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Spoilers & neutrality

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Resolved
 – Spoiler tags are no longer used; neutrality issues resolved with edits.

Someone who knows how should put a spoiler disclaimer on this page as it gives away the plot of the movie. [-anon.]

Somebody has done so.... how do you remove the 'neutrality' warning? [--anonymous]
The neutrality warning belongs there until that last part of the article is either re-written or removed. What's currently there is a review (eg "The dialog is frought with cracks and emptiness." - and I think "frought" is the wrong word anyway). I'm sure it's very good, but it's not remotely encyclopaedic. --Cardinal Wurzel 17:32, 6 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Marking this topic resolved, as all of the issues raised have been long since dealt with. PS: The word someone was looking for was "fraught". — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] 11:25, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Vaticidalprophet talk 13:47, 12 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • ... that Walter Tevis, author of the novel The Hustler, always insisted that the "Minnesota Fats" and "Fast Eddie" characters were fictitious, denying claims to the contrary?

"Sources: https://brickmag.com/an-interview-with-walter-tevis/ "A lot of people ask me, 'When did you first meet Minnesota Fats?' And I feel like Walt Disney being asked, 'When did you meet Donald Duck?' Come on, I made him up." https://books.google.com/books?id=OMc7Zcxrf3MC&pg=PA169&dq=fats+and+eddie+were+works+of+fiction&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjb7tXG_4SBAxXUnYkEHahSAzAQ6AF6BAgKEAI#v=onepage&q=fats%20and%20eddie%20were%20works%20of%20fiction&f=false "Tevis always swore that Fats and Eddie were works of fiction..."

5x expanded by Coretheapple (talk). Self-nominated at 00:02, 30 August 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/The Hustler (novel); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

Review: article expanded 5x (934 to 5768 char); length is good; reliably sourced; plagiarism free; QPQ good; hook cited; hook is interesting. Personally, I prefer something like "...that despite claims to the contrary, novelist Walter Tevis insisted that the characters of "Minnesota Fats" and "Fast Eddie" in The Hustler were fictitious? Viriditas (talk) 10:20, 9 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes agree re hook. Thanks. Coretheapple (talk) 13:21, 9 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]