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So, yes, this is character-based humour. But can we not explain the characters without making the jokes ourselves? Some of these are ripped directly out of the pages, and even if they're not necessarily actual copyvios, we're still nicking his material by paraphrasing it. Even if they're original,
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Commander Sir because he refused to allow people to call him Lord, telling them to call him Sir if they must, and Duke (Dux) is Commander anyway (Vetinari says Vimes hasn't got a choice but accept to be a Duke because he technically already was one as Commander, but Vetinari did not
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It's been a little while... but wasn't that Keel/Vimes? I forget the exact passage, but in the penultimate scuffle with the
Particulars (i.e. the one before he grabs Carcer), 'Keel' picks up a second sword for the fight, and fights like a lunatic. The passage is one of those Beast parts, IIRC, with
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Apart from the fact that this is written primarily in-universe, it also suffers from a common problem in
Knowledge articles about humorous material: that is to say, nicking the jokes. I don't think there's a cleanup tag about this or a policy article about it specifically, but it's fairly evident
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Corporal Nobby Nobbs was created in homage to Constabel Els from the Tom Sharpe novels 'Rioutous Asembly' and 'Indecent Exposure'. Both of these are biting satires of South Africa long before attacking the Apatheid Regime became fashionable.
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splitting hairs here, but the above reason is given for Vimes not liking vampires, kings and assassins. I've always thought that it's more to do with Vimes not liking to see people treated as things (see e.g. Feet of Clay for vampires). the reason I bring this up, is it emphasizes one of the
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I read the novel in question yesterday (I'm on a quest to read all of Terry's books in a month and I'm doing pretty well, actually) and you're right - the crazy man with two swords is Vimes/Keel, not
Hancock. I've removed that fragment.
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It would make sense here to list the novels featuring the watch, at least the in which the watch play a major role, so I added a section with my cut at such a list. Feel free to correct if I missed one or added one inappropriately.
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The main article suggest the City Watch was "formerly" the Night Watch. Is this right? I seem to remember, although it has been a few years, that the Night Watch subsumed the already-existing City Watch when Vimes was promoted. --
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It could be phrased better. There was the Night Watch and the Day Watch, and when Vimes was given a position over both forces he got rid of the "hours of darkness" rule so they were all just the Watch.
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It is possible, the german WP has some kind of infobox for cases like that, but it's not really wanted for licence reasons. Better would be to rewrite it. There is a chapter about the watch in
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Why does the article mention watchmen(women)? I've always understood that all women in the watch are watchmen in the same way that dwarfs and trolls are still watchmen--
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I can't understand why this article has the tags at the top. It's certainly better than most articles on fictional universes. How do we get this status changed?
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It does feature the CW, albeit in a minor way - in the end, it is Vimes & Co. who organize the peace. --
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