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Mother was euthenased on the Liverpool Care Pathway?

BBC Newsnight panel debate on 26/11/2012, Pratchett stated that he fully endorsed the Liverpool Care Pathway, and that his mother had died on it, and that he had been consulted and given consent. Does anyone know how this can be the case, since she died several years before it was implemented at any institution? What was the date of her death?79.70.238.4 (talk) 23:30, 26 November 2012 (UTC)twl79.70.238.4 (talk) 23:30, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

Society of Authors

Sir Terry has been for a long time involved with the Society of Authors, including being Chair. The article should mention this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.44.189.150 (talk) 09:58, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

"frequently comical"?

"Known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre"? Quite a misleading understatement. This suggests that at least some of his work in the fantasy genre is deadly serious. That's not true. All of his output is consistently comical, with jokes coming reliably at least once in five sentences, although he is, of course, trying to combine this with suspense, drama, message, and conworld merits.--91.148.159.4 (talk) 18:19, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

list of books

A list of published books should be added to this article. The same type of list can be found in articles for other authors. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mccon012 (talk • contribs) 14:46, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

the Bibliography is detailed enough.  rdunnalbatross  12:53, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Literary trainspotting.

It is so ironic that an article about a successful literary professional is itself so ploddingly and tediously written, and so bogged down by dreary minutiae, that one suspects some kind of earnest, literary trainspotter was behind its laboured construction.

It is so leaden, and there is too much of it, so one cannot contemplate any attempt to breathe some style into the great, lardy thing, therefore, this remains Pratchett's uninspired Misplaced Pages legacy. --174.16.20.36 (talk) 08:39, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

So fix it. WLU (t) (c) Misplaced Pages's rules:/_complex 13:42, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

Why should I? There's too much of it. It would require a time-consuming, wholesale rewrite. It would also be tedious; I couldn't be arsed, frankly. --174.16.20.36 (talk) 20:42, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

Well then chances are it will never get done, but thanks for bringing it to everyone's attention. WLU (t) (c) Misplaced Pages's rules:/_complex 15:22, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Film

there have been 2 feater films made now color of magic and the hog father if someone could update would be good thing Lurch42024 (talk) 08:45, 8 May 2010 (UTC) i know i cant spell but i thought i would say something about the lack of menchen of the 2 movies that have been made and released Lurch42024 (talk) 08:47, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Hello - they aren't "feature films" since they weren't shown at the cinema, they were television adaptations, and as such they ARE mentioned in that capacity under "Adaptations". Stephenb (Talk) 18:44, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

The Arms Currently Displayed

I see, several months ago, someone replaced my copyright-free svg image of Terry's arms with a non-free image. That's cool if that's what the page wants, but Terry owns the right to the image that is there now. (I don't see anything that indicates he released it into the public domain.) My rendering of the arms only showed the shield because I don't have the skill to show any of the other elements, but when depicting arms, the shield is the only part that must be shown. There are many examples of this throughout wikipedia. Sorry for the long delay in commenting on this. Cheers. A1 Aardvark (talk) 21:59, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Ancient vs Modern stuff

"Discworld novels often include a modern innovation and its introduction to the world's medieval setting, such as a public police force (Guards! Guards!), gun (Men at Arms), submarine (Jingo), cinema (Moving Pictures), investigative journalism (The Truth), the postal service (Going Postal, although the narrative describes a previous service that collapsed), or modern banking (Making Money). The resulting social upheaval serves as the setting for the main story and often inspires the title."

There are several errors here. While polices are depicted as rather modern in his works, it is far from a modern phenomena. Investigating journalism was around in the Roman empire, and possibly before that. The most efficient postal service documented is the one implemented by the Aztecs using stationed runners, that could deliver messages from border to border within a day. Modern banking is often considered invented by the Knights Templar, but there are evidence of baning dating back much further. In fact the earliest known laws (the Code of Hammurabi) incorporate regulations of banking. Of course Terry is known to give these services a modern look and feel, but they are far from modern innovations. Also there was guns around at the medieval period, but in Europe they was considered blasphemous and anyone using them would have been subject to a witch hunt. However after the Mongol empire of Genghis Khan spread into Europe using firearms, Europe realized that without firearmes there was no way to resist invading armies from outside the Christian world and even the popes personal guard was armed with the weapon. And on a side-note there was awesome hand-held flamethrowers utilizing "greek fire". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.112.38.78 (talk) 22:32, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Where he lives?

