Forum:Something that caught my eye

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...on a recent video announcing something called the Halo Channel (which is basically Waypoint with a different name, I guess?). Specifically, a Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn scene description at the 0:55 mark:

"Lasky's classmates, particularly Walter Vickers, are unrelenting in their provocation of Thomas, affirming their distaste for the freshman who fails to live up to the example set by his brother and his mother, a UNSCDF colonel."

And here's something strangely similar found in our very own plot summary (and it's been there since the series originally aired, pretty much):

"Most of Lasky's classmates, particularly Walter Vickers, are unrelenting in their provocation of Thomas, affirming their distaste for the freshman who fails to live up to the example set by his brother and his mother, a UNSCDF colonel and former superior of CAMS professor, Colonel Mehaffey."

I have a pretty strong feeling this bit of text is original to this wiki and wasn't taken from an official synopsis. Someone in charge of this thing must've gotten lazy, I guess. --Jugus (Talk | Contribs) 10:32, 12 August 2014 (EDT)

That's actually kind of interesting. It's nice to know that some people from 343i consider Halopedia to be a reliable Halo source. I also noticed that they classified the Zealot from Forward Unto Dawn as a Minor. So laziness is very probable. - NightHammer (talk) 10:37, 12 August 2014 (EDT)

A blurb for a later episode also shown in the video is wholly original so it's possible this one is just a placeholder and will get ironed out before release. I have somewhat mixed feelings about 343i relying too much on Halopedia — fans can still make mistakes and I'd rather not see those mistakes incorporated to the canon, as has happened several times (most prominently with the Halo Encyclopedia, with the canonization of the 100% fanon name "the Sharpened Shield" or the misinterpretation of the United Rebel Front as the proper name of an organization). Even the first Visual Guide had a couple of these, such as the mention of a Kig-Yar Zealot which obviously came from Halopedia. But I do wish they monitored pages like the List of inconsistencies in the Halo series and used the information to do something about the inconsistencies (they actually did this with the internal discrepancies in the Tor reissues of the first three novels). --Jugus (Talk | Contribs) 10:46, 12 August 2014 (EDT)

Yeah I agree with you. It's likely just a placeholder. I noticed a couple of other errors as well, so hopefully it all gets updated by November. - NightHammer (talk) 12:36, 12 August 2014 (EDT)

I once told a 343i employee to use halopedia instead of halo nation basically... let us do an impeccable job at maintaining this. Erickyboo (talk) 13:20, 12 August 2014 (EDT)