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Global's Early Broadcasts in Canada

My fellow Canuks and Americanuks;

I receive Global through Cable in Saskatchewan. I get their Global Edmonton broadcasts. During the last two weeks that Global has been broadcasting Heroes one day early, all the listings I have access to have said that it was not broadcast then. Having not been able to see myself because I was away from home and TV during both Sunday and Monday night, I don't know if it is being broadcast here early or not.

I know that it is being broadcast at least somewhere early by Global because I have seen screenshots of content with the Global TV 'bug' (Station ID Icon they put in the corner of the screen) before Mondays broadcast as proof. I was wondering if I was able to catch it a day early or if there are other Global locations that supposedly aren't broadcasting it early.

Yours;

--WolvenSpectre 23:06, 4 March 2007 (EST)

• It looks like it airs on Global Ontario. Not sure about any of the others. (Admin 23:38, 4 March 2007 (EST))

• Global Vancouver airs Heroes a day early. Infact, I'm watching it right now this Sunday, March 4th at 9:29 PM (PST). Great episode going on, even halfway through. Anyways, back to subject on hand, it's Global Vancouver and Ontario that's airing Heroes early (that I know of, maybe more affiliates). --Aero Zeppelin 00:31, 5 March 2007 (EST)
  • Looks like Global decided to clear it up on the page with the video stream. It says it is broadcast on Monday in Alberta. That means here in the "Land of Living Skies" too (oh, how I hate that moniker for Saskatchewan).--WolvenSpectre 07:18, 5 March 2007 (EST)

So what that it airs in Canada

When its aired its aired, write the info here. And if the US idiots don't want to be spoiled well don't read it before you've seen it.--IceHero 08:01, 5 March 2007 (EST)

• The spoiler policy is designed to benefit everyone -- since the US and Canada are supposed to be on the same schedule. We'd do the same thing if it aired Sunday night in New York only, and I'd sure hope we'd do the same thing if it aired on Sunday night in the US but not Canada. It's not a matter of "US idiots" vs. Canadians (particularly since it hasn't even aired all over Canada) ... thanks to P2P, anyone can have seen it already. It's a matter of having a bright line for when spoilers cease to be spoilers. People can't effectively avoid being spoiled except by avoiding the entire site, and that's not fair. If you are just dying to write new articles from the episode, I'd suggest writing them offline in a text editor and uploading them tonight.--Hardvice (talk) 08:34, 5 March 2007 (EST)
• We'll be having respect for our viewers and users -- the episode will be considered a spoiler until it is widely aired. — RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 08:37, 5 March 2007 (EST)
• This is one of the reasons I thought that maybe it would have been better to have the posts for episodes that air early up here then bring them across after the airing. They are already marked as spoilers. Then in retrospect, I thought about the points the admins made, and took into consideration that this means that they would have to have a spoilers version of every article and section in case someone wanted to alter them. Then they would have to lock down the originals, make a whole new set of reference links, then after one day copy them to the main articles. Thats allot of work for just one day.

  That doesn't take into account that for that day people could not alter the main documents with non-spoiler material without going into the spoilers section defeating the whole purpose of the section. This doesn't include people who have direct bookmarks that go to the webpages of the main articles.

  I know many of us Canadian Fans are getting the 2cd and 3rd class treatment, but I have found this community to be more than accepting of us so I think we can put up with a little inconvenience. You wouldn't like it if somebody spoiled the best parts of an episode you had to watch on tape, so give them that same respect and then we can all do the "ooh ooh ooh did you see when he...(censored "Parasite" Scene that you HAVE to talk about at 10pm)".--WolvenSpectre 13:54, 5 March 2007 (EST)

