Talk:A Christmas Carol
|
|
Just a note to say that this is what Wikipedia is really about: working with other folks here to improve upon each other's writings, resulting in (I hope) a superior article. Thank you! -- Modemac
God bless you, every one... :-) Tiny Tim
Suggest a link to the Alistair Sim Christmas Carol! There are links to the others... I couldn't find that one or I would have linked. Jimaginator
To further elaborate on Charles Dickens literary device of poverty, some mention should be made of Scrooge's occupation as proprietor of a countinghouse and consequently usury.
American Christmas Carol
There's also a perfectly hideous version done in I think the late 70s or early 80s with Henry Winkler as Scrooge. It might have been called 'An American Christmas Carol'. Anyone know it? Quill 22:42, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Separate articles for characters?
Quill said in part, at 23:27, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC) on Talk:Tiny Tim#Dickens
- 2. ... 'What links here' ... [shows that] ... there are internal links [intended to point to] Tiny Tim, fictional character, ... that now incorrectly point to the musician.
- 3. Yes, we need a disambig at this point, because of the above, and because other fictional characters from A Christmas Carol have their own entries. Unless sometone thinks it's better (and is willing) to change those, merging Crachit and Marley and whatever else in the Christmas Carol article?
That portion of that post was off-topic there; i partially struck it out and added (bolded) replacement language, directing those concerned to here, bcz i believe it is more pertinent on this page, where its implications for A Christmas Carol and the existing individual character articles can be discussed centralizedly, and that continuation of the discussion at Talk:Tiny Tim would be counterproductive. -- Jerzy (t) 02:21, 2005 Mar 22 (UTC)
- Not a problem; we still need to do something about it. Quill 23:11, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- The reasoning "because other fictional characters from A Christmas Carol have their own entries" is unsound. Tiny Tim and Bob Cratchit are mere McGuffins, and cannot support their own articles (unless someone's efforts, similar to
what i mention above re Tim,discussing Tim's inferrable medical status, or how different actors have rendered him, should bear fruit). Most of the Jacob Marley material duplicates what is or should be in Ebenezer Scrooge, and the rest can be better folded into that or A Christmas Carol. It seems clear that Scrooge is worth an article, but there is no reason to treat equally the other characters, who are far from equal. - I don't see a dab-article for "Tiny Tim" as any better than my top-of-article dab, but off-hand i don't see any harm in it, other than waste of effort.
- --Jerzy (t) 23:31, Mar 23 & 04:08, 2005 Mar 24 (UTC) [Sorry; strikethru & bold replacement corrects for my writing something that i didn't save onto the server, then cryptically referred to it here.]