewed it that way.
*Dick Hardcastle-A Detective Inspector, he had the ability to amass the important facts--not analyze them.
*James Waterhouse-He seemed too timid to be involved in murder--unless he could be certain that the result would be greater than the risk.
*Miss Waterhouse-A stern and matter-of-fact woman, she managed her household and her brother with equal ease.
*Mrs. Hemming-Totally absorbed in caring for her cats, she was unaware of being a next-door neighbor to murder.
*Josiah Bland-A builder, his life was like the houses he constructed-everything looke dmore or less all right from the outside.
*Valerie Bland-A nervous woman who seemed to enjoy her role as a semi-invalid, she told the police more than she realized.
*Mrs. Ramsay-A harassed housewife, she never asked questions when she knew she didn't want to hear the ansers.
*Mrs. McNaughton-She was so anxious to help out the police that she would have given them any information--true of false.
*Mr. McNaughton-A retired professor, he seemed so hale and hearty that his friends thought it odd when he resigned his Chair--on the ground of death.
*Hercule Poirot-An armchair detective, his stanard formula of C=S enabled him to see through the complex to the simple--the very simple because it all had happened before.
--Sordel 14:34, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Character list from previous edit 

message: She was given sons - was she still Miss Pebmarsh instead of Mrs?--142.163.194.92 (talk) 02:47, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, consistently so. In the end credits and in the movie itself. Poirot, of course, calls her  mademoiselle. Thincat (talk) 11:57, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Miss Pebmarsh in tv movie
Talk:At Bertram's Hotel

message: It it worth nothing the BBC production made a jarring mistake, they had jet airliner in it. 98.19.46.205 (talk) 21:05, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Error in a television adaptation
Talk:Endless Night (novel)

message: The claim elements of Death on the Nile were reproduced in Endless Night appears to me evidently correct, as someone who has read both books. Without giving spoilers, the similarities include the relative situation of the murderer and victim, the nature of the involved third party and the nature of the deception through which the murder was made possible, as well as the motive.
Hermione404 (talk) 11:12, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death on the Nile - re citation required in Literary Significance 

message: Is there any rationale for why Agatha Christie book entries in Wikipedia often include the cover prices when first published? Is this information in any way relevant for an encyclopedia as opposed to a book collectors' catalogue?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.41.146.97 (talk) 23:52, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prices
Talk:By the Pricking of My Thumbs

message: The link in (See By the Pricking of My Thumbs) points to a redirect which ends up in this article. Brilliant. However it relates to from William Shakespeare's Macbeth remains unexplained. Does anyone even check if links return to the originating article? --16:29, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Deleted the link.Marieblasdell 01:10, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Useless redirect 

message: I'm not confident of the accuracy of this sentence: "The character of Mrs. Lancaster appeared as a minor character in two other Christie works: Sleeping Murder (which was written during World War II but not published until 1976) and The Pale Horse (1961)." 
I'm not changing anything right now, because I don't have the books handy at the moment. I remember Agatha Christie quoting the phrase: 'Was it your poor child', etc. in other books, but I didn't get the impression that it was Mrs. Lancaster saying it. I had the impression that it was an incident that Christie had heard of or thought of, and that she used it in more than one novel.Marieblasdell 01:10, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I went ahead and removed it. Christie often recycles ideas or phrases. Marieblasdell 01:22, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trivia Accuracy 

message: The spelling and grammar in the Synopsis section are very shaky. Might come back and fix it later; if not, perhaps someone else could take a look. 86.179.191.90 (talk) 22:18, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Errors in synopsis 

message: There is a dubious statement in the article:
:"Tommy starts ordering people around waiving his warrant card saying he works for MI6. However, MI6 agents were barred by law from acting within the United Kingdom without a direct act of Parliament."
The MI-6 website seems to indicate that the law governing MI-6 was the Intelligence Services Act 1994.  Since the programme is set in the late 1940s or early 1950s, MI-6 employees cannot have been banned by a 1994 act, and there was no earlier act governing MI-6.-- Toddy1 (talk) 22:59, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  a dubious statement in the article
Talk:Passenger to Frankfurt

