Well, obviously we can't see the page now, but traditionally the Recap.Show Title page is used as an index. Just off the top of my head, see Recap.A Certain Magical Index (pun not intended), Recap.Arrow, Recap.Agents Of SHIELD, Recap.RWBY... they all use the main page as an index for the Recap.Show Title S 1 Ep 1 Pilot (or whatever) episodes.
I have a feeling I'm missing something here. Koveras, did Recap.The Mysterious Mr Enter look like those I listed, or was there something else going on?
I am looking at it through combined history and it was apparently not being used as an index.
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Articles in the Recap namespace may be:
- A plot summary of the work or individual parts of the work.
- An index to subpages performing the above function.
Recaps are not required to have trope examples.
edited 9th Jan '15 5:16:55 PM by Fighteer
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Additional note: We used to have a synopsis namespace where an individual work was summarized. Due to lack of use, it was folded into the recap namespace as well, so a recap page for a single body of work is just as valid as a recap page for a series of works.
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Well, that's the point: What if I have, say, a book series of ten volumes or an on-going web video series with ten episodes, and I want to give a brief outline of what happens in which book/episode without creating twenty stub-like pages that'll just clutter my watchlist? Before, I would just put a numbered list of volumes with brief summaries on a Synopsis/ or a Recap/ subpage, but now it seems that everything that's not one of the things Fighteer mentioned is getting cutlisted. So what should I do? 
Most importantly, if that's a rule, where is it written down?
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What you said you wanted to do is fine. It should not have been cutlisted.
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It was cut, I think, when I and Madrugada were whittling down on the cutlist backlog. Possible that one of us assigned the wrong command to the article in question.
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Well, none of the Recap subpages I care about at the moment (specifically, Recap.Acquisitions Incorporated and Recap.Reflections Of Eterna) have been cut thus far, but I was kinda unnerved by the cutting of Recap.Tabletop—I mean, sure, it didn't have summaries, but Tabletop is a game show, so there is no continuous plot to summarize in it. But the page did list and link all the board games they've played (which is the whole point of the show) and which guest stars appeared—so that surely qualified as a summary?
edited 10th Jan '15 10:34:17 AM by Koveras
It was a list of games that were being talked about and the guest stars, for the record. Not sure, really, if Recap/ is suited for this kind of material.
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Well, I see you concern, but Tabletop defines itself as a celebrity gaming show, so the guest stars and the games they've played are pretty much the only meaningful things to place in its episode guide.
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No, they're not. What happened while they're playing is what I would expect to read.
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Point taken. But do we have an Administrivia page that actually formalizes that requirement?
A bunch of Recap pages were cut with the rationale \"Recap page is not a recap index\" today (see here
), so I was wondering: what is our official policy that determines what goes on a Recap page and what are the criteria that make a recap subpage unsalvageable? Where is it all written down? Is there a major Recap cleanup going on that I\'ve missed?
Because I have made a lot of Recap pages where I listed the installments of a series with brief summaries of each, because I didn\'t feel they warranted separate pages, and I would rather move them to a more appropriate subpage than see them cut altogether.