Template talk:Infobox Doctor Who episode
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[edit] Box lines
Is it possible to keep the lines from the original look of the box? It looks a bit odd at the moment. --TimPope 21:34, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Khaosworks, to avoid having to make so many edits to a page you can use the "show preview" button, you have made an awful lot of minor edits here. ed g2s • talk 15:26, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
There is a Wikiproject going on about Doctor Who, and so far no one has complained about the box. When it was first put up, the reaction was fairly positive, and when it was changed by yourself, there was TimPope's comment as above, which I tend to agree with. Perhaps we should put it back to where it was before and then discuss whether to change it. --khaosworks 16:47, May 5, 2005 (UTC)
- As an additional comment, note that Wikipedia:WikiProject Television episodes' infobox also has borders, being used for at least Wikipedia:WikiProject Buffy, Babylon 5 and Stargate Atlantis. --khaosworks 16:56, May 5, 2005 (UTC)
A further comment. I've now read some of the discussion over at Template talk:Infobox Pope and while I agree completely with the standardisation of CSS styles, a lot could have been avoided if you had just explained clearly why you were making the changes. It looked awfully unilateral. I still think that the borders make it easier to read, and hence followed your suggestion to use border-collapse. --khaosworks 17:16, May 5, 2005 (UTC)
An extreme example but if you look at The Trial of a Time Lord with four writers and three directors, the lines would make the infomation clearer to distinguish. --TimPope 17:23, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
I think if I explained to the Pope editors CSS standardisation one more time, I might go insane! Personally I think a of cellpadding is enough to distinguish on a simple list like this, as you would have if it were just a bulleted list. I think the lines are unnecessary clutter - and take away from the padded look of the box. Especially with "vertical-align:top" it's quite clear where each section starts. ed g2s • talk 12:09, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
- Another extreme example is Key to Time, but again, like Trial, it's a portmanteau entry for a story arc. I can see what you mean, but at the very least is there a way to isolate the title of the serial, like with a line dividing it from the rest of the entry or highlighting it? My coding skills in this regard are limited. --khaosworks 15:08, May 6, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Added IMDB link
Following the Film infobox template, I've added a link to the IMDB profile. I think this has a lot of good information, now that individual episodes can be located on the IMDB. For multi-part serials, the IMDB has everything split up, so I recommend we only link to the first episode (as shown in the sample above) -- MisterHand 14:57, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Reformatting the template
I have made a slight adjustment to the template in order to bring it in line with WP:MOS-T, which outlines the Wikipedia conventions for television series and episode titles. The change involved adding quotes around the episode name variables. There are some pages (such as The Christmas Invasion) that use non-standard text in the variables, which unfortunately mucks things up. The alternative, though, is to go through every Doctor Who episode article and manually format the episode names. Thoughts? --Ckatzchatspy 00:37, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
- There's been a lot of discussion about this in the past. If you'll check out Talk:Torchwood#Torchwood episode titles as the latest round on this. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 01:00, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
How about an entry for the companions? They change more than the Doctor. —Jonathan D. Parshall (Talk | contribs) 08:19, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Help with another template
I think the Doctor Who episodes template is very good, and being new to wikipedia, I don't know how to do them. (I've tried to grasp it but I just can't!) I was wondering if there was anyone kind enough to edit this DW template to make it into a "The Bill Episodes" template, as I am going to make a lot of pages for The Bill Episodes. I've created the page Template:Thebillepisodes but there is nothing on there. What I want is:
The top title bit to say the title of the episode, so that would have to be editable. The categories would then be:
- Original Airdate (which of course is editable for each episode)
- Written by (editable, and if not filled in will not appear)
- Directed by (editable, and if not filled in will not appear)
- Produced by (editable, and if not filled in will not appear)
- Starring (editable, and if not filled in will not appear)
- Previous Episode (editable)
- Next Episode (editable)
- List of The Bill Episodes (a wiki link to List of The Bill episodes)
Thanks very much if anyone can do this. Feel free to leave a message on my talk page. ( Just The Q ) 12:38, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
This has now been done. Thanks. ( Just The Q ) ( talk ) 23:57, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Companions
I'd like to add a Companions field. Any thoughts where it should go? Vagary 08:06, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Adding a "Missing Episodes" field
Given the significance of the missing episodes of Doctor Who, I think the template should have an optional field that would allow the template to list what episodes are missing from the serial. For flair, the field title should link to the Doctor Who missing episodes article. I'm going to try to put this into the template, but I welcome other user efforts to do so. (Particularly since I may fail) -- Y|yukichigai (ramble argue check) 11:08, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
