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Contents 1 Misc. 2 autogeneration 3 seriously 4 seriously 5 minor edits 6 Image size 7 Duplicate Pages 8 straight six! 9 being marked as a bot. 10 DVD Page Generation 11 new episode table template 12 Proper Category Name 13 Grids 14 Amazon links 15 arrested 16 Thanks 17 Sysop 18 Page Request 19 Sports Night images? 20 Thanks for the help (Boy do I feel stupid right now) 21 An Autogen request. 22 Teachers 23 The Ghost Squad 24 Disambiguation 25 Calendar 26 NickToons category 27 Features show 28 Talk Show Historical Guest Info 29 Undelete 30 Actor Credits Copied from IMDb 31 Whose Line 32 Boston Legal S3 33 Franchises 34 Question about moving pages 35 Eptable 36 Casttable-billed 37 Template Grids 38 Changing from stub to cleanup 39 Search Bars

Misc.

Why'd you delete all my links to Fanpop? They were all legitimate fansites like Wikia or TVBuddy. TVGuide.com even links to them. -yahooboy 10:10, 15 Apr 2007 (EDT)

Hey, I switched out the Lone Gunmen characters for X-Files characters, since there's a template for this type of character and I figured X-Files trumps TLG. I have to go to class now, but email me and we can discuss this, if you want. -aenematron 17:57, 15 Sep 2005 (EDT)

That is fine. I wasn't even thinking about that. DCEdwards1966 19:44, 15 Sep 2005 (EDT)

Are you auto generating your season pages? If so, then have a go at autogenerating the episode pages as well. It makes it easier for me and my bot. --Coolbutuseless 10:10, 16 Sep 2005 (EDT)

Currently, I manually create the pages. I'll try to start adding the episodes as well, though. DCEdwards1966 11:11, 16 Sep 2005 (EDT)

autogeneration

If you'd like, I can generate all the season and episode pages for a show automatically. like The Shield and a bunch of others I've done. Takes about 5 minutes. Leave a request on User_talk:coolbutuseless. This leaves more time for people to work on content rather than building the framework. --Coolbutuseless 11:41, 16 Sep 2005 (EDT)

seriously

seriously

Unless you're going to create the episode pages at the time of creating the season pages, it's probably easier just to give me a list of all the shows you want and I'll put them all in automatically.

If I now try to add all the episode pages for Gilligan's Island for example, then some of the episode names on the season page won't match up - and it's a pain in the neck to change them by hand.

So please consider just requesting a show framework on User:Coolbutuseless/Autogen_Requests. --Coolbutuseless 02:07, 17 Sep 2005 (EDT)

minor edits

If you're adding one small detail, like the production number, use "minor edit" so we can hide them when looking at the changes history, thanks! -aenematron 14:28, 19 Sep 2005 (EDT)

Image size

Can you try and keep your images 300pix wide please.

There's an easy way of doing this just upload the bigger image and put Image:Example.jpg|300px (with double square brackets of course) and it will automatically resize it for you on the page, but you can still click on the image to get the big one.

Thanks --Kash 20:33, 21 Sep 2005 (EDT)

Duplicate Pages

I didn't know you could move pages. In the future I'll do that. I have to go through all the pages and change the incorrect links, then I'll flag the old pages for deletion.

--Stabbey 12:49, 22 Sep 2005 (EDT)

straight six!

Thanks I almost forgot that one! I put it on there how I remember it. Aqua Teen Hunger Force/Revenge Of The Mooninites. Double check that for me to make sure it's right. --Randall 16:09, 23 Sep 2005 (EDT)

being marked as a bot.

I've asked CygnusTM to mark you as a bot since you seem to be going great in generating lots of content automatically. Being marked as a bot means that the 'recent changes' page doesn't have to show up all your additions, and makes it easier to track real changes to the wiki.

Alternatively, you could create an alter-ego to do your bulk uploading, and keep your real username for manual editing. (which is how i do it with autobot/coolbutuseless).

