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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

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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]

Peer Review

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This article was peer reviewed Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels/Peer_review/So_You_Want_to_Be_a_Wizard

Output of "Lazy Peer Review

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  • Please expand the lead to conform with guidelines at Wikipedia:Lead. The article should have an appropriate number of paragraphs as is shown on WP:LEAD, and should adequately summarize the article.[?]
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    • Vague terms of size often are unnecessary and redundant - “some”, “a variety/number/majority of”, “several”, “a few”, “many”, “any”, and “all”. For example, “All pigs are pink, so we thought of a number of ways to turn them green.”
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You may wish to browse through User:AndyZ/Suggestions for further ideas. Thanks, Kweeket 20:04, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

characters

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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]