...until you want to stab yourself in the eye with a fork to end the sheer horror of it all.
For example, see [[The Mysterious Planet]] and [[The War Games]], articles which describe episodes of [[Doctor Who]] (and some others as linked from [[The Key to Time#The Trial of a Time Lord]]). Now, I used to like "Doctor Who" when I was a teenager, but this is just too much. Are we allowed to take a machete to articles that look like this, or what?
Before anyone says {{sofixit}}, I can tell that trying to do so would lead to ugly scenes with the enthusiasts; so please forgive me if I only raise my concerns here.
On 04/07/07, Earle Martin wikipedia@downlode.org wrote:
For example, see [[The Mysterious Planet]] and [[The War Games]], articles which describe episodes of [[Doctor Who]] (and some others as linked from [[The Key to Time#The Trial of a Time Lord]]). Now, I used to like "Doctor Who" when I was a teenager, but this is just too much. Are we allowed to take a machete to articles that look like this, or what? Before anyone says {{sofixit}}, I can tell that trying to do so would lead to ugly scenes with the enthusiasts; so please forgive me if I only raise my concerns here.
Tony Sidaway's had some success with good rewrites of Doctor Who summaries. Note that the rewrite must not merely be shorter, but clearly better - relevant themes, foreshadowings, etc., etc.
- d.
Are we allowed to take a machete to articles that look like this, or what?
Yes. A play-by-play account of the plot is not a "summary" by any definition I know. Just go through it and cut it right back. I would say a summary of an episode of a TV series should be 2 or 3 paragraphs at the absolute most.
On 04/07/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Are we allowed to take a machete to articles that look like this, or what?
Yes. A play-by-play account of the plot is not a "summary" by any definition I know. Just go through it and cut it right back. I would say a summary of an episode of a TV series should be 2 or 3 paragraphs at the absolute most.
Slightly OT but what about editors give a blow by blow account of a book not yet published that is based on an Advance Readers Copy. There is absolutely nothing in policy or guidlines about ADC, and I ended up deleting the text on WP:OR grounds because it isn't published. The same article was ticketed later that day for just summarising the book. The Summary was the worst written thing I have ever seen and must have been 25kb long!
Mike
Slightly OT but what about editors give a blow by blow account of a book not yet published that is based on an Advance Readers Copy. There is absolutely nothing in policy or guidlines about ADC, and I ended up deleting the text on WP:OR grounds because it isn't published. The same article was ticketed later that day for just summarising the book. The Summary was the worst written thing I have ever seen and must have been 25kb long!
It's unverifiable, so I guess it should just be removed. I don't know anything about advance copies - do you not have to sign an NDA or anything first? (I bet you do for Harry Potter!)