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I removed a recent edit which stated there is no death penalty in MC-1. Dredd has been seen imposing the death sentence in a few stories, such as the Batman/Judge Dredd crossover Die Laughing, in The Apocalypse War when he executed Judge Griffin for treason, and also in a story in prog 630. Also Sov Judge Orlok was executed by the judges a couple of years ago.Richard75 23:16, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
"Mega-City One was constructed in the early years of the 21st century, to cope with the escalating population crisis in America. Mega-City One was one of three major areas to survive the nuclear war in 2070, due to an experimental laser missile-defence system built a year earlier."
"It became an independent city-state in 2086 following the break-up of the United States at the end of the Second American Civil War."
The laser defence system was explicitly mentioned by President Booth's advisors in The Hunting Party (in the time travel story arc in progs 1037-1040). Your other points are good ones (although I doubt that 20 years or less would really be sufficient time to build a huge city the size of MC1, this is probably a bit of a mistake on Pat Mill's part). Richard75 10:44, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
I don't claim to know anything about this topic and I just stumbled across the articles completely inadvertantly, but it seems very odd to have a separate history article rather than integrating the history into the main article on the city itself. Otto4711 23:16, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
The section on Law is nice and all, but is about the Judges, not Meg 1.
A note stating that the Law is enforced by the Judges, with a link to the relevant article would be better, IMO.
193.243.227.1 (talk) 15:56, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
"In extreme cases even the death penalty may be imposed, although relatively sparingly compared with the present day" Erm WTF? The general impression that a reader is going to gather from the system of law is one where execution is handed out on a regular basis. Furthermore even if the statement was true, "compared with the present day" - is about as general as it gets. Most developed states outlaw execution anyway. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Caspar esq. (talk • contribs) 22:10, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
Although Mongoose Publishing's "Judge Dredd Archives" series says that Texas City was called Mega-City Three up until the 2080s, a Judge Dredd episode in prog 1515, written by John Wagner, refers to it as Texas City in a flashback to 2052. Wagner is the creator of Judge Dredd and author of the majority of Dredd stories, whereas some parts of the Archives books are cut-and-pasted from Wikipedia articles. So I would suggest that references to MC3 -- which do not appear in any episode of Judge Dredd -- should be removed in favour of "Texas City." Richard75 (talk) 20:26, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
I dissagree I belive that as it had been called Mega-City Three plenty of times before I think Wagner made a mistake and it did not get noticed untill the storie was published, there are plenty more sources in both the comic and spin off books that mention it being called Mega-City Three. The new books set the time line stright and back on track. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.132.149.172 (talk) 20:33, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
The orginal 2000AD A-Z of Judge Dredd referes to it as Mega-City Three and I ama certain I have read it in several issus but will need time to search through them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.132.149.172 (talk) 22:18, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
Is there a reference for "Palais-De-Boing is a chain of purpose-built structures designed for Boingers"? Sounds dubious to me. Silver starfish (talk) 21:47, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
In the first reference on this article there is a link to this page on archictectsjournal.co.uk, which comes up as a subscriber-only page. Obviously it is better to have a page which anyone can read. When I Googled "mega-city one" (without quotes) the fourth result to come up was that website (search results here), and when I clicked on the link it worked: the article was visible. Yet when I cut-and-pasted the web address into this Wikipedia article and then clicked on it, it was subscriber-only again. Can anyone fix this? Richard75 (talk) 16:26, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
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Start-Class rating seems harsh, but there is definitely significant work that can be done on this article. Article is informative, but needs editing. There are some inaccuracies/contentious issues (e.g. Mega-City One first appeared, and has made most appearances in the weekly 2000AD comic, not Judge Dredd). The article also is written in a style that seems to mix fictional and real life theory. In addition, the present style assumes some prior knowledge of the Judge Dredd universe to understand it fully ("perps"). Centrepull (talk) 06:51, 3 February 2009 (UTC) |
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I'm on the fence about this one - but while we deliberate, and as per BRD the original version should stay in place.
I can see arguments for both sides - whilst there is a thriving society and civilisation still on the planet, it's also made clear that vast swathes of it - Cursed Earth, Black Atlantic, Radlands of Ji, etc - are desolate and radiation soaked and essentially uninhabitable.
The post-apocalyptic article is no help, as it specifically states in the lede "Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction, science fantasy or horror in which the Earth's technological civilization is collapsing or has collapsed" - this may support the change, but the same article also includes an entire section devoted to Judge Dredd here which also shows that the term is fluid and can be applied to scenarios that don't meet the strict criteria.
In short, I think the inclusion is warranted as although it doesn't meet the literal description, the term is generally accurate. Chaheel Riens (talk) 10:59, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
True, but it doesn't change that "post apocalyptic" just doesn't fit right and is over all incorrect, some of the sources as well are not written by expert in the subject matter, just general journalist doing a quick story with little basic research on the overall subject, Dredds world overall or even Mega City One as a whole is not like Fallout (Civilization was not completely wiped out), Mad Max (there is still some order and resources are not that scarce) or The Stand (humanity is still numbering more than is good for its self).86.129.243.122 (talk) 16:04, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
Also, I am not the one who began edit warring or unnecessary continuing it.86.129.243.122 (talk) 16:07, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
The main Judge Dredd article describes the world as "The setting of Judge Dredd is a dystopian future Earth damaged by a series of international conflicts", "dystopian" is a far better description then "post apocalyptic" and could easily be place behind post-nuclear, also checking other more scientific Wikipedia pages such as "Global catastrophic risk" Dredds WW 3 was not apocalyptic world ending nuclear war (and nuclear war in fact has only a 4-1% chance of actual putting us in any often fantasized post apocalyptic world). 86.129.243.122 (talk) 22:05, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
The history section should be removed. It takes up over a quarter of the page, consisting only of a long list with nothing but in-universe references. JIP | Talk 11:25, 16 December 2019 (UTC)