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but if we really can't say that with our own experience from watching the show then we should remove the rest of ""such and such is based off of the character such and such from the original version"" (at least for every character but the main three, maybe)

You're totally right with this, and I hadn't noticed that this was noted for other characters.  For now we should pull it. But I think eventually we'll see reviews and interviews noting the comparisons we've made.   But unfortunately, per the  original research policy we can't make those statements based on our own observations.  It's really frustrating sometime when something is so obvious but it prevents more problems than it causes.  Keeping the main three shouldn't be an issue; the show runners have talked about the one-to-one comparison to their UK counterparts in interviews.  It's something I've been meaning to go looking for (the articles where they've talked about how they are similar and different from the originals) but haven't had a chance to do yet.  This sort of thing is always an issue on list of character articles -  they tend to get updated with plot summary and very little else.  But as the show progresses there will be more material to drop in so that the article isn't so in-universe and has more real world info.

But would you still remove my edits if I added that information to the casting section?

If we can find the links to back up the comparisons, absolutely not.  I think it will be great info to provide once we have our sources.  It's exactly the kind of thhing I mean by real world info (casting the roles, how they are changed from originals by creators, how actors interpret the scenes and characters).  

Actually what I gave in my first reply wasn't plot summaries, but character summaries. 

That was actually a reference to an edit that came after yours.  Someone added waaay too much plot detail in there and I was reverting past two people's edits.  Since the lines for our edit summaries are so short, I find it hard to be clear about that sometimes.  

And while unsourced original research, it was from my experience of watching every season and  episode of the UK show so far and doing the same pretty much with the American one. I hate things like this where it's true but you have a hard time finding something that confirms it's true due to Wikipedia's standards. 

I know exactly what you mean.  It drives me bonkers sometimes.  I like to drove myself nuts last year looking for this little bit I remembered from an interview about an actor on True Blood.  But it really does prevent more problems than it causes.  Imagine if every person who had an off the wall interpretation of a scene came in and said ""well this bit reminded me of this thing in another thing so clearly the other thing was an inspiration.""  

No need to make this personal. But if I really did come across that way I'm sorry, because I didn't mean to.

Not personal at all; no worries.  I just figured you undid before you saw  my reply to you here.  My edit summary probably seemed more blunt than I meant it because, again, trying to explain the reversion of more than one edit.  And I do waaay too much recent changes patrolling which seems to lead to a severe truncating of verbage in edit summaries.  I probably seem like a stark raving butthead half the time when I'm just trying to be brief.  I think you have great instincts about the type of stuff we'll want to include on the article.  We just have to find the articles to back up the info.  There's not going to be a lot out there yet because it's the first season but it'll be awesome if we can start getting the article overhauled with this kind of stuff right away.  I follow the UK version's article and a few other list of character articles that have been going on for years with just updates to plot summary and no real world stuff.  So now it's particularly overwhelming a thought to try and fix them.  The True Blood characters page is my personal nightmare.  I'll get around to it?

One thing I've been looking for is an article I read just before the premiere that talked about changes made to the three main characters.  I vaguely recall that it had some quotes from the writers and a couple of the actors (I think Witwer mentioned something about watching the UK version).  I can't seem to dig up the link from the message boards where I read about the show though.  Ack."