Talk:List of Law & Order: Criminal Intent episodes

Links
All the links are broken. I don't know how to fix them —Preceding unsigned comment added by WardenUSA (talk • contribs) 19:17, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

which cast ?
Still waiting for the indicators of which cast is featured in each show, as discussed at the FLC. Tvoz / talk 03:31, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'm still playing around with a couple of ideas. One is putting indicators by the episode titles, but that may look odd with the references for each episode. Another idea I had was making an extra column using one of the  fields in episode list, but inserting "Goren, Eames" and "Logan, Falaaci" squishes the table somewhat. A third though was to have an extra column again, and putting the indicators in that column, with a Key to show what each indicator means. My final idea was to use [nb 1]-style footnotes, either by each episode title or in a column; this is my preferred solution. Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 06:43, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Should we state actors or characters? Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 07:31, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Um, I think characters. I think columns would be easier to navigate than footnotes - I don't know if you can manage it without it being hopelessly squeezed, but I think the ideal format would be several narrow columns that could be X'd - one each for Goren/Eames, Logan/Barek,  Logan/Wheeler, Logan/Falacci,  Nichols/Wheeler* - but I suspect there's not enough room for that so the alternate would be one column with entries  that said either G/E, L/B, L/W, L/F, OR N/F, or, I guess, numbers that corresponded to those pairings.  Is the production code column essential? Could buy some space there perhaps. Tvoz / talk 07:53, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Also - maybe can steal some space from the original airdate column by going to mm/dd/yyyy format. Tvoz / talk 07:57, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
 * and there also is the *Goren/Bishop team for a bunch of episodes in season three- I've added it into the lead, but they need to be accounted for in the columns. Tvoz / talk 19:41, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Still waiting for the indicators of which cast is featured in each show. How about replacing the Production Code column with character indicators? Prod code is sufficient on individual episode page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sandylouise (talk • contribs) 18:31, 18 May 2009 (UTC)


 * OK - I took the time to work on this last night and just did it. I've added a column for "Lead characters" (changed my original "Featured cast" - could be something else for header) and it seems to be working on Firefox without problem. Someone might want to check it on IE (it's fine on my screen with Explorer too) and as I mentioned earlier we could steal some space from the original airdate column if we need to, but I think this looks fine and has reinstated information that is useful to researchers.  Tvoz / talk 19:55, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Lead
Um, so the lead paragraph is like a lead article. It's huge. Can we pare it down to something smaller and concise as per WP:LEAD and move the rest of the information... elsewhere? -- Mûĸĸâĸûĸâĸû 23:55, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * If you want, but since the body of the article is so big, the Lede isn't that big a problem. It does what it needs in that it introduces the article; describes the overall subject (the show); gives information about the episodes (producers, actors, themes); explains how the episodes are available. I'm working on getting this to WP:FL, and if you look at other Featured drama-episode lists, this isn't that much different. I suppose some of it can be repeated at Law & Order: Criminal Intent, but the majority is specifically episode related. Matthewedwards : Chat  05:34, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Reference Question
Is there a particular reason that there are over 100 different references, each with a unique reference number, for specific episodes coming from the same parent website? It doesn't really make any sense to reference each individual episode's website when they are all coming from nbc.com, it seems. Just wondering... I'll be glad to start cleaning that up if it's agreed that it's a problem. --Alan daniel (talk) 01:02, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I can't remember why I added them like that, but I think it may have something to do with NBC not having a homepage for the episodes or a page for each season. Technically, the director, writers, production numbers should all be sourced, so it isn't wrong to have each episode individually referenced, it's just inconvenient. Matthewedwards : Chat  01:25, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

still waiting
Hey Matthew - how's the reinstatement of which cast is in which ep coming along? Tvoz / talk 1:57, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
 * See above. Tvoz / talk 19:55, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

File:Law & Order CI Season 8.jpg
File:Law & Order CI Season 8.jpg is used here but there is no non-free content rationale on the image page which addresses the use in this article as explained at Non-free use rationale guideline. Either a rationale should be written or the image should be removed from this article. Angus McLellan (Talk) 13:53, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Season nine
There is a claim that season nine will be a split season. But season eight was not. And they both started in April. ??

