Talk:Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

Template:British TV shows project Does anybody know whether this show will receive a second series or a DVD release?

Madeleine Wool

Madeleine Wool died during the filming of Darkplace.

• She disappeared, actually, she's just presumed dead. —Preceding unsigned comment added by ReloadPsi (talk • contribs) 20:58, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Emphasis heavily on dead.

DVD

Amazon.co.uk have the DVD listed (with the name spelt wrong!!) as a July 3, 2006 release [1] - we'll wait and see but fingers crossed (Emperor 01:37, 10 March 2006 (UTC))

Amazon.co.uk now say Jan 07, HMV say Feb 07, Play.com lists March 07... I fear this may never come out on DVD... 80.73.208.101 17:55, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

See also

McGeddon has removed the see also Green Wing saying there is no link apart from British Channel 4 sitcom. They're both set in a hospital, both had a series produced in 2004, both are hailed as original and cutting-edge. Is that too tenuous?--Darrelljon 10:18, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

I agree with you. I added the link again. Troubleshooter 17:19, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Apart from the superficial fact that they're both set in a hospital, there's no link between them. No shared cast, different creators. The key difference is that they have completely different styles of humour. I love them both, but they're totally different. boffy_b 13:54, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Twin Peaks

The article states that Darkplace is a parody of 1980's television, yet goes on to mention Twin Peaks as an influence. Twin Peaks didnt air until 1990.

• yes and this show aired in 2004. i think you're confused--Black Jack Scarron 08:20, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

• I kind of agree with both sides of this. I too thought it was confusing how the article says 1980s, yet 'Twin Peaks' is 1990s. Maybe it should be re-worded to say '1980s and early 1990s' television?

• It's not not really a parody of Twin Peaks, though, is it? It's much more obviously a parody of stuff like "Britannia Hospital" (the bad old Robin Askwith film) and things like that. Famous Mortimer 15:21, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

• The show also talks about strings in a Punch and Judy Show. It's a parody, inaccuracies are allowed and most likely intentional too. ReloadPsi 20:57, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

edit assistance?

I've repaired one typo; but, there seem to be others.

The first paragraph should emphatically declare that there are six episodes, all 2004.

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Hopiakuta 05:54, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Kingdom Hospital

Were there any flying staplers in Kingdom Hospital? Anyway, I've altered the original post to inform that if it was a parody of the Danish version (itself pretty overblown at times) then it came a long time after it.

Fair use rationale for Image:Darkplacecast.jpg

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Fair use rationale for Image:Darkplacecast.jpg

Image:Darkplacecast.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 02:28, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Darkplace DVD front cover.jpg

Image:Darkplace DVD front cover.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 02:28, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Episode notability

All of the episodes of this series fail the notability guidelines for television episodes. The way for these articles to be improved is through the inclusion of real-world information from reliable sources to assert notability. That is unlikely to happen, and these only have certain bad aspects (though all may not apply) like containing overly long or one sentence plot summaries, trivia, and quotes. Per that, they need to be a small part of this list.

If there are no objections, these will be redirected soon. Otherwise, discussion will take place here. Please remember that this is not a vote. If you like the information, that's fine and dandy, but your opinion doesn't really count towards anything. The only opinions that do count are ones that that lean towards the inclusion of real world information. TTN 22:24, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

• I oppose your attempts to impose your stupid narrow-view anti-article views on every page like some petty net-tyrant. Don't you have something better to waste your time on? So yes, I oppose. Kuralyov 03:13, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Unless you provide real world information to back these episodes, your oppose is nothing more than a simple WP:ILIKEIT opinion. Those are discounted in the long run. TTN 16:49, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
• the guide to television episodes says "If there is enough verifiable information from secondary sources about individual episodes, then: create pages for outstanding episodes." As there are only 6 episodes, all must be considered outstanding within the series. TTNITTN says that that plot summaries are too long or too short. 4 sentences is not too long. the guide says "A brief summary of the episode's plot" should be included, and that is exactly as it is. I agree that TTNITTN is a petty tyrant. Goarlo —Preceding comment was added at 06:31, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Episode articles

Where have the episode articles gone? I thought the discussion was about merging the articles, not deleting them? Or at least a cleanup request would have sufficed??? Nreive 10:43, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

From what I gather they (that is, the only six episodes ever produced), have simply been blanket-deleted by TTN as per his "statement" above. If you do some digging the archived versions can still be found for posterity, or at least until TTN decides to reliquish his hold over the show's episode information, and some else rather helpfully restores the correct location of the episode title links. --Doceo (talk) 09:09, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Improve references template

I added the improve references template, which someone reverted, asking me to be more specific, so I will.

As far as I can see, this entire article is original research. Please understand that I think this is a pretty good article, and I am not challenging anything specific. However, in line with Wikipedia's policy of WP:NOR, all statements should be supported by reliable, verifiable sources.

Of the two sites in the references section, the BBC gives us nothing more than a very broad overview, and the Futon Critic one does not seem to exist any more (leaving aside the fact that it is a non-notable website and therefore cannot be presented as a reliable, published source). This means this article has precisely zero citations, condemning it to the status of original research. I believe the quality of this article would be improved immensely if some good citations were included.

I have added the tag back in. Let's discuss the situation further here before removing it again.

Furthermore, I am removing the second item in the references section, as it currently points to a "page has moved" page that links to something unrelated.

Straussian (talk) 12:37, 11 January 2008 (UTC)