Talk:Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life

DVD

Will this be published on DVD?-71.174.187.182 (talk) 14:47, 25 November 2016 (UTC)

Separation from Gilmore Girls

I believe that this article should be separate from Gilmore Girls in all but prose and preceded/followed by, given that AYITL is presented as a separate series. That is, it should follow the example of Heroes and Heroes Reborn; the episode counts in the infobox of the first main article should remain as 7 seasons and 153 episodes, and AYITL should not be included on List of Gilmore Girls episodes, except for a hat-note (see List of Heroes episodes for such an example). Thoughts? Alex|The|Whovian^? 10:50, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

Synopsis or plot summary?

Any support to make synopsis more of a broad overview without spoilers. We could still include a more detailed plot summary that deals with potential spoilers. As written, the synopsis section is very spoiler heavy. Knope7 (talk) 02:54, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

WP:SPOILERS. --Izno (talk) 04:40, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

A poor reply, Izno. Guidelines do not explain all; you should expand further. To conform wit other television articles and the local consensus of the Television WikiProject, the plot summaries should be moved to the episode table and the respective episodes, and the prose content should remain as a synopsis. Alex|The|Whovian^? 08:41, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

Spoilers are allowed, but not always necessary. As written, the synopsis relies heavily on spoilers. I understand that something being a spoiler alone is not a reason to remove it, but the section ignores several story-lines and leans heavily on events in Fall. Also, as written Lorelei reconciles with Rory even though the synopsis makes no mention of them fighting. I would prefer to try and minimize, if not eliminate, spoilers from the synopsis and leave them for plot summaries. Knope7 (talk) 03:46, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

@Knope7: but the section ignores several story-lines and leans heavily on events in Fall I agree with this statement, but it does not follow from such that one should remove information--instead, one should balance the already-present plot with the missing plot. Regardless, WP:Summary style is also relevant: The desire not to provide spoilers early on is predicated on some notion that we are allowed to write the article otherwise... and we are not, for multiple reasons. @AlexTheWhovian: Your WP:LOCALCON is not sufficient to override either of those guidelines. --Izno (talk) 12:47, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

Pretty sure policy basically overrules guidelines, but sure. The summaries should still be moved to the episode table. That's the entire reason behind the existence of |ShortSummary=. Alex|The|Whovian^? 13:01, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

Not entirely sure what you refer to when you say Pretty sure policy basically overrules guidelines--please review what I linked. I'm a little ambivalent on where the summaries live--but since they're so short and unlikely to get much longer, and there are only 4 episodes, in this case it seems fine to leave them where they are. (The existence of a parameter of a template does not mean use of that parameter is required to convey some piece of information.) --Izno (talk) 13:20, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

There could be one episode and the summary should still reside in the table. And if they are moved, then they are bound to be expanded by other editors; not sure how familiar you are with television articles, but this is the prevailing behaviour. Alex|The|Whovian^? 23:51, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

summary should still reside in the table That is a bold assertion without basis in sitewide policy or guideline. As I said, if someone wants to move them, I won't stand in their way, but then I see little reason to have a 'synopsis'/'plot' section whatsoever. At that point you're simply duplicating content, and that is certainly a bad decision. --Izno (talk) 12:52, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

I could name dozens of articles with both a plot/synopsis section and summaries in the episode table. It seems you are extremely unfamiliar with how content is display in television-related articles; the Manual of Style is the guideline upon which I base my "bold assertions" - I would recommend you read up upon it. A synopsis would be sufficient as prose, where the individual episode summaries can go into more detail. Alex|The|Whovian^? 13:16, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

@AlexTheWhovian: Sorry but this edit was unhelpful: you pasted bits of the synopsis into episodes sections but it can't logically be done like that - it doesn't provide a full summary of each episode and elements are in completely the wrong place. Bitd that you've put in "Winter" happened in other episodes, while everything you put in "Summer" actually happens in "Fall". I'm going to revert. Please either write proper episode summaries or just leave it as a general synopsis (which personally I think is pretty much fine). --Loeba (talk) 20:15, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

Gilmore Girls A year in the Life

The GilMore Girls Club has been established since its time in college and 2002 vs 20216. Years ago today on the day of the Show. 2605:A601:912B:F300:A11A:5F7:DFA0:8985 (talk) 13:59, 21 October 2023 (UTC)