Board Thread:Policies/@comment-25737724-20150608172657/@comment-3361105-20150608224746

Unatratnag wrote: Mmm yes, standards! Let's do it! As you know that's a two-second fix of just changing what outputs from the DPL call. Now, I did put the "Aired on" because if you use the same format as comics, then the TV eps aired on the same day as comics will have lots of friends in that category, not an issue but that's why I added a separate category. Not an issue, but just an FYI. I don't really have a strong vote so whatever you guys want as the standard date format, I can put. If I had to tie break, I'd say Month Day, Year

That's not what I'm referring to. I'm referring to the actual dates on both episode and movie templates, which would be pulled by the DPL in the series list.

Looking over what you've written, without looking at your code itself (because it probably won't make sense outright to a person who didn't write it), I'd say that it could probably be simpler.

Trying to force disparate wikis to use the same standard is getting you side-tracked and confusing things.

What we need is to streamline the current DC templates so that they are ready for standardization with other wikis.

What seems possible off the bat is replacing the in-editor html with template fields to be filled out, and a column in that html table (built into the template) that uses ONE template (several times) to call on the input for the episode titles (which have to be input manually, because you can't nest dpl calls) and then return the airdate for that episode.

So,

Everything else is secondary, and none of what I was just talking about should depend on anything else.