Talk:Colonel Moran

message: I have attempted to distinguish between the information that is according to Doyle, and what was added later by other authors. I am not very familiar with George Macdonald Fraser's work, though - and, for that matter, it's been a while since I last read "The Empty House" - so it would be appreciated if anyone can pick up on such errors or overlookings as I may have made. --Paul A 08:10, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: He only appears in one story, and a short story at that. Even Moriarty eventually got his own novel. Serendipodous 23:41, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd say that he probably does deserve an article, since (as Adler has) his character has been expended heavily in adaptations.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.98.245.55 (talk) 03:17, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Is this guy really worthy of his own article?

message: I have started this discussion section to hash out the issue involving Moran's potential appearance in the next season of Sherlock.
Here is the issue as I understand it: We have an anonymous editor claiming that Craig Parkinson has been cast as Moran in the next season of Sherlock, but so far nobody has turned up a verifiable source supporting this claim. There has been a lot of reverting going on, which has constituted most of the activity on the article for the past week.
I am disappointed in all the people involved in the revert war, on both sides; one of you should have brought this to the talk page long since.
To the editor making the casting claim: What are your sources? Bear in mind that they need to be verifiable – that is, it must be possible for other editors to seek them out and see that they say what you claim they say. "Somebody said it at the BAFTAs" is not a verifiable source; if you can point out a publicly available record of somebody saying it at the BAFTAs, that would be. "MDI website" is not a verifiable source, because it's insufficiently detailed: you need to give the address of the website, and preferably of the specific page that supports your claim.
To everybody involved: Edit warring can get you blocked. Don't do it.
— Paul A (talk) 02:30, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sebastian Moran in Sherlock 

message: Some fans are being awfully childish by removing the following information (Simply because they want another actor to be in the part):
After a small hiatus, Mark Gatiss, the co-writer of the BBC show, Sherlock, announced that he started writing the script for the new episode of the third season based on the Empty House story by Sir Conan Doyle. Craig Parkinson is the actor chosen by the fans of the show to play as Jim Moriarty's loyal sniper, Sebastian Moran. They created among many, many tumblers, a twitter petition named “believeincparks” – a movement so that Sebastian Moran would be played as Craig Parkinson. Hopefully the creators of the show, Moffat and Gatiss, will take their fans in consideration and pick him to play the part.
please let me re-add this information and stop this vandals from removing it over and over again
Gallenghar (talk) 18:32, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: requests for changes to the page protection level should be made at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection.    Mdann52 (talk) 15:10, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request on 8 June 2012 

message: I shan't apologize for my bold edit: I made an educated guess that a 'graph that, in the course of a sentence or of 2 consecutive ones, made mentions, in quick succession, of three years in the late 19th c.,  was referring to the years of fictional events in the Doyle corpus. I did so, in spite of the fact that the first-mentioned date lay in a phrase whose utterance by a competant and responsible author, writing for immediate publication in a work with pretensions of reliability, would have avoided. Specifically, it juxtaposed the first date and the title of the story in one clause, then juxtaposed two more with acts of one or more acts by (a?) fictional char(s?); i judged that the dates were all of the same realm (in-story time) and that the close syntactic association of the first date with  the story's title was simple recklessness by a low-skilled or casual writer, and added an explicit association between the date and the plot. My tools compel me to get this down with reasonable clarity,  and safely saved on the server, before checking the validity of the foregoing acct by a close and repeatable examination, to which task i now repair. Yr lordships' most humble & ob'd't servant, Jerzy•t. Given this day, 11:18, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Calendric Chaos 

message: Currently this article is titled "Sebastian Moran", but it seems to me that the character is usually known as "Colonel Sebastian Moran" or just "Colonel Moran", similar to how James Moriarty is known as "Professor Moriarty" and John Watson is known as "Dr. Watson". I propose renaming/moving this article to "Colonel Moran". Miles26 (talk) 03:07, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article name 

message: :Moran appears as a mathematician and the main villain in the 1946 Basil Rathbone film Terror by Night, played by Alan Mowbray.
If I’m not mistaken, Moran is NOT a mathematician here: the mathematician is another character. 62.98.147.255 (talk) 11:01, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: At one point in the film, Holmes says that Moran studies mathematics as a hobby, so Moran is to some extent a mathematician in addition to that other character who is also a mathematician, though I think this is a minor detail. Moran is primarily a jewel thief in the film, so I will change the description from mathematician to jewel thief. Miles26 (talk) 22:55, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, you're right. Well done. Thank you. 62.98.147.255 (talk) 21:14, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Terror by night''