Talk:John Doggett

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December 2, 2009	Good article nominee	Listed

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The article says, "Mulder's son, William." What is the evidence that Mulder if the father? --Memenen 9 July 2005 11:11 (UTC)

Mulder referring to him as his son in the final episode.

See a few examples of evidence on the Baby William page.

Removed the line that states that Scully and Mulder were not trusting of each other in the beginnings of their partnership. From the pilot episode, with Mulder telling Scully about the abduction of his sister, one partner was often the only one the other trusted.Marikology 04:14, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The entire Chris Carter interview (not just the answers mentioned in the article) in the References section is clearly fabricated and intended as a joke, and should therefore either NOT be used as a reference, or the article should more clearly indicate that the interview wasn't real.

Release episode[edit]

The article states that his son's killer was found in the episode Release, but that fact is never revealed, nor is the identity of the killer. --Mperry (talk) 20:43, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Character basis[edit]

This is my own speculation, so I'll not add it to the article unless there's something out there that confirms it, but does anyone else think that Doggett is partially based on John Walsh? Obviously being an FBI agent is quite different than hosting a crime-fighting tv show, but the back story and resulting motivation seem similar. On Thermonuclear War (talk) 20:27, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review[edit]

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Reviewer: Sanguis Sanies (talk) 14:34, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings! I've previously reviewed Jeffrey Spender and as there is a rather large backlog under Film and Television I thought I'd help out and review some more.

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Lead[edit]

Infobox: affiliated with: the X-files should probably lead to The X-Files rather than to x-file

Done Sanguis Sanies (talk) 06:25, 27 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Character arc[edit]

Should have much more CITEs, each claim should have the episode it was referenced in as a CITE.

Do we really need his service no.?

Done Sanguis Sanies (talk) 06:25, 27 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done paragraph three and four both seem to repeat each other and should probably be merged into one (well referenced) paragraph.

Not done. There are only three pharagraphs? --TIAYN (talk) 07:02, 27 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Really? I see four; para 1 starts with "Doggett served in the United States Marine Corps", para 2 starts with "In 1995, Doggett graduated", para 3 starts with "Initially, Scully and Doggett " and para 4 starts with "Doggett and his new partner," I think that three and four can still be merged.

Sorry, my fault!

Done The final sentence should probably be dropped, it makes it sound as though he's disappeared, and (from memory) I Want to Believe makes no mention of him so isn't really a good source for that sentence.

Conceptual history[edit]

Done "More than a hundred actors" and should use <ref name=doggettjohn> to support that claim.

Done <ref name=doggettjohn> doesn't support the claim that "Lou Diamond Phillips and Hart Bochner" both auditioned for the part. Can another CITE be found? If not the claim should be removed.

Done "In an interview Chris Carter said" it's the first mention of Chris Carter in the article and should have his full name.

Done "the show was shooting its pilot episode entitled L.A. Sheriff's Homicide" Was that the name of the show or the name of the pilot episode? If it was the name of the pilot what was the show called?

Done "Carter had previously named" that sentence also needs a CITE.

Reception[edit]

Done I've added a {{who?}} tag to the claim "Some fans". The sentence also needs a CITE.

Done "saying "everybody likes Robert Patrick and the character," " is a direct quote and needs a CITE.

References[edit]

Done As stated here it needs to be better clarified who was doing what. I would also suggest that the episodes be wiki-linked using the "episodelink =" parameter.

Done CITE eight actually has two authors, using "first1=|last1=|first2=|last2=" will allow you to cite both.

Done CITE 10 and 18 are {{dead link}}s. Can it be re-found on the new website or found via the internet archive?

I removed one of the dead links, i can't seem to the find the second. I've checked through all the references but can't seem to find the second one.

Done Several CITEs have incomplete "accessdate=" parameters, they all name the day and month but not year.

Done CITE 20 needs to be properly formatted.

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