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The correct title of the first book is Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - the author, J. K. Rowling, is British, and the book was first published in the United Kingdom. The alternative Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is used only for the United States publication.

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I couldn't find what I thought would be the most basic thing about Harry Potter in the article: a list of the titles of the seven Harry Potter books. The closest I can find is that all seven titles happen to be mentioned in the 2500-word "Plot" section, but that seems a very poor way to render the information. Ultimately I had to go (via this article's hatnote) to Harry Potter (disambiguation) , which had a "See Also" section which listed an article List of Harry Potter-related topics, which redirected to Outline of Harry Potter, which had a section "The original books" which give the titles. It seems to me (someone not steeped in the Harry Potter milieu), that not having (or at least pointing to) the list is a significant defect for the base article about Harry Potter. --R. S. Shaw (talk) 04:00, 3 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The new game, Wizards Unite needs to be added. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Davemoser123 (talk • contribs) 13:49, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

all on one line, or separate line for date?

The current film list in the infobox lists the film, then the date on a new line. This was changed recently ("Unnecessary line breaks") and reverted ("not unnecessary, better visually"). I think that the line breaks are unnecessary, and the list looks better all on one line, and advocate the change to a single line per entry. What are other editors opinions?

Ping QuestFour and Nick Mitchell 98 for inclusion. Chaheel Riens (talk) 12:13, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support single line for book title and year per my original WP:BOLD edit; line breaks between the book title and year are simply not needed in my opinion (and unecesarily lengthen the infobox). – Nick Mitchell 98 ^talk 14:16, 11 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Highest grossing

Since the lede says HP is the 3rd highest grossing film series, I inserted the names of the top 2 so readers won't have to go looking (like I did).--Daveler16 (talk) 18:46, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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 Ping [[User:QuestFour|QuestFour]] and [[User:Nick Mitchell 98|Nick Mitchell 98]] for inclusion.  [[User:Chaheel Riens|Chaheel Riens]] ([[User talk:Chaheel Riens|talk]]) 12:13, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
 :Support single line for book title and year per my original WP:BOLD edit; line breaks between the book title and year are simply not needed in my opinion (and unecesarily lengthen the infobox). – [[User:Nick Mitchell 98|Nick Mitchell 98]] <sup>[[User talk:Nick Mitchell 98|talk]]</sup> 14:16, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
+== Highest grossing ==
+Since the lede says HP is the 3rd highest grossing film series, I inserted the names of the top 2 so readers won't have to go looking (like I did).--[[User:Daveler16|Daveler16]] ([[User talk:Daveler16|talk]]) 18:46, 17 July 2019 (UTC)