Talk:How Do They Do It?

Disambiguation
Lifeboats (series 2 ep 8) is ambiguous. Does it refer to lifeboats carried on a ship or to shore-based rescue lifeboats? Jimmy Pitt (talk) 00:47, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
 * i cant rememebr myself will need to watch it again —Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrewcrawford (talk • contribs) 20:56, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Separate pages for discovery and channel five uk versions?
I am propusing that we make two seprate articles oen for the discovery episodes the other for channel five uk epiosodes, they are own versions and it make the front page look tider, also i propuse moving the episode to there own page as well.--andrewcrawford 20:19, 4 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I don't think the UK edition contains enough information to warrant its own article. Another section, or at the least some disambiguation in the countries list, I would completely agree to. Also, it might be worth re-organising the presenters list with the main (Americas) program's presenter first. -- D a n c r a g g s 00:25, Tuesday August 18 2009 (UTC)  —Preceding undated comment added 00:25, 18 August 2009 (UTC).

Quebec
Why does this article exclude Quebec? 76.66.198.171 (talk) 23:06, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Because no one has added it yet - be bold and add it! Talk Islander 00:03, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Why do you need to add it? Discovery Channel Canada is aired in Quebec, Quebec is under the jurisdiction of the Canadian CRTC. So why is Quebec _specifically_ *excluded* ? 76.66.198.171 (talk) 06:26, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
 * It's not specifically excluded, there's no hidden agenda. Like I said, it simply hasn't been added by anone else. Talk Islander 17:09, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
 *  It is broadcast in English on Discovery Channel networks in Canada (excluding Quebec), &mdash; direct quote from the article, Quebec is specifically excluded 76.66.198.171 (talk) 00:30, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Right, so you mean that the programme specifically excludes Quebec, and not the article. Big different. No idea. Talk Islander 09:52, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I would say that the article specifically excludes Quebec. I'll be deleting that "(excluding Quebec)" then, since it's weird, and doesn't make sense, and being wrong and all. 76.66.198.171 (talk) 20:59, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
 * "It is broadcast in English on Discovery Channel networks in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, The Netherlands, Australia, Asia; in French in France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Quebec" The reason Quebec was excluded was because it is included later. (Broadcast in French.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.199.30.18 (talk) 15:53, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

The FIVE section
Hi - adding a Five section is a good idea. I think we should follow the formatting of the Discovery series which has already established on this page. It's easy to follow and it doesn't take up too much space (so it saves lots of scrolling). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.83.78.223 (talk) 15:13, 4 November 2010 (UTC)


 * the discovery section requires reformating the seg ent are not the episode title the epiose titles they are none as per MOS they get replaced with epsiode 1 episdoe 2 etc, you also removing valid information the new format is far better i agree it isnt easy to rea but if disocvery is doen te same way then the page can be split into seprereate lsit and traadclude back with jsut the list-- Andrewcrawford ( talk  -  contrib ) 16:01, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Why does the Discovery section require reformatting? It's cleaner and clearer than your formatting for the FIVE section. I think you're turning a concise, readable page entry into a bit of a mess - by your own admission you're saying 'it isn't easy to read'. Also, there are NO episode titles for 'How Do They Do It' which is why each episode's content is expressed by listing the story items. The point of editing this is to make it BETTER but I think you've made it worse. I'm going to revert this again - I don't quite understand what you're trying to achieve; but if you are keen to reformat please add all of the information so we can understand what you're trying to do. At the moment, you're making big format changes but nothing new. If you feel the need to revert again let's get an editor or administrator to adjudicate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.83.78.223 (talk) 16:41, 4 November 2010 (UTC)


 * OK lets get this striahgt the FIVe Seciton has bene there sine 2007 i jsut added the new season and then don some converting.


 * I also aded the nesest epsode which you have removed withut reason.


 * Adding the series and episode number coloum allows for better infomraiton. episode lsit MOS states that if there no episode titles that episode 1 episode 2 etc should be used this is wikipeida policy. all i was doing is moving the title and makign it the summary so a short despcriton of what happens coudl be put in and it this bit that made it unreadable i agree but once you add the summary the page becomes to large and the page can be split and the informaiton transcluded back so it liekt eh disocvery one but wiht the extra coloum. i have no objeciton to keepign the title as the segments but covneritng to give more ifnormaiton is reuqired to make ti BETTER cause i you give mroe informaiotn then it is better-- Andrewcrawford ( talk  -  contrib ) 17:20, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Okay, I better understand what you're trying to achieve. However - the old format already has an episode column and the header makes it quite clear the series number. Each episode has a very clear 'short description' which is the 3 items in the episode (e.g. lightbulb, hovercraft, training shoes); what more information do you need to add? Are you going to go through every episode and add detail to every item in every episode? If not, your new layout will leave half of the page blank - there's nothing in your centre sections at the moment. And surely we can abide by Wiki policy but keep the same cell format. Take a look at the two formats - which is the most user friendly? Let's go with the format which best serves the reader. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.83.78.223 (talk) 18:16, 4 November 2010 (UTC)


 * currently there only a series epsiode coloum but the epiosd numebr co9ulm goes from 1 to 10 then conutnies at 11 onwards so if there 50 epiosde the episode coloum will go to 50 it makees ti easier to knwo how many epiose there is in the show, once split the descrpiton wouldnt matter when there added but yes i do plan on adding hte descritpion slowly as my english uis veyr poor it will take me logner ot write a short depcrtion on each segment, but i am happy enough to keep the descrption out for now until the it ready to split to new article and transcluded back havea look at List of Casualty episodes all 25 seires are in there own article and the list transcluded back without the descrption that is my ultimate goal is to achive sometihng similar. but for now can you agree to haivng the episode coloum readdded and and th new episode readded?-- Andrewcrawford ( talk  -  contrib ) 18:35, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Season 9?
The section for season 9 is a disaster the likes of which I've rarely seen on this site outside of intentional vandalism. It needs a complete overhaul. 66.24.41.103 (talk) 09:41, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

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