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Date	Process	Result
December 5, 2010	Good article nominee	Listed
October 15, 2023	Good article reassessment	Delisted

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Help on the Name's Etymology

What is the etymological basis to the professor's name? Was it completely dreamed up, or are there actually people going around with that name?

If the first part to the name is connected with the Latin deponent verb quatior and the second part to the name equally connected with the Latin verb metior (past participle messum), is it possible his name means "shake a ruler" or is that nothing more than a coincidence? If the Latin senses are wanting, could it actually be a cute reference to "Shakespeare Rules" (in a bastardized Latin sort of way)?

Kneale got it out of a London telephone directory. If I remember the interview correctly, according to Kneale the man was a greengrocer in the East End. Angmering 20:32, 21 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

original Quatermass

The story of finding the name in a telephone directory may well be true. There used to be a TV series "Town and Around" hosted by Cliff Michelmore who interviewed on the programme the only Quatermass listed in the telephone directory. The guest reckoned that he kept getting people phoning him and asking how the plot was going to end.AT Kunene (talk) 20:30, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Redundancy?

Do we really need a plot summary in the lede, when there is a plot summary section already? Can't that paragraph come out? I don't think it really contributes anything more to the article than the plot section does, and it certainly doesn't belong in the lede. 12.233.147.42 (talk) 00:49, 6 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Profession?

Why is Dr. Matthew Roney listed as a Palaeontologist? He seems to me to be more of an physical anthropologist/archeaologist/paleoanthropologist. I didn't hear anything that actually identified him other than a professional.64.53.191.77 (talk) 01:57, 8 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Paleontology is the scientific study of life existent prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene Epoch roughly 11,700 years before present. Anthropology is the study of humans and their societies in the past and present. Archaeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. Dr Matthew Roney (James Donald) is called in and deduces that they are the remnants of a group of apemen over five million years old, more ancient than any previous finds. Therefore the term that is used is correct. - Kiraroshi1976 (talk) 05:21, 8 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Missing entry in bibliography

References no. 32 and 33 cite Martell, but no such author or book is present in the bibliography. I couldn't find out the source for these citations. It can be something by Philip Martell, head of Hammer's music division, but I cannot find anything. Any ideas? — Evil scientist42 (talk) 16:36, 5 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Martians

What happened to the Martian (demon) models as they don't seem to have ever been shown or mentioned at the any BBC exhibitionAT Kunene 123 (talk) 13:48, 21 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

What if our planet were doomed ... ?

Why is it that the only extensively quoted two lines of dialogue receive no mention in the article?

Regards RAClarke (talk) 13:42, 20 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Deor,

At present this page carries no quotes of dialog. Is that Wikipedia policy? 'Primary Sources', or something?

Regards RAClarke (talk) 16:53, 22 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Quotations of dialogue aren't forbidden by policy, but they're fairly infrequent in articles on movies, books, etc. Unless the dialogue has been cited in reliable secondary sources as being particularly significant or noteworthy, there's usually no reason to quote it. Deor (talk) 17:02, 22 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment

Quatermass and the Pit (film)

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Result: Delisted. More than a week, little movement towards addressing issues. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 17:44, 15 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Similarly to Quatermass (TV serial), this 2010 addition has some major sourcing and prose problems. Casting section contains unrelated and badly sourced information, there are two (!) production sections, some parts are not sourced or badly sourced. Spinixster (chat!) 06:49, 26 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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