Talk:Bang (Harper's Island)

= PLOT Tag =

The purpose of the PLOT Tag (and the alternate Long plot summary tag) is to encourage that entries be kept within the WP:PLOT guidelines. These are futher fleshed out in the WP:PLOTS and WP:PLOTSUM guidelines, especially here: “A plot summary is not a recap. It should not cover every scene and every moment of a story.”

That having been said and understood, I ask, “Why not?” Wikipedia is an encyclopedia capable of infinite, unlimited, and boundless growth. WP:PLOT, WP:PLOTS, and WP:PLOTSUM are guidelines that are supposed to be used subject to the application of “common sense and the occasional exception.” Can not an exception be made for television episodes? I for one missed this episode of Harper’s Island because of a glitch from my cable provider. But for this summary, I would have been lost in the rest of the series. Further, with the death of The Recapist, I do not know were else on the Internet to turn for a blow-by-blow account of an episode. (As for Television Without Pity, they do not have recaps of Harper’s Island.) Why then is it not appropriate for an online encyclopedia that can grow infinitely to recapitulate television episodes? Why the limitation when there are editors ready, willing, and able to perform the tedious task required? SpikeToronto (talk) 18:08, 5 May 2009 (UTC)