--MathMan64 (talk) 06:36, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

The state of this article
This page has gone from something informative, professional looking and of encyclopedic value, to a disgusting mess of poorly collected fan "info". Under what train of thinking did User:Mgfan222 ever think that laying out the page like this was ever a good idea? If I'd have been editing Wikipedia at the time, I would have immediately reverted the edit. Instead, I'll do it now and follow the WP:BRD method.

Looking at the current revision, there are many things wrong with this page that can in no way be described as a "clean up" Mgfan222 urges other editors to "Please, let's keep LOCI episodes clean." Ironic, then, that the page went from a neatly presented article to a complete and utter mess.

For a long time, the page's Lede section had vital information regarding the episodes that followed the guidelines at WP:LEDE. So why was it all deleted in favour of two extremely badly constructed paragraphs? (Well, one really, and a para-sentence). "The following is an episode list for the American television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. The series premiered on September 30, 2001 on NBC and completed 6 seasons on the network. Starting October 4, 2007 the series moved to USA where it has completed two seasons so far. CI began its ninth season on March 30, 2010. As of July 29, 2024, 172 episodes of Law & Order: Criminal Intent have aired." Articles do not start with "The following is an article about..." Go check any article. Dog, Hudson River, table, Walmart. None of them begin "This is an article about dogs/the Hudson River/tables/Walmart." Lists should not begin with "The following is an episode list". Any reader with half a brain knows that it's an episode list because the page title tells them. What sort of morons does Mgfan222 think read this page that they need help to figure that out?

How is that an improvement? WP:LEDE offers clear guidelines about how the Lede of a page should be constructed. It was obviously ignored because the lede did not:
 * "serve both as an introduction to the article and as a summary of the important aspects of the subject of the article."
 * follow WP:BOLDTITLE correctly, because "episode list" and "172" were bolded.
 * "briefly summarize the most important points covered in an article in such a way that it can stand on its own as a concise version of the article." because of the extra information that had crept in about guest roles.
 * "define the topic, establish context, explain why the subject is interesting or notable"

All it did is tell us what day and time in the East and in the middle the new episodes aired. East and middle of where? "The series moved to USA". Big move. What country was it in before? Please, explain here how the article lets the people in India, Nigeria, The Falklands, South Africa, and Jersey know what NBC is.

Why was it using " July 29, 2024 "? The page is alway incorrect because it doesn't reflect the date of the most recently broadcast episode or the most recently updated revision of the article. There's been numerous discussions at WP:FLC about using this, and it has never been acceptable. If for whatever reason no-one edited the article again for 2 years, the reader would falsely think it was up to date. See here, here, here, etc etc. In fact, this article was wrong, because on 6 April, when a new episode did in fact air, it was still saying "172", not "173".

The page violated the rules of WP:COLOR, which clearly state:
 * "Ensure that color is not the only way used to convey important information."
 * "Many readers of Wikipedia may be partially or fully color blind. Ensure that the color combinations used in Wikipedia (infoboxes, navigational boxes, graphs, etc.) have an adequate contrast."

Here, it made the article look like Skittlepedia rather than Wikipedia. The colours served no real purpose, were not used to convey information, and were a contrasting nightmare. They should not be used as an attempt to make an article look Pretty.

There are five, FIVE, shades of blue, and all those blue links get lost in them because they don't stand out. The red links don't stand out against the red-shaded table. WP:Redlinks are there to inspire readers to create new articles. They ain't gonna do that if they can't find them.

