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What should be in this article and what shouldn't?

I, personally, feel that there is enough about Colt that this article should only mention the most important details about him, and not *every single detail*.

For instance, "he told Homer that he charged $50 a day, plus expenses". That *is* true - but I consider that rather trivial, and less important than him ultimately charging Homer $1,000, including all those frivolous expenses.

Also, "he threatened to fire The Flying Giuseppe at Homer and Lisa; Homer pushed Lisa out of the way and got hit by the human cannonball; Homer then escaped into the Hall of Mirrors, with Colt chasing after him". Again, all true, but IMO a bit too trivial for this particular article - and rather better suited to the article about the episode, too.

I also feel that it should be mentioned straight away that Colt trashed the animal testing facility, as opposed to "someone". I somehow doubt that there are many people who are not familiar with this episode, nearly twenty years after it first aired (brrrrrrrrr...), and if one *was* watching it for the first time, chances are they'd work out straight away that Colt did it - especially when in the scene immediately before, he holds Homer at gunpoint for refusing to pay him, then swears revenge when Homer escapes. If it really must be said that "someone" trashed the facility, then - again - perhaps it's better suited to the article about the episode than it is to the article about Colt.

Finally, we see Colt being arrested, then the next time we see him in an episode he's helping out Burns. One has to assume that the events of "Four Regrettings" take place *after* the events of "Too Little" (especially as there were ten years between the two episodes), so is it not reasonable to explicitly suggest that the police released him and he went back to his job?

2A02:8084:F1BE:9180:20F5:AB7B:5232:D3CB 13:31, December 13, 2022 (EST)

The article isn't too wordy and lengthy. The article is about the character, so more details are fine. There is nothing wrong with the way the article is written. And you've broken policy by repeatedly removing content from the page. The Solar Dragon 14:13, December 13, 2022 (EST)