Talk:Man-Thing

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Man-Thing has had a peer review by Wikipedia editors which is now archived. It may contain ideas you can use to improve this article.

	comics Portal This article is in the scope of WikiProject Comics, a collaborative effort to build an encyclopedic guide to comics on Wikipedia. Get involved! Help with current tasks, visit the notice board, edit the attached article or discuss it at the project talk page.
B	This article has been rated as B-Class on the quality scale. Please explain the rating here.
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the importance scale.
More information: This article has been checked against the following criteria for B-Class status: Referencing and citation: not checked Coverage and accuracy: not checked Structure: not checked Grammar: not checked Supporting materials: not checked To fill out this checklist, please add the following to the template call: <!-- 1. It is suitably referenced, and all major points are appropriately cited. --> |B-Class-1=yes/no <!-- 2. It reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain major omissions or inaccuracies. --> |B-Class-2=yes/no <!-- 3. It has a defined structure, including a lead section and one or more sections of content. --> |B-Class-3=yes/no <!-- 4. It is free from major grammatical errors. --> |B-Class-4=yes/no <!-- 5. It contains appropriate supporting materials, such as an infobox, images, or diagrams. --> |B-Class-5=yes/no Related task forces (publisher): Marvel Comics work group

[edit] Fictional character biography

It's a big, big job, and I ask for other editors to help. The FCB contains a lot of material about the writers, etc. Some of it's extraneous, but none of it belongs in this section, which should be written present-tense in-universe throughout (and as the first paragraph seems to be). Any pertinent material about the creators should be in Publication history, and any issues cited in FCB should be within footnotes, all as per WikiProject Comics guidelines. --Tenebrae 16:55, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Right, because it was assembled in emulation of Swamp Thing, so please try tackling that page, too. --Scottandrewhutchins 18:32, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Man-Thing isn't a copy of Swamp Thing. That's a discredited rumor. It'd be a pretty neat, trick, too, considering Man-Thing premiered May 1971 and Swamp Thing premiered July 1971. They were both in the pipeline at the same time. --Tenebrae 18:52, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

I'm aware that, if anything, the second Swamp Thing is a rip-off of Man-Thing, since Wein wrote a Man-Thing story before he wrote the first Alec Holland story. What I'm referring to is the way this page is/was formatted is modeled on the way the Swamp Thing page is formatted, so you might want to work on that page's formatting, too. Looking at that page will explain a lot of the problems you are finding with this page.--Scottandrewhutchins 20:21, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

No question; the Swamp Thing page needs a lot of work as well. I like to look at entries for Batman and Spider-Man, for example, as models.

I'm working on 'em, hard as I can. Like I always say, I've only got two hands and half a brain!--Tenebrae 21:16, 12 July 2007 (UTC)