Talk:Pop culture references to Sherlock Holmes
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[edit] Merge proposal
As it stands, this article has almost exactly the same scope as Non-canonical works related and derived from Sherlock Holmes, and many of the same examples are used both places. I strongly suggest a merge -- the overlap just leads people to waste time recreating content that already exists elsewhere. —Celithemis 02:11, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
- Too much to merge--the material can be separated. Just my view. DGG (talk) 03:57, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
- What do you see as the difference between the two articles? —Celithemis 05:32, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
I agree with DGG that the combined article would be too big. The non-canon article is already too big (I restructured it a while back with more subdivisions but it's still very unwieldy). I would incorporate the "inspired by Holmes" material (the final section of Non-canonical...) into the pop culture article, and make the non-canon article specific to non-canonical Sherlock Holmes stories, ie. ones that are centred on Sherlock Holmes himself. The article title should also be shortened to reflect this, e.g. "Non-cononical Sherlock Holmes stories". As for the "descendents of Sherlock Holmes" and "cameos" in the non-canon article, I'm fairly agnostic, they could go in either article, though I would personally keep descendents in the non-canon article, and move cameos to pop culture. This separation would help slim down the non-canon article, and as a lot of the rest is already duplicated it probably wouldn't add an enormous amount to the pop-culture article. Samatarou 19:17, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
As it stands, I was able to do find the material very easily with a search from Google, whereas the other article didn't show up. The topic of the paper I'm doing is Sherlck Holmes' influence in pop culture and this article was easily accessed. Just my two cents... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.246.151.64 (talk) 22:22, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
