Talk:Beast Quest

Authorship
I removed the biographical section taken from the Beast Quest website, as the books are actually knocked out by multiple authors at Working Partners Ltd. "Adam Blade" is simply the nom de plume.86.152.84.81 (talk) 11:42, 6 March 2009 (UTC)


 * that's not how Working Partners describe their way of working see according to this, a team creates the concept and the plots but a (external) writer is contracted to lay down the prose. GraemeLeggett (talk) 21:41, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
 * more searching finds a 2009 Bookseller article that says 4 writers provide the text. GraemeLeggett (talk) 21:48, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Wow
Wow, I mean... Seriously. This is probably the worst Wiki I've ever seen. Bad grammar, bad spelling, bad layout, numerous vandalism acts, the full crap-package. Who wrote this rubbish??? Nevertheless, I have (ahem) repeatedly cured this page of it's stonking great amount of crap that's been inflicted unto it. I would gladly appreciate it if someone would help me with this. (Guardaviewer (talk) 14:31, 13 July 2009 (UTC)).

Yes agree ... what a mess. I have tried tidying it up a little, but still needs some work. Will do some more soon. (last week there was even a message from Adam Blade on the site! Andrewnolanmail (talk) 23:09, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Organizing as a start
Drumkid13 brought this article to my attention. I think the first step is doing some reorganizing. I think I'll try to edit the article later based on the Sweet valley high series as a template. The series is similar in that it involves ghost writers, recurring characters and merchandising. Once the article is better organized it will be easier to edit for content. Objections?--Torchwood Who? (talk) 17:22, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

US alternate titles needed?
I've worked on some of these for the ISFDB (see Adam Blade there) and it seems Scholastic used different titles in the US. 82.29.128.100 (talk) 16:26, 9 September 2010 (UTC)


 * There's also another title "Sephir the Storm Monster" released as half of a Flip-Book for World Book Day 2009. 82.29.128.100 (talk) 16:36, 9 September 2010 (UTC)


 * I've just put the American titles in-not sure how/where to put the World Book Day title.Drumkid13 (talk) 13:14, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Copyright violations
I have recently removed a large chunk of this article because of copyright violation. The "Books" section that described individually each book in the series seemed contain primarily, if not exclusively, blurbs from the publishers that were probably copied and pasted here by another editor. On Wikipedia, that's a big no-no and I've heard the best thing to do is remove the offending material right away. Of course, building up new and original plot descriptions for all these books will be a lot more arduous, but isn't that really the point of Wikipedia? Bobnorwal (talk) 14:11, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm not nearly an expert on Wikipedia rules, but aren't book annotations fairuse? They are intended to promote the series, help sales, and used here for educational purpose. I know I've looked up this article to see the list of books and their summaries (preferably spoiler-free). 89.208.114.177 (talk) 19:57, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
 * It's a few months later (sorry about that), but I found this: WP:NFCCEG. I'm no expert either, but I think it's safe to say that copied-and-pasted book blurbs without quotations are a copyright violation. And I still think it's best to write our own synopses, spoilers and all. Bobnorwal (talk) 14:41, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

names
According to the bottom, two beasts called Kapra and Kapra are also known as Kapra and Kapra. Thats four of the same name. 77.101.248.240 (talk) 12:17, 27 October 2012 (UTC)