Talk:John Sinclair (German fiction)

Not sure where to start...

This article on a series of fiction stories (or on a fictional character??) offers no references except two primary sources! For a series that has been running since 1973 this is pretty pathetic. The article provides basically only in-universe content and does nothing to establish notability. There are also numerous spelling errors. In terms of style and grammar the article appears to have been written by a German with a quite limited command of the English language. Whilst I have great sympathy for fans who want their favourite book/film/character to feature on WP, there must be some limits. I would recommend this for deletion, but for the fact that it has been a successful series - inter alia spawning a huge line of audio books. Drow69 (talk) 12:15, 31 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I sympathise with what you say. I do think, however (as, in fact, do you) that this article should not be deleted. The Sinclair series of popular novelettes is certainly noteworthy, and the article does contain interesting information. However, it could - as you suggest - be improved. There are a couple of academic articles in existence, I believe, on John Sinclair (or at least on Jason Dark, the author of the Sinclair series) and information from them could be imported into this article to give it a bit more Wikipedia credibility and justification. If I have time, I shall try to do this in the coming days or weeks. Best wishes to you. From Anoot7 (talk) 03:29, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The thing is the German WP article does contain tons of out-of-universe stuff on the success of the series, the audio books and even TV adaptations. However, as seems to be the usual case with the German version, there is not a single in-line citation and everything is unsourced. Drow69 (talk) 14:09, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified

The old URL given in the "External Links" section (((https://web.archive.org/web/20090307031416/http://webspawner.com/users/jasondark1))) is faulty. Only the first part can be accessed directly, the second only by a lot of searches; nothing after part 4 could be found/accessed. Luckily, I have found another archived page that displays Tony Page's translation in its entirety (https://web.archive.org/web/20160304103931/http://jasondark.weebly.com/). I have replaced the old URL with the new one. Otto von B. (talk) 20:34, 13 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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