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Latest comment: 11 months ago3 comments2 people in discussion
Now that Category:Pages using infobox television with unnecessary name parameter has been essentially cleared out, I started looking at Category:Pages using infobox television season with the season name parameter. There are a significant number of list articles in this particular maintenance category, and that opens up a two-fold question: First, should the "season" infobox be used on a list article? It seems to me that the list article isn't necessarily an article for the season, so it would appear to be a misuse. Most (a lot?) seem to be anime series where there isn't a "season" per se, so the parent article for the show uses {{Infobox television}} and they're using {{Infobox television season}} for the episode list article. But as far as I can see, there is nothing explicitly stated in the template docs or in MOS:TV that says don't use an infobox on a list article. Second, and this depends on the answer to the first question, if the television season infobox can be used on a list article, then we need to look at how the maintenance category is populated and consider excluding these lists because the basename for the article is "list of something" instead of "something" which is why the "season_name" parameter is being used. Hope all that makes sense. I can try to clarify if necessary. ButlerBlog (talk) 20:22, 13 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
Sorry I didn't see and reply to this for a full year(!!!). To answer your questions here for future reference:
No. No infobox should be used on a list article. However, not all articles that have the title "List of xxx episodes" are actually a list article. Our friends over at the anime side of the project just hate creating correctly titled articles. No point in wasting your time there.
Regarding what infobox to use on an anime article, well again, that actually depends on what hides under the incorrect title - is it a season or a series? Here also I'd argue not to waste your time on those articles.
No problem on the late reply - I kind of forgot about it as well ;-) I do see now what you're saying about incorrectly titled articles - it all makes a lot more sense in light of that. ButlerBlog (talk) 13:24, 12 October 2023 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 6 months ago3 comments2 people in discussion
See the discussion for details, but the upshot is that we will be losing the parentheticals from season titles that do not distinguish between, e.g., shows by the same name in different countries.
The new display will need to look like, e.g., "Chicago Fire season 10" for an otherwise unambiguous title, and "Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series) season 7" for titles containing actual ambiguities. BD2412T22:35, 7 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
I've done some work on a sandbox version but I won't have time to continue as it's the weekend already. I'll continue with it next week. Gonnym (talk) 07:27, 8 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
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Done can you update the documentation? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:41, 25 March 2024 (UTC)