Talk:Scoop (novel)

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Question 'thinly disguised Abyssinia'. Waugh puts a touch of Liberia and the Spanish Civil War into his fictional country.--Jack Upland 05:12, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

I agree - I took it upon myself to remove that clause VenusianCat 22:31, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

It also isn't made clear that the reason the story he sent in Latin was discarded is because no-one on the news desk understood Latin... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.45.116.126 (talk) 14:43, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Did Waugh give Lords Copper and Zinc those names because they're the top brass of their papers? Also, is Pratchett's Lord Rust named after them? Grassynoel (talk) 15:26, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:09, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Daily Beast

Surely some mention should be made of the use of the fictional "Daily Beast" as the inspiration for the real-life internet newspaper of the same name? Partnerfrance (talk) 18:14, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Spoiler alert

The summary gives away the ending. I know it's not a mystery, but perhaps some warning is in order. Even better I think is just to describe the premise, rather than give a summary of the plot. This is what Wikipedia articles on literary works usually do. 2603:7081:5D41:6723:3DBA:E2C4:1984:B33C (talk) 02:37, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia policy allows spoilers – see WP:SPOILER – and they do appear in many articles about works of fiction. This is an encyclopedia: its purpose is not to serve as a "teaser", but to provide (within space limitations) a summary of all relevant information about a topic, and that includes full synopses of plots. GrindtXX (talk) 10:42, 9 October 2022 (UTC)