On 7/22/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Steve Bennett wrote:
In order not to violate NOR, we could say very little about the episode. We couldn't say if it was good or bad. We couldn't say what fans thought about it. We couldn't say if the jokes were funny. We couldn't say it was the first time Rachael kissed Ross.
Some of these would be contrary to NPOV anyway. :-) Apart from that some of this information could always be added later.
Whether it was good or bad violates NPOV. What the fans think about it would be fine, if there was a published story which said what fans thought about it. Obviously if not it would either be non-verifiable or violate NOR, right? Whether or not the jokes were funny violates NPOV. Whether or not it was the first time Rachael [sp?] kissed Ross would be the part that I personally still don't think should be in there without a source other than the episodes themselves. But that would require using every single episode previously run as a "source". Personally I'd say to find a reliable source which states that that was the first time they kissed, or else the world has to do without that useless bit of information.
Of course, as far as I'm concerned I wouldn't be terribly sad if all the articles about non-free fictional works moved to Fictionpedia. Especially the plot summaries, which are really non-free derivative works in themselves, though they generally fall under fair use of course.
Anthony