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This article was nominated for deletion on July 19, 2005. The result of the discussion was keep.

1 Body count
2 Dates of birth and death
3 Vote for Deletion
4 Needs work
5 Too many quotes?
6 What purpose does this article serve?
7 Edits
8 Howard Hawks
9 Wha-?
10 Fair use rationale for Image:Scarfaceinthefall.jpg
11 Fair use rationale for Image:Riley scarface.jpg
12 Got a problem.
13 Unique Character* (* THE one who has his own page)

[edit] Body count

Could we have a "kill count", meaning the number of people he has killed? Somewhere in the that little box.

-G —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.117.158.83 (talk) 05:46, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Dates of birth and death

This article makes no sense and the dates are all fucked up. According to the article, he's over 40 years old when the events of Scarface take place, and he dies before the Mariel harbor event takes place. Someone correct this, it's just wrong and cites no sources.

That has been changed. it now says that he died in 1983, and was 30 years old

If the opening line is so confident about his birth date, then the infobox is wrong; 1983 - 1950 = 33. For now I've changed his age to 33 in the infobox; it looks less ridiculous this way. If anybody can find a source that says he was born in 1940 (or anything else) and not 1950, step up. Rotten Venetic 00:19, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

It still lists his birthdate at 1940, I'm assuming because Al Pacino was born in 1940. However, that would make Tony 40 when he came to Florida. Gimme a break. I think it's obvious Pacino is portraying a much younger man here. A birthdate in the early 1950s would be reasonable, but his exact date of birth is unknown. At any rate, Tony Montana is obviously a baby boomer (unshakable confidence, narcissism). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.4.50.37 (talk) 13:18, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Vote for Deletion

This article survived a Vote for Deletion. The discussion can be found here. -Splash 01:49, 4 August 2005 (UTC) dude shut up you sound like a girl —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.153.89.50 (talk) 09:14, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Needs work

While I can see why this survived deletion, it isn't quite up to being a good article. Right now 95% of the article is spent rehashing the movie (which is better spent in the actual Scarface article, with only a passing mention of the character's influence on gansta rap and other cultures that laud criminal behavior. Also, no mention is made of the character's appearences in other mediums (in the debate on deletion, someone cited a video game) Bobak 15:19, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

The whole article is written in very inconsistent tense --sometimes past, sometimes present. Synopsises (sp?) should ALWAYS always be written in present tense. -Dawn (don't know how to sign this)

Yeah they made a Scarface video game did you know that? Three to be exact! But now to think of it this page dose need to list the stuff you said. Yeah this article needs a little clean up.--Tommy Montana ~The World Chico and everything in it~ 05:57, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Too many quotes?

I think quotes should be cut down and leave the most memorable ones up for view. It's getting ridiculous at how many people keep trying to put up ones that made no impact. Maybe also expand the article a bit? Seems kind of tedious for such a well known movie character.--The Scourge 17:18, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

The quotes have been replaced with a relevant link to {{wikiquote}}, they were not contributing to the encyclopedic value of this article and were more appropriate for Wikiquote. Yamaguchi先生 21:26, 24 September 2006

[edit] What purpose does this article serve?

All it does is repeat information already posted on the Scarface (1983 film) article. Buzda 04:35, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edits

I found this article to be quite poorly written, and took the page, and rewrote the plot. It still expresses the same thing, though some time-line errors have been cleared up, and I think it looks much better overall, even if it is useless. 12.107.247.35 00:12, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Looks fine to me I don't see anything wrong with the article? What do you mean it looks poorly written?--Tommy Montana ~The World Chico and everything in it~ 05:52, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Howard Hawks

I'd like to put forward that Howard Hawks has invented Tony Montana before Brian De Palma did.

[edit] Wha-?

This article is decent towards the begining, but looks terrible at the end. Do we need $75 million written THREE different ways? And as for the "Famouse Quote" section, do we need all the quotes written in sentence form, especially when they are all on Wikiquote. It seems to me this article has been edited by a fan who has no idea how Wiki articles work. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.142.169.44 (talk) 14:46, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Scarfaceinthefall.jpg

Image:Scarfaceinthefall.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:58, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Riley scarface.jpg

Image:Riley scarface.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:03, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Got a problem.

Now, i'm sure there was a Tony Montana page on wikipedia. There is. But when i search it, it redirects to the page about the film. Now, either some idiot did something, or there isn't a page and i'm wrong. Try it out. Tony Montana.

Hothguard11

[edit] Unique Character* (* THE one who has his own page)

If you're so confident of only one character of each film or game having his own article, then why don't you go looking and come across Indiana Jones. The Indiana Jones franchise has FOUR characters having their own pages! (Honestly, look here.) So, why let Tony Montana have his own page? You could also recreate Alejandro Sosa's and make it more notable for Wikipedia. An answer should be given soon. 20000 ^Talk/_{Contributions} 14:12, 1 June 2008 (UTC)