User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-9435571-20141121091944/@comment-188432-20141124174903

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-9435571-20141121091944/@comment-188432-20141124174903 The key word in the spoiler policy is story. That word is consistently used throughout to distinguish between the whole and the part.

The whole audio story must be published/released. Not just individual episodes.

Why do we allow the publication of pages about BBC Wales TV episodes as they arrive on TV? Because that's the basic narrative unit. And TV episodes in the modern era are very different than audio episodes which are trying to emulate the feel of a "classic" serial. BBC Wales episodes are at once standalone, part of a discrete story, part of a story arc, and meant to be consumed one week at a time. There's also ambiguity as to whether certain episodes are part of a larger story or not, as with the case of the relationship of Utopia to The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords.

The usual method of release of BF audios is as complete stories. By contrast with BBC Wales episodes, you really can't just look at a single episode in isolation from the rest. Part 3 of The Fires of Vulcan doesn't mean a whole lot unless viewed against the backdrop of the other episodes in that story.

The freebie episodes are essentially advertisements for the larger whole. I quite disagree with you, JagoAndLitefoot: these freebie eps are precisely previews. Their sole purpose is to get you to buy the larger story, and therefore they precisely meet the definition of the first and last bullet points under T:SPOIL DEF.

So, no, you cannot start a page on an audio story based solely upon the early release of a single, constituent episode. Please wait until the full story has made its way to release.