Talk:Red Dwarf

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Dave Hollins: Space Cadet was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 23 June 2014 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Red Dwarf. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

Logo

Just as an aside for the logo caption, the 1989-91 and post 2016 logos are clearly a different serif serif font to the ones used in the original DVD set and on screen from 1992 (that are serif). For instance, this Digital Spy article specifies the 2016 logo as resembling the font and logo of "the early series". TardisTybort (talk) 22:10, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting notice

In Once Upon a Time... Space, there was spaceship that kind of looks like SS JMC Red Dwarf

File:Similarities - spaceships.png

Io99 (talk) 18:21, 9 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Missing on British Sci-Fi TV category page

This Red Dwarf tv series is entirely missing from the category list of British TV science fiction series found here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:British_science_fiction_television_shows Chaseholden (talk) 03:00, 21 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Missing in British tv science fiction

This Red Dwarf tv series is entirely missing from the category list of British TV science fiction series found here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:British_science_fiction_television_shows

Chaseholden (talk) 03:08, 21 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Article review

It has been a while since this has been reviewed, so I took a look and noticed the following:

• There are uncited statements in the article, including entire paragraphs. While some of these might fall under MOS:PLOT, others such as information on the home video release or the novel do not.
• There are unrelibale sources used in the article, including Whatculture, Twitter, and IMDB. These should be replaced.
• There are lots of short, one or two line paragraphs, and some MOS:OVERSECTION in the bottom half of "Spin-offs and merchandise".

Should this article go to WP:GAR? Z1720 (talk) 22:38, 28 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment

Red Dwarf

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There are uncited statements in the article, including entire paragraphs. While some of these might fall under MOS:PLOT, others such as information on the home video release or the novel do not. There are unrelibale sources used in the article, including Whatculture, Twitter, and IMDB. These should be replaced. There are lots of short, one or two line paragraphs, and some MOS:OVERSECTION in the bottom half of "Spin-offs and merchandise". Z1720 (talk) 21:41, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure which issues are with the plot, but I don't think MOS:PLOT is meant for entire TV series, but for specific 1:1 topics (like a film, or an episode). This topic is about 12 episodes and a film, so when referring to something from the plot, the specific episode (or film) should be referenced. Gonnym (talk) 08:59, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]