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[edit] Disambiguation page

I think the articles about Nikita, the movie and Nikita, the television series should be seperated, and that a disambiguation page should be put in place here. The movie and the series and completely seperate things, and the page is very messy right now. If nobody objects I will do this. S Sepp 01:19, Nov 25, 2004 (UTC)

• Disambig would probably be somewhat pointless, but both pages could make references to eachother. So Nikita would have a link to La Femme right at the top of the article, in italics, possibly. And vice-versa. Sounds good? --Sn0wflake 03:15, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • "So Nikita would have a link to La Femme" I think both the series and the movie have both names. Anyway. Maybe there should be the articles nikita(movie) and nikita(series) with article nikita redirected to nikita(series). Since both the movie and the series have the name nikita it would be sort of strange to put one here and move another awayS Sepp 09:56, Nov 25, 2004 (UTC)
    • Would work. I see no problem once the article has been expanded. --Sn0wflake 19:49, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• I think there is a need for a DAB article here. A few quick searches shows the following exist:

• Nikita 1990 film
• Nikita TV series
• Nikita song
• Nikita clothing company
• Nikita boatyard
• Nikita is a common first name

Not all have articles yet, but it is likely that some will in the future. Yes, I know Nikita (disambiguation) exists, but I wonder if this is a better place. Vegaswikian 07:42, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] How do we go about explaining Nikita jargon?

I'm not quite sure how to incorporate the explaination all of the Nikita-specific terms (abeyance for example). There are so many, I don't know which words (if any) should get their own seperate page. Someone has actually already created a mini Nikita encyclopedia and it has over 600+ entries! You can find it here http://lfnforever.tripod.com/id20.htm if you want to look at it further.

About the disambiguous issue, I think ideally it would be great to have two pages but for now we should wait until there is substantially more information on the original page (enough detail to provide noticable differences between the two). Hypo (btw, how do you get your name to be attached at the end of a comment that you make? Do you just do it manually or is there a option I can toggle?

The second button fom the right attaches your signature and the current time to the message. It's the same as using four tildes. Now the topic. Hm... jargons are unecessary. It's not against the rules, but it's pointless and I doubt it would be of much use. There is no need to use non-standard words which would just confuse people. I am better at editing pages, so if you want to gather a lot o information and post it, I could organize it and make it neat. No problem there. I would like to work on this, but I will only have time in a week. If you want to go ahead, no worries. --Sn0wflake 19:40, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I think we should add information about the jargon (or is it argot?). It is something which is very interesting. It won't be confusing if we have a section explaining the jargon while using standard English in the rest of the article.

Perhaps we could start out by putting jargon explanations in a section of the main article, and when it gets too large move it to its own article.

By the way Hypo, I really like the section you added, but I'm not sure its title should be "popularity", as its not about the popularity of the series but rather a description of the style.

S Sepp 22:17, Nov 27, 2004 (UTC)

K, I changed the heading of the title and further edited almost all of the paragraphs. I guess you should be aware however, that I only started watching the show long after the show had "re-finished" (after s5) lol and thus cannot verify if most of what I am writing is how the majority of fans feel. I haven't even watched a lot of the eps yet (so far I have seen all of S5, about half of S4 and S3, and a few eps from S2 and S1 (under 10)).

An example of this is that while I am mainly drawn by the minimalism and dark elements of the show, I have noticed so far that most of the fan sites that I have visited place the relationship between Michael and Nikita as the main attraction for them to watch the show. While I think that the show got progressively better as the seasons went by (what I have so far seen from s1&2 I think is pretty boring standard good vs. evil stuff (i.e not unique) compared to s5 where its hard to tell who is good and evil), it seems to me (from what I have read on fansites so far) that the majority of fans thought that the show got progressively worse as time went on (s5 being the worst out of all the seasons).

Therefore I am actually not really qualified to be writing this article lol but I will try to add what I can and anything that I change/put-in can always be reverted/altered by someone who knows more than I do.Hypo

• I am not a big fan of the first 1 and half seasons. Hadn't I started watching from season 4, I think I would never have gotten into Nikita. So I know how that feels. Right now I am going to put a higher-res poster up and look for a La Femme's crew photo to put next to the TV part. When we split there will be no problem, then. --Sn0wflake

We should get an image from the television show in the articleHypo

• Working on it. --Sn0wflake 03:24, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • There are some images here: http://www.flashmission.com/nikita.html By the way I haven't seen all the episodes either. S Sepp 13:43, Nov 28, 2004 (UTC)
    • I am looking for divulgaion photos. Those are the ones that go into magazines and which are over 1000x800... they are hard to find, but eventually I will snatch one. --Sn0wflake 15:55, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

We should get a guest cast section which would include people like George, Hillinger, Jurgen, Mick Schtoppel, Jones, Quinn, O'brien, and Davenport --Hypo 21:32, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Nikita vs. La Femme Nikita

Did some searching around to find which titles are used where:

Amazon.com (US):

• tv series: La Femme Nikita
• film: La Femme Nikita

Amazon.ca (Canada):

• tv series: La Femme Nikita
• film: (no listing)

Amazon.co.uk (UK):

• tv series: La Femme Nikita
• film: Nikita

ezydvd.com.au ("Australia's largest online DVD store")

• (no listing)

Not sure what "femme" means. --Tokek 18:56, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Femme means woman, in a general way. --Sn0wflake 23:56, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)