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The content of the article should be moved to Tracking Spell, but that page is now a redirect and has been protected, preventing the name change.
Oerk (talk) 01:31, May 5, 2019 (UTC)
- In what edition do you see it as "Tracking Spell"?? Please provide a legit source. As stated in the revert edit summary, the script has "tracking spell", both lowercase. Well, it has, at least, in my ebook edition. (Mine is ISBN 978-1-78110-234-3; I realized this is a US edition, so if it differs from the UK one, it wouldn't mean as much, but still.)
- I don't think random uppercases is what should be done on this wiki; just because it may look better to some, does not actually make them canon wording, as seen at Slug-vomiting Charm, where you've tried to force the all-uppercase thing when it contradicts both UK & US editions. That said, if the UK edition does actually have it capitalized, do share. =D --Sammm✦✧(talk) 13:27, May 5, 2019 (UTC)
- On several wiki pages, I have come across people writing in title case (Writing All Their Sentences Like This). Presumably they believe it looks "smart" or "cool", but (to my mind) when used for non-titles it just looks stupid. — evilquoll (talk) 13:36, May 5, 2019 (UTC)
Another tracking spell?[]
It's been brought to my attention that Harry Potter: Wizards Unite has mentioned a tracking spell too. In Brilliant Event: A Weasley Predicament, Hermione says "We can handle ourselves and we'll have a Tracking spell on us in case anything happens." It sounds like she has had the spell put on her so she could be tracked like a GPS. However, the Tracking spell page describes the spell in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald which finds traces of activity and footprints. So it's not a tracking spell you put on the person per se like the one Hermione describes.
I think the Tracking spell page could be turned into a general page like Food-related charms to cover varying kinds of known tracking spells instead of just one. Because they've both been given the same name but don't appear to work in the same way, though they have the same purpose. Does that solution work for everyone? - Kates39 (talk) 16:49, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
- COG, a tier-one canon source, describes the tracking spell as being one thing, and WU, a tier-three source, describes it as something else. So the WU version of the spell is non-canon surely? - MrSiriusBlack Talk 17:06, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
- Oh in that case it would be non-canon. I don't think there's anything to say there can't be two different kinds of tracking spells. Hermione says she will have "a" Tracking spell put on her, not "the" tracking spell. And in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald scriptbook, it's in lowercase suggesting it's not the proper name of it. - Kates39 (talk) 17:36, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
- Indeed. In any case, I don't think both tracking spells can be covered in the same page, because they simply aren't the same thing. Even if there is a hub article for 'tracking spells', the two spells would still have to have their own individual articles imo. - MrSiriusBlack Talk 18:04, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
I'm just a bit confused... What do you mean "COG describes the tracking spell as being one thing, and WU describes it as something else"? No it doesn't. COG describes one tracking spell, and WU describes another tracking spell, and they might have individual names we don't know about too, but the fact that we don't know them doesn't somehow negate the fact that they're two separate spells. By that logic, we can't say that the Protego and Salvio hexia are both protective/defensive spells because they do different things. Not all food-related charms are the same either, but they share a common denominator. They're used to make/prepare food. So each of them are descriptively referred to by what it does - it's related to food. The spell used in COS and WU are different spells, but they are both referred to as tracking spells because they both track. Whatever gave you the idea that COS and WU was trying to retcon COG? On a related note: Wouldn't the spell that Newt uses to track down Yusuf Kama also be a kind of tracking spell? WeaseleyIsOurKing89 (talk) 19:47, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
- I take it that you didn't bother to read by second message, in which I agreed with that, then? - MrSiriusBlack Talk 20:10, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
Anyways, Appare Vestigium is an easy enough title for the article about the COG spell, but I'm not sure how se should title the article about the WU spell. Unless we just don't give it its own article due to lack of information about it, and just cover it in the 'tracking spells' hub article instead? (I know that nothing I've suggested has been decided upon yet; just my two cents.) - MrSiriusBlack Talk 20:47, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
Less "didn't bother" and more "slipped my notice" - my bad. ^^'
When you say "hub article" - what does that mean, exactly? WeaseleyIsOurKing89 (talk) 20:55, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
An article about tracking spells in general. - MrSiriusBlack Talk 20:57, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
- Ah, so like Protective Objects? By the way, I replied to your question from earlier. You know, about Richard Leaf on the "candidates for deletion" talk page? WeaseleyIsOurKing89 (talk) 21:05, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
- I was going to propose the same thing Sirius, so I'm definitely in support of that suggestion! I think covering the WU tracking spell in a hub article would work just fine. - Kates39 (talk) 21:02, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
What about the one Flannery used? Or the one above Newt used to track down Kama? Could there be a place for those in the hub article too? WeaseleyIsOurKing89 (talk) 22:17, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
- Yes if a spell could be used for tracking, then it would have a place in the hub article. - Kates39 (talk) 22:22, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
Okay, cool. Thanks. :-) WeaseleyIsOurKing89 (talk) 22:23, 23 February 2022 (UTC)