Talk:The Ballad of Halo Jones

message: To follow up on the comments below from khaosworks the hyperbolic praise has been cleaned up, the vast bulk of this article is content from an unfinished Halo Jones website project of mine bfenby so it at first didn't comply with the NPOV guidelines as it was written. 
One person has made an abandoned stab at a section on The Stage Plays which would be a useful addition.   
:Some of the language is now more encyclopedic but it still needs clean up. A lot of the critical acclaim is quoted verbatim, which is not necessary. I'll take a stab trimming it down when I have the time. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 13:40, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: This Article - follow up

message: What's with the Bill Maher link in 'The US Quality Comics reprints' section?  --Weavehole (talk) 07:44, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: The US Quality Comics reprints

message: As much as I love Halo Jones and agree to a large number of the sentiments expresed in this article, the way it is written is too hagiographic and not NPOV. The hyperbolic praise needs to be eliminated or cleaned up severely to conform to Wikipedia guidelines. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 11:30, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOVing

message: I've added a references section to the entry and quite a few of the sources can be moved to that. I added on requested reference and removed another review as it was just lifted from Amazon. (Emperor 03:09, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: Trivia sections are frowned on and that is a biggie. I'm thinking we can split a lot of to "In popular culture" (references to the series in popular culture), "Other appearances" (popping up in other 2000 AD stories and adaptations into a computer game or play - these last two could go in an "Adaptations" section of its own or possibly into the "In popular culture section") and "Cultural references" (for Fomalhaut, Wittgenstein, etc. - although this is the most suspect and WP:OR of the lot as it might be obvious to some but does need to be proved). So if that seems OK to all it should be no problem slicing up the trivia section into bits that work better. (Emperor 13:34, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: OK that has largely been done. Some of the remaining stuff is either too trivial or can be moved elsewhere (it being voted "third best book of 2001" might fit somewhere). Howeveer, there needs to be a lot more references. (Emperor 16:26, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

text: I'm afraid unless you can source it properly it can't be included as it'd count as original research. Interesting though. (Emperor 13:47, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Trivia

message: I won't delete this myself because of conflict of interest, but I don't think that Joel Segal Books blog posting  can be taken as a reliable source: I wrote it, and am hardly an authority on the topic! Ray Girvan 86.150.51.200 21:18, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Here is the section - I have removed it :
==Influences on the series===
Reviewers have hypothesized a number of influences from other sources, in particular the influence, on Book 3, of a number of classic anti-war science-fiction stories. These notably include a couple of stories written partly as a response to the gung-ho attitude of Starship Troopers:Joe Segal Books review, 17 October 2006 
* Traveller's Rest (1965) by David I. Masson (collected in The Caltraps of Time)
* Bill, the Galactic Hero (1965) by Harry Harrison
* The Forever War (1975) by Joe Haldeman
* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) and So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (1984) by Douglas Adams; in these novels the second-most intelligent lifeform on Earth is the dolphin.
-- Beardo (talk) 01:54, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Influences on the series

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