Talk:John Watson (Sherlock Holmes)

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[edit] Origin of character

From the article:

Although it was the British author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself who created the character of Dr Watson, as well as that of Sherlock Holmes, yet credit must deservedly go Dr Mohammed Ebrahim Sufi too, Doyle's British-Indian Muslim colleague and a very close acquaintance, for originally coming up with the idea of Dr Watson's character. As Dr Sufi, the suggester and Dr Doyle the author, were both 'Doctors', the fictional character of John Hamish Watson as Sherlock's assistant also had to be a Doctor. This gave the character an exquisitely intellectual touch.

and:

It was once again the result of Dr Mohammed Ebrahim Sufi's proposition to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that the former's beloved East got mentioned in Doyle's novels. It could not have been India, as that was already part of the British Empire, and the context of the novels required a place where a British man, Dr Watson, could possibly have been required to serve in 'on the front'. Hence, Afghanistan it was.

Does anyone have a reference to back these up? --Paul A 09:02, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Re-adding exactly the same text does not in any sense qualify as providing a reference to back it up. --Paul A 15:47, 23 May 2004 (UTC)

I can keep this up just as long as you can. --Paul A 03:17, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Please note that the characters of Professor Geoffrey Moriarty, Colonel Sebastian Morgan, and the iniquitous Endicott Bubble were suggested to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by his childhood friend and confidant Mahmoud al-Shazam. This highly intellectual Musselman jurist had a distinguished career in the British courts and was also a well respected Qu'ran scholar. Mr. al-Shazam died in 1943 after he offered himself to the Imperial Japanese Navy as a human torpedo to be used against the American aircraft carrier, U.S.S. Cheesequake.Lestrade 17:35, 25 December 2005 (UTC)Lestrade

Wait what ------------------------------------^

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.240.105.38 (talk • contribs) 19:55, 25 August 2006

[edit] Remove the page entirely and redirect?

I turned this page to a proper disambiguation page for now, but it might make sense to entirely remove it and make it redirect to John Watson (Sherlock Holmes). Pasi 09:14, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Whoops. Wrong talk page. This was supposed to go to Talk:Doctor Watson. Pasi 09:16, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
Update: actually, it seems that Talk:Doctor Watson redirects here. I'd like to see the redirect removed and the disambiguation page given its own talk page but I have no idea about the Wikipedia policy regarding talk page redirects and their deletion. The page doesn't seem to have much of an edit history so I suspect it can be turned to a talk page without WP:RFD. Pasi 09:26, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] another photo

we should add a photo of the two actors who play watson in the granada tv series alongside jeremy brett. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.202.230.124 (talk • contribs) 22:44, 28 May 2007

[edit] wives?

I would like to have an expanded section discussing Watson's wives: how many canonical wifes are there? 195.24.29.51 08:20, 27 June 2007 (UTC)