Talk:List of The Event episodes

Spoilers
Adding a description for each episode is great. However, most of the description of the first episode (the only one to have aired yet) has been removed due to copyright issues. I have no problem with that, but the only thing that's left now is one sentence with a spoiler. I removed the spoiler since it's useless as a description and could ruin the episode for people, but my edit was promptly reverted stating "That's not how Wikipedia works". So how DOES Wikipedia work? Bonez0r (talk) 03:58, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, people come here for information. Don't remove spoilers because they're spoilers. WP:SPOILER.  X  eworlebi (talk) 04:28, 22 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the useful link. I was looking for a policy on spoilers before but couldn't find it. My problem was (and still is) that someone might open the article looking for air dates or other information that's not directly plot related. They might then inadvertently read the sentence containing the spoiler. Of course this could be avoided by giving each plot summary its own article (e.g. the list of Doctor Who episodes). Bonez0r (talk) 07:30, 22 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Even then the episode list should contain a summary of the episode, shorter but still containing the plot of the episode, not a teaser.  X  eworlebi (talk) 11:31, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Not our problem what they do or do not see. Wikipedia provides encyclopedia entries about relevent topics, like episode plots. It isn't our responsibility to prevent them from finding out about it.  Grsz 11  03:48, 28 September 2010 (UTC)


 * I only have a significant problem when people are listing plot summaries for episodes that have not aired....even for EST viewers. I think that violates WP:SPECULATION or maybe WP:CRYSTAL without a citation.Obamafan70 (talk) 12:48, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Do you mean after it has shown EST but not PST?  Grsz 11  13:54, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Sourced information can by definition not violate WP:CRYSTAL/WP:SPECULATION as that's about unverifiable information.  X  eworlebi (talk) 14:47, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm confused. But if there is a reliable WP:V plot summary, then by all means use it. I haven't seen any citations in the summary yet. My work was mostly clean-up on grammar and style, etc.. Obamafan70 (talk) 15:23, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia's guidelines on spoilers also says "when including spoilers, editors should make sure that an encyclopedic purpose is being served." No encyclopedic purpose is being served by spoiling the plot of a television show within the context of the shows episode summary. The purpose of Wikipedia's guidelines on spoilers is to protect the rights of users who would choose to post content of a story of fiction, e.g., Star Wars, where it is "generally expected that the subjects of our articles will be covered in detail". There are no general expectations of spoilers to be found within a short summary of an episode. If any individual should believe it necessary to post content that would entail detailed summaries of a shows episodes they should create such an article.The Dazs (talk) 10:09, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
 * The information with encyclopedis purpose happens to be the main plot points. And with only a few lines of details, there is no need for a separate articles. There is no reason a person who is reasonably trying to avoid finding out details cannot visit this page and not read the plot, just ignore it.  Grsz 11  14:55, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

I think it's a misuse of WP:SPOILER to use as a reason to post the plots of un-aired episodes. It seems clear from reading that guideline that it's meant to apply to finished works. LarryJeff (talk) 22:41, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
 * We're not talking about unaired episodes. If we were a reliable source would be required, such as official trailers, press releases etc. These are unlikely to contain spoilers, it's usually the unreliable blogs and fan-sites that publish rumors/spoilers etc. for upcoming episodes.  X  eworlebi (talk) 23:13, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Ratings inconsistency
The type of ratings used in the table needs to remain consistent or the data is essentially useless. Currently, episode one has fast affiliate overnight ratings (11.19 ), and episode two has finals numbers (9.06 ). Please decide on which type of ratings will be used, and stick to that one type throughout the table. These are not the same type of ratings data and they should not be used interchangeably. --Logical Fuzz (talk) 20:57, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Articles for episodes
I think we should make seperate articles for each episode. -Anonymous —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.167.203.47 (talk) 22:38, 28 November 2010 (UTC)


 * I doubt there's enough real world info to incorporate into such articles, unless I've missed a ton of interviews with writers/cast memebers talking about individual episode arcs and the like. Millahnna (talk) 23:33, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Episode 22
"Looking into the sky, the President's son asks his mother Christina: "What is it?" She replies: "Home"... suggesting that she too was a sleeper this entire time" This is one interpretation. Another would be that she understands that humans will be deported to this dying planet (refering to the fate even worse than dying from the virus that Sophia mentioned) Without more information, this sentence seems to be over-interpretation, and closes a door that the writers wanted to remain opened... 85.218.80.148 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 00:45, 10 February 2013 (UTC)