Tardis talk:Format for television stories

Discontinuities sections

The current format for television stories (and I presume others) reads as follows:

• Plot holes, continuity conflicts with other stories, and bloopers which got past the editing process all go here.

These may be explained and placed in round brackets and italics. (This is not a necessity, some statements or questions can just be left as is without answers.)

This area should not be used as a discussion forum for elements of disagreement of the story. Discussions of this type may be conducted in Forum:The Howling

I'm noticing that on a number of television episode pages (such as The End of Time) these sections are becoming collections of nitpicks and almost approaching discussion status. There is also a large amount of speculation found within, and it is getting to the point where it seems like more time is spent on speculating and changing the speculations of other people rather than making the article the best that it can be.

It seems to me (and I may be wrong and out of line here) that we need to revisit these sections and perhaps come up with a better approach to their content and purpose. Thoughts? -- sulfur 18:24, January 10, 2010 (UTC)

There shouldn't be any speculation in the discontinuity section.

The idea is still relatively good, most of the story pages from 1963-1989 show this. But perhaps a re-evaluation as what for the future this section is going to be about and what discussion can be shoved into the Howling.

The problem is that as the description currently stands it's all useful information (in theory).

I certainly think we should state no speculation in this section, I know I'm often removing stuff that starts with "maybe", "probably" or "perhaps".

Something like The Dæmons has a good interesting discontinuity section, even something as continuity heavy as Remembrance of the Daleks has relevant interesting information. --Tangerineduel 05:51, January 11, 2010 (UTC)