May-18-2010, 11:57 AM (UTC)
Joost, if you're going to put them in the wiki, I think it would be best to mark the names NOT mentioned in the text itself somehow. Someone could ask Robin, but I think the list is something she had made for herself but then didn't need to use all the names in the actual book. (She's mentioned before keeping files that describe the characters etc so that she can easily go and check the facts when she needs to mention the character again.) We are approaching the "canon or not canon" question here - if she mentions a fact in the interviews that is NOT in the books (and so accessible for all readers) should it be considered canon or not? This list is IN the book, but not in the text itself, so I think it's more clearly canon - but still it would be a good idea to mark those names somehow - especially since the UK editions of the book don't have that list so they might confuse a lot of readers.
"Green nubs on the dry sticks of the clematis promised that the appearance of death was not death itself." - Ship of Destiny