Talk:Swallows and Amazons

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I've made a start to the new article about the book, but it still needs a lot of work. --G Rutter 08:50, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Characters Section[edit]

I have added the relative ages of the Swallows & Amazons to the Characters section. I wasn't sure what to put for Roger though, as he is the youngest of the crew but he still has a younger sister, (Bridget). I've put him down as "Youngest of the Walkers" which isn't quite right but Bridget isn't mentioned in this section. JP Godfrey (Talk to me) 14:37, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There is a page List of characters in Arthur Ransome books though it needs some work, why don't we just link to that and remove the section from here? Dabbler 15:49, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Does anyone know what the name Titty is short for?

It's from Mavis Altounyan, one of the real family whom the Walker children were based on. Mavis' nickname came from a book called "The Titty Mouse and the Tatty Mouse". Andy Dingley (talk) 20:27, 12 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed merger[edit]

Is there any reason why the character stub articles can't be merged into this one? They don't really seem to merit their own articles. At the very least, we could collect them on a "Characters from Swallows and Amazons" page.Chunky Rice 23:30, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, putting them all on one "Characters of" page probably makes sense. There isn't that much to say about them individually.

—wwoods 05:58, 4 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

See my comment above, the List already exists just be bold and transfer. There are some individual pages for the more prominent characters too. Dabbler 11:26, 4 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest a more logical candidate for merger would be the Swallows and Amazons (series) article, which already contains thumbnail sketches of all the characters. Rodparkes 02:56, 3 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've merged the Nancy Blackett, Roger Walker and James Turner articles with the List of Characters in Arthur Ransome books, and changed the character section to remove internal links and draw more attention to the List page. It is still valuable to have a list of characters in each book article to show the major characters in the individual books. Robina Fox 22:27, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:ArthurRansome SwallowAndAmazons.jpg[edit]

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I have added a fair use rationale to the page. Dabbler 23:11, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Blakeholme or Blake Holme[edit]

Anyone mind if I change this to "Blake Holme (Blakeholme)" It's a better fit with the rest of Wikipedia and the Ordnance Survey. I'll change the other use as well. --Old Moonraker (talk) 19:26, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Done--Old Moonraker (talk) 08:10, 5 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]