Mgfan222 stated that "No other info has been added/deleted." when he/she removed 38010 bytes of information from the page, including episode numbers and replaced them with nonsense such as "07 - 73", including writers and directors of each episode THAT WERE ALL SOURCED. Mgfan222, can you explain this blatant lie that was used in your edit summary so that the page watchers did not notice your edit? Well, I guess it wasn't exactly a lie, because it wasn't until your next edit that you added an image that fails to meet WP:NFCC for this page, and then proceeded to make ten more edits where you added UNSOURCED Who's Who lists of guest actors for every single episode. I recommend you read the WP:MOS, WP:LEDE, WP:COLOR, MOS:TV, WP:WAF, WP:IINFO, WP:LIST, and every other policy, guideline and essay before editing any episode list article ever again if this is what you call a cleanup.

This is the worse example of IMPROVING an article in the entire time I've been at Wikipedia, and it's an absolute horror that the page has been like this for over three months. Matthewedwards : Chat  20:44, 7 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Normally I would tend to disagree with: The state of this article but,
 * Who of D'Onofrio, Erbe, and Bogosian fans give much of a damn?! - Law & Order: CI is good as canceled. I know I won't be contributing to this page anymore as long as Jeff Goldblum's running this show!
 * So I would disagree with you about the state of this page... but who cares really? The show is down the toilet anyway. It'll be the second named US "Law & Order" to be canceled. This is just me saying I'm done contributing to the LOCI part of Wiki. Goren/Eames forever!
 * Mgfan222 gave the page a little life! I applaud him/her for that! I wouldn't have wasted my time cleaning up another man's mess! --SVU4671 (talk) 22:25, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
 * And why exactly do you think anyone cares about whether or not you are a fan of the show? Tvoz / talk 04:15, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
 * The state of the show should not have any impact on how the article is written. Even if it is cancelled, that doesn't mean the page should be deleted. And I don't consider my time wasted clearing up another man's mess. It had to be done. Matthewedwards : Chat  04:22, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
 * By the way, I agree with Matthew that the page is better this way - I last edited here in October, when the page was essentially the version Matthew has reinstated it to. Tvoz / talk 07:32, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I guess this format is more formal and cleanly presented. But just as an interested viewer watching the show in pieces from different seasons, the previous format was much more useful to me. It gave a bit of useful pertinent info between the seasons about cast changes, and provided the names of guest starts which I was looking for instead of the writers & directors I don't care about. The general thrust of changes in head writer(s) for the show can generally be presented with a few sentences, while the guest stars need to be a bullet next to each episode IMO. I don't know much about wiki rules but I agree with the sentiment that the page had more life before. 24.98.199.160 (talk) 21:17, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

Episode lists are transcluded
What do I really need to say other than: List of Burn Notice episodes, List of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes, List of House episodes, List of The Good Wife episodes, and List of NCIS episodes?

The episodes on this page should have been transcluded long ago (and I thank user:SVU4671) for doing so. Why?


 * The lead characters are really irrelevant and all you have to do is look at the episode summary; so they are irrelevant and redundant.
 * The tranculding of the table's saves space on this page.
 * The episode tables should also be transcluded to avoid unnecessary duplication errors.

What is the real difference on whether an actual table should physically be on this page or not, someone please tell me. And it better be something viable.--172.129.244.136 (talk) 17:57, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

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Merger proposal
Formal request has been received to merge the articles The Good Doctor (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), Suite Sorrow, Happy Family (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), Graansha, Stress Position (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), 30 (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), Amends (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), Seeds (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), Untethered (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), Senseless (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), Purgatory (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), Contract (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), Assassin (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), Last Rites (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), Rock Star (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), Faithfully (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), The Glory That Was... (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), Family Values (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), Major Case (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), Revolution (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), and Loyalty (Law & Order: Criminal Intent) into List of Law & Order: Criminal Intent episodes. Proposer's rationale: These episode articles are just plot and trivia and have no reliable references indicating notability. Discuss here. Richard3120 (talk) 20:26, 25 September 2018 (UTC)