Talk:Rincewind

message: Not sure that I like that picture.  Would it be possible to get a screen-shot from one of the computer games or the one with a potato from the cookbook under "Fair Use"?  JP Godfrey 22:22, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I put a new picture in the article. It's a low-resolution, low-quality scan taken from The Last Hero -- I don't know if this is allowed or if it's a no-no, but it seems to me that a small picture like this used to illustrate a character could be considered fair use. --Chrismith 22:08, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

text: I have always pronounced it "rinse-wind". This was confirmed to be correct when I listened to an audiobook read by Stephen Briggs who works closely with Terry Pratchett to get such things correct. -=# Amos E Wolfe talk #=- 16:55, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's also how it's pronounced in the games.--Agent Aquamarine 22:37, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In one of the Novels, there is reference to name "Lavaeolus", which was translated as something like "washer of the wind", implying "rinse-wind" would be accurate.81.145.240.73 (talk) 22:44, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
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message: :Due to the events in Sourcery, Rincewind is technically the highest ranking wizard on the Discworld. The other wizards don't seem to have noticed, and Rincewind's opinion on the matter is unknown.
Um... what? I don't recall this. In fact, wasn't he trapped in the Dungeon Dimensions at the end of Sourcery? -DynSkeet 13:04, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't remember anything of this sort, either, and I skimmed through the book and didn't find anything to support this claim. I've removed that bit from the article until someone can post the relevent passages or give a page number. --Chrismith 15:30, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: it is asserted somewhere or other that defeating a sorceror makes you automatically the head wizard, IIRC  86.9.26.40 13:21, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

text: Saying that Rincewind "defeated" the sourceror is kind of a stretch, in my opinion. --Chrismith 16:45, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

text: And also, I seem to recall from the first few novels that there was a very rigid structure within wizardry; only one "head wizard", eight of the next rank down, 64 below that, et cetera. The only way to advance in rank is through someone "above" you dying; although defeating a sourceror would certainly be a monumental achievement, I don't think Pratchett ever specified that this would vault you over still-living wizards. - DynSkeet *  Talk 20:03, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

text: Actually, it says in the Discworld Companion that Rincewind "defeated" Coin, but yeah, seriously ... --Yar Kramer 22:07, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

text: Perhaps he should have, but he probably didn't.--Agent Aquamarine 22:38, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I'm pretty sure one of the books has it that the other wizards "don't like to talk about it" or something like that. —Yar Kramer 04:15, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  highest ranking wizard? 

message: Does anyone know if Rincewind will be returning in any books later on? Or has Terry Pratchett phased him out completely? I hope not.
:Not that this means anything, but I believe he has been quoted as saying that it is somewhat difficult/boring to write Rincewind novels, as there is only so much you can do with an utter coward who runs away from everything. - DynSkeet *  Talk 00:21, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've never thought of Rincewind as a "coward." He just understands his personal phenomenon of negative karma. As in "Interesting Times," he knows that anything good that happens to him will shortly result in something very bad happening to him. And he avoids trouble by running, a tactic at which he is an expert. But he also led the Red Army out of the tomb to attack the forces of Lord Hong. Bumbler, yes; coward, no. --Michael K. Smith 01:54, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I once had an idea for a first-person-run-awayer where you played as Rincewind and ran away from everything (elves, for instance), but it was pointed out to me that you have to stop running and start fighting back at some point, and that there had better be a significant amount of game left after that point. --Yar Kramer 02:41, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

text: I think I heard a while ago that PTerry has plans for a couple of books at the moment, including one Rincewind one.  I've not got a citation for that though. JP Godfrey (Talk to me) 20:27, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Return? 

message: There is not mention in the article of the one spell that Rincewind knows, despite it being talked about quite a bit in The Color of Magic and a major focus of The Light Fantastic.  Does anyone want to add this?  ZPS102 03:39, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Spell

message: I was reading the The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic and at first he could only communicate with Rincewind because he only spoke Trob, and later on he could understanding everything any character said. I'm not sure when this happened, it might just be a discrepancy between the two books. Anyone know what happened there?58.109.81.156 (talk) 08:06, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Twoflower 

message: I get the distinct notion that Rincewind's titles, however fictional even within the Discworld universe itself, deserve to be mentioned in full on this page. What keeps me from editing the page and entering all 7 titles straight away, maybe even as a separate paragraph, is the nagging uncertainty whether it is correct to put them here on this page or not. Should there be a poll for such a topic, regarding the addition of such a paragraph? Would it be more proper to add them only to the pages for each book where the titles occur? Furthermore, if there are no objection to adding a separate "Titles" paragraph on the Rincewind page, should any other text than the titles themselves be non-quoted text to avoid copyright infringement?
Feel free to comment on these thoughts. :-)
Tkrokli 05:33, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia:Footnotes is your friend, Citizen. ;) —Yar Kramer 20:25, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Aha... I only imagined I had unmade the functionality of the existing footnote, seeing that the link changed from a named link to the more generic "#_note-0". I guess I can re-enter them after all, I'll check it and comment on the result later. :) Tkrokli 06:12, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rincewind's titles 

message: Since so many editors speedily announced their belief that Rincewind article should not be deleted, it is time for them to jump from the easy "keep of course he's notable" to the real work of making the article actually show that he is. I have tagged some places that may be easy or most useful to correct. Please feel free to add reliably sourced material to other areas of the article as well. GundamsRus (talk) 17:22, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  AfD over, now cleanup time begins 

message: i just finished reading "Mort" a few weeks back and i cant remember Rincewind apearing in it! i may be wrong, but i dont think he did!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by MarmeladenKind (talk • contribs) 12:18, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: He is. It's nothing really more than a cameo really, but he's one of the wizards at Unseen University. He, quite fortunately, loses Alberto's staff. Harry Blue5 (talk) 12:11, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mort 

message: Why is there a section on Evil Harry Dread? It doesn't mention Rincewind and I'm sure the two never meet; there's no indication that one even knows of the existance of the other  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.175.97.87 (talk) 11:38, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The "Supporting characters" seems to take the view of a "Rincewind subseries", as it were -- so, that subseries would include The Last Hero, which in turn includes Evil Harry (thus a supporting character of the Rincewind subseries). The list was moved here after List of Discworld characters got too big, though I'm not really a fan of the arrangement; I'd prefer we restore that ol' list, heavily butchered alas, and make this article more focused on the character. – Bellum  (talk) (contribs) 18:20, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Looking at the history of the pages, I may have gotten my facts a bit off there. But I'd still prefer the creation of a list over the current system. – Bellum  (talk) (contribs) 18:23, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Why is there a section of "supporting characters" at all?  Rincewind is not a novel or a set of novels.  He is merely a character from fiction, not the work of fiction itself.  Therefore he has no "supporting characters".  There is absolutely no need to write short or long articles on every character he has interacted with who doesn't have an article of their own.  Much of this material should go back where it belongs, in List of Discworld characters.  ZarhanFastfire (talk) 19:36, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  This was 7 years ago!  But I tend to agree,  so I did exactly this! JeffUK (talk) 09:21, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Harry