Board Thread:Policies/@comment-25737724-20150608172657/@comment-25737724-20150609000259

Hatebunny wrote: 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. Very true. The dates code for comics and such fit that bill for me. To me I like date of main comic released being created from the template fields and nothing more. I don't get all the extra stuff that's put in but I'm sure it's useful for others more so than myself. That would be out of scope for my changes for this... Hatebunny wrote: Trying to force disparate wikis to use the same standard is getting you side-tracked and confusing things. Accommodating and confused are two very different things ;) It's good to hear there's a desire to standardize or work more for getting things simple. I agree thinks were super complicated, but that's because I didn't think anyone would be willing to change...

Hatebunny wrote: 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,

I can send you what I found about how DPL renders. That actually wouldn't be an issue, BUT I agree that would not be the way to go.

It sounds like we're willing to make some updates which is good. However, you're not willing to go to a predictable URL name standard that Marvel and Image are using. It's a rub but we can do this. You can input the whole URL but then your title will show "Arrow (TV Series) Episode: Pilot". Are you OK with that? For me, it would be "Todd McFarlane's Spawn Season 1 1" and "Outcast TV Series 1 1". I'm honestly OK with that and it follows Keep.It.Simple.Stupid. {Series List }
 * Episode1 = Arrow (TV Series) Episode: Pilot
 * Episode2 = Arrow (TV Series) Episode: Clever title

I noticed your dropped affiliate link, any reasons why? If you wanted it, I could do this:

{{#if {{{Episode1|}}}
 * {{Episode Build|{{{Episode1}}}|{{AiredOn|{{{Episode1}}}}}|{{AffiliateLink|{{{Episode1}}}}}
 * Otherwise blank}}