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)