Talk:Home Alone 3

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BetacommandBot (talk) 23:14, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Redundant

"The movie opens to a scene in Hong Kong, a city located in China, a country located in East Asia."

This edit, repeatedly restored to Wikipedia, a website on the World Wide Web, part of the Internet, located in cyberspace, is not helpful to readers, reading this article on Wikipedia, on the World Wide Web, on the Internet, in cyberspace. - SummerPhD^v2.0 19:33, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This editor has been through here repeatedly, as outlined here. Their earliest known block runs through May 2022. Feel free to revert any/all of their edits without further comment, per WP:EVADE. - SummerPhD^v2.0 03:37, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

And now that user is hopping IPs and refuses to stop. This page should be protected indefinitely against all IPs, lest this travesty continue. DawgDeputy (talk) 21:04, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You can certainly suggest that at WP:RPP. Given that their disruption isn't limited to this article, I'm not sure how much that will help. - SummerPhD^v2.0 02:47, 22 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Protection needed

IP addresses had been assuming that the antagonists of this film were spies, but they were nothing more than international thieves hired to steal a computer chip. In a way, the only spy in this film was Alex Pruitt. And they also have no irrefutable evidence of Peter Beaupre's nationality (the language in which he spoke is not confirmed, and is nevertheless irrelevant, as being one of four international thieves, he could have been multilingual). Semi-protection of this page is appropriate to curb these unsubstantiated edits. DawgDeputy (talk) 03:06, 3 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Furthermore, I request that not only the page be protected for twice as long as it was before, but this talk page be, too, lest the IPs disruptive demands get in the way.

And for further information, if the thieves of this film were really spies, the same would apply to all the thieves of the other films in the franchise who did the exact same things. DawgDeputy (talk) 02:32, 29 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Based on the problematic IPs' renewed persistence, I recommend at least a year's worth of (semi-)protection of both the article and the talk page against them, as blocking them will not stop them. DawgDeputy (talk) 17:13, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The stuff about the film not taking place around Christmas time

Comments to this effect have been repeatedly added, possibly by a single IP hopper, and soon removed.

Aside from the edit summaries saying "irrelevant" when removed, it's clear to me that the statement being added is false. Wreaths are seen on doors, giving the impression that it's some semblance of Christmas time. I'm sure there's other evidence at some point. Some of the additions have, in the edit summary, referenced Christmas decorations being put away as evidence. But this usually happens at the end of the Christmas season, not when it's nowhere near Christmas. As such, the fact that they're only being put away at the time implies that it is still around Christmas time. To me, saying that it's not "around Christmas time" is saying it's well outside the Christmas season, when most people will have already finished putting their decorations away and not yet started getting them out again for the following Christmas, and as such there would ordinarily be no visible or audible signs of it being "that time of year". — Smjg (talk) 00:28, 12 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Regardless of the "sources" they provided, legitimate or not, that information is trivial and unnecessary. It must remain out of this article. DawgDeputy (talk) 18:55, 12 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Incorrect categories added...

Home Alone 3 is not a children's comedy film (seeing as it is PG-rated like the other HA films, among other things), it is not set in California (it is set in Illinois), and it is not a spy film of any sort, as there are no spies whatsoever. The criminals in this film, like the criminals in all other Home Alone films, are not spies. Just thieves. It had already been established on this talk page two years ago. 100.8.243.246 (talk) 22:38, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I do not see any mention of Chicago in the text. The plot setion gives the location of the film's opening section as Silicon Valley, California. Dimadick (talk) 08:56, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The film says it all. 100.8.243.246 (talk) 14:37, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Mrs Hess

"Marian Seldes as Mrs. Hess, the mother of Karen, the mother in-law of Jack, the maternal grandmother of Alex, an elderly neighbor of the Pruitt family." - I don't know why this character is described as being related to the Pruitts, there's nothing in the film that suggests that. OnionEyedWolf (talk) 03:40, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]