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Articles to work on

• false killer whale
• genetic engineering in sci-fi
• childbirth in Appalachia and Japan
• monogramy ( in humans ? Or expand)
• see browser bookmarks

General Issues

• Organization of categories especially University presidents,staff
• State of Lists and guidelines about them

Issues about articles

• Darrell Bain and books
• References for criminal law article
• Reorgaize and expand Genetic Engineering in sci fi
• Catagories deleted for McElroy
• article name of hyperonym, hyponym
• Sorry state of many articles about India especially grammer & spelling

Clive Cussler

Possible Split/Merge of Clive Cussler Articles

Biographical article contains lengthy bibliography on each series of books. Biography needs expansion. Writing wasn't his only career. Each book has an article that s currently composed of mostly plot information. Each character has its own page which are mostly stubs. One possible option would be to create an article for each series and include character information there. One or two main characters might justify its own article. Individual book articles could refer back to the series article for detailed character information. What to do about book articles? Is each book notable? Several were on New York bestseller list, were published in more than one country, etc. What more do you say about them?

Material from Mediterranean Caper article

In the United Kingdom, this novel was titled May Day! Clive Cussler, a world-renowned car collector, frequently writes cars from his own collection into his novels generally as part of the fictional collection of his hero Dirk Pitt. In this novel Pitt takes home as the spoils of war his enemy's 1936 Maybach-Zeppelin. Though the names of the two major national advertising agencies that Clive Cussler worked for are never mentioned in his official biographies he does name two major agencies in this novel in reference to the villain’s over-obvious advertising of the destination for his illegal shipment of narcotics. It is possible that the two agencies that he named, BBD&O and J. Walter Thompson, are in fact the agencies that he worked for, which he has inserted into the story is a playful jibe. Cussler notes in the foreword to the reissue hardcover edition of the novel that he has never been particularly keen on the title 'The Mediterranean Caper.[4] ' In later novels Clive Cussler has developed a habit of inserting himself as a character on the periphery of his stories. While there is no character bearing his name in The Mediterranean Caper, the description of the doctor on the NUMA ship First Attempt seems to fit the author's description: tall, with gray hair, blue eyes, and a silver goatee. The PBY Catalina is not equipped with wing flaps.