Ray Saintonge wrote:
Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
mboverload wrote: [fixed top posting]
On 7/21/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/21/06, Anthony wikilegal@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.
I don't see the problem with bending the rules a bit for episodes. Who's it going to hurt?
Ultimately, it will hurt the rest of Wikipedia; instead of doing *useful* editing, people will be adding /every single detail/ about /every single episode/ of /every single TV show that ever was/, instead of focussing on areas where we have no information, very little information, or information that is inaccurate or doesn't make sense.
This is pure speculation
It's based on experience.
There's the entirely seperate issue of approaching copyright infringement (Wikipedia, your source of TV and movie scripts on teh intarwebs!), but I suspect that the point will be lost on you.
Completely irrelevant. Summarizing the plot is about the content, and not about the detailed expression in the script. No-one has suggested that we include entire scripts.
If we include every single detail, we end up with a script.