I read the original text of The House on the Cliff not to long ago and was in the process of writing articles for all the characters who appear in the book when I realized I'd run into a problem. Many characters were heavily characters changed when the books got revised and will lead to a lot of contradictions within articles about the characters from the Original continuity. See Ezra Collig (Original), the only article I've published so far, for example. As you can see the character described in the article is vastly different than the character from the revised books and the rest of the Original continuity from about 1959 onwards. Things could get even more complected for non-recurring characters who appeared in books that were totally changed, like The Secret of the Caves, many of whom are the same character in name only.
To fix this problem, I was thinking of creating Ezra Collig (pre-1959). The new "pre-1959" articles would be used for all characters who appeared between 1927 and 1959 before the books were revised, while the "Original" articles would be for characters who appeared in the revised books and all other Original stories that appeared after 1959. What do you think?
WHLfan (talk to me!) 00:22, September 26, 2010 (UTC)