  • Well said. I would also add, as I stated above, that I hope we would do things the same way if part of the U.S. decided to air things a day earlier. As I see it, it's not a U.S. vs. Canada issue at all ... it's a spoiler vs. non-spoiler issue.--Hardvice (talk) 13:57, 5 March 2007 (EST)
    • It wasn't done when Run! was broadcast almost a week late in Utah. ;)
      • Actually I didn't mind cause I got to see what I missed, and I read spoilers anyway. -Level 14:07, 5 March 2007 (EST)
        • if its a spoiler till most people see it, when exactly does heroes air in china or india? shouldn't it remain a spoiler till these two billion people have had the opportunity to see it JD 00:52, 6 March 2007 (EST)
          • It doesn't air concurrently in the U.S. and China. It does (or is supposed to) air concurrently in the U.S. and Canada. You're comparing apples to pomegranates. Don't be obtuse.--Hardvice (talk) 00:57, 6 March 2007 (EST)
          • I think we're getting a little petty here. You get the gist of what the admins of this site are saying, so try to refrain from being immature. Point being is that the show is filmed in the US, distributed by a US television company. Its designated audience is in the majority American, so it's only fair to assume that North America is what is to be assumed for when something is a spoiler or not. British television rarely makes it to the states, you don't hear me going on any sites like this for Dr. Who. Again, it's a matter of practicality and who the target audience is for the show and this site.--Baldbobbo 00:58, 6 March 2007 (EST)
          • I'll leave the pointing out the irony and problems with the above statement, and that previous discussions with Admin we discussed the voluntary self regulation that happens for one day, and if it doesn't work the Admins will probably just lock down the wiki for a day, which I think would be bad for the community and HeroesWiki.

            Admin also stated, and I assume the offer still stands, he offered to help set up a wiki for those fans in locations who are getting the show late. Also I think the community would probably not mind trading posting information after they are no longer spoilers for that new location. Think CSI and CSI:Miami only more like HeroesWiki:Japan.--WolvenSpectre 07:45, 6 March 2007 (EST)

  • On another note... Australia is still MANY episodes behind us...--Riddler 01:03, 6 March 2007 (EST)
    • According to what I have read and scene, Australia's broadcast companies are the ones that keep it that way. They wait purposefully for content price reductions and charge such inflated ad space on shows for how old they are it could be cheaper for the show distributors to press DVDs, selling their own ads, and mass mail them so long as the show is in positive ratings.--WolvenSpectre 07:51, 6 March 2007 (EST)

Season One DvD

Anybody know anything about when the season one dvd is gonna be released? Benoni 02:49, 24 March 2007 (EDT)

• No confirmation on any release date yet (the season hasn't wrapped yet, remember) ... but you can read this to get excited about all the extras. :) — RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 14:49, 24 March 2007 (EDT)
• Jesse Alexander also talked about it at Wizard World, including revealing that the DVDs will have exclusive scenes showing what happens to some of the characters after the season ends.--Hardvice (talk) 14:59, 24 March 2007 (EDT)
  • When it comes out, should there be an article about it? Heroe(talk) 15:01, 24 March 2007 (EDT)
    • We'll need to decide that after it comes out. It may be easier to just add info to individual character pages. It depends on the scenes, really.--Hardvice (talk) 15:04, 24 March 2007 (EDT)
      • I realize the season hasn't ended yet. I just figured they would release the DvDs asap, cuz of how popular the show is. So I thought maybe someone might have heard something about it. Of the extras I've read about I'm looking most forward to the uncut 72min pilot. Benoni 23:42, 24 March 2007 (EDT)
        • I'm looking forward to the 72min pilot too! I read that the DVD will have things that will satisfy the fans. Citizen

New .07% Trailer

Hi - please does anybody know if the trailer is still on? looks like the link is broken. Thanks. Stellatomailing 11:50, 12 April 2007 (EDT)

• I believe there's one here and a whole bunch listed here. — RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 15:00, 12 April 2007 (EDT)

Here it is. Somebody tweaked a bit the original version from MS. Stellatomailing 15:19, 12 April 2007 (EDT)

Weird formatting?