This is what I want to do. DCEdwards1966, please create a new user for your bot-type activity, so I can register it as a bot. --CygnusTM 08:37, 26 Sep 2005 (EDT)

DVD Page Generation

When you generate DVD pages, please remember to include in category information at the top and the region.

For example: Family Guy/Volume 1

I'd appreciate it so that we won't have to go back and fill in the blanks. Also, it might be better to use numerical designation for the season/volume sets so that it's organized in the catagory page. --IndieRockLance 18:56, 8 Oct 2005 (EDT)

new episode table template

I just noticed the other day that there's a template available for episode tables. Check out the source for ER/Season_Twelve. Instead of:

{{table}} ! '''#''' || '''#''' || '''Title''' || '''Airdate''' |- | 93 || 1 || [[ER/Day for Knight|Day for Knight]] || September 24, 1998 |- bgcolor="#E0E0E0" | 94 || 2 || [[ER/Split Second|Split Second]] || October 01, 1998 |-

it's now:

• ==Episodes==
• {{eptable-start}}
• {{eptable-lt|ER|247|1|Cañon City|September 22, 2005}}
• {{eptable-dk|ER|248|2|Nobody's Baby|September 29, 2005}}

Looks heaps neater. I just changed autobot over to the new format on the weekend. --Coolbutuseless 21:43, 9 Oct 2005 (EDT)

Proper Category Name

The Science-Fiction Category is Sciene-Fiction with a hyphen and not abbreviated. The others are just redirects to that category. It doesn't recategorize shows when the category pages is redirected. Just a heads up for any future Science-Fiction shows you make. --The-jam 12:49, 11 Oct 2005 (EDT)

Grids

I see that you're putting in old grids (1959-1976). I'm the one who has been going backwards from 2004. I have grids from TV Guide going back to 1980 (except for 1990, which was missing from the library) and am working on putting them in. Do you by chance have 1977, 1978, and 1979? --Davidscarter 19:23, 20 Oct 2005 (EDT)

Amazon links

Removing the Amazon links is a good idea at this point. People could be slipping in their affiliate ID. At some point we might set up a template that creates Amazon links that benefit the site. --CygnusTM 08:26, 11 Nov 2005 (EST)

arrested

yeah, I know it wasn't you, I took out the amazon link and reinstated the others. Sorry if it seemed like I was attacking you. --Ryvius 17:55, 11 Nov 2005 (EST)

Thanks

Just thought I'd send a thank you your way for helping create all these show/episode pages for the Wiki. You've done a lot in helping seed the site with information. --Wizardryo|✎ 19:51, 18 Nov 2005 (EST)

Sysop

You're a sysop now, so you can block spammers yourself if you catch them. --CygnusTM <talk> 09:09, 13 Dec 2005 (EST)

Page Request

Hey, I don't know if you take requests for page seeding, but Coolbutuseless and his Autobot haven't been around in a month or so. American Idol premieres in less than a month, is insanely popular, and doesn't even have a showpage dedicated to it. TVTome makes up their own episode titles for the show since they're not officially named, but I think we can get away with having the episode title just being the airdate. It's kinda what we do with the Daily Show/Colbert Report articles, as far as I know, although they haven't been updated in a while. No rush, and I'm not really expecting you to do it with Christmas so near, but just a heads-up. The show premieres January 17. If this isn't even feasible with the way your bot works (using the episode title as the airdate, that is), just give me a heads-up and I'll populate a season five page myself. :) Again, thanks. --Wizardryo | ✎ 09:06, 23 Dec 2005 (EST)

Thanks a lot, I put up a Proposal regarding the naming of the episodes, so hopefully people contribute to the matter. --Wizardryo | ✎ 18:13, 23 Dec 2005 (EST)

Sports Night images?

Hey, I noticed you added a cast image (maybe from an awards ceremony?) of the cast of Sports Night... did you find it any place special or did was it as simple as a Google image search? --ReverendDave 17:14, 28 Dec 2005 (EST)

Thanks for the help (Boy do I feel stupid right now)

Of course, now I'm smacking my head with how freakin' obvious it was that a redirect is what I should have done. Guess I am tired. But thanks anyway. --Lampbane 23:30, 3 March 2006 (EST)

An Autogen request.

