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Charmed mergers

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Notability and fiction

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List of Desperate Housewives episodes nominated at FLRC

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Adventure Time with Finn and Jake

Can somebody explain this to me? Is it still upcoming? Woogee (talk) 03:25, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Scratching my head on that one. I'd guess check the sources. How can an upcoming show win an award years before it arrives? -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 03:33, 23 February 2010 (UTC) The series is still upcoming, and the seven minute short that inspired the series was nominated for an award. Sarilox (talk) 09:01, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Adding fields to the television template

Please see the proposal at Template_talk:Infobox_television#Additional_fields. Fred the happy man (talk) 14:36, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Journey to the West

Are the pages Journey to the West (TVB) and Journey to the West (TVB series) relating to the same subject? I can't quite tell. Thoughts? Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 13:06, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

It looks to be. Going to recommend a speedy delete per A10. Jrh7925 (talk) 12:30, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Anyone willing to do a peer review?

Hey all. I'm hoping to nominate Parks and Recreation (season 1) for FAC. It's passed at GAN and GLN, and gone through a peer review before, but it failed the first FAC because of prose problems. I've listed it for another peer review and was hoping someone could take a rigorous look at the prose and grammar before I nominate it for FAC again. Thanks! — Hunter Kahn 18:37, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Cooper Freedman

Hey, has anyone noticed the page abuse on the Cooper Freedman page from Private Practice? I am new to this and do not know the info to replace the written page abuse on this page. Could someone please fix this? 118.90.60.127 (talk) 09:55, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Fixed —Mike Allen 10:13, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Copyvio for episode plot summaries?

Are we not allowed to copy plot summaries (even when the are a couple of sentences) from TVguide.com, etc for episodes? Someone keeps removing some of the plot summaries from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 11), citing copyvio. I flat out told them that TVguide doesn't own those sentences. Do they really? I know it would look better by adding a longer encyclopedic summary.. I just haven't done it yet. Couldn't the borrowed summary from that site stay until I (or miraculously another user) re writes it? They also keep adding TV.com as a source.. sigh. —Mike Allen 10:02, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

You need to reword them. Wikipedia is not a mirror, so we cannot simply copy and paste everything from our sources--even if we put it in quotation marks. TV Guide summarized the official write-up themselves, so to simply copy and paste what TV Guide has done would basically be like copying and pasting their own words. The best course of action is to simply summarize/reword what they have said if you are using them.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 14:21, 6 March 2010 (UTC) Absolutely NOT! That is a complete violation of WP:COPYVIO. TVGuide does own those sentences the same as they own everything else in their magazines. Even if they were using just the official throw outs from the publisher, those are still copyrighted summarizes, with permission given to specific parties for reprint. Wikipedia is not a place for stealing people's content and work. So no, a "borrowed" summary cannot stay. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 14:49, 6 March 2010 (UTC) I'm sorry for being stupid. Should have been a no brainer. Ever since I've been here I have seen people copy TVguide.com (or any other site) episode summaries for future episodes. That's what I did, but I kind of left it there after the show aired. The problem has been solved.. I hope. —Mike Allen 21:56, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Masters of the Universe ideas some of these need resolution

I really believe some of these issues need resolving and discussion these are my ideas I thought I better ask otherwise it will likely go into an edit war again.

I feel that Horde Trooper and Horde Prime should be merged into Evil Horde. Tung Lashor, Snake Face, Sssqueeze into Snake Men (Masters of the Universe) and Double Trouble (She-Ra) and a few others into List of She-Ra: Princess of Power characters and episodes such as Teela's Quest should be merged into List of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe episodes I feel also some other characters should be merged or deleted.

• Mosquitor,Modulok unless third reliable third person information can be found it should be deleted or merged to List of Masters of the Universe characters

• He-Ro unless third reliable third person information can be found it should be deleted or merged to List of Masters of the Universe characters

• Zoar (He-Man) should go into Sorceress of Castle Grayskull

• Snout Spout unless third reliable third person information can be found it should be deleted or merged to List of She-Ra: Princess of Power characters Dwanyewest (talk) 23:55, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

• • Your probably right about most of this. Try a merge, and if it doesn't go well, mention it back here. - Peregrine Fisher (talk) 03:11, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

• I don't know how to merge articles if someone else knows how to do it be my guest. The second issue after trying to clear up some of the articles relating to Masters of the Universe and C.O.P.S. I am really not in the mood to argue again I would rather gain some sort of conseusus before inclusionist fanboys throw a fit again. Dwanyewest (talk) 04:04, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

• • To merge an article, you need to do a few things. First copy a few of the most important paragraphs or sentences from the article to be merged, and paste it into the merge target article. For legal reasons, you have to attribute the text, so if you were merging Snout Spout, put something like this in your edit summary: "The text for this merge was taken from the article Snout Spout, see its history for who wrote it". This allows anyone who cares to click on that link, and look at that article's history to see who wrote it. Then, you redirect Snout Spout to List of She-Ra: Princess of Power characters. It's pretty simple. Just saying "Text from Snout Spout" would probably be enough.
  • As far as inclusionist fanboys go, the best thing to do try reason with them. - Peregrine Fisher (talk) 05:07, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

• • I don't feel confident enough to make the merges without a mistake to be honest and I would rather have some sort of general argreement before a mass disagreement. Dwanyewest (talk) 04:14, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

The shield characters need massive additional sources

I added a reliable third person source [1] for Vic Mackey and other articles and it keeps been removed I don't believe trivia without sources should be allowed. [2] other shield characters need additional sources too. Dwanyewest (talk) 00:13, 7 March 2010 (UTC)