User talk:Joeloliv8

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{{help me}} lately I've been editing articles about TV Stations, mostly in El Paso, and Juarez Mexico. I also started to edit article about Mexican TV shows. I was looking at articles about international TV networks like the ABC TV and BBC one I noticed that the have information like this:

Picture format = 576i (PAL) 16:9
Picture format=576i (SDTV),720p (HDTV)

and I wanted to add this kind of information to American TV networks like ABC, ION Life, etc... I went to the edit page for bbc one and cut out this line

picture format= 576i (PAL) 16:9|

and put it in the infobox for ion life I clicked on preview and it didn't show up on the article. I did a lot o things to try to get it to show up, I put one of these | In front of picture format, I even copied the infobox from bbc one and pasted it into ION Life, and put some of the missing fields into it like availability, network type etc, and I still couldn't get it to work.

So My question is why won't this information show up, and Is there a way I can get it to show up?

The reason it's not showing up is because the two articles use different infoboxes. While they may appear to be similar, they use different code and don't necessarily have all the same information. In this case, {{Infobox TV channel}} uses the "picture format" parameter, and {{Infobox Network}} does not. I would recommend in this case that you mention this on the article's talk page and see what the other editors related to the article think. Not having much to do with the subject myself, I'm afraid I don't really know what should be done here. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 20:59, 19 August 2007 (UTC)