I was wondering if you could fill in the missing episodes on the The Amazing Race/Season Eight page? --Ryvius 03:44, 29 March 2006 (EST)

Done DCEbot 10:39, 29 March 2006 (EST)

Could you fill in basic episode and character pages for ReGenesis. I set-up the season pages already so it should be pretty simple. --The-jam 17:41, 31 March 2006 (EST)

Teachers

I don't care for either show, but I think Teachers needs to be moved to Teachers (USA) because there was also a British show by that name. —Naddy 12:41, 9 April 2006 (EDT)

It probably would be a good idea to move it. DCEdwards1966 | Talk 19:43, 18 April 2006 (EDT)

I sort of hoped you could do a bot-assisted move... —Naddy 10:59, 22 April 2006 (EDT)

The Ghost Squad

Should The Ghost Squad (2005) be moved to simply The Ghost Squad? IMDb doesn't list any other show by that name. I'd like to know before I create more episode pages. Currently a move would affect the main show page, "Season One", "At a Glance", and the two existing episode pages. —Naddy 18:26, 18 April 2006 (EDT)

There is a UK show called Ghost Squad that aired from 1961-1964. Even so, I don't see a problem in moving The Ghost Squad (2005). DCEdwards1966 | Talk 19:42, 18 April 2006 (EDT)

Disambiguation

Sorry if that's causing a problem. I've been very careful to double-check links and such, make sure I'm not now having people link to the wrong articles. The reason I'm removing them is because, when I double-checked on other Websites, they seemed to be disambiguations which were copied over from other Websites - TV.com, IMDb, etc. If that's not the case, I do apologize. I only moved four or five, so I'll be happy to correct them if that's not the case. But basically, I've been going through all people pages and have found that, in general, they need a lot of clean-up across the board, and I was under the impression that this was the result of automatic People pages creation by some sort of bot or something (which I recall caused some problems early on with episode titles and such.) My belief that the People pages disambiguation was the result of automatic bot creation was based on several points:

1.) I have brought up several times, both in the Proposals and the Awful Forums thread, the need to clean up People pages and find a format, and barring a very brief discussion with Kash, there was almost no discussion of the issue, no resolution, and no response.

2.) There are disambiguations for people who do not share names with other people on the TV IV (or who are likely ever to share names with other people on the TV IV). In other words, people who share names with nobody else on TV, but someone who might have been a set designer for a movie in the 1950s, or a graphic designer on a video game, or a "Special Thanks" on one episode of an obscure TV series in the 70s. Weirdest of all, there are (II)'s and (III)'s with no (I)'s. (See, for instance, James Brown (II), Jillian Michaels (II) and Michael Cassidy (II). You'll note there is no listing for a James Brown (I), Jillian Michaels (I) or Michael Cassidy (I).) One of the ones I moved was Jessica Williams (II). Again, I found no Jessica Williams (I). This led me to believe the disambiguations were not intentional, but had been created by a bot from some other Website.

3.) Currently, the overwhelming majority (and I don't mean 60%, I mean - based on the fact that I have now looked at every single Actor page on the TV IV, plus all Comedian pages and soon all Creator pages - at least 75%, probably over 80%, and if I found out the number were 90% or more, I would not be surprised) of People pages are empty of any content. No pictures, roles, credits. And almost all of the remaining pages which have some content, it's still little enough to be called a Stub. Basically, of the thousands of People pages on the TV IV, I don't think I've seen more than maybe two or three dozen which are complete enough to be called something other than a Stub - and at least about a quarter of those, I myself edited the pages in the first place. This led me to believe (wrongly, it seems, and I do sincerely apologize) that almost all the People pages were automatically generated or copied/pasted from other sites, some of which may have had the need for disambiguation which is not necessary on the TV IV. So I moved pages I had any interest on doing research on to look up the person's birthplace, and only those pages. So I've only moved maybe four or five. I'll gladly move them back if they cause any problems.

