User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20130926165557/@comment-1432718-20130927142748

re: synopses

There is a huge difference. When you use a synopsis from a prose or audio, you are quoting a physical piece of writing from the source - dust jacket, CD cover, etc. But when you use a synopsis from a TV story, you are not quoting anything from the TV story. Therefore any summary comes from somewhere else - DVD case, or program guides and websites like Tybort suggested. These quotes are not cited to their proper source.

This is the reason why some media pages have "Publisher's summary" in their template and others don't. If you think it should be all one way or the other, you can bring it up at another forum discussion (though I think it has come up before if memory serves), but for now, if it's not a publisher's summary, it cannot be copied from another source. As stated elsewhere on the wiki, we want to create unique material, not copy others'.