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What about Ripley?

The character Ripley is the constant throughout the 'core' alien movies. She undergoes clear character development. Why not create a section on her? Also, every film (possibly even AvP) represents big buisness as somehow responsible for the events in the film due to their desire to exploit the aliens. I'm talking about a 'Recurring characters and themes' section here.--ChrisJMoor 21:53, 1 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just wanted to clarify that Sigourney Weaver has recently stated she will NOT be doing an Alien 5, if one is produced. Stated reason was something along the lines of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". In other words, the Alien/Aliens films were classics and she wants to move on and do other stuff. 72.49.194.69 07:19, 21 August 2007 (UTC) Joshua[reply]

Alien Saga (Documentary)

Is there room either in this article, or in its own article to be included in the big list of Alien and Predator stuff for the 2002 documentary Alien Saga? I submit that if Alien Loves Predator is included, so too should Alien Saga. Krisjohn (talk) 03:46, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Suggested move

I suggest that we move this article to Alien (franchise) in order to be more inclusive of the various other aspects of the franchise besides the films (the comics, games, etc). This would be similar to the Star Wars article, which gives an overview and brief history of the franchise as a whole and serves as the parent/forking-off article for all the other articles related to specific branches of the franchise. The parent category for all things Alien-related has been changed to Category:Alien (franchise), so this move would reflect that inclusion. Thoughts? --IllaZilla (talk) 18:44, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Since there were no objections, I've gone ahead with the move. I'm working on a big sweep of categorization right now (see Wikipedia:WikiProject Alien/Article categorization), so although redirects will need to be fixed at least all the Alien and Predator-related articles will be properly categorized. --IllaZilla (talk) 20:19, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Franchise template

There is now a franchise infobox: {{Infobox Media franchises}}. As this currently has an infobox I won't update it but thought it worth letting everyone know. (Emperor (talk) 00:26, 15 August 2008 (UTC))[reply]

What's in a vacuum?

Bit new to this Wikipedia editing stuff, so forgive me if I've erred, but I found the phrase about the 'powerful vacuum' a little irritating, so I slightly edited this article. Vacuums don't do anything, since they aren't really anything, but the absence of stuff (like cold or black). I don't mind things getting 'sucked' from one place to another, just not by a vacuum, especially not a powerful one, since that's like having 'lots of nothing'. Dischuffed (talk) 07:53, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WP:FILMS B-class assessment

Per a request at WP:FILMS Assessment department, I have reviewed this article to determine if it meets the B-class criteria. Looking over the article there are various tags that need to be addressed including citation tags, a merge tag, wikify tag, and expansion tag. The merge tag and expansion tags can be allowed for B-class, but the citations and wikify tags need to be addressed. In addition, I don't think that there should be a mention of every single special feature on every disc of the DVD. Instead, mention the best ones and convert it to prose. I'd also recommend going through and giving the article a copyedit. Once these issues have been addressed, please renominate. Let me know if you have any questions. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 02:03, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Alein 3 section

Quote - Due to studio changes to the second movie, Aliens, Sigourney Weaver was not interested in returning to the series - unquote What studio changes ? These aren't expanded upon, or mentioned in the 'Aliens' entry, and they have no external reference.