Talk:Harry Potter and Leopard-Walk-Up-to-Dragon

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This page doesn't seem to be consistent with the linked excerpt! The excerpt suggests that the author tacked on a chapter at the beginning and end, and filled the middle with a simple name replacement of The Hobbit. --Dwedit 00:37, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

well as nobody seems to have fixed it yet, i took the liberty.. --Sysys 22:44, August 10, 2005 (UTC)

Are you sure the linked excerpt is accurate, and not a prank or hoax? None of the other accounts of this book seem to refer to it being a ripoff of The Hobbit, and you'd think that the Tolkien estate would pursue legal action along with Rowling if it were. *Dan* 15:46, August 20, 2005 (UTC)

I own a copy myself. I am aboslutely sure it's a rip-off of the Hobbit. I'm not the author of this article though. 22:25, 4 February, 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Suggested merge

Note: This merge has been completed.

I just suggested a three-way merge with Unauthorized Chinese Harry Potter books and Harry Potter and the Toenail of Icklibõgg. This merge would create a new article that covered all of these. The merge with the first article would be because that one does not contain much information that is not covered in this article. For my reasoning behind the second merge suggestion, as it may seem odd, I have reproduced my comment from that article's AfD discussion:

  • Merge into a new article. One possiblity would be "False names for Harry Potter books" or something similar. However, I think it would be better to merge it with Unauthorized_Chinese_Harry_Potter_books (again, probably under a new article name, such as "Harry Potter pre-release fervor"... Ok, I suck at creating names), comparing and contrasting how gullible anxious fans desperate for new installments were taken in by real but unofficial/fraudulent books in some cases and joke titles with no corrosponding books in other cases. It would start out as a stub, to be sure, but I think that the effects of the fervor leading up to new releases (and frustration when they aren't released as quickly as some fans would desire) is enough of an international cultural phenomenon to deserve an article, especially seeing as bits and pieces of that proposed article already exist under at least these two separate stubs.

--Icarus 22:22, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

  • Merge none of the topics are significant enough to justify their own pages. Eventually more information may be found on the Chinese books, but I doubt the articles will ever become extensive. Perhaps "Rumored and Unauthorized Harry Potter Books" might be considered for a title.

--Kail Ceannai 04:48, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

  • Comment Right now, the AfD for Toenail is pointing toward that article being merged with the main Half-Blood Prince article. I still think that this article and the Unauthorized Chinese Harry Potter books article should be merged, but for now at least I think the big plan to create a brand-new article should be put on indefinate hold. --Icarus 22:24, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
Consdering that the Toenail article is all of three sentences long, I see no reason why not to add the information to both articles (rumored books and Half-blood Prince). Also note some redundancy of information in the article Harry Potter in translation#Fake translations. --woggly 05:47, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
    • Thanks for pointing out the article on HP translations! That should definitely be involved in the merge in one way or another, even if it's just adding one of those Main article: (wikilink to main article on subject) things at the top of that section. --Icarus 06:23, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Merge completed The merge was uncontesed, so I went ahead and did it. --Icarus 05:56, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
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