Thread:Harasar/@comment-3048593-20190213115614/@comment-1895174-20190321095705

Information changes, and we update. '''This is not a problem. This is the point of a wiki.''' We didn't "assume" those antagonists were supporting characters and vice-versa - they were presented as such. It was deliberately misleading information to conceal a twist. This is commonly done with upcoming media, and it's not something readers will be terribly upset with.

Also misleading - the identity of Jude Law and Annette Bening's characters. They were listed as playing completely different people just a few days prior to the movie's release, because that was the information we had. When we got new information, we updated. But that inaccurate information would still be on the page even if we removed the movie's appearances's section prior to it's release. The idea that every bit of information on pages for upcoming media will always be 100% accurate to the finished product is unreasonable, but it has also never been a problem.

The plot synopsis is a one-to-two sentence blurb studios put out describing a movie so people who haven't seen it can decide if they want to. A few sites reported Disney released a synopsis for Avengers: Endgame yesterday, and that movie isn't out for another month. It's not a perfect analogy, but they are to films what solicitations are for comics.

What you're thinking of are full summaries. And, true, they do end up getting put in the "synopsis" section once the thing comes out. But that has never been a problem. So instead of making a change, we can instead make 0 changes, and continue to let the thing that works continue to work because it works.

TV series can vary a lot. Sometimes they tell you all the relevant information - cast, synopsis, creative team - weeks in advance; other times they tell you nothing and you just have to figure it out as you watch. If I had a full release date, I could right now make up a page for the Season 6 premiere of Agents of SHIELD. That isn't out until May.

And I'd suggest you're flat-out wrong if you think readers are only interested in what actors will star in upcoming movies and not who and what will appear in them. If all you had to go by was a cast list, you would not have known Skrulls were in Captian Marvel until last Sept. when that big EW piece that kicked off the movie's marketing told us Ben Mendelsohn was playing Talos. Prior to that, we had him listed as playing Yon-Rogg. That was wrong. Fortunately for us we're a wiki, so someone could update the page once we got the new information. But you still wouldn't have known Skrulls were in the movie before then.