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Done. Thanks for pointing that out. :){{User:SOTO/sig}} 01:46, August 15, 2014 (UTC) | Done. Thanks for pointing that out. :){{User:SOTO/sig}} 01:46, August 15, 2014 (UTC) | ||
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Hey, man: no worries about any of what went down on that talk page. I wasn't at all angry with any of the participants. ''Everyone'' was acting in good faith and trying to do their best in a unique situation. | |||
In truth, if any fault is to be assigned to what happened there, '''it's entirely mine'''. When the leaks happened, I should have recognised that by closing [[series 8 (Doctor Who)]] as SOTO properly did, that there would likely have been a question as to where to put information as it came in. I should have gotten there way earlier with an interpretation of existing policy, and provided better guidance. So Shambala108 didn't mislead you. I just missed a trick amidst the other protections that we had to enact to protect against spoilers. | |||
In fairness to me, though, we've never had to take steps like these before. In every other year, we've happily kept the series page open and debates sorta worked themselves out over time, on that page, generally through the edit summaries. | |||
Unfortunately, the leaks have screwed things up, making us way more cautious than we'd like to be. | |||
Nevertheless, as to the accuracy of the series article, I have to say that personally, I'm not all that bothered. I'd rather let the article languish and then eventually be populated by facts ''as they're made evident upon transmission'' than go around chasing every press announcement. Remember, the BBC got the name of ''[[The Vampires of Venice (TV story)|The Vampires of Venice]]'' wrong in their first press announcement of 2010, so it doesn't bother me in week 1 of series 8 that we've ''apparently'' got the title of week 11. | |||
On the question of "where was the correct place to report news", I have to note that you weren't reporting news. You were giving what this wiki considers to be a spoiler: information about an as-yet-unreleased story. So, as the note at [[Talk:Series 8 (Doctor Who)]] said, you start a thread at [[Howling:The Howling|The Howling]], give it an accurate title that contains no spoilers, then alert an admin that there might be information that needs to be added to the article at whatever your Howling thread is. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}} 04:03: Thu 21 Aug 2014</span> | |||
