Talk:Vinyl (TV series)

Suggestion to start an entry for James Jagger

May I just suggest that it would be time to start an entry for James Jagger (son of Mick Jagger) who plays the character of Kip Stevens in 'Vinyl'. He occupies quite some space in the evolving drama and truly holds his own. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.111.32.198 (talk) 16:48, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

Recurring?

There seems to be a great amount of disagreement as to what constitutes a "recurring character". It was suggested before that 3 episodes was a good cutoff. So what makes John Cameron Mitchell as Andy Warhol a recurring character, but David Proval as Vince Finestra not? They each made three appearances this season.[1] I'm hoping that we can come to an agreement so we're not constantly undoing each others' revisions. SixFourThree (talk) 18:46, 6 April 2016 (UTC)SixFourThree

My instinct is two appearances counts as recurring, since the second time it's a recurrance of the first, but that seems to open the door to trivial cases where someone appears at the end of one episode, the start of the next, then never again. So I would suggest this: Recurring characters either appear in at least three episodes in total or at least two non-consecutive episodes. Someone who shows up in episode 3 and then again in episode 6 seems to be someone who should count. The general idea is a character that appears more than once in something more than one continuous appearance. How does that sound? 99.192.77.46 (talk) 12:33, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

Historical characters

Who erased the historical characters list I created? Seriously, that is not cool! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:589:4606:CB0:B931:B558:F774:4174 (talk) 23:28, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

The list looks like trivia that does not add to the article. The show is set in the real world of 1973, so just about everyone who was around in music then (and before then) will get a mention at some point. Being represented on screen for 10 seconds is also no big thing, just trivia. It would be better to replace the list with a couple of sentences of prose that basically say what I just said, that as the show is set in the real world of 1973 a great number of musical artists (and other real people) are mentioned. In a number of cases singers from the era are portrayed as performing in very brief scenes. Artists represented include ... and then just list three or four of them. Wikipedia gets too many trivial lists added to pages. This seems like one of those. 99.192.77.46 (talk) 12:29, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

Possible plagiarism in episode descriptions

I had just finished watching episode six of Vinyl, then read the description on this article of that same episode, realizing that description read very similarly, nearly word-for-word the description found when streaming the episode on HBO NOW. I'm sensing some plagiarism. From the HBO NOW episode stream webpage: "Devon seeks refuge at the Chelsea Hotel with Ingrid, a friend from her Warhol days. Meanwhile, Richie falls into a deeper well of drugs and depravity, enabled by Ingrid's nihilistic boyfriend Ernst. Andrea Zito rejoins American Century and immediately outlines her plans to revive the label. Kip follows an unlikely path towards recruiting a new lead guitarist for the Nasty Bits." Gothicman22 (talk) 18:16, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

I was coming here to say something similar. I didn't realize plagiarism was involved, but text like "a devastated Zak considers changing his alibi for a recent injury, while Richie decides to pay a visit to an estranged mentor" struck me as coy and badly written relative to encyclopedic standards. If someone who knows the episodes well wants to rewrite, that would be great. If not, the descriptions should be taken down. YouCanDoBetter (talk) 07:39, 8 December 2022 (UTC)