User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-26845762-20170222025243/@comment-1789834-20170321193508

Nowhere have I stated that previews are stories. Can we all agree that previews are not stories? I don't even know where you got that from haha. I stated that even though we can't treat them as stories, it doesn't mean that we can't have a separate rule that dictates how to use them. And furthermore, nowhere have I stated that we should be using previews for the written content of an article. Especially since a picture in normally a mish-mash of different things.

What I said was: we need an alternate way of treating previews because they are a goldmine where pictures for an article is concerned. I don't know why anyone would put a picture of the TARDIS parked at "space 76 at Totter's car park". The picture would be useless in that context because it's not true. Pictures are used to illustrate what we've read/heard in the story. If it's not in the story, the picture is useless.

But if we're talking about The Sontarans, getting a good facial view of one of the Sontarans in the story from the trailer is gold dust, because it doesn't go against the true content of the story. A better example is seeing Steven tortured in that chair. No-one's debating or suggesting writing an article based upon those previews/trailers. We are discussing whether they are useful in other aspects, and I say "yes, they are".