Talk:Battle of the Bastards

"**Battle of the Bastards**"
"Battle of the Bastards"
Game of Thrones episode
Episode no.	Season 6; Episode 9
Directed by	Miguel Sapochnik
Written by	David Benioff; D. B. Weiss
Featured music	Ramin Djawadi
Cinematography by	Fabian Wagner
Editing by	Tim Porter
Original air date	June 19, 2016
Running time	60 minutes
Guest appearances
	Jacob Anderson as Grey Worm; Gemma Whelan as Yara Greyjoy; Ian Whyte as Wun Wun; Enzo Cilenti as Yezzan zo Qaggaz; Paul Rattray as Harald Karstark; Dean S. Jagger as Smalljon Umber; Art Parkinson as Rickon Stark; Bella Ramsey as Lyanna Mormont; George Georgiou as Razdal mo Eraz; Eddie Jackson as Belicho Paenymion; Rory Mullen as Bolton army captain; Mark Tankersley as Bolton general; David Birkbeck as a Northman warrior; Paul Garrett as a Northman warrior;
Episode chronology
← Previous; "No One"	Next →; "The Winds of Winter"
	Game of Thrones (season 6); List of Game of Thrones episodes

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Spoilers[edit]

There's a spoiler at the top of the page "Ramsay meets his fate" as a caption on the photo. I took it out once but someone put it back.

Is wikipedia no longer safe for avoiding spoilers? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.74.103.41 (talk) 17:52, 17 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

An encyclopaedia is not a place to avoid spoilers. DonQuixote (talk) 18:04, 17 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed image change[edit]

Hi all, really nice article, thanks to everyone who's worked on it. I propose we change the image in the info box to this one. It's more reflective of the content of the episode, and the content of the article. The central thrust of the article, and the most well known aspect of the episode, is the production of the battle sequence, and its high regard, which I've included as a caption. Also, it makes the article less prone to spoiling for readers who haven't seen it. I fully recognise that it's not Wikipedia policy to include spoiler warnings, nor that readers should come to an article and expect no spoilers. However this doesn't mean that a more spoiler-rich image should be preferred over a non-spoiler rich image by default. The article gets around 700 views per day - it's safe to assume some of them are from people who haven't seen the episode yet, who just want to find out what season/episode it is, or the air date, or director, or awards won or view ratings, etc. Even if only ten of them are from such people, that's ten people per day who come to the page and instantly see the ending, before they've read a word. But the spoiler aspect is really secondary - I mainly hold this alternative image to be better because it's more representative of the article and the episode.

Well done again on the article! Autonova (talk) 12:26, 9 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Seeing that you have reduce the image size and improved the caption, you can go ahead and change the image in the infobox. That is if no one else have a problem with it. Also the source is not needed in the caption just so you know, so you can remove it. - AffeL (talk) 12:50, 9 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Okay thanks. I see we're working on improving the article to featured article status, is there anything in particular that we need to improve further to get there? Just wondering if I can help out. Autonova (talk) 12:54, 9 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I was trying to get it to a FA status. But it turns that it was not as easy as I thought it was, being that the article has a large number of quotes and for FA it needs to mostly be written with our own words, not others. As you can see quite a lot of work is needed to get to that point. But if you want to help out with anyting GoT related: We are at the moment working on Game of Thrones (season 6) to get it to feature list status. - AffeL (talk) 13:16, 9 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ah ok thanks, I'll have a think on some improvements! Autonova (talk) 13:51, 9 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Just for future reference, non-free content may only be used (i.e., displayed in the case of images) in the article mainspace per WP:NFCC#9. If you want to discuss a partcular non-free file, you can add a link to it like File:Kit Harington as John Snow in Battle of the Bastards.jpg this. As long as the file is already being used in at least one article as required by WP:NFCC#7, the link will remain active and the file will not be flagged for deletion per WP:F5. -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:23, 10 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ "Battle of the Bastards - Game of Thrones: Season 6, Episode 9". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved June 20, 2016.

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