Talk:Travis Bickle

message: This is more of an en passant look but...
This article, such as it was, was:
*PRODded on June 15, 2007 
*The PROD was downed and and AfD initiated on the the next day, June 16.
*The AfD closed on June 21. The link to that is above.
*A "mergeto/from" template set was put on the article July 8, less than 3 weeks after the AfD close, by Otto4711.
*No discussion was initiated are even hinted at by Otto4711.
*Otto then merged this article into the main article of the film on August 8. 2 months after the tag but without discussion.
*The redirect was static until May 21, 2009, roughly a year and a half. And the first few edits were to categorize the redirect.
*For the past week, since September 22, there's been an edit war bouncing between the stripped redirect and a revised version of the article.
Now, this raises some troubling points:
*While a bold move isn't necessarily a bad thing. Doing so that soon after and AfD closed as "keep" looks like an end run around the AfD.
*That said, the redirect was stable up until last week. Yes, it is reasonable to categorize character redirects with the core aspects of the character.
*The edit war seems to be between preserving the merge don contrary to the then contemporary consensus and a revised version of the article.
Right now I'd suggest putting a hold on editing this article/redirect for the next week - the block on Otto for edit warring. Even if that means protecting it as is.
At that point:
#The article gets reverted to the state prior to Otto's last revert.
#The page is immediately put up to a 2nd AfD by someone other than Otto.
#The page gets locked until the AfD runs its course.
#Once the AfD runs its course, the resulting redirect or article is left to cool down for at least 6 months.
Thoughts on this? - J Greb (talk) 02:55, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Recent edit war and handling of this article

message: I remember watching this on AMC or someplace where they included interviews. The current offering (2/2011) does not include those interviews. BUT: Travis dies. Everything that happens after the shootout is his deathbed fantasy. I think it was Scorsese that points this out. The clues are in there.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.174.83.232 (talk) 02:30, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a popular interpretation, though the film strictly speaking leaves it open. Either Travis dies or ends up in a loony bin, but either way, yes the hero's ending very much jars with the rest of the film, it really doesn't feel like it's something that would happen under the rules of the rest of the film. I think it's definitely worth mentioning in the article. Lots and lots of third-party source on that one. 84.65.84.246 (talk) 21:59, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ending is fantasy 

message: The authors of this piece may think it is cool to use terms like "graveyard shift" and "snub nose", but it is not very helpful in an encyclopedia. Please rewrite (looking at the previous edit wars I wouldn't touch the page myself).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.13.210.103 (talk) 19:55, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed; it needs rewriting. This is a Wikipedia page about a movie character. It is not a page for gun enthusiasts. If anyone really wants to know what kind of guns were used, the Internet Movie Firearms Database (www.imfdb.org) can provide all they want and more. Flanker235 (talk) 06:51, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  please, more encyclopedic 

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Travis Bickle (character) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RMCD bot 14:04, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move discussion in progress 

message: He almost murdered Palatine but how was there mass murders of the traffickers when he was acting in defence of the girl from an immediate threat (child sex trafficking)? One of them was wounded when he shot them so you could say he was a murderer but not a mass murderer?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.22.42.43 (talk) 15:38, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mass murderer?