If you look at the article for Broad Chalke, nr Salisbury, it's stated that Terry Pratchett lives there, and it's west-south-west of Salisbury. This article says he lives in a village north-west of Salisbury - which is correct? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.238.100.56 (talk) 22:46, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

Coat of Arms

I've added Sir Terry's personal coat of arms. Cheers. A1 Aardvark (talk) 09:32, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Error of Arms

I'm no expert on heraldry, but the image of Pterry's arms looks *nothing* like the blazon (there's a joke in there somewhere, I know). Is there anyone qualified in the heraldic art that can verify that the image is correct? 207.216.8.30 (talk) 18:14, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Correction in References

Hi I can't edit this myself I don't know why. Reference 115 ^ "Saurio interviews Terry Pratchett". laideafija.com.ar. no date. Retrieved 15 March 2008. has an old link. The new one is http://www.laideafija.com.ar/especiales/pratchett/PRATCHETT_interview.html

Also, the date of the interview is January 2002, in La Idea Fija #4. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ignatzniemand (talk • contribs) 05:14, 19 November 2011 (UTC) Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ignatzniemand (talk • contribs) 05:09, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

I've edited the reference. You can edit a reference by editing the text it first appears in (the publishing history section). Jarkeld (talk) 08:08, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

Movies based on Discworld books

It says in the wikipaedia article on Terry Pratchett that he has shied away from "feature films". Perhaps that means that they have not been released in theaters, but I have seen four movies based on Diskworld novels, that I borrowed from the Minneapolis, MN central library. Soul Music and Wyrd Sisters were animated. Colour of Magic and Hogfather were made with live actors. Perhaps these were made for TV or direct to DVD, and thus don't qualify as "feature films" but I don't understand why they are not mentioned in the article. They are all worth seeing if you like Pratchett's work. ```` 11/23/2011 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.135.241.46 (talk) 18:54, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

A bit late but: They are mentioned in the section "Television" and were mentioned also by the time you asked that question (cf. ). Regards SoWhy 13:55, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

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Sources

{{Authority control}} in the article footer links library catalog data.

I have provided two formal references to the CILIP website (now refs #13, 14):

• (Carnegie Winner 2001). Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. CILIP. Retrieved 18 August 2012.
• "Press releases for the 2001 Awards, presented in 2002 ". Press Desk. CILIP. Retrieved 18 August 2012. —note, the P.R. archive does not provide month and day until 2002/2003

They are now underutilized for the mere fact that Pratchett won the 2001 Carnegie Medal. Three of the contemporary press releases feature Pratchett and The Educated Maurice .... One is the full transcript of his acceptance speech, for which this biography elsewhere cites a secondary source.

--P64 (talk) 19:42, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

Writing career

second of two sections posted at once

Writing career (now sec. 3) comprises two subsections without any general preface. The first is Awards, essentially a prose list. The second is Fandom. The heading "Writing career" is both misleading and odd when considered beside the next section heading "Writing".

Considering the contents I wonder whether "Writing" (now section 4) belongs in advance of both Interests (2) and "Writing career" (3).

--P64 (talk) 19:42, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

Can we get a bibliography?

Honestly, though I found a lot of fascinating tangential information, all I really came to this article for was a simple bibliography - a list of everything Pratchett has written. Isn't this standard Misplaced Pages procedure? -Jatopian (talk) 10:23, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

Sure - I'll just go and get the full list off Wikip ... ahh ... errr hmmm ... Roly (talk) 11:42, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

Not sure if there's sarcasm here, but the section "Works" in this article lists all the non-Discworld novels, and the Discworld article has the, um, Discworld ones. Stephenb (Talk) 13:15, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

You may be interested in

• Terry Pratchett at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

—which includes about three dozen "shortfiction" and twice that many "essays".

ISFDB does have completeness within-genre (speculative fiction) as a goal and it does list some non-genre works. I suppose it is directed by the time and interest of volunteer editors, same as Misplaced Pages. But bibliography its purpose so it achieves something much closer to completeness.

Complete lists of works are not common in Misplaced Pages biographies nor are standalone author bibliographies common. A complete list of books is common within biographies, but so are lists of books that are incomplete in different ways and organized on different principles. (Eg, Piers Anthony bibliography is almost nothing but a title/date list of books organized by series name.)

There is a project WikiProject Bibliographies concerned with our coverage.

It's possible that Pratchett does merit some standalone bibliography.

--P64 (talk) 20:35, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

Snuff

'His latest Discworld book, Snuff, is the third-fastest-selling novel since records began in the United Kingdom, selling 55,000 copies in the first three days.'

The record is now redundant and should be changed to past tense (The Casual Vacancy sold 125,000 in three days), although I find the original claim itself dubious, since the later Harry Potter books sold millions in their first 24 hours, let alone three days.--Allthestrongbowintheworld (talk) 18:52, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

It can be reliably sourced (see ) but your point is correct in that the wording is misleading - the source for it says third-fast selling "hardback adult-audience novel" (which obviously excludes Harry Potter since those are children-targeted books even if adults read them). I'll change it but you need to provide a source for that The Casual Vacancy claim since the current source in that article does not back that. Regards SoWhy 19:05, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

Fair enough. There we go. The Casual Vacancy sold 124,603 copies in three days, to be exact. --Allthestrongbowintheworld (talk) 19:38, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, I changed it :-) Regards SoWhy 09:43, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

File:Arms of Sir Terry Pratchett, OBE.jpg

File:Arms of Sir Terry Pratchett, OBE.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 02:24, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

Why? --Roly (talk) 08:50, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

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