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	The Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode page is part of WikiProject SpongeBob SquarePants, an attempt to build a more detailed guide to the SpongeBob SquarePants universe. You may edit this page, or visit the project page, where you can join and contribute to the project and participate in discussion for the project. Below, are the objectives and guidelines for the project and SpongeBob SquarePants articles.
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Contents 1 Usage 1.1 Empty Infobox 2 Discussion 2.1 Episode List History 2.2 Discussion 2.3 The Best Day Ever Hype

[edit] Usage

{{Infobox SpongeBob episode
 | Title = Episode name goes here 
 | Series = [[SpongeBob SquarePants]]
 | Image = Title Card
 | Season = Season Number
 | Episode = Episode Number
 | Production = Production Number
 | Airdate = Date the episode aired
 | BDE Rank = Best Day Ever Rank
 | Guests = List guest stars and which character they played
 | Writer = Self-explanitory
 | Director = Self-explanitory
 | Storyboard Artist = Self-explanitory
 | Supervising Producer = Self-explanitory
 | Director = Self-explanitory
 | Director (Storyboard) = Self-explanitory
 | Director (Animation) = Self-explanitory
 | Director (Creative) = Self-explanitory
 | Director (Technical) = Self-explanitory
 |}}

[edit] Empty Infobox

{{Infobox SpongeBob episode
 | Title = 
 | Series = [[SpongeBob SquarePants]]
 | Image =
 | Season = 
 | Episode = 
 | Production = 
 | Airdate = 
 | BDE Rank = 
 | Guests = 
 | Writer = 
 | Director = 
 | Storyboard Artist = 
 | Supervising Producer = 
 | Director (Storyboard) = 
 | Director (Animation) = 
 | Director (Creative) = 
 | Director (Technical) = 
 |}}

[edit] Discussion

[edit] Episode List History

• The history of the episode list portion of this template was moved from another Template. The list of authors can be seen here: [1]

[edit] Discussion

This template is way to long. AMK152 reverted when I tried to make it shorter. It is also to messy and makes the tranclusion on the article look bad. Aquafish talk 00:16, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

The article looks much better with the episodes on the side rather than on the bottom. It also prevents confusion since the episodes are numbered. -AMK152 00:19, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Then can you delete Template:SpongeBobEpisodesNav? Aquafish talk 00:25, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Best Day Ever Hype

Just because the marathon is twenty-four hours, that doesn't mean you have to add a whole section about it on this template. Would someone looking at these episode articles really want to know which episode was ranked on some marathon? Especially someone who has never watched SpongeBob SquarePants before? Also, this is redundant, since there is already a whole list of what episodes were ranked in The Best Day Ever article. I remember two years ago that both Nick at Nite and Nicktoons had big marathons (maybe, I think that was Nicktoons that did that, but Nick at Nite also had a marathon) to promote The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie that was going to be released in theaters. Squirepants101 23:20, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

• It's not an entire section...just one line. There are people out there who would like to see the rank, especially if they only know the episode name and they don't have to go through the Best Day Ever rankings list. Other people may just want to look at the list. Many people are different. All it is, is a little mention on the article without creating an enitre sentence in another part of the article. -AMK152 21:05, 14 November 2006 (UTC)