Talk:The Invisible Detective

B Lake

The article says

detective Brandon Lake, who is known as "the Invisible Detective" as no one has seen more than his silhouetted figure in a darkened room. In fact, Brandon Lake does not exist; he was invented by the four children, who investigate all his cases themselves.

This leaves too much ambiguity to be encyclopedic. It could instead say

an imaginary detective, whom they call "Brandon Lake" and believe they have seen as a silhouetted figure in a darkened room, and who seems to be advising them, when they interpret noises that seem to be responses to their conjectures

if that gets the facts right. But maybe it's wrong, maybe they are psychics channeling Sherlock Holmes, or one of them is a delusional psychotic. Someone who knows more needs to fix that passage before it gets replaced by something even vaguer, but less confusing.
--Jerzy•t 04:41, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Merger proposal

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The result of this discussion was to merge the articles for individual books in this series into this one. mooncow 19:30, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

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I propose that the articles for: Faces of Evil (Justin Richards novel); Shadow Beast;Legion of the Dead and any other books in this series should be merged into this one. As individual books, they do not meet the notability guidelines for books.--CharlieDelta (talk) 09:09, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

• support - the individual books are not notable per WP:BK, and the individual articles currently remain stubs which only repeat information already in this article and adding at most a plot summary (WP:PLOT). mooncow 00:22, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

Furthermore the "plot summary" sections that appear in some of the articles are actually just marketing gloss/teasers from the book jackets or publicity material, and do not contribute encyclopedic value. mooncow 19:30, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The articles "merged" into this one were as follows.

• The Paranormal Puppet Show
• Shadow Beast
• Ghost Soldiers (Justin Richards novel)
• Killing Time (Justin Richards novel)
• Faces of Evil (Justin Richards novel)
• Web of Anubis
• Stage Fright (Justin Richards novel)
• Legion of the Dead

Note that no content was actually copied from the merged articles into this one, as all the information of encyclopedic value was already in this article. mooncow 20:04, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Merger proposal 2

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The result was merge. -- BDD (talk) 17:27, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

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List of The Invisible Detective characters has pretty brief descriptions of characters, and some of them seem of extremely limited value in the context of the whole series; the previous merger seems to indicate that the individual books aren't notable alone. Neither it nor this article are large enough to necessitate a spinoff; let's merge the character list here. I'll clean up the formatting so there aren't a jillion sections involved. --BDD (talk) 17:21, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.