BlackSunNocturne
Since: Aug, 2013
Jul 15th 2014 at 3:05:01 PM
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The disjointedness of the article was due to a copy & paste of the (incorrectly wick'd) Vlad The Impaler page. (which needs to get cut/deleted btw)
I understand that there needs to be some cleanup to make it less confusing, I blame that on the fact that I attempted to redo the entire page while half-asleep and I apologize for that.
Also: Please do not remove the "Tropes Applying to Vlad III" section, as they're there for a reason (plus every other page for a real person lists tropes related to them)
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SeptimusHeap
MOD
(Edited uphill both ways)
Jul 16th 2014 at 1:47:21 AM
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Regarding the trope list, we've been recently moving away from listing tropes applying to Real Life people. Other pages are getting them cut as well.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
This article is very disjointed. First, Vlad was born, then he impaled the nobility (when did he succeed to the throne?), then he was held captive (how? why? by whom?), then he had a third reign (what about the first two?), etc. Obviously there is a whole lot missing. There are also some "word salad" passages ("All impaling aside, who's patronymic name was, in fact Dracula ...", "Which was when you shove a staff, hook, spear, stake, ect. and shoving it through a person's body ...").
But what brought me to the discussion page is actually the very first paragraph:
This is incorrect. Bram Stoker did not, in fact, base the character of Dracula on Vlad Dracula. The novel does not reference history much and the possibility that the count is "that" Dracula is only thrown in as a vague speculation (in a letter by Jonathan Harker, if I remember correctly). But Stoker's Dracula is in no way inspired by, much less based on the life the historical Vlad Dracula.
Edited by 188.110.30.37 Let's just say and leave it at that. Hide / Show Replies