Spoiler talk:Other

Spoilers from other sites should be paraphrased, not cut-and-pasted. Even with a source attributed, that's just asking for copyright trouble.--Hardvice (talk) 16:54, 15 March 2007 (EDT)

It's okay to cut and paste a quote, right? As long as it's something they are reporting somebody said. It's just the words in between that need to be re-written. --Xmuskrat 09:10, 20 March 2007 (EDT)

Correct. It's even OK to quote the reporting site itself, as long as it's a quote (i.e. between quotations marks and attributed to the "speaker".) For example, if Kristin Veitch wrote "Peter is going to die of an infected toenail and Claire will become a lesbian nun", this could be recorded several ways:

1. According to Kristin Veitch, "Peter is going to die of an infected toenail and Claire will become a lesbian nun". (link)
2. Kristin Veitch reports that Peter will suffer a fatal infected toenail, while Claire will simultaneously become a lesbian and a nun. (link)
3. Peter is going to die of an infected toenail and Claire will become a lesbian nun. (link)

The first two are acceptable: #1 is a properly-attributed quote, and #2 is a paraphrase. #3 is what people have been doing lately, and that's not OK since it's copied but not labeled as a quote.--Hardvice (talk) 14:01, 20 March 2007 (EDT)

I believe the two I added today I did correctly then. --Xmuskrat 15:03, 20 March 2007 (EDT)

Yes ... except that the links point to a story about whether or not Lost's Charlie is going to die.  :) --Hardvice (talk) 15:11, 20 March 2007 (EDT)

Wizard World Q&A session Spoiler

Wait, Sylar didn't get Eden's power. Why is it listed? Peter met Eden so he probably has it but he didn't get it from Sylar. Bkdelong 16:51, 4 April 2007 (EDT)

Yes, Peter met Eden in Collision, as credited. --HiroDynoSlayer (talk) 04/4/2007 17:22 (EST)

But, if this section is supposed to list all of the abilities that he has, there are several others that should be listed:

• Regeneration (from Claire)
• Invisibility (from Claude)
• Bendu Supesu andu Timu (from Hiro)
• (etc.)

Peter has used his Eden ability of Persuasion in an episode, so there is no need to list it here if we are only listing those he may not realize he has used. --Prosthetic.Lips 15:51, 5 April 2007 (EDT)

• The writers have stated (repeatedly) that Peter's (and Sylar's) voice effects are just effects. There's still no confirmed instance of him using Eden's power. The purpose of this section is to mention the writers' explanation that Peter can duplicate all of Sylar's powers (which runs contrary to Greg Beeman's claim that he can't, but hey). I'm not sure why that's a spoiler and not merely a note, since it relates to past episodes, not unaired episodes, and I'm not sure what the value of listing the individual powers is. In any case, there's even less value in listing powers he has displayed like Claire's or Claude's here, since they are in no way spoilers.--Hardvice (talk) 15:56, 5 April 2007 (EDT)

Episodes 19-23

So, should we assume spoilerfix.com is accurate and reliable? Should we go ahead and make spoiler articles for these eps? (By the way, does anybody else think that these titles could double as really good porn titles?) — RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 21:52, 19 March 2007 (EDT)

• I particularly think the Exploding Man would be quite the porn title.--Bob 22:58, 19 March 2007 (EDT)
  • What about "The Hard Part"? ;) --Havoc 04:22, 5 April 2007 (EDT)
• Maybe if it was G-String Theory. --Xmuskrat 09:03, 20 March 2007 (EDT)
• We have separate confirmation on several of these from Herosite (though they could have the same source), and separate confirmation about String Theory from Adrian Pasdar thanks to Pull Stuff Randomly Out of Your Ass with Kristin. I'd say that's enough to add spoiler articles. We can always move them later and say "the story changed!"--Hardvice (talk) 15:26, 20 March 2007 (EDT)
• I've heard that NBC has renamed episode 20 to "Five Years Gone". Can someone confirm if this is true? --MiamiVolts 18:57, 13 April 2007 (EDT)