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A lot of the DVDs quote the advertising blurbs either from Universal or the back covers. It's not really unacceptable, but maybe a bit un-encyclopedic. Moreover, it doesn't really add any useful information. Maybe we should instead write a sentence on what it contains, and maybe a short enumeration of the extras contained (or not). -- [[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 14:09, 30 January 2008 (CST)
A lot of the DVDs quote the advertising blurbs either from Universal or the back covers. It's not really unacceptable, but maybe a bit un-encyclopedic. Moreover, it doesn't really add any useful information. Maybe we should instead write a sentence on what it contains, and maybe a short enumeration of the extras contained (or not). -- [[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 14:09, 30 January 2008 (CST)
:Agreed.  Would we use some of the text from the summaries on the related articles, or just write something totally new?-- [[User:OrionFour|OrionFour]] 17:09, 30 January 2008 (CST)
:Agreed.  Would we use some of the text from the summaries on the related articles, or just write something totally new?-- [[User:OrionFour|OrionFour]] 17:09, 30 January 2008 (CST)
::I was thinking more something like "This set contains all 20 episodes of Season 3, as well as audio commentaries, blah blah". Story summaries would be possibly, but those can be found on the season pages already and there is a link to them for every DVD set. -- [[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 17:21, 30 January 2008 (CST)
::I was thinking more something like "This set contains all 20 episodes of Season 3, as well as audio commentaries, blah blah". That doesn't have to include everything, but just the major extras or features. Story summaries would be possibly, but those can be found on the season pages already and there is a link to them for every DVD set. -- [[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 17:21, 30 January 2008 (CST)

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A lot of the DVDs quote the advertising blurbs either from Universal or the back covers. It's not really unacceptable, but maybe a bit un-encyclopedic. Moreover, it doesn't really add any useful information. Maybe we should instead write a sentence on what it contains, and maybe a short enumeration of the extras contained (or not). -- Serenity 14:09, 30 January 2008 (CST)

Agreed. Would we use some of the text from the summaries on the related articles, or just write something totally new?-- OrionFour 17:09, 30 January 2008 (CST)
I was thinking more something like "This set contains all 20 episodes of Season 3, as well as audio commentaries, blah blah". That doesn't have to include everything, but just the major extras or features. Story summaries would be possibly, but those can be found on the season pages already and there is a link to them for every DVD set. -- Serenity 17:21, 30 January 2008 (CST)