Talk:List of Dawson's Creek episodes

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[edit] Good Work

As the primary author of the Dawson's Creek article, I'd like to salute those who have really fleshed out this list and added photos. Good work, people. PedanticallySpeaking 12:51, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Non-free images

Before attempting to add non-free images to this article, please read the following:

--Tony Sidaway 01:42, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

I did. In Wikipedia:Non-free content is no specific rule or guideline which states that adding screenshots in a list in order to help quickly find the episode you want is illegal. The Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Removal of images from lists of episodes‎ page is a very long and not yet finished debate whether to remove them or not. Until that discussion has resulted in a guideline I suggest keeping the images, because they are automatically deleted after seven days because they aren't used anywhere else, and it would be a shame if there won't be a guideline to remove similar images (like now), the images would already be gone. Cristan 12:24, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] CFD work

Could an admin please remove the category Category:Dawson's Creek per Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 June 6? Thanks. -- Seed 2.0 06:50, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Done. Conscious 08:26, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Episode notability

The following discussion is archived. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.
  • The result is a merge and redirect, based on no actual rebuttle to the proposed merger. Since this is a discussion, and not a vote, there needs to be more than simply "object". Being helpful is not a criteria for keeping something.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 21:16, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

All of the episodes of this series fail the notability guidelines for television episodes. The way for these articles to be improved is through the inclusion of real-world information from reliable sources to assert notability. That is unlikely to happen, and these only contain overly long plot summaries, trivia, and quotes. Per that, they need to be a small part of this list. If there are no objections, these will be redirected soon. TTN 12:36, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

I object. Please use the Wikipedia:Television episodes/Review process. - Peregrine Fisher 05:41, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
Fair enough. I have added this review. I agree with TTN that these articles fail WP:EPISODE & should be redirected to the LOE. Eusebeus 20:09, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
Maybe I'm missing something, but when I went to look at these, I found links not to episode articles but to terms such as Kiss...
  • Speedy delink
--Jack Merridew 10:44, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
(the ones that are not to episode articles; review the rest) --Jack Merridew 10:49, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

The individual episode guides are extremely helpful to those who are interested in detailed information and trivia about individual episodes and should thusly remain intact and as they are. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.113.6.224 (talk) 09:31, August 30, 2007 (UTC)

Please read WP:AVTRIV for what Wikipedia thinks about trivia information.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 20:46, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Keep them and Extend them. I am all with Andrew Lih: Unwanted: New articles in Wikipedia.--Hhielscher 20:02, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Advice to interested editors

This is a boilerplate bit of advice to editors of television episode articles which have come under Wikipedia:Television episodes/Review.

There is fairly widespread consensus that not all television episodes are sufficiently notable to merit articles of their own in Wikipedia. In the interest of fairness, the Wikipedia:Television episodes/Review process has been established, to determine whether it's possible to establish out-of-universe importance and real-world context for television episode articles. For example, after uncontroversial discussion here, articles on individual episodes of The Simple Life were turned into redirects to List of The Simple Life episodes.

If you're interested in keeping episode articles, the key thing is to find reliable sources discussing individual episodes. Sources which may help establish notability for these episodes include reviews in newspapers, discussion in specialist magazines, and detailed episode guides. (Some of my fellow editors feel that episode guides aren't sufficiently independent of the subject to establish notability, but I disagree, especially for professionally published episode guides.) The key thing for improvement of these articles is to include some real-world content (ratings are a good start) and information beyond plot summaries and cast lists. If there are any books published about this series, see if the production or impact of individual episodes are discussed, and add that information to the episode articles. If someone used sources like these books on a handful of these episode articles, to indicate that the episodes of this series have received sufficient coverage in reliable sources that any episode of the series could have encyclopedic coverage, I'd support leaving the other articles as they are, because the potential would have been demonstrated. I hope that interested editors will take up this challenge, and improve the articles so that they won't be redirected.—Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 21:31, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.