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Is it salvageable, or will it have to be rewritten from scratch?
I've cleaned up the Fanfic Recs and Trivia pages, since they were quite small.
The main page is going to be more of a project, I fear.
At the very least, the self-demonstrating version should be preserved in some sort of Just for Fun/ space.
I have to admire the dedication of whoever made that page, it is EXACTLY the same style as the novels. But it won't work as a main page, we should give it its Just for Fun in-its-own-style page.
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Well, I was one of the editors who worked to make that page conform to the style of the books; my dad loved them, and so do I.
Anyway, the original version is now at SelfDemonstrating.Molesworth, and the Literature/ article is a bit closer to the wiki's style (it's the sort of thing that probably does require the service of someone familiar with the books). I've also added a commented out note encouraging editors of the Literature/ page to make the same edit they are about to make to the Self-Demonstrating/ page as well.
Should we do something similar for Raymond Sipe?
Yes. Thankfully, the sub pages aren't like that, though the YMMV page is a bit of a stub.
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molesworth... The entire page reads like a Self-Demonstrating article. Said self demonstrating includes a ton a grammar and spelling errors. The Fanfic Recs and Trivia pages have the same problem.