Talk:Moonraker (novel)

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What on earth...

... does this conspiracy nonsense have to do with the subject of the article?

"He also plays the stock market the day before to make a huge profit from the planned disaster--a possible "revelation of the method" from Ian Fleming in 1955 of the stock market short-selling centered around the infamous, Nazi-created Deutsche Bank days before the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in northern Virginia." 84.161.98.155 (talk) 20:17, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Agreed. This is garbage. 71.184.178.110 (talk) 02:56, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

plot correction

No idea why a plot correction I made was undone, but I've corrected it again. Relevant text from the novel: It was a simple plan. In the evening, two of my men, one in American uniform and one in British, were to drive up in a captured scout car containing two tons of explosive. There was a car park-no sentries of course-near the mess hall and they were to run the car in as close to the mess hall as possible, time the fuse for the seven o'clock dinner hour, and then get away. All quite easy and I went off that morning on my own business and left the job to my second in command I was dressed in the uniform of your Signal Corps and I set off on a captured British motor-cycle to shoot a dispatch rider from the same unit who made a daily run along a near-by road. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.32.110.173 (talk) 00:31, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Mea cupla - my memory was playing me false: I'd forgotten this was one of Fleming's overly large coincidences! - SchroCat (^ • @) 07:08, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Upcoming GA Review

Hi, I will not have internet access next week (until Oct 2nd), but I will sort out any issues you may have from that time on. Cheers - SchroCat (^ • @) 10:20, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Korda

Laurencebeck, it appears that you are trying to add material that two people have now questioned. Perhaps we should discuss this here, rather than see a continual reversion cycle? I have looked at the Fergus Fleming source, as well as the Chancellor one, and yes, one capitalises the word Metropolis and one does not: that does not appear to be a major discrepancy, although it is mildly annoying for us. What neither source refers to is Fritz Lang or the film Metropolis, so I am unsure how or why you decided that the use of a capital letter leads automatically to this conclusion. Finally, I see that you also introduced American punctuation (using 'metropolis idiom,"' is wrong here), and an inconsistent referencing style 9the article appears to use the {{sfn}} system for books. - The Bounder (talk) 10:57, 18 January 2017 (UTC)