Talk:The Wizard of Oz

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Merger of Wizard of Oz (movie) disambig page with this one proposed, so I did it. Thatcher131 04:37, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguation

I'm afraid this disambiguation goes into too much detail, and sort of defeats the purpose of a disambiguation page. As I see it, disambiguation pages should help direct people to articles they are likely to be looking for, whenever options exist. This means that a disambiguation page does not have to be comprehensive or detailed: just give people enough information to identify the page they need. Scott, while I respect what you're doing here with film and stage adaptations, I don't think the disambig page is the place to list esoteric adaptations like the Turkish films. I also think that in a disambiguation we should aim to list links in order of importance or centrality, rather than chronological or alphabetical order. Perhaps what you should do, Scott, is create a new article, something like List of stage and film adaptations of The Wizard of Oz, where you can go into all the production details, and link to it from here. Or else there could be a List of articles related to The Wizard of Oz. I think this disambiguation page should be further shortened and cleaned up. (By the way Scott, I'm somebody you know. Welcome to Wikipedia.)--woggly 21:54, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

• I'd go even further. A disambiguation page is really meant for the case where there are two or more topics that have the same name but otherwise aren't directly related. Trust and series are good examples. I would submit that everything on this page, except two entries under "Other meanings," really relates to one main topic -- namely, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels and adaptations. The title Wizard of Oz should redirect to that page, which should (if it doesn't already) include a list of adaptations, and this should be a much, much shorter Wizard of Oz (disambiguation) page. --Russ (talk) 22:31, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The land of Uz

Is it coincidence that the bible figure job comes from the land of uz?? just a funny coincidence (as many will soon say), or did someone read secondary literature on Oz?<<Flammingo^Parliament 14:08, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

In all probability it is a coincidence. Frank Baum was not a religious man, in fact he was in some ways anti-church, and it would be very out of character for him to plant biblical references in his works. He did however have a penchant for naming his fairylands short, one syllable names, often with odd letters, such as Ix, Quok, Ev or Mo. There are several theories for why he chose the name Oz, one that crops up in several places and seems credible is that he happened to spot a filing cabinet labelled A-N and O-Z just as he was seeking a name for his invention. By the way, in Hebrew translations of "The Wizard of Oz", Oz is translated עוץ, precisely as in the book of job; this translation seems to have originated with a translator named Yerushalayim Segal who translated the subtitles for the film in 1940. It makes for nice alliteration in Hebrew, but proves nothing about Baum's intentions! --woggly 16:11, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

was the wizard of oz the firs movie in color?