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I have finally created a WikiProject for Indiana Jones! Check it out. -- MISTER ALCOHOL T C 20:24, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
I think that somewhere I heard that Indy had a daughter, is this true? Emperor001 (talk) 01:51, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
I find it infuriating that even this long after the start of the character, people are still changing the WP:LEAD to add irrelevant detail and changing the format. There is no reason why it should not be perfectly stable by now. Accordingly, I've changed it to a version that is supported by major sources. If anyone thinks the name of the character should be more completely specified, please say so here, and we can discuss consensus. --Rodhullandemu 22:35, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
And for the record, let's not mention Indy in the lead either, it's a common nickname for anything to do with the state. Alientraveller (talk) 15:10, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
After reading the article on The English Patient (film) I looked at the article for the character upon which some traits seem to transfer from "Indy" to the "Almasy" but without having read the coding I was not aware that "Indy" comes from a tv program series. That does not come across to those who are unfamiliar with the character's development and the article "name" introduction. This misleads and misinforms people. I do realize it does not do so for those who are familiar but in reality this article is not necessarily for those who know but do not know. Is this a wrong assumption on my part? I think the imitial explanation of thre name absolutely should include the tv origins otherwise people are going to think that the character starts with the movie; and it does not. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LimeyCinema1960 (talk • contribs) 01:00, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
The films consistently identify Jones Jr. as a professor of archeology, and never as a professor of history. And what does this have anything to do with the Tudor's or the English Civil War? Slrubenstein | Talk 22:22, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
Whew! No need for you to feel any embarassment, it wouldn't be hard for you to find a long list of embarassing things I have done! I am just glad that I wasn't opening up some can of worms I was ignorant of! Anyway, if you are at all like me you always take your wikibreaks some definable period of time after you really need 'em. I am glad my edit ended up being as uncontroversial as I intended, Slrubenstein | Talk 23:08, 18 October 2011
So you have a list of all these famous adventurers who might be the "real" Indiana Jones, and you don't include the greatest adventurer of them all, Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Childstarwars (talk • contribs) 11:44, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
Not included under video games. Why? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.25.102.87 (talk) 03:30, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
There are waaaay too many images on this page. Per WP:FUC, everything but the infobox image and the concept art fail the fair-use criteria. Images for the sake of images are not acceptable. There must be critical commentary on every non-free image being used, and you don't typically find critical commentary in plot sections (and I don't see any in these either). Simply showing "what he looked like" in all these different incarnations doesn't qualify for fair-use. BIGNOLE (Contact me) 06:01, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
I suppose it would ruin the scholarly flow of the paragraph, but I think the real reason Indy keeps his eyes closed is because he KNOWS if he or Marion looks the spirits of the ark will kill them. I am no Biblical Scholar (I did go to Sunday School) but I seem to recall only the high priest was allowed to see the ark at all, and there was a lot of averting of eyes. Since this is the Ark of the Covenant, we are talking Old Testament God, and he is depicted as being very jealous and vengeful. Indy is a very well read man and he probably knew it was not wise to look. As a matter of fact he shows a greater respect for God by closing his eyes, whether me meant it that way or not. Either way, it would be more prudent not to look. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.141.183.219 (talk) 15:42, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
I wasn't sure how to go about this but in a documentary I viewed costume designer Deborah Nadoolman stated that she had Harrison ford try on a whole lot of hats than deciding none would work she had one made for him. I thoguht this should be added being that the hat is iconic. More on that she had 12 made of that same hat made for various reasons as well as aging them all her self. Also if this will be used I can provide a citation Ele (talk) 12:08, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
