Talk:List of SpongeBob SquarePants episodes

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Article milestones Date Process Result January 8, 2007 Articles for deletion Kept November 26, 2007 Peer review Reviewed May 11, 2008 Peer review Reviewed

Archives
Archive 1 (December 2005 - October 2006) Archive 2 (October 2006 - March 2007) Archive 3 (March 2007 - October 2007) Archive 4 (October 2007 - December 2007) Archive 5 (December 2007 - March 2008) Archive 6 (March 2008 - present)

Contents 1 Help Improve the episode articles 2 Peer Review 3 Peer Review April 2008 comments 4 Episode numbers 5 This page needs some work

[edit] Help Improve the episode articles

In order to have the episode articles back, they need to be improved. The episodes will be improved one by one, starting with the pilot episode. Go to Wikipedia:WikiProject_SpongeBob_SquarePants/Episode_Improvement to improve the pilot episode.

[edit] Peer Review

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• Please ensure that the article has gone through a thorough copyediting so that it exemplifies some of Wikipedia's best work. See also User:Tony1/How to satisfy Criterion 1a.^[?]

You may wish to browse through User:AndyZ/Suggestions for further ideas. Thanks, AMK152^{(Talk • Contributions • Send message)} 03:07, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Peer Review April 2008 comments

These are comments from the April 2008 peer review and their status. -AMK152^{(Talk • Contributions • Send message)} 23:39, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Suggestion	Status
Comments from The Rambling Man (talk · contribs)
Avoid bold links in the lead, per WP:LEAD#Bold title.	Done
Image caption is a fragment so it doesn't need a period.	Done
Image needs a fair use rationale for use in this article.	Done
Image could be made bigger - perhaps check WP:MOS#Images, I seem to recall the lead image (only) can be up to 300 px.	Done
"d twenty-two minute specials." - is that 22 x 1 minute or 20 x 2 minutes? If the former then I'd say 22 one-minute specials. Latter then twenty two-minute specials.	Done
"Bellow" below?	Done
Do you have citations for the claims in the lead re:marathons etc?	Done
" November 9-10" which year? And separate the dates with an en dash instead of a hyphen.	Done
Worth explaining why each episode has multiple titles.	Not done
Season One etc doesn't need the capitalisation - Season one is fine (as per the main article titles)	Done
Comments from Matthewedwards (talk · contribs)
Change the lead to "This is a list of episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants, an animated television series broadcast on Nickelodeon, an American cable network aimed at children aged seven to twelve. SpongeBob SquarePants premiered on....." That way, the lead sentence is bolded correctly, the wikilinking of the title is done correctly, and you're providing context to the reader in regards to Nickelodeon.	Done
"Each season thus far has consisted of twenty episodes." can be simply "Each season consists of twenty episodes." This removes the past tense, as even in 20 years, each season will still consist of 20 episodes	Done
"A total of 102 episodes have aired to date." Change this to "As of (insert date of last episode to be aired), 102 episodes have aired."	Done
"The series also had a feature film," Change this to "A feature film, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie complements the series, and premiered in theaters in the US...", which will remove the past tense, and also state where in the world it premiered	Done
"Four of the seasons have received complete DVD releases, and half of the fifth season is also available on DVD." Add a reference from TVShowsOnDVD.com	Done
Wikilink or otherwise explain what a "marathon" is. (Not a 26 mile run, I assume.)	Done
For me, "There have been many marathons in which viewers vote for their favorite episodes. One of the more notable marthons is the Best Day Ever marathon,[2][3][4][5] which aried from November 9—10, 2006 and named "Karate Island" the best episode ever to date" is unnecessary, but as it is, the em-dash should be an en-dash, per WP:DASH, and you should say who named "Karate Island" the best episode? Was it the network, in which case it could just have been a tool to get more viewers, or was it from a third party media company?	Unknown
Episode list}} to create the episode tables. This will allow for information such as episode numbers, production codes, writers, directors and a whole bunch of other things. This is a pretty important thing to do, because when/if each individual season article becomes featured, the tables can be transcluded.	Working on
If you are aiming for FL, take a look at List of Lost episodes, and List of Degrassi: The Next Generation episodes. They (and other FLs) have a season overview section, which is a table for DVD information. This should be included here, too.	Done
Follow the style of other featured episode lists and instead of the Headers being "Season one: 1999–2000", just make them "Season one".	Done
"The season consited of a total of twenty episodes." has a spelling mistake, and is in the past tense. The sentence is not really needed as it is mentioned in the lead, so I would remove it (and from the prose of the rest of the seasons).	Done
"However, the aforementioned episode..." Don't start a sentence with a conjunction.	Done
Remove the Feature film section, as it is not an episode. You can link to it in the See also section	Not done
I see the DVD section at the bottom of the page. This is what I meant above regarding an overview section. There seems to be conflicting information too, in that the episode numbers do not add up.	Done
I'm not convinced the shorts and crossovers are actual episodes, and might be better moved to a new page.	Done
I've noticed a notice on the article's talk page requesting screenshots be included to improve it's quality. I would remove this, because they will all be fair-use images, and if only 4 are added it will get the page failed at WP:FLC. No other featured episode list has them anyway.	Done

[edit] Episode numbers

I think that each episode should be their own so people understand there is 208 episodes not 104 each episode should be seperate not together —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.207.91.251 (talk) 15:59, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

The table is fine the way it is. No one has been confused by the current numbering scheme. If it ain't broke, why fix it? Xenon54 00:25, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

I agree with User:Xenon54. It is my understanding that most TV series follow this numbering scheme which would include short segments into the total. I think it would be nicer if TV series would follow the suggestion made by User:12.207.91.251; however, it's obviously a little late to change that around. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.202.38.225 (talk) 04:28, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] This page needs some work

And ill do the work Jibajabba 00:15, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

So will I. I started adding Directors on Seasons 1-3 so far and I finished Writers Season 3 as well. So I'm taking a break for now. As soon as i get the DVDs for Seasons 1-4, too, ill add the Directors and Writers.--Wikialexdx (talk) 16:33, 24 May 2008 (UTC)