4.) In the rare event that there is information on a People page, it is often out of date. Not twenty minutes ago, I had to add Category:Actor to Steve Carell's page - which currently lists him as nothing other than a Daily Show correspondent. This despite the fact that Carell is about to end his second season (a full 20-plus episode season) as the Golden Globe-winning actor in a series which is relatively popular on the TV IV. Again, this suggested to me that the maintenance of the People pages was so low priority as to be nearly inexistent, and that most of the pages were therefore either automatically generated or last maintained so long ago as to be outdated.

5.) There are at least two and as many as five separate formats for People pages. Currently, the Actor page which is used as an example, on the Help page, of how to format and fill in a People page is Ian Somerhalder. Yet the layout used on Somerhalder's page is clearly different from the format used in most of the empty Stubs. (Just to throw out some random examples I've chosen for no particular reason whatsoever other than they're empty stubs: George Wendt, James Gandolfini, Will Ferrell.) And then there are pages (such as Mae Whitman's) which list non-TV film roles, but most do not. Not to mention some truly bizarre and it seems to me absolutely unintentional and, frankly, ugly layouts, such as the half-screen layout of Richard Wilson's page. Again, that suggested to me that someone created a Stub template long after or long before Somerhalder's format was decided upon and automatically generated a lot of these pages - often based on the copying and pasting of information from some other Website (EpList.com, for instance, which is how the incorrect episode titles got into the TV IV back in the day) in the hopes that they would eventually be edited and filled in, but, again, they have not been.

6.) In the rare event that even so much as credits are filled in for People pages, the formatting of those credits often does not match the TV IV's format on any other page. For example, look at the pages for the actors who play the heroes of TV IV's single most popular and most thoroughly edited show: Matthew Fox, Terry O'Quinn, Josh Holloway, Dominic Monaghan and Harold Perrineau, Jr. of Lost. The format used for their credits is {Series Title}: ({Year of Series Premiere}: {Character Name} unlinked ({Years of Appearance}) is unlike TV show listings as they appear anywhere else on the TV IV, and completely unlike the TV show listings as shown on Somerhalder's page - again, the page which is supposedly the format for how People pages are supposed to look. However, the formatting of those credits is very much like the formatting on the IMDb, which again, suggested to me they were simply copied & pasted with minimal editing.

7.) About a month before I had the short and completely forgotten discussion in which I raised the issue of People pages formatting, Phil Boswell created a table for Alyson Hannigan's People page listing her credits. This table is clearly understandable, easy to read, and (a few small modifications aside) entirely in line with the TV IV's format on every other type of page. Yet although I raised the issue of People page formatting - particularly in regards to credits - and although Kash offered an alternative proposal to my proposed layout - the one I used on John Cleese and every People page I've edited since - nobody mentioned Phil Boswell's wonderful table layout. Further, in looking over the templates, I've noticed that Phil Boswell's table has not been template-ized, and that it is currently only used on three People pages I've seen - Hannigan, Susan Egan and one other I've forgotten. The fact, again, that such a tool was available all that time, and yet was never mentioned in the discussion and certainly has not been formalized as TV IV layout suggested to me that the layout and maintenance of People pages was a low-priority issue, and therefore that they were not being created manually, but rather were being built through copied and/or automatically generated information.

8.) In two cases, Actors had two separate pages for two spellings of their name - one correct, one incorrect. (Stephen Culp/Steven Culp was one; the other one I forget; she was a woman, though.) In addition, a page existed for "Grahm Jarvis," a typo on Graham Jarvis's name. Again, the implication seemed to me to be that those pages were automatically generated from empty Actor links, and the bot which created those blank entries, being a bot, can't tell when something is wrong, which a human spots easily at a glance.

9.) The username of the person who created the disambiguation of the first page I moved - Richard Hatch - is "DCEbot." The "bot" part kind of clued me in on what was going on there.

