Thread:Harasar/@comment-3048593-20190213115614/@comment-3048593-20190321055230

LoveWaffle wrote: The cast list is not exhaustive. You're missing locations, items, vehicles, races/species, characters who either won't or don't have an announced cast member, or the context surrounding those characters. All of that information is useful to readers. And it's not speculative, either - that's why we have rules about verifiable sources. If you're concerned about characters that might not eventually make the final cut of the movie, their actors will still be listed in the cast list anyway. When information changes, we have editors who can update the page to accommodate the new information. That's kind of the point of a wiki. Context which isn't fully given until said movie actually comes out, so it does end up being speculative. 'Captain Marvel' being the latest example of that, where assumed supporting turned out to be antagonists, and antagonists turned out to be supporting. LoveWaffle wrote: And none of that addresses why you would remove the plot synopsis, too. Again, that information is important to readers. Not really much point to have "plot synopsis", when said movie hasn't even come out yet, so that would just be speculative as well. Hence why I have the idea of having two seperate sections. One that is "synopsis", and the other is "premise". LoveWaffle wrote: Frankly, I always thought it was weird that pages for upcoming comics wouldn't even list who and what was on the cover. Movie articles didn't do that; video game articles didn't do that; TV series articles didn't do that. It was only comics pages that were so stingy about the information they gave readers. But that's how it was long before I got here, and I don't really edit the pages for comics anyway. So I never thought it was my place to make a fuss about it. I thought they would eventually join the rest of the site in telling readers things they might want to know. But this does involve me, and it makes a problem where there wasn't one before. I don't think this would be applicable to TV series articles, since those have individual episode pages, which for the most part aren't created until said episode actually comes out. And when the episode title and cast are announced, it's not until shortly before it comes out, so it would only be a very temporary measure. And unless we make a change to the video game template to have its own section for cast list, I don't think it would be applicable for said pages also, since the main thing readers care about with an upcoming video game, is who