Talk:List of Deadwood characters

message: Seems to me that the division into these two categories has mostly been made based on their status in the camp, not their prominence in the series. I, personally, would consider Swearengen's henchmen major characters rather than Hearst, Garret or Tolliver, because a lot of the action revolves around them, especially Dan Dority.
Also, if Hearst is a major character, shouldn't Wild-Bill be too? His part in the first season is at least as important as Hearst's in the third.
--62.142.197.179 19:42, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Division of Major/Secondary Characters 

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message: The entry for Al Swearengen needs a good prune job, it's just too long and bloated. It reads more like a breathless fan letter than a good entry. It's also filled with OR. SteveCoppock (talk) 17:42, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Editing of Swearengen

message: First removal: Speculation by "some fans" that Captain Turner killed Wolcott. There is nothing at all in the show or commentaries to suggest that. The fact that "some fans" might think that is hardly relevant. My friend and I might now speculate that Seth Bullock was Hindu, but that does not merit an edit of his blurb to read "some fans think Seth Bullock is Hindu."   76.102.57.38 (talk) 17:51, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There's more "as speculated by some fans" going around the article, some of which I removed. 93.172.8.128 (talk) 21:32, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Anyone who has seen the show knows that while Turner isn't seen doing the deed, that Wolcott was murdered on Hearst's orders, and that The Captain was his only enforcer at the time.  174.89.29.241 (talk) 07:38, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Remove the Fanwank

message: This article needs more cleanup regarding tense (and general grammar). Some things are in past tense, others as if the events were still ongoing (e.g. "Seth and Al have formed an alliance" rather than "Seth and Al formed an alliance."). 76.102.57.38 (talk) 08:31, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Clean Up Tense

message: The assertions that Merrick and Blazanov are gay is crap. Blazanov, at one point, states that he met a woman in Chicago. Merrick is clearly attracted to the schoolteacher who was hired, and was distressed that she left after seeing his wrecked office. 99.144.228.100 (talk) 05:49, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gay references to Merrick and Blazanov 

message: I know that this edit is almost a year old and nobody has acted in that time, but I feel like 80.108.111.57's blanket replacement of "whore" with "prostitute" or "sex worker" got through on dubious grounds without any discussion. The proffered rationale, that the word "whore" is per se derogatory to women, is one that I'm not sure a consensus has coalesced around. I'm not personally in agreement, but I'd rather open it up for discussion than let a single editor make such a sweeping change. Here's my case: "whore," when used in the technical sense of "woman who receives money for sex" is a neutral, descriptive term no more inherently pejorative than what it's been replaced by. It can and often does have a mean-spirited connotation, but I don't think anyone is going to mistake the usage in this article for anything other than what is meant. It's also, of course, the show's own word and feels right in this context. I don't have much of a problem with "prostitute" either, but "sex worker" just smacks too much of PC whitewashing and besides is totally anachronistic and inconsistent with Deadwood's tone.
That's my piece. As I see it, there are four options: a) leave the article unchanged from its current, b) go with "prostitute" across the board, c) revert to the previous usage or d) let someone come through and make a case-by-case determination of the best usage. I'm obviously not in favor of (a) or (d) myself and I think (b) is a compromise most people can live with. The important thing is that we form a consensus instead of letting one person's norms of vocabulary and decorum dictate by fiat.
**UPDATE** 5/24/12
Since nobody has weighed in, I've taken the initiative of replacing each instance of "sex worker" with "prostitute." If anybody disagrees with that edit, let's talk about it here before getting into an edit war.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Grifter84 (talk • contribs) 16:06, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nomenclature: "Whore" vs. "Sex worker" 

message: How is it decided which list each character is placed into? Ought Hearst, who ends up being the series' primary antagonist, be considered more of a  major character than Wild Bill, who dies four episodes in? SteelMarinerTalk  07:22, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hearst as major character?