As per WP:LEAD I'm eliminating the notation of Selleck's initial casting. It's covered in detail later in its separate section, and I don't think the otherwise interesting "What if...?" quality of the factoid is of great enough importance to be in the article lead. (We made the same shift over a year ago in the Raiders lead.) Clearly, we need to know in the first score of sentences that Jones is an adventurous archaeologist, that he appears in feature films and other media, and that Lucas helped create him. Selleck's near-miss with the role, though interesting, is not of this magnitude. Similarly, while Jones' look is indeed iconic, Staranko is noted properly and in detail later in the article. Unless we are to consider him a near co-equal "author" of the character alongside Lucas and Ford--the reason, for example, that E.H. Shepard appears in the lead for the Winnie the Pooh article--his contributions merit inclusion in the body of the article. Because of these two excisions, I've slightly expanded the remaining sentence that now finishes the lead so as to paint a fuller (but still concise) picture of Jones. --Vaudedoc (talk) 17:29, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
I'm curious why Jones is described as a "soldier" in the opening sentence. Doesn't the term "adventurer" (already included) cover his military-ish exploits? He's not formally affiliated with any branch of a U.S. service, is he? As well, what aid he does offer the U.S. forces is at time gruding a due to the stresses of the moment. Maybe one of the Indy experts on this page knows more than I about some of his more esoteric appearances in other media? --Vaudedoc (talk) 21:01, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
The Indiane Jones article says it's an Akubra; however the talk page on Akubra states he does NOT wear an Akubra, but instead a Fedora. The Fedora article says he wears a Fedora. Someone should check the souces and verify/correct this hatting dispute... It's making me mad as... oh god, I can't say it... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.57.96.1 (talk) 20:28, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
It's definitely a Fedora. Since he is an American character it would not be a foreign style. It has the bigger brim of older styles from the thirties or twenties or so.68.231.189.108 (talk) 15:42, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
Because Indiana Jones drank from the Holy Grail does that make him immortal? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.26.72.143 (talk) 20:02, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
The Grail Knight said staying in the temple "Is the price of Immortality." I always thought that He meant that the Grail's power only works inside the temple.After all it cannot leave. Just speculation though. 75* 02:30, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
I've seen numerous cases where a full title includes both the "Dr." and the specific doctorate at the end, e.g. [2], [3], [4] (see the page header for the last). It's a little pompous, but it's quite common. I'm unaware of any Wikipedia policy on this, so I'm open to correction if someone has a link. I'm primarily supporting the inclusion of "Dr." because, according to the reference, it is part of the full title used in the Young Indiana Jones show. If that is incorrect, then I support whatever phrasing is used there, if only to match the contents of the reference. Does anyone have access to the episode to check? So if there is a policy on this, or failing that, the source provides an "authoritative" rendering, I'd like to go with that. I'm going to revert once more with a "See Talk", please respond here before reverting, if possible. —ShadowRanger (talk|stalk) 18:41, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
Where are your Sources? Indy normally doesn't get involved in Politics, just science. He has worked, unknowingly, with agents, however. Or for the State Department strictly as a civilian on comission to get the Ark before the Nazis, but he was never an an actual agent.68.231.189.108 (talk) 15:46, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
I only scanned the article, but there is nothing in here about where the nickname "Indiana" came from. There was a line at the end of the Holy Grail movie where Sean Connery says, "We named the dog Indiana"; though I hope there is more someone could offer than that. Shocking Blue (talk) 18:04, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
This article seems to be missing a summary of Indiana Jones' fictional exploits, which for most fictional characters is summarized in a "Fictional Character Biography" section. Instead, this article confusingly gives only the broadest sense of Indy's adventures in the "appearances" section, broken up (non-chronologically and counter-intuitively) into an unlabeled section about the films and separate, labeled subsections for television and video games. Given that the singular hallmark of the character is his extensive adventures, which weave in and out of real events throughout the 20th century, a biographical section would seem to be a great addition to this article. This would also help to clarify and organize some of the information of the existing article. 67.183.220.107 (talk) 01:17, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
Am I the only one who considers that the article "Indiana Jones" should redirect to the franchise and that Indy himself (the character) should have his article under the name of "Indiana Jones (character)"? Examples of this include Harry Potter and Harry Potter (character), Sailor Moon and Sailor Moon (character), James Bond and James Bond (character), Garfield and Garfield (character), Shrek and Shrek (character), and many more. --LoЯd ۞pεth 04:10, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
I second the idea. This article looks too crowded anyway - it is poorly structured.76.195.85.160 (talk) 22:04, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
