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	Terry Pratchett has been listed as one of the Language and literature good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Article milestones Date Process Result June 11, 2007 Peer review Reviewed August 19, 2007 Good article nominee Listed August 7, 2009 Good article reassessment Kept
Current status: Good article

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)

See Misplaced Pages:Possibly_unfree_files/2013_March_4#File:Arms_of_Sir_Terry_Pratchett.2C_OBE.jpg, but it seems to have been recreated as own work at File:Terry Pratchett COA.svg, which seems fine, as COAs design is, I think, not copyrightable, only the particular rendering is. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:40, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

Signature

The infobox includes |signature = Terrys-signature.jpg --now hidden-- which previously generated redlink File:Terrys-signature.jpg. Perhaps it's another file that has been deleted. If not then perhaps corrupted by a vandal. --P64 (talk) 00:08, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

Regarding the signature, it's deemed copyrightable according to US law - even if you own a book with a signature, you don't own the right to reproduce it, and so on, not unless Terry has signed an appropriate waver for you... see Commons:Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Terrys-signature.jpg. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:40, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

Influences/influenced

{{Infobox writer}} no longer supports the fields influences and influenced. Its template documentation now instructs (twice): "No longer supported. Please move cited/citable instances into prose."

Here are the current parameter values (cut and paste except bullet points):

• | influences = P. G. Wodehouse, G. K. Chesterton, Lloyd Alexander
• | influenced = Natasha Rhodes, Catherine Webb, Samit Basu

See Talk: Ray Bradbury#Influences/influenced for some more explanation with cross-references.

--P64 (talk) 23:58, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

Adaptations

Could some fan look into the adaptations here and in Discworld, especially radio plays, and decide what belongs where, sort it, and provide references? Based on what i found at radiolistings.co.uk, the BBC plays could even be expanded into separate articles so that their titles no longer refer to the books... (Not sure if a stand alone articles are worth it, though). Thanks WikiHannibal (talk) 23:57, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Some (all?) of the BBC radio adaptations: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03mz1wb/episodes/guide —80.192.180.160 (talk) 20:05, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Just wondering why the adaptations section makes no mention of the several Boardgames? (dont have an account and have never posted before so unsure how to sign??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.215.173.242 (talk) 00:37, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

If you leave an edit unsigned then a robot will usually do it for you, but you can always sign yourself by typing four tildes (~ 4 times) or by clicking on the signature and timestamp button at the top of the edit window. Both methods, I believe, work even if you have no account; they use your IP address. As for your question, I'm not sure if boardgames count as adaptations; I suppose they do but I don't know anything about them. --Roly (talk) 08:50, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

Dodger is for children?

I just finished reading Dodger and was a bit surprised to find it listed under "Children's novels". I don't know Terry's intention of the target audience, but without underestimating children's capabilities, I would think that many points within the story won't just be understood by children. Geziefer (talk) 09:56, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

It's certainly intended as a "Young Adult" novel and is stocked in bookshops in the Children's section Stephenb (Talk) 10:47, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

We don't routinely distinguish "young adults" in the sense of teens or adolescents from children. It's done in some articles, not in others, and this article is one of the nots. Where we do distinguish in biographies, I know from experience that we often rely on the author's own presentation online.

By default "children's novels" include all that might be submitted for the Carnegie Medal (literary award), whose judges have recommended many finalists for ages 14+ on the one hand or for ages 8+ on the other. ... The 2007 winner Just in Case by Meg Rosoff was recommended for ages 14+. ... She won the annual young-adult book award from U.S. librarians (Printz Award, distinguished from the children's Newbery Medal in 2000) for How I Live Now. Pratchett has been a Printz finalist for both Nation and Dodger and he has won the corresponding lifetime Edwards award ...

Now for a grain of salt, or three. For that YA lifetime award the US librarians cited Amazing Maurice, Nation, and The Colour of Magic among others. The first two were recommended for ages 10+ and 11+ by UK Carnegie Medal juries and the latter is generally or universally considered adult fantasy. --P64 (talk) 18:39, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

Book articles should be more informative, perhaps even in the lead; our Nation (novel) and Dodger (novel) should be revised. Here those two might be called young-adult literature, within the children's section, relying on those American honors for support.

We call the 1989–1990 Nome trilogy "for young readers", which implies young primary schoolchildren to me, a la the 6–8 years Smarties Prize.

--P64 (talk) 18:24, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

Spider named for Pratchett

I am not sure if it is worth mentioning, but there is a species of spider named for Terry Pratchett, Anelosimus pratchetti. (Full disclosure, I just wrote that article). I am not sure if it warrants mention in this article, but thought it might be worth consideration. --TeaDrinker (talk) 02:24, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

Long Mars or Long childhood?

