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Please stop moving it from So You Want to be a Wizard to So You Want to be a Wizard? and back and forth. Punk-Lova 00:02, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I think I've got it in the right place now.--SarekOfVulcan 23:57, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Major Edit[edit]

I plan to do a major edit to include some additional sections in the article from the WikiNovel project. I'm going to use most of the current article for the plot summary. As soon as I get it finished and updated any comments or suggestions would be appreciated. Nazgul533 02:05, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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characters[edit]

shoulldn't the characters have their separate articles —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.101.155.120 (talk) 19:11, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'd rather leave them here for now - if we create individual articles, somebody will come along and complain that we're "not demonstrating real-world notability", and delete them.--uɐɔlnʌɟoʞǝɹɐs 22:05, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, I think they should be left on this page until each character description starts getting so long that it warrants a separate page. In addition, I suspect that Diane Duane might have actually spoke in interviews or something about how she invented the characters, which would provide some good "real-world notability". --Kweeket ^Talk 02:36, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]