Board Thread:Wiki-Related Discussion/@comment-2153169-20170420215606

Hey guys!! I'd need your attention for the upcoming minutes please!

So, after the little thing on the Musical Episode page, I just realized something.

As you may or may not know already, we use since always promo trailers, interviews and promo pics as sources on our pages, and especially for appearing elements in the future episodes. We use them as source to say this element will appear in this episode. Like "Jennifer Morrison as Emma Swan File:6x17 - Awake - Promo" (without the *).

I think that's a well known fact, I mean, just ask any people working with the spoilers or using the "next episode trailer" as source on that episode page ^^

But, as Killian pointed it out, we have this rule in our policies. "It is the practice of this Wiki to consider information learned from promotional material and sneak peeks of upcoming episodes to be speculation, and such information should not be added until the episode itself concludes airing."

So, because of this rule, we're not supposed to use sneak peeks, but it also includes any promotional material. So, stricly speaking, we can't use promo trailers (including the "next ep" one), promo pics (even when utter uploaded them on the wiki), interviews (they're also promotional material of upcoming episodes), etc...

Let me say it clearly: that's a rule we barely applied until now. The only recent exemple I have in mind was when we decided to wait to add "Henry Daniel Mills", because it came from a sneak peek. Meaning a long time ago. That's a rule that no one is following, even the staff and admins actually (for exemple, Lily used a sneak peek as source here: http://onceuponatime.wikia.com/wiki/Teleportation?diff=prev&oldid=645981)

If we suddenly decide to apply this rule, we'll loose a lot of our spoilers material that we're used to. Some of our most precious and important spoilers sources would be completely useless because of that sudden decision. It would affect a lot our work on spoilers and on the quality of spoilers we're giving to our readers. Because, let's admit it, many people are reading our page for their spoilers to.

My suggestion is simple. That's not a real deletion that I am asking; because as I said it, that's a rule we never really apply. So, that's not a case of "let's delete an unfair rule". I'm just asking if you'd agree to get rid of something which could really annoy everyone, more than anything else, if we decide to suddenly apply it.

Your opinions? =) 