I looked a while in the internet and I didn't find anything about this. It's already marked as "citation needed" but I wonder who put this there and if he or she could kindly provide a source. Or does anyone else has an idea how to find this list? Kommitanz (talk) 14:07, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
"Concept and creation" section was missing the clear and original inspiration for Indiana Jones: Professor Challenger, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1912 for Doyle's novel The Lost World. I have added that, and think a change of the sec. title is in order. "Origins and inspirations" seems better.76.195.85.160 (talk) 22:03, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Under the Origins and Inspirations section, the article fails to mention that Indiana Jones was just a rip-off of the Charlton Heston character, Harry Steele, in the 1954 Paramount movie "Secret of the Incas". Same leather jacket, fedora, khaki, pistol, tote bag, etc. Deborah Landis, the Indy costume designer, mentions this in the article paragraph that follows, but it's not elaborated upon. At the "Secret of the Incas" wiki site Landis mentions that "Raiders of the Lost Ark" is almost a shot-for-shot rip-off of "Secret of the Incas". You can view "Secret of the Incas" on YouTube. 69.104.54.113 (talk) 01:05, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
What is all this nonsense about Harrison Ford being called Laguardia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.50.45.5 (talk) 22:48, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
Why is "henry jeffries" above the photo? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.39.130.53 (talk) 23:02, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
Now that Disney has purchased Lucasfilm, they own the rights to Star Wars and the Indiana Jones franchise. This should definitely be noted somewhere in the article, but I'm at a loss as to where it should be.Wyldstaar (talk) 23:12, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
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Per this, the original release date was to have been 7/19/19: http://www.gigareel.com/movies/its-happening-indiana-jones-returning-to-the-big-screen-in-2019/ . — Preceding unsigned comment added by Drsruli (talk • contribs) 07:13, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
"Religion Christian (nominal)[9]" < Since when? The character has never given any indication of religious beliefs that I've noticed, and he goes through multiple experiences that would disprove Christianity, preventing such a religion choice. The cited source is not official, proper canon. Only George Lucas FILMS are official canon (George Lucas is on record on the Star Wars wikia specifically saying so about Star Wars - the other stuff based off his films are merchandising, not actual, canon additions).
Suggest adding real person Montagu Brownlow Parker, 5th Earl of Morley who actually carried out significant excavations in Jerusalem before the first world war, in search of the temple treasures. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Copytopic1 (talk • contribs) 22:30, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
The article mentions "Also at Disney's Hollywood Studios, an audio-animatronic Indiana Jones appears in another attraction; during the The Great Movie Ride's Raiders of the Lost Ark segment.[30]" I do not have a personal recollection of this figure's existence, but what's more, the source article does not describe an audio animatronic of Indiana Jones. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.187.219.102 (talk) 00:26, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
I was just wondering if it would in any way improve the article if we added Obtainer of Rare Antiquities as another item under the list of occupations Professor Jones practices. I thought it would be prudent to ask rather than simply adding it, as it could be taken as being too informal or even slang, but then I did get the idea after watching the film and hearing a U.S. Army Intelligence Officer at the Museum in Raiders of the Lost Ark at approximately 15:37 (MM:SS) after the beginning of the credits, attribute him with this title. I believe the quote was something like:
"Dr. Jones, we've heard a great deal about you ... Professor of Archaeology, Expert on the Occult, and, uh, how does one say it? Obtainer of Rare Antiquities."
Anyway, as this would be my first edit to what seems a fairly important article, I thought I'd be safe rather than sorry, and ask, or at least see what people think. TIA.
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Does anyone know if Henry Jones, Jr. (Indiana) has a comma before the "Jr." in the film mentions of his character? Fictional characters are allowed to keep their comma, so if the name as presently portrayed is incorrect this should be changed back. Same with Henry Jones, Sr. Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 13:56, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
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The article gives the name of Indy's daughter (who appears in the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles episode "Ireland, April 1916") as "Susan Jones". Her name is never said in the episode, and IMDB credits the character simply as "Old Indy's Daughter". Susan Bigelow is the name of the actress who played the character. Where does the name for the character come from? Coq87rouge (talk) 13:48, 23 September 2022 (UTC)