Talk:List of Dexter episodes

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Contents 1 Author 2 Synopsis 3 Screenshots 4 Lead paragraph 5 What happened to the individual summaries and screenshots? 6 Discussion of leaked episodes 7 Reworked 8 Season 3

[edit] Author

Where is the information regarding future episode titles and summaries coming from? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Matthew Massey (talk • contribs) .

The information was added by various Users. This list was originally included in the Dexter (TV series) article, but I moved it to this list page. Looking at the edit history of Dexter (TV series), the list began with an edit on October 2, 2006 by 209.120.170.189. You can view tthe history by clicking here. Somnabot 10:41, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Come on people, sign your remarks, and try to be a little bit more helpfull. I think Matthew knew how to search the history. don't know the source of the title's myself. But I think if they are wrong that they will be changed later. --Soyweiser 20:32, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Making friends are we? Somnabot 23:11, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Synopsis

All of the synopsis with the exception of "Seeing Red" were copied word for word from http://www.sho.com/site/dexter/episodes.do - I have removed them. Mrfridays 21:25, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes, you are right. Sort of. The descriptions you pulled were not ALL posted verbatum. I should know, just look at my contributions to this page. Besides, I would like to note that other TV series share the same practice. By all means, investigate it yourself. I have reverted your edit for the time being, and urge you to take a moment to reword whatever portions of this page you may feel need to be. Thanks in advance. Somnabot 23:11, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

I went ahead and removed the 3 or 4 that were still verbatim copies and replaced them with original material. I also edited down some of the other ones that read more like recaps than synopsis. Mrfridays 19:35, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

The current (much shorter) synopses are far better - the old ones gave away far too much information without Spoiler warnings. Thanks for trimming them to reasonable length. MattHucke^(t) 22:20, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Go Mrfridays! Should we reitterate the long synopses into the articles? Somnabot 00:33, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Screenshots

The supplied screenshots don't really say anything about an episode - mostly they just show Dexter. They should show an essential scene if possible. Wikidicted 23:16, 28 December 2006

Feel free to make adjustments... Just to prevent a messy cleanup, let me suggest that you upload your new pictures to the current picture locations. Somnabot 21:12, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lead paragraph

Why was the lead paragraph deleted and considered to be redundant? Most pages which contain links to episode articles all contain a lead (or opening) paragraph. In fact, you need a lead in order to be considered for a fair use candidate. I just don't believe it should have been deleted. Sfufan2005 21:20, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

The information was already covered on the lead-in page. Ask Mrfridays for more details--he was the one who made the edit. Somnabot 18:16, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

I think it's pretty self-explanatory. The information that is on the main page was repeated here. This is not necessary. The lead-in page should have that information, not this page. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mrfridays (talk • contribs) 17:32, 11 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] What happened to the individual summaries and screenshots?

I am new. What happened to the individual episode summaries and screenshots? I read this page last year and now when I come bakc, it's all different. Can someone explain without being mean? Thanks. 24.85.132.54 21:16, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

With regards to the pictures, it was felt they provided no integral outline to each episode, as earlier documented in previous talk page discussions. With regards to the synopses, they were changed due to being copied verbatim from Showcase's Dexter site, as well as having been judged as being too full of spoilers. While I agreed mentally with the first change, I found the second change to be unneeded. Albeit copying from any site verbatim is a bad practice, altering the synopses to edit out potential "spoilers" is wrong. For shows that have been aired, I'd agree to a synopses being altered, as one would have the material to alter it. However, for upcoming episodes, as no other "synopsis" but an official one would be considered genuine for the likes of an encyclopaedia (as no one but the people who've created the show would know the content), I feel that changing the provided synopses from Showcase is a cop out. I feel that Wikipedia is NOT a place for political/social/any sort of forced correctness, in the realm of "upcoming" events. In other words, Showcase is providing a more accurate and correct synopses for the currently unreleased episodes - and while the users editing this board find that the synopses provided by Showcase may have some sort of spoiler - one must realize that if the official source for the show is allowing such information to be known to the world, then it should be no different on Wikipedia. Of course, there's no place for logic here, at Wikipedia. 70.49.197.53 (talk) 01:12, 29 November 2007 (UTC) Joe Caron

[edit] Discussion of leaked episodes

Currently there is a section after the list stating how the last two episodes have leaked. I can confirm that this is true, having watched both of them, but I question whether the information is appropriate to this or any article. I am no fan of censorship, but a list of episodes should be just that. Regarding the quality of the info: This is a complex issue that comes up more and more these days, but the fact is that there is no source that passes WP:V for this information, even though individual wikipedians may know it to be fact. The leaked episodes themselves or their torrent links cannot be used as sources, as is clearly spelled out in WP:COPYRIGHT. For an example of a case when such information would be appropriate, see the Harry Potter 7 leak. Massive media coverage of the leak created citable sources, which has not happened here(yet?). In summary, this information is true, but must be excluded both because of inappropriateness for the article and plain vanilla WP:V issues. -₪-Hemidemisemiquaver (talk) 23:05, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reworked

I reworked this today. I fixed the lead, removed the stuff about the title sequence (which belongs in the main article) and re-formated the episode list. Also made it the same color as the infobox in the main article, which I think looks cool.–FunkyVoltron ^talk 11:22, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Season 3

Shouldn't season 3 be added now that we know what date the next episode is going to be on? Juice10 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 14:57, 12 March 2008 (UTC)