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Referenced Rampage

You may see in other Grey's Anatomy's character pages that I had put this tag:

I want to improve these articles so I'm asking for those willing to help to find sources to back up these information. Omghgomg 12:06, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Should this page be merged with the List of characters from Grey's Anatomy page?

NO New articles made, like the ones for Desperate Housewives characters is a good thing--Brown Shoes22 14:52, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

YES There are perfectly good pages detailing the characters on Grey's Anatomy and Desperate Housewives; I don't see the need for individual pages. I'll propose the same for the Desperate Housewives characters, that they get one page for all of the characters, not individual pages. It's a waste of wiki resources, and time spent by editors cleaning up text and formatting; I've spent too much time trying to clean this page up as it is. If you want such detailed information, make a GA or DH wiki, and populate it to your heart's content. Weirdoactor 21:55, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

NO For fans of these shows, gaining information held on individual character pages can make them enjoy their favourite programme more. More in depth information, the more their hobby is fulfilled. User:Hanah198920:46, 17 November 2006

NO There are many tv shows with individual pages for characters, and I see no problem with making individual character pages - Xtreme680 00:07, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

NO There is a whole Category:Television characters by series. If that is to exist I don't see any reason this series should be treated differently than 30 Rock, Supernatural, or NCIS. Although I'm open to an argument for switching all of these categories into "character lists", I don't think that'll happen.--T. Anthony 08:01, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I take that the result of this "faux-debate" is no, then. _{WEBURIEDOURSECRETS}_INTHEGARDEN 13:29, 26 December 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by WeBuriedOurSecretsInTheGarden (talk • contribs) [reply]

Relationships is not working

Remove Relationships and add character biography !--Brown Shoes22 15:37, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Is a "Quotes" section necessary?

Personally, I feel that a "Quotes" section clutters the page and takes away from it stylistically. There is an excellent, extensive collection of quotes from Grey's Anatomy, including those from this character, in Wikiquotes, and it seems like overkill here--just like the ridiculously long list of "Mc"-phrases on the main Grey's Anatomy page. I think that adding a "Quotes" section to individual character pages is not necessary, and counteracts the encyclopedic style we're supposed to strive for with these articles. Where do we draw the line with quotes? What constitutes a defining quote from a character? A funny one-liner? A long "aria" explaining personality, past, motives? It's a very sticky area, and I think if we keep this "Quotes" section, it's going to open the door for any Jack or Jill to add every single remotely interesting line (and not always quoted properly or spelled correctly) ever uttered on the show, and this page will lose the clean, relatively organized and concise feel that it is.

I spent a lot of time working on this page and the one for Meredith Grey, so I understand the sentimental value attached to one's work, which is why I'm opening this discussion. When I worked on these two pages, they were very disjointed and offered very little information or stylistic improvement from the shorter biographies on the Grey's Anatomy character page--they've come a long way and I'd hate to see them become cluttered and unorganized again. There is a place for Grey's Anatomy quotes--on Wikiquotes, and I propose that they stay there rather than bog down the character pages. Any opinions on this? DarkandTwisty29 20:51, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Problem with dividing history by "seasons"

Grey's Anatomy's seasons differ among countries. In the U.S., the first season includes the first nine episodes, ending with "Who's Zoomin' Who", but other countries showed the "complete" first season as it was originally intended to be shown, ending with "Bring the Pain". Dividing character history by "seasons" doesn't take into account the fact that the events in question happened in different seasons dependent on country.DarkandTwisty29 19:18, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Removing "Dr." from title sentence:

I have changed the title sentence from "Dr. Derek Shepherd is..." to "Derek Shepherd is..." based on the Wikipedia style manual for biographies, which dictates that academic or professional titles should not precede the individual's name in the article. I also checked with the Wikipedia articles on several real-life physicians to verify that this was the convention in use. The body of the article and the infobox provide sufficient evidence of Derek's possession of a M.D. degree. DarkandTwisty29 18:04, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Dereksh.jpg

Image:Dereksh.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 04:39, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bad grammar and spelling in the article

Apologies to the original author, but this article is practically unreadable due to the extremely poor grammar and spelling used in it's writing. Apparently a spell-checker wasn't used.

Someone please edit the article to ensure it is written in good, legible English.

Geh4th (talk) 16:49, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I agree the first section was such a chore to get through I couldn't bare to read the rest of the article... although I think you mean "its". 67.246.186.199 (talk) 11:57, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And I think you mean "bear".

removed section

I removed the whole "development" from the page, it was almost completely empty, just posting it here in case someone wants to elaborate on it, BUT ONLY IF THEY SERIOUSLY DO. That is, make a nice, big effort, or just a simple stub like, but with good grammar and spelling...

Extraction starts == Development == === Personality === === Relationships === (Previously hidden) Dr. McDreamy or Dr. Shepherd is the typical "Prince Charming". He is best known relationship is that with the intern [[Meredith Grey]]. His off-again relationship with her marked the show. The fans of the show are often saying that their relationships is the most dramatic one, and the throw the course of series running their relationship become very boring. At the beginning of the show he is having great relationship with Meredith until the big arrival of his estranged wife [[Dr. Addison Montgomery]]. After her arrival we find out that he was married with her until he found her in bed with his best friend Mark. He than left New York and get down to Seattle. Extraction ends

MEEEEEEEEE! (talk) 08:02, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Chief of Surgery

We need some more information on Derek become Chief. Tydoni (talk) 07:06, 5 February 2010 (UTC) Who are the two women he rehires? Tydoni (talk) 07:07, 5 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Season six finale

The season six finale was poorly summarized by someone who had no idea what they were writing about, I fixed the spelling of Derek's name and removed an incorrect sentence. The person claimed that Derek's father's death was first discussed in this episode when, in fact, he discussed it in a previous season. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.32.88.194 (talk) 03:20, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Addison

Shouldn't Addison be mentioned in his bio box under significant others, Rose is mentioned and she was only a girlfriend briefly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.160.82.9 (talk) 05:09, 1 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Done Fixed, thanks for flagging it up. Frickative 14:46, 1 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"Head" or "Chief" of department?

The question has been raised for multiple characters of whether they are the "Head" of their department/area (Plastic Surgery, Traume Surgery, etc.) or the "Chief" of their department. Please see the centralized discussion started by TRLIJC19 (talk · contribs) at Talk:Grey's Anatomy#Attending Character Titles. —C.Fred (talk) 13:47, 30 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Did Derek Shepard die???

On the hit Show Greys atomy he died did he die in real life? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2606:A000:558E:F400:80F8:A09F:2606:5266 (talk) 00:34, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

No. Patrick Dempsey is still alive and as far as we know, well. Librarynerds (talk) 14:25, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

"Dream Sequence" wording

According to Dempsey's filmography, Derek was a recurring character in Season 17. But this article says he only appeared in a dream sequence - which implies it was only one episode. I realize that the "recurring" label isn't always indicative of the number of episodes they are in for that season, but it just seems unlikely that he got a recurring credit for the entire season, if he was literally in just one episode?

Did Meredith spend more than one episode of Season 17 having fever-dreams in which Derek was specifically present? If so, I'm thinking a tweak to that sentence would be worth making, to be clear that it wasn't just a one-episode cameo. CleverTitania (talk) 07:41, 8 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]