User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-45314928-20200610043202

How The Monk Got His Habit (short story) should be merged into How The Monk Got His Habit (novelisation), because no short story existed - just an extract of the unproduced novelisation.

Peter Harness's comments revealed the extract to be a "discarded first page of a novelisation" that he only shared because "some of you seemed to appreciate the discarded Meddling Monk idea". 

User:Shambala108 ruled that we were to believe Harness' comments about the novelisation having existed, and having been discarded, here;

"The author's use (twice) of the word "discarded" simplifies things: we do not consider unpublished stories to be valid. None of the arguments for validity were able to get around this fact."

so i do not wish to see continued "if we are to believe Harness" when it has been ruled that we are to believe him. according to this site the novelisation existed, and according to Harness this was only an extract and not written as a short story.