So, to answer your question, I changed the disambiguation because I did not realize it was intentionally created by a human. I truly believed that almost all People pages were created by a bot or a copy/paste job, and therefore other Websites' disambiguations and formatting were appearing in the TV IV. The weight of evidence suggested to me that People pages have, up to now, been a very low priority for TV IV editors and administrators, and I had and have every intention of re-raising this issue over the coming weeks, particularly with the regular TV season ending and summer coming and many of our student editors/administrators having more time off. As over half of the pages on the TV IV should, theoretically, be People pages, I would love to see more attention paid to these pages, and a more concerted effort made to find a useful, easy to understand format which conforms with TV IV convention, and then to fill in that format with information.

However, in the meanwhile, I hope you will understand why I might have wrongly believed that, given this overall lack of attention and care for these pages, no data in them - not their layouts, categorizations nor disambiguations - could reasonably be assumed to be intentional. And that's why I moved the disambiguations on a very small handful of pages. If any of them have created problems, I will gladly move them back. JCaesar 17:10, 8 May 2006 (EDT)

Sorry for the novel. You just happened to be the first person to question me regarding a serious TV IV content issue I was just getting ready to beat the drum about on the Awful Forums and Proposals page. Afraid I worked out a lot of my thinking on you. JCaesar 20:49, 8 May 2006 (EDT)

Right. I understand that now. (That you use the IMDb.) I ran into similar problems with Xzibit and Courteney Cox (moved from Courtney Cox Arquette). However, in regards to the disambiguation issue, I think the IMDb has to deal with a lot of people whom the TV IV never will. For instance, Burt Reynolds was listed as "Burt Reynolds (I)" because a stunt actor in "Air America" was also named or credited as Burt Reynolds - if in fact it's not the same person, in which case it's a mistake on the IMDb's part. As we are not affiliated with the IMDb any more than we are with Wikipedia, I don't think the TV IV needs to carry over the IMDb's limitations and/or mistakes. And, as I said, we had several II's with no I's, which doesn't make sense. But, again, I double-checked to make sure no links were broken, and if we focus more on people pages (as I proposed on the Awful Forums and Proposal pages, and which seems to be getting a lot of attention now), then I think we can keep a vigilant eye out for any double-entried names and worry about them then. JCaesar 16:22, 9 May 2006 (EDT)

Calendar

I was wondering how you generate the calendar information. does the bot do it somehow, if so where does it get it's information, thanks. --MateoP 11:34, 20 July 2006 (EDT)

Does this mean that your bot extracts this information from the website some how, or are you manually editing in the calendar data yourself. I am just curious, and I understand why you might want to keep some information about how your bot works secret. --MateoP 00:33, 23 July 2006 (EDT)

NickToons category

Well I lumped it in with Nickelodeon for a few reasons. One of the purposes of the network categories is to lump together the similar kinds of shows that air on each network and really the only difference between NickToons and regular Nickelodeon is one only airs animated shows.

Another reason a NickToons category is kind of unneeded is that there's not going to be more than a small handful of shows that air first on NickToons, so it's kind of a pointless category especially right now with only one show. The network like the other Nick spin-offs pretty much exclusively airs old repeats of stuff that aired first on regular Nick or other networks. Noggin does get a lot of original programming but due to it's target audience's inability to read not many will probably ever have an article.

Another reason I felt a lumping might be a good idea is the fact that the Nick networks rebrand themselves depending on the time of day making it confusing as to what is airing on what network (Regular Nick/Nick at Nite and Noggin/The N) so while the programming style can vary dramatically they air in the same place.

I used similar logic in setting up categories for ESPN and MTV. The secondary networks don't get many original shows and when they do they're often shows that used to air on the main network but the ratings got too low. Plus with those there really are no programming style differences between the networks. I guess subcategories is a good compromise for now and if it the confusion factor ever becomes an issue we can look at it again.The-jam 16:32, 2 August 2006 (EDT)

Features show

Please consider voting for a featured show for september. thanks. --MateoP 22:28, 9 August 2006 (EDT)

Talk Show Historical Guest Info

Where have you been getting your information for historical guests for Late Night with Conan O'Brien and (assuming that's you) Late Show with David Letterman? I've been meaning to make the filling in of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and (if possible) The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as a rainy-day project, but I have no idea where to start. Thanks. -- JCaesar^talk 15:51, 14 August 2006 (EDT)

OK. Thanks for the leads.

