Forum:CT Archive/No more flow-walking!

Let's settle this, once and for all. Recently, Sue Rostoni informed us of 2 planned novels being cancelled: Blood Oath and Boba Fett one. While doing regular update of their status on respective pages, I noticed how many pages already included "info" from those novels as a given fact. I'm not talking about Timeline of books or List of Star Wars media, I'm talking about pages like Zekk, Boba Fett and Human that included those novels in their appearances section, like they were already out. And you know it's not a unique case: too often we have users adding appearances or even plot twists based on nothing else other than a cover and a brief publisher's summary. And more often than we'd like they turn out not to be true: covers can depict thing that never made appearance in the comic/novel itself, official summaries are sometimes deliberately written to be misleading, not to mention the cases when the product gets cancelled altogether. I believe that adding such conjectural info based on the unreleased product does no godd for Wookieepedia and should be forbidden.

Of course, such info still would be allowed on the OOU pages, like the one for the products itself ("Zekk will appear in this novel"), but not on the IU pages until the actual release (thus, the book will not be added to Zekk's appearances). Of course, if someone's got an actual copy of the book early, he would be free to post spoilers according to our spoiler policy as usual. Also, info based on the officially released previews and excepts will be allowed. Yes, they could also be different from the finished product (Qui-Gon is mention in except from Revelation published in Fury, but not in Revelation itself), but those cases are relatively rare and could be easily fixed.

So, to sum it, my proposal is: "Covers and brief publisher summaries of the future products alone are not valid to add any info to the IU-articles". Support it or not, that simple.  Mauser  Comlink 03:24, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes, support the proposal

 * 1)  Mauser  Comlink 03:24, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Discussion
As usual, I will ask you not to add any third vote options without a discussion here first.  Mauser  Comlink 03:24, 14 August 2009 (UTC)