Angel Episodes on the Buffy Wiki

[midwesternwatcher]

Some of you must be familiar with the Buffy wiki

buffy.wikia.com/wiki/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer_and_Angel

I've been active on that board longer than on this one, though once I almost quit because of their attitude toward canon. That aside ...

If you use the wiki often, you know that they do a much better job with Buffy than Angel. Many of the entries on Angel episodes and character etc are sketchy or clumsy and need to be improved. As I watch Angel episodes (season 3 right now), I try to improve the pages. I hope some of you guys will do the same, and we'll raise the quality of this wiki.

Any comments?

[nl197]

I've never visited the wiki before, just the standard wikipedia entries on both shows. So I'd be happy to help. I pretty much know ANGEL inside and out, so it'd be fun.

[Josh]

There's a lot of inaccuracy/unnecessary stuff on both Buffy and Angel. I don't have an account there though, but I haven't really had the motivation to try to fix the stuff.

[midwesternwatcher]

The wikipedia entries on Buffy/Angel episodes seem to be the same as the corresponding entries on the Buffy wiki, most of the time.

Inaccurate, unnecessary? I suppose unnecessary is a matter of judgment, I'd rather err on the side of more detail. Inaccurate? I don't recall having found anything there that was plainly wrong. If I did, I would suggest a change.

[nl197]

Is there anywhere in particular I should start looking for, somewhere specific to start to focus?

[Josh]

Oct 14, 2010 19:26:04 GMT -5 midwesternwatcher said:

The wikipedia entries on Buffy/Angel episodes seem to be the same as the corresponding entries on the Buffy wiki, most of the time.

Inaccurate, unnecessary? I suppose unnecessary is a matter of judgment, I'd rather err on the side of more detail. Inaccurate? I don't recall having found anything there that was plainly wrong. If I did, I would suggest a change.

I forget specific examples, but one thing is like in The Gift it's said "Earlier in the season, it was rumored that the entire town of Sunnydale would be sucked into the Hellmouth in the finale. Although it has never been completely confirmed, Joss had another plan for the season. The original idea was to have Anya die in the rubble, Xander be Glory's other half (instead of Ben), Willow was going to become evil after Tara's death and join forces with Glory, and Dawn was to be bled by Evil Willow in the end, and Sunnydale was supposed to be completely destroyed by the Hellmouth."

I had never heard of that and there's absolutely no source given there...and it seems highly unlikely that Joss would end the show like that. It even says it wasn't confirmed actually. It sounds just like fan fiction/speculation.