Talk:Hogwarts teachers

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[edit] Merge to Hogwarts

There's already a page about the Minor Hogwarts teachers. Once you remove them from this article, you're left with not much. I propose any important information on this page be moved to Hogwarts#Staff, Past and Present, not that it will be a lot because the Hogwarts article already has the list of all teachers. --Fbv65edel ^{(discuss | contribs)} 02:46, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

I said merge it!

[edit] "Full" names

The use of characters' "full names" is really bothering me, including the nicknames. Since when is Snape "Severus 'Half-Blood' Prince-Snape"? And it's Remus John "Moony" Lupin if anything, not Jonathan. I would prefer we don't include this long extended version of the name at all, but that's just me. And also, this whole thing with Hobday and Sylvanus and Mospus -- they don't belong in the canon section of the article. There should be a separate section for them, because JKR's that page of her notes cannot be considered canon because of the conflicting information with how the series turned out -- Pettigrew didn't teach in GOF, and Hobday didn't teach OOP. --Fbv65edel ^{(discuss | contribs)} 13:30, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

What we have here is yet another example of some over zealous HP fanatics who dig up every bit of gossip and rumor they can find on the numerous HP fan forums, gossip pages, and personal blogs, spreading the false and tenuous information like an infection to each other, to the point where it becomes an urban legend, and then suddenly it appears on Wikipedia as if it was "canon". I for one have had enough of it and am willing to help stamp it out.

On a sort-of related note, I have been contemplating helping to form, hopefully with the assistance of some of the other dedicated HP Project leaders with more experience, and assuming it doesn't already exist, an Anti Weasel Word League, bent on stamping out the weasel words that keep cropping up to legitimize rampant speculation ... eg: "It has been said that..." and "Some fans believe..." etc. etc. ad nauseum. This practice of cloaking speculation is forbidden in the guidelines: Avoid Weasel Words. The AWWL would be in the same vein as the Counter-Vandalism Unit, the Recent Changes Patrol and the WikiProject Spam Anti Spam efforts. Thoughts anyone? --T-dot 14:40, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi, it's Minervamoon, and I'm fine with merging it with Hogwarts teachers and changing Jonathan to John, but I would prefer to keep the nicknames, and Babbling, Hobday, Mospus, and Sylvanus aren't just rumours, she had them on her website as some of the teachers who didn't make it into the book, they're on one of her secrets, I think the More Idle Jottings Secret, so they're not "yet another example of some over zealous HP fanatics who dig up every bit of gossip and rumor they can find on the numerous HP fan forums, gossip pages, and personal blogs, spreading the false and tenuous information like an infection to each other, to the point where it becomes an urban legend, and then suddenly it appears on Wikipedia as if it was "canon"" they're there for the sake of completion; you can even look on the Harry Potter Lexicon, you will see all four of them in the Who's Who In The Wizarding World under their respective last names, so plaese do not delete them. I'd have moved it there myself, but, I don't know how.

God damn it. See: Hogwarts (talk). The above is NOT me. The above is my little brother with an arse where his brain should be. Minervamoon 01:47, 28 May 2006 (UTC)