Talk:List of House episodes

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[edit] Single episodes

I plan on redirecting most of these per WP:EPISODE, WP:NOT and WP:NOTE soon. Every episode after "Pilot" lacks multiple secondary sources which must be present for a single episode to need an article. This includes reception and development. Consisting of solely of individual plot summaries and trivia don't make a substantial article. As others suggest, seek Wikia and tv.com as alternate venues for this information. Also see Talk:List of Scrubs episodes. « ₣ullMetal ₣alcon » 22:26, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Suspend until the whole EPISODES/FICT thing is over. Will (talk) 23:31, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
Disagree with the redirection. Although the individual articles fail the policies on some points, the information in each article is useful, even more so when someone needs additional information past the summaries and should be kept. Also, pointing viewers of the article towards other sites outside of wikipedia´s touch to read removed information is an arguable point. Fernando Hulio (talk) 18:05, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
I just went through the entire first season and other than the Pilot page, and Histories (House), Detox (House), and Love Hurts (House) none of the other episodes have anything other than a plot. Even those I just listed are just plot summaries with a couple of stray sentences (unsourced mind you) about some theme or inconsistency. Just about all of the "real world" content, even in its limited state, is original research. Wikipedia is not a plot summary, or a substitution for watching a show. There is nothing on these episode pages that says they need to be separated. Not only do they violate WP:PLOT, but they don't even fall into what WP:SPINOUT suggests. If you need a few extra sentences to describe a plot, try an article devoted to the respective seasons.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 02:12, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
I'm going to remove the merge tag for now because I plan on working on the article fairly heavily soon and this discussion also began over three months ago and has halted, for now. Gary King (talk) 06:20, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Warning abstracts...

People,

The abstracts on the main episode list (this article) are getting way too long, I think. Especially those of season 4. They should be 2 or 3 lines max, like season 1, 2 and 3.

The additional content can be written in their own article. Just de main explanation in this article.

A fair conclusion??

Dr. F.C. Turner - [USERPAGE|USERTALK] - 23:02, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Indeed. I edited too long abstracts for the first three seasons, I will now do so for season 4.Mrglass123 (talk) 21:40, 3 February 2008 (UTC)Mrglass123

[edit] New or repeated episode, 08 feb?

There was a countdown on House's page on Fox for 9pm today. Was it a rerun? Ldfifty (talk) 22:17, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Season 4 restart

Are the dates for the remaining season 4 episodes correct? The fox house site has a counter on with the next episode airing in just over 2 days. 202.154.142.235 (talk) 01:45, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "No More Mr. Nice Guy"

The source I listed for the name of this upcoming episode is a proper source, so I have no idea why it was reverted. If it was the fact that you couldn't see the name on there, go down to March 24, 2008 and you'll see the description for that episode. May not be the best source but it's reliable. Swanny92 (talk) 01:01, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

That source is in no way, shape or form reliable. It happens on this occasion to refer to the source from which it in turn obtained the prediction: a blog whose author quotes a mysterious '“House” source.' This is not acceptable sourcing for an encyclopedia. We have no publishing deadline; we can afford to wait until the name of the episode is published. --Anticipation of a New Lover's Arrival, The 22:02, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
It was the Chicago Tribune, well the Chicago Tribune's website, which seemingly is a newspaper, which confirmed the episode title, along with the return of Anne Dudek and several other guest stars to appear later on the show. Link is here. Check it out, I'm sure it's reliable. Swanny92 (talk) 03:09, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Season 4 Episode Count

Hey how do we know that Season 4 is only going to have 16 episodes and not 24? -GuffasBorgz7- 13:31, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Executive producer Katie Jacobs [said so]! --Salvania (talk) 19:33, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. -GuffasBorgz7- 04:34, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Titles of the last episodes (season 4)

[Interview with David Shore]
"No More Mr. Nice Guy"
"Living the Dream"
"House's Head"
"Wilson's Heart"
--Salvania (talk) 19:33, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Spoilers?

I regularly use Wikipedia pages on TV shows to keep track of the series I am watching and today I first stumbled upon this list of House episodes. To my surprise, the final diagnosis for each episode is included in the list, without any previous warning. However useful it may be to know the ending before watching, I prefer to enjoy the series with a clean slate and not know the final diagnosis beforehand. Especially not without explicitly choosing to look it up.

Do more people agree that the final diagnoses should either be hidden or removed or that at least some kind of spoiler warning be included in this page?

Michel Jansen (talk) 20:27, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

I think that since they are going to a wikipedia article called: "List of House episodes", they would know that they are taking the risk of having the storyline spoiled. Also, does anyone watch House just for the diagnosis? Everyone watches it for the storylines and the way they get the diagnosis. No one actually cares what it is, or remembers it for that matter. It is not that much of a spoiler. -GuffasBorgz7- 04:33, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
I thought these things were synopsis, and why would it give the conclusion to the show? It just seems rather illogical to have it in the first place on the generic list of all episodes. Obviously I don't see a problem if it were in the specific episode. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.188.59.173 (talk) 16:38, 20 April 2008
Sometimes knowing the diagnosis really does spoil things. For example, for Alone: "Allergic reaction to cephalosporins in misidentified patient". That's supposed to be the twist! Ilkali (talk) 13:19, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
I agree with you, but unfortunately current Wikipedia policy on spoilers is that, well, they shouldn't be on Wikipedia. --86.135.122.208 (talk) 12:30, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
Ermm, yes I'm sure that's what WP:SPOIL means then. This article should be at US pace, because that is the origination of House, and therefore there's not much you can do because your country is behind on the show. It doesn't reveal the final diagnosis on the upcoming episodes, just what has been shown. I've noticed that no one's complained yet about having the episode titles revealed of the upcoming episodes. Swanny92 (talk) 21:30, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
I'm sure some would. People can get very passionate about spoilers. But I guess those people just avoid WP altogether. --86.155.161.26 (talk) 13:16, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
I concur about the spoilers of the final diagnosis. It's too much information to give on what should be just what it says on the tin: a list of episodes. If I want synopses and spoilers (not short abstracts, which generally don't spoil), I'd use those episodes' individual pages. None of the other List of XXX Episodes pages I've seen have this sort of massive spoiler on. 82.3.78.117 (talk) 04:56, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
I agree with Mr 82.3.78.117. Giving away the diagnosis (which in most cases spoils the entire episode) is not what an episode-list page should be about. The current practice is highly homosexual.Pretender (talk) 05:00, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
Agree with Michel Jansen, giving away the diagnosis seems pointless, especially when we can include it on the individual episode pages. It's like having a page about a crime series with a list of whodunnits. 130.88.167.5 (talk) 12:04, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
The removal of each diagnosis from this paticular entry makes perfect sense, as this clearly is not the place. if someone is looking up the name of an episode then it is most likely that they have not seen the episode in question, in which case the discovery of the diagnosis can be a major plot spoiler, although apparently not to GuffasBorgz7, but i for one do feel this way. with a page dedicated to each episode it seems that if information is needed (more than the title) then it should be placed on the independent page, where logic dictates a spoiler will exist. the diagnosis does not belong here.

Downforthecount182 (talk) 21:12, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Season Four "Color"

Now, I'm sure people noticed that the first three seasons' episode lists were "colored" as their DVD counterparts. So I HAVE to give kudos to the one who chose green for the Season 4 list, as the DVD cover art JUST came out, and it's been green as long as I remember. A fine guesser you are, good editor :) --70.162.221.121 (talk) 06:24, 30 May 2008 (UTC)