I saw that Amazon use two different names for the The Long Earth #3. Both "The long childhood" and "The long Mars" are used. Is there anyone who knows which one is official, or is there a US/UK difference in the naming? Haaninjo (talk) 14:02, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

No, there is no link with the country, they just changed the title, if I remember well. It was first The Long Childhood, now it is The Long Mars. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.202.59.204 (talk) 12:33, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

References

1. http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/terry+pratchett/stephen+baxter/long+mars/10071612/

Announcement of Terry Pratchett's Death

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Section "Life", subsection "Alzheimer's disease and death", Please change "Pratchett died on 12 March 2015 from final complications with Alzheimers, according to his publisher. Tweets from his account just after his death included one saying "Terry took Death’s arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night."" to: "Pratchett died on 12 March 2015 from final complications with Alzheimers, according to his publisher. Through his tweeter account, it was announced with three tweets: AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER. Terry took Death’s arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night. The End. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dimitris.m.stathis (talk • contribs) 16:50, 12 March 2015‎

 Done by someone else - this page has had over 80 edits in the last 3.5 hours - Arjayay (talk) 18:41, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

As he pointed out in a talk or essay published in A Slip of the Keyboard, he advocated control of the circumstances of one's death, and noted at one point that in Oregon State, something like half of the people who purchased medications related to "assisted suicide" never used them - he inferred from this that it was the sense of control, of power, that mattered, the realization that they were there to be used if they were needed- they were not always purchased by people with a morbid insistence on dying immediately, far from. (I mention this I hope unnecessarily, detecting some implication of irony read from the fact that this advocate of "assisted suicide" died of natural causes. It's clear from how he understood what he was advocating, that there was no contradiction/irony/whathave involved at all. Might not need to be said, of course :) ) Schissel | Sound the Note! 18:57, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Reference # 161. (atm)

to the mp3 with tells as Date the 18 December 2009, but the Guardian Website there says: 18 June 2010, the url seems to proof the 18 Dec 2009-Date but... I have learned, that this sometime is wrong -- Hartmann Schedel 20:11, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

This video from the same event has a publication date of 19 December 2009. --Nick R 22:34, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

thank you for your fast response and for the Link to the Video -- Hartmann Schedel 23:11, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Final tweets

Currently the Wiki page has it that Pratchett's daughter posted the tweets announcing her father's passing. According to this page, they were actually posted by his assistant, Rob Wilkins (the article mentions a statement from Pratchett's literary agent): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-31859675 --62.49.5.196 (talk) 03:25, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Since the tweets appear on both Rhianna and Terry(and Rob)'s Twitters, it's likely that both are true. Rob posted on @terryandrob, and Rhianna posted on @rhipratchett (with shaking hands and tearful eyes, as she later mentions). I believe the tweets were posted on Terry's twitter before they were on Rhiannas, if that's considered worth mentioning. The difference seems to be about 4 hours, but I'm not sure how to precisely date/time tweets. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.9.181.181 (talk) 09:56, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Reference #53.

Reference #53 appears cited as a source for a quote from Pratchett, but the cite is only a link to the Misplaced Pages page of the "Front Row" radio program. Please cite a verifiable source!
Cpt. Samuel Vimes (talk) 08:49, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Pratchett, the BBC and a Choosing to Die

Sorry but, instead of a fair and balanced view, this article appears to read more like the Terry Pratchett fan club. For there is little mention of his involvement in the BBC documentary Choosing to Die - nor the complaints that followed:

"This is pro-assisted suicide propaganda loosely dressed up as a documentary. The evidence is that the more you portray this, the more suicides you will have." Alistair Thompson, a spokesman for the Care Not Killing Alliance pressure group

"I think an opportunity had been bypassed of having a balanced programme – the thousands of people who use the hospice movement and who have a good and peaceful death, there was very little about them.” Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, the former Bishop of Rochester

“As for the BBC, I wonder what the moral status is of exploiting a writer with a degenerative brain disease to nudge us towards a creepy change in the law – at our expense, of course.” Damian Thompson, Editor of Telegraph Blogs

Could not this article make more of this BBC 'documentary' and related issues? Might not this article address the issue of whether or not Terry Pratchett's brain disease had a negative impact on his views about death and dying? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.41.134.111 (talk) 20:08, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Sounds like you're the one with the agenda, not the article. "Pro-killing agenda"? A bit sensationalist, wouldn't you say?

The article describes Pratchett's involvement in the the documentary and links to the Misplaced Pages article about it, Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die, which goes into lots of detail about the documentary's reception. This article isn't the place for that information.

