[WikiEN-l] fancruft

[mboverload]

I don't see the problem with bending the rules a bit for episodes.  Who's it
going to hurt?

On 7/21/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/21/06, Anthony <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
> > Not all articles use something as a source for itself (e.g., using an
> > episode of Friends as a source on what happened in an episode of
> > Friends).
>
> An article about an episode that cites nothing but the episode itself
> is a poor article. It amounts to an article about the Mona Lisa simply
> putting a high resolution copy of the image and saying "you can see
> for yourself". 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.
>
> We could say "The episode lasted 23 minutes". We could offer a plot
> summary. We could describe some of the gags. How boring.
>
> Steve
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