Board Thread:Wiki-Related Discussion/@comment-1916997-20151123015716/@comment-1916997-20151123231447

Lady Junky wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: Lady Junky wrote: We never and won't use IMDB as reference x) As you all know, anyone can edit it and, even if sometimes they got some people right, they also got mistakes. The source is not 100% sure, so we won't use it. How unprofessional we would be if we use IMDB on ones of our most important pages: the spoilers pages.

Moreover, I also noticed that most of the time, IMDB copied their cast list from our wiki. On a lot of cases for upcoming eps, they only added the characters that we added ourselves.

IMDB has too many flaws to be used. Actually, even the others websites about OUAT do not use it... Seriously, how unprofessional it would be, especially because we know its flaws x)

BTW Eskaver, the people we used from Twitter are people who were on the set/conventions, meaning they saw things, they heard things; and most of them are well-known people from Twitter fans. So yeah, they are a way more "sure" than IMDB.

Finally, I'd like to say that, in my opinion, it would be cool if people stop thinking that having a community decision about something will make it happen. Personally, I begin to see, in my opinion, some "abussive attitudes" which are doing community discussions, just to hope to change details from our policies. Personally, I see it as an attempt to give a "legal" aspect to their violations of our policies.

Yes, we are a wiki which work with a community basis... But I also learnt that we are not a wiki where eveything can be decided/changed by a community decision. And I do think that some people should begin to understand that now.

I also think if these kind of things continue... well, it could give us the opposite effect, meaning a restriction of these community decisions. And, I'm not affraid to say it again: to me, it is just a way to give a "legal" aspect against a violation of one of our oldest policy. If policies are bad or don't make sense they should be changed. Laws change all the time, there is no reason it would be any different here. Also, I don't think a random person from Twitter can be 100%, they are just as prone to make a mistake as someone on IMDB. And seriously, if these aren't real, I'd like to here your explanation for them:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1058987/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t12

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0335242/?ref_=tt_cl_t11 Let me correct you: our policies are "bad or don't make sense", only because you do not like them. That's human after all. Then, "random persons"? Whoa, that's really polite towards these people who are using their free time to go on set to give us spoilers since years (I mean, for exemple, Katmtan does that since at least 2 years). They are not "random persons", they are people, - who also take pictures when they can - from the set, and who give us a lot of details. Actually, if they were not there, I really think that our forums would be more empty. So yeah, when these people give us an info, we trust them at 100% because they were on the set.

Then, I'm not saying IMDB is always wrong; they're probably right. The thing is, we do not know where this info come from (contrary to our "random people" who give us info from the set). And trust me, a lot of people and I; we're working a lot on that: trying to find a good source for the info on IMDB. But sometimes, it is impossible so since we're unable to say where it comes from, we don't add it (which is normal). Yeah, I'm sure the people's info is mostly good, but, like with the Merrin thing last year, not foolproof. I just don't see the harm in adding the two examples I gave. As you and others said, odds are those are correct. If we get a bad one once in a while, it's no different then a mistake with the Twitter users. And if we have one that is obviously false, like say someone adds, lets say Daniel Radcliffe as something, we don't have to add that. One, because we know we would have heard about him getting cast, and two, because we can probably find out what he's filming at the time in question. But little know Canadian actors in bit parts, scream real.