Talk:The Dresden Files characters

message: I would recommend placing any reference to the "Black Council" in quotation marks, as of Turn Coat this is still just Harry's conspiracy theory. There is no reason to assume that the "Black Council" is a cohesive unit. There should be a distinction when it is used instead of known cohesive groups such as The Circle and the White Council.--72.242.184.238 (talk) 11:58, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Why on earth is Sandra Marling on the list? She's about as insignificant as Dresden Files characters get. Only appears in one book, doesn't play an important part in it, is just your average vanilla human, ect. Including her would preclude the inclusion of every named character in any of the books. I suggest simply deleting her from the list, possibly replacing her with a more interesting character. Mab, Lily, Fix, Cowl, Madrigal Raith, Laura Raith, Lord Raith, Sanya, Helen Beckitt, Maeve, even Deirdre and Cassius; all of them are recurring characters with significance. There are even Non-recurring characters to by far deserve to be on the list more: Shiro, Tessa, Anna Ash, Bock, even Grevane & Corpsetaker. So why on earth should Sandra be on the list? Nimnengil (talk) 04:19, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minor Characters 

message: I think the Archive should be a recurring character. she is a mian character in Small Favor and appears in other books  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kevin127 (talk • contribs) 04:13, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Archive 

message: They should get their own article. I don't think they are interesting enough to write about, but they really should.
When are some of them going to get their own articles? Not the Jawas or Charity but Michael's been a main character in more books then Thomas has and Molly's officially been Harry's apprentice since the end of Proven Guilty (correct me if I'm wrong, I haven't read the series in a while) so shouldn't one of them get an article (most likely Molly since a. she's his apprentice and thus guaranteed main character status for a couple more books (assuming Turn Coat doesn't kill her, which I HIGHLY doubt) and Michael's heavily implied as being royally screwed at the end of small favor. And don't get me started on Rodriguez...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.104.172.179 (talk) 03:22, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Carpenters 

message: I've upgraded Mouse from a Minor Character to a Recurring Character.  Bob the Skull has been sitting in the third slot of this list for several books, but in Turn Coat, I feel like Mouse has become more of a sidekick to Harry than Bob ever was.  He's becoming roundly developed as a character, and the frequency with which he provides comic relief has risen sharply.  I near moved him into a slot below Molly, but I figured that would trigger a knee-jerk undo rather than the appropriate discussion. I think that Mouse more than any other character raised the question of whether characters should be ranked by their importance to the series as a whole or just to the latest book in the series.
- User:Pipedreamergrey (talk) 11:45, April 14, 2009 (UTC)
===On the ranking of characters===
There's definitely some cleaning up to do here. 
* I am not against your upgrade of Mouse to the main characters list, but in this case, I would move Thomas there as well, since he has played a role similar to Murphy's since his apparition in Blood rites. 
* There's some discrepancies in the way the characters are presented when it comes to the Senior council and the fairie courts. 
* The list of recurring characters is getting very long. We could always split it into major and minor recurring characters. Any thoughts?
* The order of the characters should also be reviewed: we can stick to alphabetical order, try to determine an order or importance, define broad categories (like it's been done for the Senior Council and the Fairie courts), or something else.
* We should keep in mind that this is a list of the characters of the books. It doesn't have to list all of them, and shouldn't duplicate the list of organizations and groups. For example, do the Queen mothers belong here? 
(De fideli (talk) 12:24, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mouse and How we Rank these Characters 

message: There's definitely some cleaning up to do here. 
* I am not against your upgrade of Mouse to the main characters list, but in this case, I would move Thomas there as well, since he has played a role similar to Murphy's since his apparition in Blood rites. 
* There's some discrepancies in the way the characters are presented when it comes to the Senior council and the fairie courts. 
* The list of recurring characters is getting very long. We could always split it into major and minor recurring characters. Any thoughts?
* The order of the characters should also be reviewed: we can stick to alphabetical order, try to determine an order or importance, define broad categories (like it's been done for the Senior Council and the Fairie courts), or something else.
* We should keep in mind that this is a list of the characters of the books. It doesn't have to list all of them, and shouldn't duplicate the list of organizations and groups. For example, do the Queen mothers belong here? 
(De fideli (talk) 12:24, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: On the ranking of characters

message: An editor made several changes on the 13th removing several links for no apparant reason in order to italicize book titles.  This change can be done without removing the links.  Please do so. SeanNovack (talk) 16:52, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  removal of links 

message: In response to a question by tailkinker: the "unfortunate" part of the name is the cognate formed if you remove the Mc.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Riventree (talk • contribs) 02:59, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, okay, I see what you're getting at.  Thanks - I was a bit confused at that, simply because I've never pronounced it that way.  Once it's pointed out, yes, I see what you mean.  --Tailkinker (talk) 20:22, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

text: In at least one of the paperbacks, it's spelled with two n's. — Eli Schwartz (talk) 01:02, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  McAnally 

message: Why is there information from Cold Days (beyond the 4 released chapters on jim butchers website) on here.  In addition to being massive spoilers, wouldn't that information have to come from illegal sources, due to the book being unreleased?  Its very disrespectful to fans and the Author to have that information available today.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.197.4.157 (talk) 23:24, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cold Days information 

message: To all watching this page: I've noticed that virtually all of the character descriptions herein are written from a decidedly in-universe perspective. Now, I understand that making every sentence come from what is clearly an out-of-universe perspective would make the article unreadable, but I have a more achievable goal in mind. At the list of good articles about fiction there are a few "List of _____ Characters" articles, and one thing I notice they have in common is that they always start by describing the character's role in the stories. So I propose we do that, here. Identify each character as a protagonist, antagonist, major, minor or one-off character in the opening of their description. Also, we should add a short blurb about those characters who have their own pages. Perhaps copy out the lead from their pages. If you're reading this, I'm asking for your help, as this will require a lot of edits to get done. MjolnirPants Tell me all about it. 16:06, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd be glad to help, but I'll require some studying and practicing - studying the lists you mention is at the top of the list. MinorStoop (talk) 16:57, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: You could also check out the ones I've worked on. Mostly, I just think they should be identified as characters in the first sentence (by stating the book they first appeared in, or their status as a supporting or main character, for example). I had removed the synth hat from the top, but I did find a little bit of synth scattered in. Be sure to keep an eye out for that kind of stuff. MjolnirPants Tell me all about it. 17:47, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  In Universe perspective 

message: These are the entries I've edited to give more of a real world voice. Please add any entries you fix here so we can all keep track of them. MjolnirPants Tell me all about it. 17:47, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of Completed Entries 

message: What do we do about Evil Bob? Do we give him/it its/his own entry or should we treat him/it as an appendix to Bob's page? MinorStoop (talk) 15:31, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I say we leave him out of this page for now. We might add him later, but I think we should try to keep this simple for the moment. MjolnirPants Tell me all about it. 15:44, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Fine with me. I'll keep reining in the characters from the "Introduced characters" section of the books, and let you decide when the characters are done. :) MinorStoop (talk) 15:54, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Evil Bob

message: I'm working on this page. The claims of OR made when redirecting this page are bizarre: This is in-universe information, so the books themselves are sufficient sourcing. The question of notability is moot: These are the characters of a notable book series. So the criteria here should be WP:DUE.
With that in mind, I'm going to be trimming a lot of these descriptions, specifically to get rid of the book-by-book summaries. There's also some updating needed. Happy (Slap me) 15:42, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improvements