Talk:The Son of Neptune

Plot Summary
When i accessed the page on July 13th (12:18 UTC to be precise), I found that the Plot section said "Quit being lazy and read the book!". I have not personally read the book (though i am considering to do so), can anyone who has done so redo the plot? (The person who deleted the plot by the way is 173.227.72.99).

Charlesisbozo (talk) 13:27, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Merger proposal
I think the page should be merged and set on redirect until we have further info on the book. There is just too little info to create a page now.-Mktsay123 (talk) 07:24, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Yep, you're right. There's nothing here worth keeping. It will be worth recreating, though, when more information becomes available. Regards, Rock drum Ba-dumCrash (Driving well?) 09:31, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
 * This absolutely needs to be merged. All we have now is the last page of a book and some blog entries. Redirecting this to The Heroes of Olympus until some reliable sources discuss the work isn't unreasonable. AniMate  00:11, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm unfamiliar with policy, but how would deleting a page only to recreate it later at all be helpful? The Dark Peria (talk) 00:27, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
 * We wouldn't be deleting it, we would redirect the article to The Heroes of Olympus. Trying reading up on reliable sources and verifiability. Right now we have a book that will probably be called The Son of Neptune. The author has mentioned it on his blog and there was one page in another novel that announced it. Has anyone else written about this? Do we have a definitive date? Has Riordan even finished it? I think the answer to all these questions is "no". With such vagaries at play here, this book isn't exactly notable yet. Redirecting it to the article on the series for now, removes the possibility of original research, which has been removed several times from this article, and removes what is a sub-standard, poorly referenced article. AniMate  01:36, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
 * A redirect to "The Heroes of Olympus" is reasonable, and we should just add most of the information here to the article. Perseus,  Son  of  Zeus  12:57, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I think that a merger isn't such a good idea. I mean, yeah we have nothing to go on, but it exists. Mergers like this were proposed before The Last Olympian was out. It still has little text. I vouch for keeping this article by itself, and keeping the "Main Article" link at the Heroes of Olympus page.Also, I agree with The Dark Peria. Camphalfbloodseries  05:24 PM (EST)
 * Yes, we have an article on The Last Olympian, and it was nominated for deletion. The reason the article was kept is because I found three sources verifying a release date. Right now, we don't anything but a release season. That article was kept because the book was finished and going through the final editing process. Those against a merge, please find some reliable third party sources (sources that aren't Rick Riordan) and add them to the article. Otherwise, we just have a placeholder that says little more than the last page of The Last Olympian. AniMate  00:10, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I nominated this page for deletion already, and there are no sources except Riordan in which these can be confirmed. Only the given information should be kept in The Heroes of Olympus's article. Perseus,  Son  of  Zeus  13:41, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

I definitely think it should be merged. At the moment there is far too little info for its own page. PrincessofLlyr royal court 14:51, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I support a merge, little information is this page right now. Derild  49  21  Review Me!  21:01, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I've merged it. Right now all we have is the name of the book, the author, and the season it should be released. All of that can now be found at The_Heroes_of_Olympus. When more information is available, this article can always be recreated. AniMate  00:00, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I see that someone has rewritten the page. An inexperienced writer it seems. I still disagree with the merger. A link was kept though, in the article. Nominations will return, O idiot who rewrote the page. Heck, let's just put the merger back.  Camphalfbloodseries  08:47 PM (EST)
 * See, person who rewrote the article, Slon02 reverted the article already.  Camphalfbloodseries  08:52 PM (EST) 1 December 2010 / 01:52 AM (UTC) 2 December 2010
 * Percy is coming back! Amazon says that Jason and Piper and Leo went to the Roman camp where 'a mysterious 'SON OF NEPTUNE' showed up one day.' This is exciting! --71.190.8.8 (talk) 13:39, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Error
Is it okay to mention that there is a spelling error on the back cover? Riordan spelled the word "Olympus" as "Oympus", without the second-letter "l". 75.6.224.124 (talk) 00:12, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Lead
A good WP:lead is an important criteria an article must meet before it can pass WP:GA. Looking at it, this one can do with some expansion still. A general rule of thumb is to summarise each section within the lead. AIR corn (talk) 04:27, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
 * How is it now? -- Kangaroo  powah  04:48, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Much better. AIR corn (talk) 04:52, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

First Person Narration
the intro to the page states that the book uses first person narration, however my copy of the book is not in first person but in third person, ie - percy looked mad, "i have a bone to pick with u zhang" he said. i know that isnt the exact wording but my point is that this is clearly third person so i'm changing it since there's no source which specifically shows riordan calling this first person. as far as i'm aware that style was used in the first series (PJ and the Olympians) and the egypt series. Thanks Tca achintya (talk) 08:25, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Plot Summary
When i accessed the page on July 13th (12:18 UTC to be precise), I found that the Plot section said "Quit being lazy and read the book!". I have not personally read the book (though i am considering to do so), can anyone who has done so redo the plot? (The person who deleted the plot by the way is 173.227.72.99).

Charlesisbozo (talk) 13:27, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Where's the part where they meet Iris? I don't see it in the plot.
Title says it all. --37.61.67.217 (talk) 14:41, 25 July 2013 (UTC)