Battlestar Wiki talk:Think Tank/Episode airdate information

Usage in episode articles

How did you picture the episode articles thing? Were you going to use {{Maelstrom NTSC broadcast date}} (which has been done BTW, I've been contributing to this project before it even existed) in Maelstrom? --Catrope^{(Talk to me or e-mail me)} 04:31, 3 May 2007 (CDT)

It was my bad I didn't realise that Maelstrom existed so i have changed it. It was only to serve a point anyway not an example of a change. I think you are a little confused on what exactly I'm trying to do here. Its an overhaul of the current system not something completely new. And you can see how i did the channel logo by looking at the code. --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 05:30, 3 May 2007 (CDT)

Integration into {{Episode Data}}

Could be integrated automatically :-) Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 05:03, 3 May 2007 (CDT)

That's what I was getting at in my previous comment. We just use Template:PAGENAME NTSC broadcast date, really. --Catrope^{(Talk to me or e-mail me)} 05:19, 3 May 2007 (CDT)

I would like to see mockups for ideas, but I think the "date" in the template would need to be shorter. Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 05:23, 3 May 2007 (CDT)

How short would you want the date to be? --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 05:30, 3 May 2007 (CDT)

Also it couldn't be added automatically because there are some episodes with the same name as a TOS episode or like the Pegasus episode also shares its name with other pages. --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 05:48, 3 May 2007 (CDT)

Nope. The title paramater can force it to be changed, and I can add a dismb parameter that only works on the release date section. Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 18:59, 3 May 2007 (CDT)

For example, look at the table header for, e.g., The Hand of God (RDM) or Resistance (episode). --Catrope^{(Talk to me or e-mail me)} 01:09, 4 May 2007 (CDT)

Example of use on page

See Crossroads, Part II for how a template would look on the page. --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 05:37, 3 May 2007 (CDT)

Included US airdate template too. --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 05:47, 3 May 2007 (CDT)

Looks good. However, I am wondering if we should include all the "format" release dates. Make it a "2 by 2" table (4 cells) and label them accordingly. lol. Alot of this would be automated in the template itself of course. Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 07:56, 3 May 2007 (CDT)

I'm not the template expert lol but remember that these templates are used on the image tags for the episodes too arnt they? --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 08:36, 3 May 2007 (CDT)

Usage note

Please note that I created these templates for use in the image templates. The NTSC broadcast date has been, but need not always be a US airdate, and the PAL broadcast date has been, but need not be the UK airdate. The fancy formatting, which looks nice in episode templates, is not helpful within the image templates are originally intended. Also, non-anglosphere broadcast dates should be included where possible. --Peter Farago 14:29, 3 May 2007 (CDT)

I agree. Maybe we should just have one "airdate" field in {{Episode Data}} and include every airdate from anywhere in the world we can find. --Catrope^{(Talk to me or e-mail me)} 01:23, 4 May 2007 (CDT)

That would probably be the best solution, all around. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 05:03, 4 May 2007 (CDT)

Peter's Idea

Just so it's out there.. his suggestion is that we rename the template(s) (Category:RDM_Release_Date_Templates and Category:RDM_Broadcast_Date_Templates) to have the county code in it, so we can display all the airtime for the particular episodes. {{Episode Airtime Data}} is the template that "shows" all the data -- plus it's sub-templates -- and {{Episode Release Date}} is the template that formats out the template itself. In the long run, I will be able to migrate this over to the Media wiki and the {{Episode Airtime Data}} box would be migrated over inside the Template:Master screencap and Template:Master audio. An area of example is over on my sub testing page.. here. Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 15:48, 4 May 2007 (CDT)

For the Media wiki I created a test "template" master" of Template:Master screencap that uses the {{Episode Airtime Data}} boxes. Please check it out. Remember... it still needs to be refined and we still need to think about the renaming process of adding the country code. Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 10:58, 7 May 2007 (CDT)