Talk:Rover Boys

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FWDixon/Finnan is a spammer and plagiarist with more than 100 links from Wiki to his web site to sell books on Amazon. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.205.13.193 (talk • contribs) 17:33, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

See discussion with anon about links in question here ∞Who ?¿? 19:18, 20 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

17:06, 24 August 2005‎ 64.12.117.10See [[1]] for discussion about User FWDixon/Bob Finnan's link spamming and plagiarism.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.12.117.10 (talk • contribs) 17:06, 24 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Rovers1stSeries.jpg[edit]

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Publication data[edit]

Who was the first publisher of these books? How did the arrangement change when Edward Stratemeyer founded his Stratemeyer Syndicate in 1906 (we say there)?

The U.S. Library of Congress catalogs two books in its collection as in "Famous Rover boys' series" --a listing derived from #13 The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle, 1909. For that so-called series it gives overall "place/Issuing body: NY Grosset & Dunlap".

Famous Rover boys' series at Library of Congress, with 2 library catalog records

Those two records in turn it give NY: The Mershon co., 1900 LCCN tmp9-600424 and NY: Chatterton-Peck Company, 1908 LCCN 08-2111. And give personal names Stratemeyer and Winfield respectively, for which it links 20 and 134 catalog records.

--P64 (talk) 16:31, 11 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Questioning importance of Legacy and Main Characters[edit]

The Main Characters section appears to be a listing of just about everyone who appears in the books. Are all those names helpful? Also, some have a * after the name, but there's no information on what those *s represent.

I'm unsure if the trivia within the Legacy section is important. Instead of listing every time the series was mentioned on TV or films, would it be better to just state the books were popular, and then give two or three examples of the series being mentioned?

I'm no expert on the Rover Boys, I came here to learn a little, noticed the lack of references, and did some research to add sources. I don't feel comfortable deleting big chunks of the Main Characters and Legacy sections when I've never read any of the books, so I'll just record my concerns. Karenthewriter (talk) 02:01, 4 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]