Talk:D. C. Fontana

Latest comment: 2 years ago by 172.195.96.244 in topic Richard Fontana
Former good article nomineeD. C. Fontana was a Media and drama good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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Biography assessment rating comment

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The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. --KenWalker | Talk 06:29, 13 July 2007 (UTC)Reply


Can anyone dig up a photo of D.C. Fontana? The ones I found are really small, or don't look very good. Cyberia23 21:11, 11 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

To add

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This really needs to talk about Fontana's contribution to Trek as script editor - prabably more important that writer. Also, her work on non-Trek needs expanding. -- Beardo 07:12, 30 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Assessment

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I have added a quality assessment rating and importance rating to this article. Feel free to change them as the article improves! Also, feel free to add more issues to the list below, and strike them out (strike) when they're completed. — OranL (talk) 18:46, 7 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

Notable issues

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References

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This article was tagged as needing additional references. There are only two, and one to a video game company is a dead link. Mariepr (talk) 01:07, 10 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

Books? Novels?

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How come no list of her published works? Only TWO mentions of books she wrote? And only one title specifically mentioned?

Can this oversight please be rectified?70.190.214.167 (talk) 14:23, 28 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

She's only written three novels. All three were already mentioned, but the names of two of them were mistakenly missing. I've added them now. Miyagawa (talk) 17:16, 28 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

Photo

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Seems odd there's no photo of Fontana but one of Roddenberry.JMeggett (talk) 08:56, 31 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

I strongly agree.79.204.19.75 (talk) 08:56, 6 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

Tall Man credits

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Should be four episodes, not two as the article currently says. Screencaps of her credits here. http://startrekfactcheck.blogspot.com/ Sir Rhosis (talk) 01:05, 15 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

Marriage

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Her marriage to Skotak has a peculiarly short mention in the article, and the year only appears in the infobox, and there is no source for either mention. Do any of the present sources mention and date it? Elizium23 (talk) 01:28, 8 December 2019 (UTC)Reply

Richard Fontana

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In 1985, D. C. Fontana wrote one episode of the carton series He-Man and the Masters of the Universe titled "BattleCat". It is listed as episode 96 in the List of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe episodes, where you can see it was jointly written with Richard Fontana. This second writer's name is wikilinked to the article on Richard Fontana, whose bio does not sound like that of a writer of a He-Man episode. I am wondering if any talk page readers know:

  1. Is the Richard Fontana credited as writing the episode with D. C. Fontana the same person as in the Richard Fontana article?
  2. Are these two Fontana's related?

They also appear to have worked together on the episode "Planet of the Amazon Women" of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century in 1979. I have read that her pseudonym Michael Richards was based on the names of her brothers, so I wonder if this Richard Fontana is her brother and whether their collaboration is worth a mention? 172.195.96.244 (talk) 10:23, 13 February 2022 (UTC)Reply