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There appears to be some disagreement over whether The Howling III: Echoes was a reboot of the Howling series of books. The fact is it was indeed a reboot, and I would recommend that people who disagree should read Wikipedia's reboot article and also the Howling novels themselves. The Howling III uses the basic premise from the first Howling novel, but changes the events and times that happen in it to establish a new continuity. That is what a reboot is. None of the characters from the original Howling novel (or The Howling II) are present in The Howling III, nor are they even mentioned. The town of Drago is mentioned as is the neighbouring town of Pinyon, but that's all. 88.104.23.72 (talk) 23:56, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
It seems we've gone around about this again. The easiest way to settle all of this is to simply add reliable secondary sources showing the matter is referred to as a reboot. In fact, I've added the unsourced tag to this page, as there doesn't appear to be a single source involved in the article, which makes the entire thing unsourced. Dayewalker (talk) 18:43, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
For the vast majority of the article, the book itself is the source. The book covers the plot, author, year of publishing, publishing house, ISDN number, etc. The book, once compared to the first two books in the series, makes it what is now known as a reboot, and the continuities section of the article explains this quite clearly. Since the book is now over a quarter of a century old, there aren't going to be many sources beyond that of fan-run websites. The author himself does not have an official website. However, it seems to me that there is only one editor who has a problem with the word "reboot" being used (IP user:24.129.175.63), and that editor has a history of being an incredibly problematic and beligerent person, not just on this article but on lots of others (have you seen the volume of complaints on their talk page?). Other editors on The Howling article pages have agreed that this book is a reboot, so why we should be trying to placate the IP editor (who has so far flatly refused to enter into any discussion about the matter and insists on hurling abuse at other editors in his edit summaries) is beyond me. 88.104.24.78 (talk) 00:56, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