There is no evidence that Pratchett's disease impaired his judgement on these issues, which are consistent with what we know about Pratchett's general worldview before the illness. Popcornduff (talk) 20:37, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

I've changed the section heading. BLP still applies to TP, and to this talk page. Dougweller (talk) 21:53, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Pratchett observed that several thousand complaints were received before the broadcast ('preactions' not reactions, as he described them); he felt that social media traffic after the broadcast largely welcomed the programme. BBC Radio4 'Front Row' 20 Oct 2011 Hackneymartian (talk) 19:18, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

GNU Terry Pratchett

A movement has started to honor him via reference. An initial Reddit thread spawned a wide variety of ways to add the header after one redditor mourned the loss, quoting Going Postal. The BBC wrote a short article about the phenomenon. Indrora (talk) 09:32, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

I think the article could do with coverage of the effect of Pratchett's death, the people who wrote and spoke about him, memorials, fan reaction, the "bring back Terry Pratchett" petition and so on. Popcornduff (talk) 11:28, 17 March 2015 (UTC).

I second this idea. Also a website gnuterrypratchett.com has been set up with instructions on how to set this up for a variety of server platforms. The movement has also started to be picked up by various news outlets The Guardian, The Telegraph. Leeraven172 (talk) 23:20, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Getting Lost in Magic?

As with people that attempt to avoid real world upsetting their private lives, Terry Pratchett appears to display a certain dis-like of realism - or seeing the world as it is. Might not a section on any such lack-of-realism add depth and insight into Terry Pratchett's view of the world? Might it even highlight his Death Fixation? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.44.109.90 (talk) 21:47, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

I’m guessing you did not read Pratchett? Rgds ✦ _hugarheimur 22:33, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Pretty obviously, and of course unsourced. The IP seems here only to attack TP without sources. Well sourced criticism is of course fine. Dougweller (talk) 06:41, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 17 March 2015

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Please change After his death, Pratchett's daughter Rhianna wrote in three tweets from her father's Twitter account: to After his death, Rob Wilkins wrote in their joint Twitter account @terryandrob:

Colin Smythe Personal knowledge as Sir Terry Pratchett's agent.

92.30.19.66 (talk) 23:33, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. EoRdE6 00:29, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Here's a source (BBC): —Midgrid(talk) 11:21, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

The confusion seems to have arisen because Rhianna posted the same three tweets on her own account.—Midgrid(talk) 11:50, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the source. Done. Popcornduff (talk) 15:19, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

How many power stations

"Press Officer for the Central Electricity Generating Board in an area which covered three nuclear power stations."

The source cited for this paragraph says 4 stations not 3. As did TP on BBC Desert Island Disks at 23:15. As does the author's bio in (UK) editions of the first dozen or so Discworld novels. Hackneymartian (talk) 17:07, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

I've made the edit, thanks. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:43, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Why 'Pratchett' instead of 'Sir Terry' throughout?

Is using surnames only a US affectation? Sir Terry was English, and that is the more usual way to refer to him in non-US English — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chrisboote (talk • contribs) 10:10, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

This is part of the Misplaced Pages "Manual of style", specifically the section MOS:LASTNAME. This encourages consistency across the encyclopedia. -- John of Reading (talk) 10:46, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Little Britain

Apart from the die-hard Royal supporters, most modern Brits in 2015 find the idea of calling anyone 'Sir' a totally out-dated affectation. It is mainly the reactionaries that tend to believe titles impress the 'lower orders'. Since the title 'Sir' is out-of-step with the modern world, is not Misplaced Pages wise to avoid using it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.17.178.238 (talk) 21:47, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

If he's a knight he's a "Sir". Please do not presume to speak for about fifty million people. We do tend not to use the "Sir" repeatedly as after the first time the point has been made. Britmax (talk) 12:01, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

Escaping to Fantasy Island

“Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide. No escape from reality. Open your eyes, Look up to the skies and see…” Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen

Since Pratchett said he focused on fantasy because, "It is easier to bend the universe around the story", might it not be useful to highlight the ways people use fantasy to bend others to there views on the universe? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.20.255.60 (talk) 10:42, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Interesting idea but I don't see how. This is meant to be an encyclopaedia article about this one person, not a repository for literary theory or criticism, or a comparative piece on other writers. If you could find a reliable source which addresses this issue and specifically with regard to Pratchett then maybe, yes, but I think your proposal above possibly too broad and unlikley to be reference-able - sorry to be so negative! Best wishes DBaK (talk) 11:01, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Formatting a quote obviously written in the character of |Death

The article contains a quote from Twitter:

AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER.

Terry took Death's arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night.

The End.

Since the first part of that quote is clearly intended to be Discworld's Death "speaking" to Pratchett, I argue that it should be rendered in the typographic style used for Death's words in the Discworld books. As such, the first line should be:

AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER.

or perhaps:

AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER.

MOS:QUOTE states that "a quotation is not a facsimile" and that formatting should be changed without comment when doing so does not obscure the meaning of the text. In this case, special formatting is, in a sense, part of the meaning of the text--in the Discworld stories, Death "speaks" in unquoted small-caps. That limitations of Twitter prevent the original from having that formatting should not prevent us on Misplaced Pages, where we can do such formatting, from using it. Pathore (talk) 23:03, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

References

1. "How did Terry Pratchett tweet after his death?". BBC News. 12 March 2015. Retrieved 15 March 2015.

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