Talk:List of H2O: Just Add Water episodes

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[edit] Spoilers

I have noticed that somebody has been giving away episode summaries before they air in Australia. I think we should wait and not give the plot away to people who haven't seen the episodes yet. — XxH2Oluverxx 22:42, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Agreed, though the one adding it is saying that they have already aired in another country. Regardless, they really shouldn't be added until after the home-country airs. — Huntster (t • @ • c) 06:33, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
Not Agreed! It's an encyclopedia not an H2O sponsored advertisement. In the spirit of making the maximum possible knowledge available, all seasons should be available. If we follow your argument, all summaries of all episodes (or any summary of any book on wikipedia) should be removed just in case not every person on earth had a chance to watch them ... clearly not reasonable. They have been aired in Belgium and Netherlands. Maybe we can add a spoiler warning at the beginning. (it was suggested days ago and removed. At least the titles should be left in, but I vote also for the summaries.— wik!_t (t • @ • c) 15:39, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
Okay, I can see both sides of the story here. Though I wasn't logged in at the time, I have been providing the summaries for these episodes. I am aware of the fact that in Australia, these episodes haven't been aired yet, but I thought I was doing something good by - as the previous contributor said - making the maximum possible knowledge available. I am prepared to put summaries for the remaining episodes up, but I'm also prepared to do this only as they air in Australia, or do it with a spoiler warning. I'm not going to force my opinions nor summaries on anybody; it's up to you. — Calliope_epoillaC (t • @ • c) 19:23, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
I have heard about other countries airing the series and I think your point on maximum possible knowledge is very important too. I agree that the names of the episodes should be left in aswell. But in Australia they have only aired up to episode 17. Many people would not want to know what happens next by spoilers, but watch them to see for themselves. I think that what was suggested, putting the episode names in, is reasonable. Some fans of the show may not want to know what happens next and that would ruin the other episodes for them. Some people may want to know so, as they air in Australia or maybe one or two days before, we could put in the summaries for each episode. — XxH2Oluverxx 21:26, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
I think the episode names and Australian airdates are fine for inclusion, it was the summaries I was concerned with. I'm curious, though, where are the episode names coming from? I can find no sources for any of them (they aren't included anywhere in the broadcast and there have been no press kits issued for this season). — Huntster (t • @ • c) 22:09, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
That's a good idea to include the airdates for Australia aswell as the names of the episodes. The episode names are coming from, possibly, people who are from Netherlands or Belgium. Maybe there is some other source? — XxH2Oluverxx 22:21, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

I still disagree with the notion of suppressing available information. Wikipedia is not about protecting people form possibly "harmful" facts. In the case of a television show this is relatively minor problem. In the greater content of information management, this is a horrendous problem that wikipedia has to deal with all over the place. The current solution of simply leaving out the summaries for the latter episodes seems dicey. But since we are only talking a couple of weeks, and the issue is a fairly trivial one, I think it would be silly to fight about this.

— wik!_t (t • @ • c) 16:33, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

I was wondering about the episode names as well, but then I found the website of the channel the episodes were aired on (Nederland 3). When I looked up the programme schedule, I saw that the names were mentioned there, so that's where I got them. — Calliope_epoillaC (t • @ • c) 19:23, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
Hmm, I agree with the fact that it isn't fair, however I can see both sides of the story. After all, there might be someone who can't watch H20 and would like to read about it, or someone in Australia might want to watch it or read about it online earlier. I think this could be resolved by maybe writing the episode plots, while not giving away too much. That way, when people in Australia have watched it, they can add in facts. Or, there could be 2 pages. The English/American page for it, and the Australian page for it. Vitual aelita (talk) 18:58, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Even if we write in the episode plots we are giving away something. Many people do not want their viewing to be spoiled and watch the episode for themselves. The series is almost finished so there wouldn't be much point to filling the summaries in.
21:24, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

A couple of days ago, I was looking at the Australian air dates, and found that all of season 1 had been deleted!

It was reverted, but we should look out for this, as it has happened 3 times now. Vitual aelita (talk) 19:05, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Summary

I was wondering if the summary of each episode is done right. I mean, if this is an encyclopedia, shoudn't the summary be complete, not like an advert for atracting watchers "Will Lewis arrive in time to save the mermaid secret?" that sort of thing. I think that it shoud say exactly what happens "...but Louis comes in time to save the girls secret." I don't mean any disrespect to the one that made the summary, but I don't think that kind of thing works on Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bia deadly delight (talk • contribs) 12:16, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

You are absolutely correct. Also, the problem exists that people are pulling summaries from the australiantelevision.net/h2o website and pasting them here, which is a copyright violation. I'm no longer able to watch the series, so I cannot contribute. If you would like to do so, please feel free to write brief summaries in place of the ones currently there. If you need any assistance, let me know. (This reply goes for anyone who would like to contribute, so long as the summary is encyclopaedic and, well, not written at a fifth grade level :) — Huntster (t • @ • c) 14:18, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
For those who wish to help you might find this website helpful as episodes 29-51 are available to watch there. Also this page is apparently a copyright violation of http://australiantelevision.net/h2o as already stated above by hunster. I would help but with my writing ability it would probably be better to have the copyright violations. ;) Alexfusco5 15:56, 15 March 2008 (UTC)