Like I said, it's a "rainy day" project, and given that I have at least two ahead of it (a Looney Tunes page and creating and populating categories for years and decades of airing, and if possible, births/deaths), it's not gonna come up any time soon. In fact, given that I just noticed, right after I talked to you, that you've already started filling in Leno's show, there's a better than even chance that you'll get to it before me.

I've just always found it strange that we have such nearly-complete info for Conan and Letterman, but not Leno, whose ratings are higher than either of them. To say nothing of Carson, who was for, what, a quarter century? the late night talk show host.

Thanks for the info, anyway, if it ever comes up. And while I'm on the subject, please accept my congratulations and thanks for all the work you've already done in filling in those pages. -- JCaesar^talk 16:24, 14 August 2006 (EDT)

Undelete

Please undelete World Series of Poker. It didn't go through the proper channels of being marked for deletion with {{delete|reason}}, then allowing a few days to pass for discussion (which might or might not occur), and then being deleted. Thanks. --MateoP 10:52, 27 August 2006 (EDT)

Actor Credits Copied from IMDb

OK. I see you restored some actor credits I removed earlier today while cleaning up a bunch of actor pages which link to the ABC Movie of the Week entries I've been entering (which, just as a total aside, turned out to have caused the crash of my computer due to a virus-and-spyware-ridden e-book called The ABC Movie of the Week: A Loving Companion I downloaded. Lesson learned: From now on, libraries sí, e-books no. Also, never let it be said I didn't literally bleed for this site). Specifically, the ones I saw you restored are the ones for the Elsa Lanchester page.

I'm not going on another page-by-page quest to remove those IMDb-copied credits from months and months ago wherever they may be. From now on, I'm only removing the ones I come across in the normal course of going through whatever project I'm working on at the time. (I also removed credits from Jessica Walter's page.) When they relate to larger projects, I'm not merely removing them, but replacing them with fully formatted, fully double-checked credits. When they don't relate to larger projects, I'm just taking them out to allow someone else to do the correct versions. I promise, I'm not doing this to be a dick.

As much as possible/easy at the time, I'm repairing and reformatting pages. When that's not possible or easy at the time, I'm just blanking out those IMDb-copied credits because the IMDb is not intended to be a television site. As a result, its credits are poorly formatted, inaccurate, incomplete and not categorized in any way, shape or form close to anything useful or to what has been established as TV IV Wiki convention. Given that the IMDb-copied credits are already on the IMDb (which runs into site-copying rules, also), there's no point to having anything on the page if we're not going to add new or useful information to them.

What's worse - and this has always been and, I must stress, will always be the standard I use for deleting or overwriting information of any kind at all - if the time and energy which must be expended to correct the information is greater than the time and energy which must be expended to start from scratch and the presence of the bad, outdated, poorly formatted information discourages users from filling in or at least does not encourage users to fill in good, current, well-formatted information, it truly is better to have nothing at all than to have something that's off. I came to the decision to blank out that old information after three realizations: 1.) I looked at the history of those old IMDb-info-copied pages, and a high number of them had had more than a dozen edits, major and minor, just correcting the IMDb-copied info. 2.) I, myself, had set out to correct more than one of them into current TV IV Wiki standards, and correcting the old info, I found from experience, was more difficult than when I just deleted everything and started from scratch. 3.) Seeing what appears to be fully-filled-in information turns even me off from bothering to fill in the new, good information. I see credits - no matter how poorly formatted - I think, "Well, this page is done, I can move on to the next project," and I'm notoriously obsessive. I can only imagine what a less thorough user would think.

I think it does a disservice to our users to discourage their input. It also does a disservice to provide bad information. Wikipedia main and the IMDb are often lambasted for their poor information. We're lucky. We don't rely solely on their information. We do our own research, and we get more attention for it. That's why I'm so glad you're filling in talk show information - it gives me and other users something as a reference which isn't available elsewhere on the Web, and I really and truly can't thank you enough for taking the time to fill that stuff in. Whenever I'm filling in credits for actors, one of my steps is to check your talk show information to make sure the IMDb and TV Tome haven't missed appearances you've catalogued. That rocks! The fact that we now have the only cross-referenced list on the Web of movies which fell under the ABC Movie of the Week banner (thanks to me and my buggy e-book), we're a better site for it, I think and hope, or else I'll be really pissed about the time and money and work and blood I lost. More and more, it's looking as though, for current shows, we'll never beat show-only devoted sites for traffic, but if we prove we're as good a research site for accuracy as any other site on the Web, go team us!

