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It's probably time to start a Finches family category.JonathanMarkoff (talk) 06:30, September 24, 2016 (UTC)

Probably worth it. We should also do an article like the one for the Driver family. We would then move Mendel Finch there from "Minor Chars". As I recall, FO mentions Aaron has another, older brother too which would go there as well. ML4E (talk) 17:38, September 24, 2016 (UTC)
Yeah, that was a weird one. Two whole books that focused a lot of attention on the love-hate relationship between two brothers, then out of nowhere we get "Yeah, and my other brother can't stand him either!" Weird. Turtle Fan (talk) 18:19, September 24, 2016 (UTC)
Sounds like a line from Car Talk.JonathanMarkoff (talk) 19:43, September 24, 2016 (UTC)

I'm glad to see we didn't linger a full year before creating a Finch page and category.

I wonder if we should move Leon to the Finch Family. He's not a "minor character" since he's going to appear in every volume. On the other hand, unless he dies or mutates thanks to the radiation, I don't think this article is going to be much more substantial than it already is. TR (talk) 01:30, July 13, 2017 (UTC)

That's the problem I've always had on defining "Minor Character". Is a character who appears in almost every scene with a POV but does little in the way of plot or character development "minor"? The example I have in mind is Eddie (Southern Victory) who is in almost every front-line O'Doull scene in Settling Accounts. We originally had him as minor but then changed it to an individual character article. ML4E (talk) 23:39, July 13, 2017 (UTC)
There are a few other characters like that in HT canon. Pyotr Maksimovich appears throughout Colonization but has zero character development.JonathanMarkoff (talk) 08:37, July 29, 2017 (UTC)

Undone literary comment[]

For the record, I agree with ML4E's removal of the lit comm.  To be clear, HT never said "Aaron Finch is based on my father."  Rather, right about June 6, 2017, HT tweeted a description of his father that had several characteristics in common with Aaron Finch.  He never said "and I based Aaron Finch on my father."  So it's way too much to say that HT "confirmed" this.  TR (talk) 21:26, August 1, 2017 (UTC)

I also agree. Turtle Fan (talk) 01:04, August 2, 2017 (UTC)
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