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I've just had a look on Merlin Wiki, and they've done something intresting. Basically, below the infobox image, they've put the next time trailer. I think it would be good if we started doing this, I mean, people would be able to almost see the synopsis come to life, but it would also help as a preview of the episode. The "Next Time" trailers never contain any big spoilers, so it wouldn't be breakling the spoiler policy. Any thoughts? User:Ghastly9090/sig 15:51, May 15, 2011 (UTC)

On occasion the Next Time trailer is placed at the end of the credits, as happens with 2 parters. So while they might not contain "big" spoilers they do contain something that people might want to avoid.

Including a shot from the "Next Time" trailer would be a rather large point of difference between the new and classic series.

Also...wouldn't having the Next Time trailer image only be useful for 6 days? After that readers could click through to the next story. --Tangerineduel / talk 17:01, May 15, 2011 (UTC)

Well, I don't know specifically about the "Next Time" trailer. TD may well have a point that it's kinda time-specific. I disagree that we need to protect people from spoilers, since users have to choose to play it. Where TD may be on to something is that the "Next Time" trailers aren't necessarily illustrative. They are designed to whet your appetite specifically on the day you see the previous episode. These days, they release a different trailer almost immediately after. And they soon deliver actual clips from the show, which I think is where we wanna go. I think we should therefore wait till the episode in question is broadcast, not really for fear of spoilers, but just so we get the best of the clips that are made available over the week between eps. The reason I think we want clips rather than trailers is of course that there aren't a whole lot of trailers officially available from the classic era. There are, however, a lot of clips.

In general, though, I agree with Ghastly that we should be putting some kind of video up on every story for which the BBC/BBCA give us something. We're really not leveraging the huge number of clips that are fully allowable under our video policy which would enliven our pages. Stylistically, I don't think it should be directly under the infobox still, but rather should consistently be in the infobox at the bottom. Our infobox doesn't particularly allow it now, but the infoboxen are getting a makeover soon, and I'll probably build in a video "cupboard" when the makeover happens.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 21:40:55 Sun 15 May 2011 

I dig the idea of including more video, and I do like the idea of using the "next time" trailers as a matter of course. I have fond memories of a Star Trek TNG episode guide CD-Rom from the 1990s which included their "next time" trailers within the episode entries, and they were neat additions to the entries even long after their broadcast. They'd only be possibly spoilery for the 6 days, but readers looking to avoid that level of spoiling would probably already be avoiding the episode's article before broadcast. Rob T Firefly 23:04, May 17, 2011 (UTC)

Have we come to a final descision yet? --User:Ghastly9090/sig 15:13, May 25, 2011 (UTC)

Likely not one that will have a definite effect in time for at least this part of the new series.

Sourcing the video would likely be one of the more tricky things as BBC Worldwide tends not to release trailers onto YouTube or other easily integrated video sites that interact with the wiki easily. --Tangerineduel / talk 15:55, May 25, 2011 (UTC)