However, some users (and I'm not referring to the incident involved in the comment above mine, but it certainly qualifies) half-ass their entries. Hell, I used to do it back when I had other stuff to do. It's natural. But if it's caught, it's better to lose bad, outdated, copied information for which someone can go to another site, I think, than to encourage that really bad habit.

It has nothing to do with vendettas against other users. I would not do this to useful and accurate information, no matter who posts it. Frankly, the IMDb copying was done by so many users, I couldn't single any users out to delete their information. But if I see it, I've gotta remove it. When it comes in the course of larger projects, I'll fix it. When it's tangential, I'll simply take out the bad stuff and hope someone comes along someday to fix it. Does that make sense? -- JCaesar^talk 02:48, 11 September 2006 (EDT)

Whose Line

I see you've taken a hand in the Whose Line project. Thank you very much for the assist! Need me to lend a hand? Where should I pick up? Thanks. -- JCaesar^talk 02:53, 9 October 2006 (EDT)

With the last spike driven into the railroad, I just wanted to shake hands with my fellow Chinese and Irish laborers. Thanks for the hand. -- JCaesar^talk 03:19, 9 October 2006 (EDT)

Boston Legal S3

Where did you get your upcoming episode information on this series? It seems an episode ("Desperately Seeking Shirley") was skipped, and I can't tell if they're airing out of order or what. I'm filling in what I've got now from the ABC website and my TiVo list, but if you could double-check with your source and make sure I'm not removing good information, I'd appreciate it. Thanks. -- JCaesar^talk 04:32, 16 October 2006 (EDT)

Franchises

Well, it looks like you liked my idea for franchises, huh? I noticed your Star Trek Franchise template. You could have at least left me a comment saying that it looks good and that you want to use it :) Honestly though, since I didn't get any responses, I thought that nobody liked it or something. Anyway, since you're using it and you're a SysOp, I guess it's OK for me to start doing that too :) Joltman 11:07, 25 January 2007 (EST)

Question about moving pages

I am comparing the names of McLeod's Daughters with the names after the title on the DVDs. Some are off. For example, there is no period in 2x27 - No More Mr Nice Guy. Similarly, 3x09 is "House of Cards", not "A House of Cards". I can change them appropriately, but I am unable to move the episode page. There is no move button. How do I do that? Or do I have to talk to you everytime? Thanks. Ananth | Talk 18:27, 28 January 2007 (EST)

Eptable

I've considered merging {{Minieptable-lt}} into {{Eptable-lt}} (and -dk correspondingly), using the number of parameters to distinguish the two usages. Incidentally, this would also raise the question which of the two to use for season one episode lists. Thoughts? —Naddy 17:38, 1 February 2007 (EST)

Casttable-billed

Looks like {{Casttable-billed}} lost its default colspan. See Wild Palms. —Naddy 20:18, 1 February 2007 (EST)

Fixed DCEdwards1966 | Talk 20:28, 1 February 2007 (EST)

Template Grids

I wasn't sure whether to include that first pipe or not but decided it made more sense without it since they are going inside of existing table rows. --The-jam 18:01, 6 February 2007 (EST)

Changing from stub to cleanup

Why have you been changing certain pages from stubs of cleanup (like Chobits/Season One‎)? What's wrong with the pages? I see no glaring format/grammatical errors on them. -- Lampbane 12:37, 7 February 2007 (EST)

Search Bars

Any chance the search bars could be moved to the the middle of the side bar rather than the bottom? It was a lot easier when the search bars were there because you didn't have to scroll down as much to make a search.--Sportman 12:10, 14 February 2007 (EST)