Forum:Should novels & audio stories have a plot description?

This feeds in slightly from the Forum:Character information on novels, etc discussion.

How much information should we include on story articles? Novels and audio stories don't have a plot description. They both have Publisher's summaries, which serve a similar role to the 'Synopsis' on the TV story pages. Is this enough?

Should we have a Plot or Summary section on all the novel and audio story articles? --Tangerineduel / talk 14:31, March 16, 2011 (UTC)

A lot of those synopses are taken care of thanks to the folks at Tetrap. However, there are some gaps in their coverage of all the materials, so there are at least limited circumstances where a synopsis by us would be useful. Any such synopses would have to be pretty short, and of course would be seriously laden with spoilers.

It's amusing in some respects. A lot of the plots can already be assembled by visiting the linked pages of people/places/things -- a definite Exercise for the Readers. I'd be in favor of including (and writing!) short synopses. --Gousha 21:31, March 22, 2011 (UTC)

I don't think we need them. Basically, synopis's are the same as the publishers description, and that is what they want us to think. If you made an audio story and along with it made a summary, would you want other people to edit that? To create a balanced plot description, you would have had to listen/read the story. Ghastly9090 16:07, March 23, 2011 (UTC)

Why are you on about synopsis', and obviously you will need to know the plot. I'm not really sure what Ghastly9090 is asking it terms of his "would you want other people to edit that?" comment. Everything on wikia is editable.

I don't see why audios and novels shouldn't have a plot section, so long as its not plagiarised.Skittles the hog-- Talk 17:13, March 23, 2011 (UTC)