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::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. | ::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 [[tardis:video policy|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. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} | ::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 [[tardis:video policy|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. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}'''21:40:55 Sun '''15 May 2011 </span> | ||
:::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. [[User:Rob T Firefly|Rob T Firefly]] 23:04, May 17, 2011 (UTC) | :::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. [[User:Rob T Firefly|Rob T Firefly]] 23:04, May 17, 2011 (UTC) | ||
