Talk:Autoboot Camp

2008-05-19T08:16:10Z

220.237.141.213:

[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/animated-8/pictures-and-summary-for-animated-episode-25-autoboot-camp-spoilers-164832/ Guess who's confirmed for this episode?]
--[[User:Hunter-113|Hunter-113]] 19:13, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
:EDITED FOR SPOILER --[[User:Dynamus Prime|Dynamus Prime]] 22:01, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
::Disregard that, apparently it doesn't count if it hasn't aired in America.
--[[User:Hunter-113|Hunter-113]] 10:10, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
:::I'm sorry we would prefer not to rely on second-hand information. And stop putting your signature on a separate line. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 10:16, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

== How to tell people NOT to update... ==

Do we have a big giant banner/template thing specifically for when we DO NOT want a page updated yet
on pain of death, because news on something is unofficial, leeked, or simply would be an exeptionally
annoying spoiler that a large chunk of the fandom may not want to know about? If yes we should put
it bang at the top middle of all these upcomming episode pages. If not can we make one?
--[[User:ZacWilliam|ZacWilliam]] 11:40, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
{{comingsoon|No updatey until it airs in the western hemisphere.}}
:Is the problem that we don't want a page updated until it airs in North America, or is the problem that we don't want people to fill in episode details unless they've seen the episode themselves?
:I mean, if the episode aired, then the episode aired, presumably with Hasbro's approval. I would think we'd actually want to encourage our lucky non-North American counterparts to keep the wiki up to date.
:If I, personally, as a resident of North America, don't want to get spoiled, it's my responsibility to stay away from the page in question. (I have the same problem with ''Devastation'' spoliers, since it hasn't been released in TPB yet.) [[User:JW|JW]] 14:29, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
::I actually think Devastation is in TPB now. Could have sworn I saw it at Borders. I'll have to double-check.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|<sup>Talk</sup>]] 14:42, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
::Secondhand fillins are probably the greater concern- but really it's both. Being spoiled /badly/ by secondhand information that's been awkwardly grapevined by people wanting to shout "FIRST POST!!1" is even more annoying than simply being spoiled. -[[Special:Contributions/75.168.112.43|75.168.112.43]] 14:36, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

:::Why is it both? I can understand not wanting to add possibly-garbled secondhand stuff. I can't understand prioritising the "Western Hemisphere" airings by themselves.
:::After all, GIGO was filled in before the episode aired to the Canuckleheads, and still hasn't aired in the middle bit of NA, AFAIK. Black Friday has been filled in and hasn't aired in NA at all. [Hell, Japanese episodes, including the "lost" episode of Energon, have been filled in when they're never going to air in NA at all!]
:::Why does a BotCon airing to a small audience get okayed, and a mass airing in a country outside of NA doesn't? - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 15:14, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
::::I think the secondhand bit is the main concern here. A sufficient number of users were at the BotCon showings to check each other's work on those two episodes, and the spoilers have been confined to the episode articles themselves (IE they haven't been added to character articles yet). These episodes aired in the Middle East? Most of the existing synopses involve spotty reception that cut out at critical moments during the episode, and thus can't be considered reliable. As well, the episodes aren't widely available so people can't check each other's work. It just makes for bad methodology.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|<sup>Talk</sup>]] 15:28, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
:::::It also skips ahead 5 episodes in chronology, which is... spoilery-er than usual. No one's actually seen seen it except a handful of random fans- and there doesn't to be confidence that the ones updating this article are the ones who /have/ seen it. (Rather, the general belief seems to be that all the who-are-you's editing this article almost certainly ''haven't'' seen it.) That's bad, if no one's seen the episode (including the people editing it) how can we correct inaccuracies? -[[Special:Contributions/75.168.112.43|75.168.112.43]] 04:54, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

So, uh, why can we put up things like Swindle in SUV or Prowl's sidecar in Fistful with the "Dubai blackout" in place? [[Special:Contributions/220.237.141.213|220.237.141.213]] 08:16, 19 May 2008 (UTC)<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>

Talk:A Fistful of Energon

2008-05-19T08:10:37Z

220.237.141.213: /* Inconsistent policy */ new section

[http://www.allspark.com/index.php/200805052769/Transformers-News/Images-From-Fistful-of-Energon.html]
Someone in the Middle East has already seen it, and has provided a summary.
--[[User:Hunter-113|Hunter-113]] 20:33, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
:First Canada, now the Middle East? One must wonder if Cartoon Network hates us...-- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 20:40, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
::Apparently they're getting new episodes ''daily'' --[[User:Hunter-113|Hunter-113]] 01:25, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

== Clone Army? ==

Even if they said there will be no clone army, there are clones of Starscream in spoiler pictures! One that is colored like original G1 Starscream, and others are just said to be clones (I guess Skywarp and Thundercracker)!--[[User:IguanaNik|IguanaNik]] 05:37, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
:As far as I know, when they said that at the panel, the sarcasm was piled a mile high, something that all the reports failed to capture in their retelling of the event.--[[User:Carrion|Carrion]] 05:42, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

== Inconsistent policy ==

How come we can put little tidbits of info (like the Samurai Sidecar stuff in this one or Swindle in SUV) in future episode articles, but not have had the full force of our self-imposed Dubai blackout come down on the culprits? Did I miss the loophole? [[Special:Contributions/220.237.141.213|220.237.141.213]] 08:10, 19 May 2008 (UTC)<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>

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