Wikipedia talk:Episode summaries

MfD Result Notice
This page was the subject of an MfD discussion closed on 2 November 2006. The result was no consensus, but tag as essay. Xoloz 14:09, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

They don't violate original research
Episode summaries could fall under this sentence in No original research:

In some cases, where an article (1) makes descriptive claims the accuracy of which is easily verifiable by any reasonable adult without specialist knowledge, and (2) makes no analytic, synthetic, interpretive, or evaluative claims, a Wikipedia article may be based entirely on primary sources (examples would include apple pie or current events), but these are exceptions. CG 07:35, 8 August 2006 (UTC)


 * So under this clause, I can write an article on the tree outside my window. Anyone can walk up to that tree and verify it, as long as i make no interpretive claims, right? Episode summaries are an interpretation of the episode anyway. -- Chris   chat   edits   essays    18:52, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

You are confusing paraphrasing and summarising, which is allowed and has always been allowed, with analysis. A good summary never noticably interprets. LinaMishima 18:11, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

WP:NOT
I've redirected this to WP:NOT as it's already covered in What Wikipedia is not point 7: "Plot summaries - Wikipedia articles should not act solely as a summary of the plot of a work of fiction, but should offer comprehensive, summarised plots in conjunction with sourced analysis, offering detail on a work's achievements, impact or historical significance within the article, or as part of a series of articles per Wikipedia:Article series." That seems to include episode summaries to me. Hiding Talk 10:15, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
 * The reason I wrote this is becuase I've tried (and failed) to delete uncited POV articles under this policy, but couldn't. This world is a place where a non-policy essay (notability) gets more deletions than actual policy (no, IAR doesn't apply here)

Merge
Hell no. This has nothing to do with notability. This is a clarification page that states that episode summaries are under the same rules as other articles. -- Chris   chat   edits   essays    17:04, 10 September 2006 (UTC)