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Re-organization

What does this organization do? What kind of drugs were they dealing?

~~Joe~~ What order are sections in now? I can get behind rank order but the current organization doesn't make any sense to me. Why are the 1st season soldiers who died ahead of everyone else?

How is Levy a front worker? Which front is he a part of? B&B was run by Stringer with minimal involvement from Levy. His advisory role better places him in leadership in my opinion.--Opark 77 09:39, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What I was going for was a logic to it, story-wise. All the first season soldiers are together (alphabetical), then the next crop alphabetically because it's largely a different storyline. This was because I had thought it was agreed that there was going to be one master alphabetical list of characters which then linked to pages like this, like the 'Sopranos' one. I did this because I was reading it and I thought it got really confusing that, for instance, it would be Gerard, Little Man, Sapper, Savino (with other ones scattered in there as well); the brief descriptions of Gerard and Sapper complement each other, and Little Man and Savino are the same way. We could explicitly split the soldiers by season, that might make things easier.

As for Levy, I think it's somewhat questionable to say that a lawyer who represents drug dealers, even occassionally advising them, is in a "leadership" position. I stuck him in front because his activities are strictly legal, and he exists to attempt to make the Barksdales seem more legitimate, but I agree that's a random spot. I don't see how Levy really fits in any category that exists there. Really, there could be a category which includes Levy, Krawcyk, and Clay Davis ... but that seems redundant, since they'd all be links to the real entries anyway. But some sort of "Legal Advisor" status or something. ThatGuamGuy 18:14, 28 February 2007 (UTC)sean[reply]

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Fair use rationale fixed.--Opark 77 (talk) 10:55, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Adding a Redirect

I think a redirect should be added to this page for "Barksdale Organisation" (British English spelling - The 'z' in Organization change to an 's') —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.86.243.47 (talk) 17:07, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Here you go.--Opark 77 (talk) 18:05, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Does Wallace deserve his own page?

I think that Wallace deserves his own entry, I'm interested in what other people think. For me, he's at least as important to season one as Frank Sobotka is to season two (although Michael B. Jordan was never credited as prominently as Chris Bauer). I mean, there are some striking similarities: basically decent human beings who get mixed up with the "wrong crowd" and become criminals, and are then murdered in the seasons' penultimate episodes by people they knew (the "real bad guys") for co-operating with the police. I've noticed that the HBO site doesn't have a profile of Wallace, which means getting a photograph for the wiki article could be problematic, but frankly I think the HBO site is a mess anyway, since characters like Kenard, Walon and Monk (nowhere near as important as Wallace in my opinion, although I suppose they do span multiple seasons) have their own entries.Willclunas (talk) 15:38, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The HBO site seems to have been created sometime during the 5th season, as it has proflies for about 10 of the pointless journalist characters while seemingly ignoring past season characters unless they were members of the main cast. (Larry Gilliard Jr., Idris Elba, Chris Bauer, J.D. Williams, etc.) Though why Horseface gets a profile and Wallace doesn't escapes me completely. 99.153.28.189 (talk) 22:57, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The HBO site was up and running from at least the second season onwards. It has never had a profile for Wallace although it does profile many other minor characters. Some of the profiles of past characters are not accessible from the main page but there are links to all of them as references here on wikipedia. Whether Wallace deserves his own wikipedia article should be assessed in the same way as any other fictional character - does he meet the notability guidelines?--Opark 77 (talk) 18:11, 27 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wallace's last name?

I seem to recall at some point seeing Wallace's name on the board at the Major Case Unit, but I can't remember exactly what it was. The handwriting made it look like either "Weekus" or "Neekus" or "Meekus" or something. Anyone with the DVDs wanna check? 99.153.28.189 (talk) 22:53, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wallace is his last name. His mother is named Darcia Wallace. As far as I'm aware his first name is never revealed as he goes by his last name.--Opark 77 (talk) 18:07, 27 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Shamrock

Shamrock's first name has been spelled both Sean and Shaun on wikipedia.

imdb lists it as "Sean", but the wikia article says "Shaun".

i couldn't find a character page on the official hbo pages for the show.. maybe his name is mentioned somewhere in passing in an episode synopsis, but whatever method hbo has used to make it's website, you can't search within a page for text, and there was no way i was going to read every page on hbo.com. so i gave up worrying about it until i saw the second last episode of season 3 and saw Lt. Daniels pinning this to the bulletin board in the first scene after the opening credits. ≈Sensorsweep (talk) 22:39, 17 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Where does it say Shaun? Using the find function on this article's page, I don't see the word "Shaun" anywhere, only "Sean". But please feel free to change any instances of "Shaun" to "Sean" on this page or any other based on that evidence. MidnightRequestLine (talk) 00:39, 18 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]