Sometimes when I refresh the page, the language bar and everything south of it stretches the full screen width, and sometimes it's only about 60% wide. Is anybody else seeing this?--Hardvice (talk) 18:37, 16 April 2007 (EDT)

• Yeah, when I just forced a refresh it and everything below it was only halfway across. (Admin 18:40, 16 April 2007 (EDT))
  • Ok, made some changes and it seems to be loading ok for me now. You can check the diff, but essentially I just removed a lot of the table code that was added with the new language bar as a result of copying code from the linkbar. (Admin 20:18, 16 April 2007 (EDT))

Other other Heroes Wiki.

I found another lame excuse of a Heroes Wiki on the interweb, at heroes.wikia.com/wiki/Heroes_Wiki . (Note: I didn't want to link to it, because it will help it rank high in the search engines.) ---- 16:00, 20 April 2007 (EDT)

• It's been around for a while but has never been very impressive. At some point in the past I remember there was a link to our wiki in their links section, but they got so little traffic that I hardly ever saw traffic coming from their site. Just like NBC's wiki I doubt much will come of it; we're pretty well established. (Admin 16:06, 20 April 2007 (EDT))
  • I just pimped us out over there. :P Heroe!(talk) 19:15, 20 April 2007 (EDT)
    • That was you that vandalized their pages and deleted some of their content? That wasn't a responsible thing to do. You should revert those changes. (Admin 19:18, 20 April 2007 (EDT))
      • Darnit, now I feel guilty. :(. Older people ruin all the fun. Heroe!(talk) 19:28, 20 April 2007 (EDT)
        • Yeah, that really wasn't very nice or respectful. I sure hope you enjoyed yourself because I don't really see how that was "fun". (And yes, I'm an "older person", too--if showing respect means ruining all the fun, then I'm proud to be a killjoy.) I've actually been very impressed with the majority of our users here at Heroes Wiki; we generally treat each other with respect, understanding, and patience. Other wiki sites have users who can get very rude to each other, and we don't have too much of that. I just really hope immature vandalism to other sites doesn't reflect badly on our site. Ugh. — RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 20:31, 20 April 2007 (EDT)

"Page Type" buttons

• Actually, they've got a really great idea, if you ask me. When you add a new page, they provide a buttons with choices for what type of page it is (character, episode, actor, etc.) Clicking the button drops in a blank page in the needed format--it has all the necessary templates and section headings. It's basically the same as subst:-ing, but it removes a step and is a heckuva lot more user-friendly. — RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 20:47, 20 April 2007 (EDT)
  • We could do that here, too, if we want. Would just take a quick edit to MediaWiki:Newarticletext. The mechanism just uses the preload variable in the request string to populate the edit box with a Template. (e.g. http://heroeswiki.com/index.php?title=SomePage&action=edit&preload=Template:welcome) (Admin 20:57, 20 April 2007 (EDT))
    • Obviously, I'm all for it. I think it's a great idea. Basically, we already have the pages in place to be dropped in (with some tweaks). I think it would help a lot of misformatting, or using templates that are missing variables (when people just copy a similar article, though it might be a bit old). It would even help with things like standard capitalization in headings--even though every character page has "Character History", when people write new articles they (myself included) sometimes write "Character history"--a small mistake, but one that would be fixed using those buttons. — RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 21:06, 20 April 2007 (EDT)
      • Go for it then. :) All administrators can edit the "articles" in MediaWiki namespace. (Admin 21:08, 20 April 2007 (EDT))
        • Standardization and automation are good things....gives us more time to research theories, powers, and super-geeked crossword puzzles! --HiroDynoSlayer (talk) 04/20/2007 21:30 (EST)
          • I think that's a good move to add thoose buttons. But why do we only have PLACE and CHARACTERS ? What about other type of pages ? And I know it's meaningless but I don't like how thoose buttons look, they are too big and too... ugly ? :p Can't we edit them to make them smaller and fit the actual graphic template ? -- FrenchFlo (talk)        08:22, 21 April 2007 (EDT)