Talk:End of Watch (novel)

Connection to King's other work

Earlier today I added the connection that Brandy's hospital room was 217 the same as the infamous room at the Overlook Hotel in the Shining. This change was reverted for being tenuous. I don't agree. The user said if they spent an hour they could come up with other tenuous connections, but that's exactly the point, King knows he is making those connections, he chooses numbers like 217 or his favorite, 19, because he knows his Constant Readers are seeing the Easter Eggs. I feel like these connections need to be highlighted in his wikipedia articles. Gimpboy76 (talk) 02:44, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Brady was auto corrected to Brandy Gimpboy76 (talk) 02:45, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Except we don't know what King is thinking unless he tells us. And as far as I know he has never explained whether there is a connection. It's not a valid argument that "King does that a lot" when there are literally hundreds or thousands of possible connections, and we don't know if King intends to connect to another work. Find a reliable source that identifies that there is a legitimate connection before restoring it. Otherwise this is one editor's speculation among hundreds of possible speculations, and Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information, nor is it a publisher of original thought that is not backed up by reliable sources. If it was, every King article would be doubled in size with such non-notable trivia. For that matter, the articles of many novels could be bloated with such trivia. Sundayclose (talk) 03:42, 2 May 2020 (UTC)