Talk:Swamp adder (Sherlock Holmes)

Kayfabe and merging

Interesting and well-done article, but there's two problems that bother me. One is that, since the article subject only ever appears in one single story, and that story's own article is nowhere near the size where it would need to be split off... why make this a separate article at all?

The other issue is that the article verges upon the mistake of talking in kayfabe when we are told "Watson might have recorded Holmes' words inaccurately". It would be good to explain that this hypothesis presumes the popular conceit that Watson was a real person who recorded real-life adventures and may have done so inaccurately, rather than the reality that Watson was a character created to serve Doyle's authorial ends and was only an unreliable narrator in that he failed to realize the significance of what he heard and saw, rather than that he misheard Holmes' words. -- Antaeus Feldspar 22:00, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Merged, and reworded according to your concern. Please check if it is done properly. --BorgQueen 00:53, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Looks very good indeed! -- Antaeus Feldspar 03:58, 17 February 2007 (UTC)