Talk:Wolves in fiction

Realism

"In the more recent fantasy, wolves are more often portrayed more realistically, one example being Nighteyes from the Realm of the Elderlings books by Robin Hobb, and often they are strongly tied to the main characters in a positive way, like the wolves of Elfquest. In the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin, the main noble house of the series, the Starks, have a wolf as their family symbol and adopt a group of young wolf cubs, with each of the Stark children sharing a bond and certain characteristics with their personal cub." I take issue with this section on the supposed recent trend towards realism in the depiction of wolves in fantasy fiction. In the examples given here it isn't a realist depiction of wolf behaviour, the potrayal is more similar to a sidekick archtype or a domesticated dog. Not even wolves who were kept in captivity would behave in such an amicable manner as those in these stories. In some cases, Robin Hobb's books for instance, this can be gotten around by the use of magic - But anyway you look at it, it's not approaching realism. Elmo 22:11, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Bands

Many new bands have adopted the name of the wolf, Wolf eyes, Wolf parade, wolf colonel... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.189.6.123 (talk) 13:58, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

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Werewolves

I noticed many of the listed references actually refer to werewolves, a subject only marginally related to the topic. Considering there is already an extensive article covering Werewolf fiction I think they should be removed, if no-one objects. Mediatech492 (talk) 23:51, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Missing titles

the gaurdians of ga'hoole series includes wolves in many of its titles as well as the wolves of the beyond, another series by Kathryn Lasky! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.45.166.182 (talk) 02:50, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Merge

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: copy-paste moved by Deltasim (talk · contribs) prior to consensus, however since there was eventually consensus on the talk page, the copy-past move was cleaned up with {{Copied}} tags by Tiggerjay (talk · contribs) in order to complete this RM. Tiggerjay (talk) 18:16, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

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Wolves in fiction → List of fictional wolves –
This page is a list, not an article per se, and thus a fork of the list that was disbanned on 2 February 2012. As such it either needs to be moved back to the correct name (List of fictional wolves) or disbanned into the five or so Lists of fictional canines again. Merging/disbanning might be better. tahc ^chat 17:26, 9 April 2013 (UTC) tahc ^chat 17:26, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Yea. I see that the lists of fictional canines are quite sparse without either wolves or dogs on them. All the more, if split out from each other as they are. tahc ^chat 17:52, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Support move to the list title. No need to overcombine, the list is clearly notable enough to stand on its own. Red Slash 01:17, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Not the issue. We can see it that it would be "notable enough to stand on its own". The question is if the list(s) of fictional canines are notable enough to stand on their when they do not even include wolves (or dogs). tahc ^chat 21:14, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Is that the issue? Doesn't that debate belong at Talk:List of fictional canines instead? I believe this was the discussion for moving Wolves in fiction to List of fictional wolves. I say it was because I have noticed that the "move" has just been done, by copy-paste no less. Red Slash 23:36, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Anyone want to move the talk page to match the move of the main page that someone carried out a few days ago? Red Slash 22:40, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

Not done: It wasn't moved, it was WP:CUTPASTEd. I think an expert on fixing those should be consulted, with a view to getting the page history into the right places. --Redrose64 (talk) 07:07, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

• Comment oh wow this is a bigger mess than expected, it appears there not only was copy-paste but some merging as well, or some other mess. This will need to be looked at very carefully. Tiggerjay (talk) 05:52, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
  • After reviewing the various versions, it would appear the best way to retain the histories of each page will be to use the {{copy}} tags on the source and destination pages. Since it appears that the list of fictional wolves had data merged out of it, we cannot simply delete the page to make room for the move, so we likely need to just put the copy tag on both pages and call it a day. It is unfortunate that the one editor performed a copy-paste without understanding the implications, on the other hand, it is good that they didn't perform a delete-then-move request either... Tiggerjay (talk) 18:10, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

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