message: I have removed the reference stating that Amy Leatheran, nurse to Lady Matilda Cleckheaton, appeared in the earlier 1936 Christie novel Murder in Mesopotamia. While the two characters share a name, they most decidedly do not share the same personality, and are unlikely to be the same woman, as noted by John Curran in his work Agatha Christie's Murder in the Making (Harper Collins 2011, p382). Randall Toye takes the same view in his work The Agatha Christie Who's Who, in which he gives separate entries for the two Amy Leatherans (William Collins, Canada, 1980, p150).Rithom (talk) 08:11, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Amy Leatheran: did she previously appear in ''Murder in Mesopotamia'' (1936)?
Talk:Postern of Fate

message: In section Literary significance and reception it reads ; Postern of Fate  has been criticized as of lower quality than the bulk of Christie's output. According to The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English, this novel is one of the "execrable last novels" where Christie "loses her grip altogether". Exactly the same paragraph appears in the corresponding dsection of Elephants Can Remember.  Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 21:27, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Same critic 

message: I feel that someone who has previously read the book, or has the book in their possession, should extensively expand and edit the plot summary in the article. I cannot personally do this, as I do not have the book in my possession, but I hope someone else can help with this issue.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by LarryVlad (talk • contribs) 05:42, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot Expansion Needed 

message: It is one of only four Christie novels not to have received an adaptation of any kind, the others being Death Comes as the End, Destination Unknown, and Passenger to Frankfurt. 
This is not correct as the BBC Radio has made an adaptation of Postern of Fate, and maybe the others too. It is correct for TV or Film adaptations as far as I know.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7F:9A40:EF00:8A6:5A7D:4D8F:7C75 (talk) 07:12, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adaptations need review
Talk:Sleeping Murder

message: Where are the indications that the doctor had an incestous desire for his half-sister?This article is not very well-written.Guru-45 02:18, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: untitled

message: The current article says: "Christie wrote Sleeping Murder during World War II as a fitting end to Miss Marple's series of novels." Do we actually have any knowledge/documentation that it was ever intended to be an 'end' to the Miss Marple series? To me, it doesn't seem to have any 'this is the end' feeling about it. I wonder if the person writing that part of the article got it confused up with 'Curtain'.
To me, Nemesis, which actually WAS the last Miss Marple novel, has a much more valedictory feeling about it. Marieblasdell 02:17, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll second that. There is absolutely nothing about this book which suggests it was ever intended as the last Marple novel. Anyone who isn't familiar with the Christie chronology would not be able to tell this was the last book just by reading it. As for why Christie withheld it from publication for 30+ years, we can only speculate.Sandmaster (talk) 00:33, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Miss Marple

message: There are some hints that the story might be set in the 1940s. The only date given in the story is "1920" which occurs two times.
House agent Galbraith "...was out in Calcutta for a time. Then the war came and in 1920 he came into the firm..." Galbraith remembers that Major Halliday "Took St. Catherines -- six guineas a week". That would have been 19 years before the main story, which would be set in 1939 at the earliest.
Gardener Manning "used ... to be employed at Dr Kennedy's." and remembers it "Must have been 1920 and on". Manning gives some background about Helen Kennedy: The sabotaged tennis court, Helen falling over a scraper ("Not much more than a graze, it seemed, but it wouldn't heal"), the affair with Jackie Afflick. All of this happened before Major Halliday met Helen on the boat back from India. 
Also before that time, Walter Fane went to India after he is refused by Helen. As Fane's mother recalls: "And he hadn't been out there a year ... his impudent chit of a girl [Helen] changes her mind and writes out that she'd like to marry him after all".
This would put the main story into 1940 or later.--93.220.12.144 (talk) 23:04, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Set in the 1940s
Talk:Illinois Route 47

message: Didn't Illinois Route 47, at one point, go as far southwest as Decatur, Illinois?  I vaguely recall seeing an old Illinois highway map showing it as such, but can't find it, nor any online source which says so. DandyDan2007 (talk) 12:25, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of IL 47 - Decatur?
Talk:Illinois Route 56

message: In similar articles where there is a measurable stretch of a State or US route that is locally significant, there is a subsection pertaining to the named portion in the numbered route's article. If part of the task of Wikipedia is to reduce the fragmentation of info, it seeems that merging Cermak Road with IL 56 makes sense. Particularly given that unlike Roosevelt or Ogden -- which are consistently named where they run through the Chicago area -- IL 56 isn't called Cermak in all Chicagoland municipalities. Thoughts? Ryecatcher773 (talk) 19:27, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Oppose as Cermak Road is an independently notable segment of the road; we just need better linking between the pages. Klbrain (talk) 06:01, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed merge with Cermak Road article
Talk:Splashdown (band)

message: Is a "song references" section appropriate?  For example, the song Halfworld refers to the practice of drinking nightshade to attain a hallucinogenic effect, as well as the consequences of such an action (nightshade is a deadly poison). --Easterlingman 16:18, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Song references?

