Talk:Law & Order: Special Victims Unit season 6

Summaries
I note that e.g. for [http://www.tv.com/shows/law-order-special-victims-unit/conscience-358047/ ep. 6], TV.com gives a one-sent, 36-word summary, and 5 longer comments, from readers, that also include plot info. It would not be at all surprising for a summary relying entirely on one such page for its facts about a show to be acceptable for WP, bcz copyright does not protect "information" but rather a specific way of expressing information (and -- tho you should not trust my wording -- only to the degree that there are other ways to adequately express it). WP:COPYVIO is an important matter at WP, but a complaint such as that does not help address it. --Jerzy•t 06:29, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
 * The summaries for most (if not all) of these episodes appear to have been stolen from TV.com. Anthony Rupert 23:14, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
 * So maybe they should be re-written. Not to brag, but the summaries for Charisma, Contaigious, and Intoxicated were all mine. DanTD 23:29, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
 * "Stolen" is not strictly applicable even for blatant copyright violation, but many would use it with varying degrees of looseness even for uses within the fair use exceptions and for works that are legally original works but nevertheless derive all their factual content from a single copyright-protected work. So that complaint is too vague to require further comment.

"unanimously describe him as psychotic"
Reason= A birthday-party-full of 13 y.o.s who all say "is psychotic" would be presumed to be repeating the views of an adult who coached them. They probably all described *behavior* that *adults* associate with psychosis, even if some said "psycho". If that's really what the script said, provide a ref; if you think the script implied that, you need to explain why you think so, at least on this talk page if not in the accompanying article. --Jerzy•t 04:36, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

"his despair overrode his senses"
Reason= I just can't believe he claimed to be numb, deaf, and blind during the killing. C'mon, what did he really say? Hmm. Could his character have said those words? I suppose a pro scriptwriter could make that phrase work in context, as "I wanted to tear my teeth out" did, but even if that was the case here, it is nonsense ripped out and stuck into the summary. --Jerzy•t 04:36, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

"rationalizes his act as just"
Reason= He may have said "furthered the cause of justice" or "happened to coincide with justice", but you're undercutting your own case if you claim you're not responsible for your actions w/o leaving it to your lawyer to make any points about justice. Presents a problem very similar to the previous one. It could happen in real life, but having it happen is incompetent theater without an interesting explanation of either
 * an interesting explanation of what made the judge consent to him preparing and presenting his own case, without a lawyer to advise him, or
 * how his lawyer allowed him the opportunity to say both of those things in court, without quitting before the case closed.

--Jerzy•t 04:36 & 04:41, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

--Jerzy•t 05:39, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
 * This (from an easily available source that's too credible to reject without a citation that contradicts it) says our version misleads, and offers a hint toward a rewrite:
 * It would mean he said it only after acquittal, and suggests his testimony was a lie. Both of those certainly need mention unless the quote is a fraud, or the summary is reduced to about 2 sentences designed to do no more than avoid confusion with other episodes.

--Jerzy•t 07:53, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, i have found one contradictory version (no less credible IMO, in light of the likelihood of cut&paste replication from one source, of the first version i found) at a blog that claims at least a fresh viewing:
 * "Even though you knew it was wrong?" asks Elliot. Morton's answer provides for one one unforgettable ending. "Yes," he says, rightfully. "But one things is certain. Jake O'Hara would have killed again. And I never will."
 * I'm removing that tag & what sounds like likely mischaracterization of the ending; i give up on direct quotation.

I'm restoring but striking thru the tag in question, with an edit summary pointing to this talk section, just to put a clarifying revision into the edit history that will account for its different treatment; i'll immediately fully remove it in a moments-later edit. --Jerzy•t 05:33, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
 * This material needed a tag, but i confused myself by obscuring (with tag markup) a period that should otherwise have made it clear to me that someone (at least months before) did not intend to imply he said that in court; the recent IP-user (some of whose edits triggered my tagging edit) has since made that even clearer with new wording.

Ep 6 - "Conscience" (Other)
Best i recall, my attention was drawn by the many by-name references to characters, mostly or wholly the two successive defendants, added in a recent edit. While the comprehension-impeding prose that resulted heightened the sense of a reader on a crusade to ensure that the child defendant (Jake) was respectfully treated by our article (4 occurrences of variations on "the boy" or "the killer" converted to the previously only-once mentioned full or given name - for a total of 3 full name and 2 given-only mentions of him). I hasten to mention that this did slightly alleviate the truly horrible previous revision, which had referred to Jake's child victim only via versions of "[Morton's] son" (twice) and "the boy" (once), before introducing "a 13-year-old, Jake" (O' Hara): the initial impression my first reading left me with -- of all the references to "boy" referring to one child (the shrink's son), whose name went unmentioned until the audience later learns it is "Jake" -- is still hard for me to shake free of! The creator of the horrible version put it back (stripping the tags) w/o comment. After a tiny bit of research, i'm correcting the incoherence and filling in or replacing missing info based on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Conscience -- Transcript -- USA  --  Aired on Monday, Nov 22, 2010 (11/22/2010) at 03:00 AM", which i will not present as a reliable source nor thus as a reference on the article. It is here as evidence some specific info, that i have added as a step towards readability and hopefully accuracy, is more plausible than other info, amateur opinions, or guesses that i've tagged. [belated sig, w/ contrib time per ed hist:]--Jerzy•t 08:52, 8 September 2012‎

It comprised:
 * I've reverted a contrib, a new-this-week, one-pg, IP-contributor's first one that includes an edit summary. (It's always good to see newcomers starting to learn.)
 * Several removals, contrary to policy, of fact and dubious tags
 * A few characters of c/e changes, which became irrelevant in my own later fix of awkward grammatical structures.
 * --Jerzy•t 08:24, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

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