message: Does anyone have a free use photo (i.e., one that they took at a concert some years ago)? The article used to have a picture, but I believe it was deleted because it was fair use when a free use alternative was available. -- Kicking222 21:42, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Photos

message: I've actually read on a reliable fan site that Redshift was released after Blueshift was shelved. The article makes it seem that Redshift was released, and Blueshift was to follow it. In reality, it seems that Redshift was the compromise between the band and the record company. Any thoughts? WiiAlbanyGirl 06:29, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Redshift BEFORE Blueshift?

message: I just added a reference to the fact that Stars and Garters is available now on iTunes.  Does anyone know if their other albums are available?  Has anyone heard from the musicians themselves about how they feel about the songs still being available for free? --Animatorgeek 22:41, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Albums available on iTunes

message: Does anyone know what Melissa Kaplan is doing now? The other members have their bands and solo project, but Kaplan has apparently disappeared from the music world since 2006.
--I'm a wikipedia novice, so I hope I'm doing this right. Melissa Kaplan's current solo project is Universal Hall Pass. She's released 2 albums, and has various old Splashdown songs and other assorted tracks on her website at http://www.universalhallpass.com  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.22.110.69 (talk) 11:42, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Now
Talk:Armea

message: I want to remind people here that WP should contain material on fictional creations that is notable OUTSIDE the created world, ie in the real world. are this characters qualities being discussed on talk shows, written about as examples of how to be a good/bad person in the culture she is from? is she the target of a campaign for censorship or deification? how extensive are her fan clubs, are they written about? not the actress but the character. as an american, i want to know if she is comparable to, say, Bilbo Baggins, JR Ewing, or The Fonz in notability in the Philippines.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 22:17, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Is this material notable?
Talk:Free Fallin'

message: Was this song a single?  It doesn't say that in the article; it just says that it was "the opening track" from Full Moon Fever.  If it was a single, someone should put that in the article; if it wasn't, take out the "1989 singles" cat.  Foxmulder 16:30, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

message: I think the missing citation needed comes from the lyrics itself in the 4th verse that says: "And I'm a BAD BOY, for don't even miss her....".
If it's right can someone update that, please? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 201.37.94.165 (talk) 17:18, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lyrics Citation needed 

message: Why is this listed as Christian Rock? Where is the citation for such a claim?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.106.154.4 (talk) 17:47, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Christian Rock 

message: Should mention the music video -- kind of begins with teenage 1950s girls holding a party, and continues with a confrontation at a hot-dog stand and a skateboarders skating a ramp set up on top of a hill, interspersed with scenes of Tom Petty at a glass-enclosed mall(?)... AnonMoos (talk) 03:04, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: music video

message: Shouldn't there be a sample of Petty's Free Fallin' and not a sample of John Mayer's Free Fallin' cover?  Qewr4231 (talk) 04:55, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tom Petty's version Vs. John Mayer version
Talk:Mariner 6 and 7

message: "Overall science instrument mass was 57.6 kg" et al.  The spacecraft has not changed its shape or mass, so should this be present tense? Although they do not function, they are still in orbit around the sun. As far as anyone knows, they have not been destroyed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.80.178.227 (talk • contribs) 16:45, 29 March 2006
:A good question. I think it's past tense because the spacecraft is essentially dead and much of this article refers to it in its operating state.--Lendorien 16:13, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammer 

message: I've added a document which discusses JPL support for tracking the spacecraft after the Mars encounter until about December 1970 when the attitude control gas was exhausted. During this period some additional photography was taken and distance determination experiments carried out. It might be worthwhile to mention this in some form in the article. Graham1973 (talk) 00:37, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Post Mars-Encounter Operations