Talk:List of The Best Years episodes

Merger proposal
I really think that The Best Years (season 1) and The Best Years (season 2), as good as they are, should be merged back into this list. Season pages are really only necessary when forking the content is desirable, which usually isn't until around the fourth season. At this time, since each season page is just a list of episodes, this page can handle the information much better than having to direct the reader to a second and third page. Because the second season is about to start, any production information that may be found is better of being inserted into The Best Years. There is a good chance this page could become a WP:Featured list if the content was put here instead, and there has been a recent backlash against unnecessary lists (see recent discussions at WT:SAL, WT:LISTS and WT:FLC). Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 04:32, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * It should be left the way it was, unless more people start asking the same thing. It gives people the chance to seek information, without asking and waiting, even at this early of a time. Mortetviolachaud (talk) 02:14, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Seek what information? There is nothing written in either of the season pages that is exclusive to those pages. Everything that is being transcluded here can be put here without any detriment. Users then have a better chance to seek information, without asking and waiting, even at this early of a time.
 * P.S. Please remember to indent your talk page posts to help the flow of conversation, and don't remove discussion headers. See WP:TPG. Thank you! Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 04:22, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm not some Wikipedia whore, so my life doesn't revolve around it. I'm a regular person who enjoys to watch The Best Years, and many of my friends and I check back to wikipedia for information of The Best Years, and we all agree that having a seperate page really helps, and it give others a chnace to add what they know about the show. Let's just leave it the way it is for now and see what happens in the future. If nothing happens, as in people don't contribute to the articles, then we can merge them back.
 * PS, I didn't remove any discussion headers. Someone else must have, or you just didn't add one. Mortetviolachaud (talk) 21:20, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * You didn't? Really. Hmmm. Because if it wasn't you, someone gained control of your account to make this edit, followed seconds later by this edit, and then this one the following day. You should probably read Security, make your password stronger, and consider getting a User committed identity to ensure your account doesn't get compromised again.
 * I don't expect you to be online for a few hours each day; I suspect your teachers wouldn't allow it. But whether you and your buddies think is irrelevant. Are your friends familiar with the internal workings, guidelines and policies of Wikipedia? If so they should be aware of WP:SAL, WP:FORK, and MOS:TV, which are quite clear on this. Explain why and how a "seperate page really helps" a user in editing the information here. When they click edit on this page, they can't edit that information. They have to understand what transcluding is, and then navigate away from this page to another one to make the edit. In what way do readers have a chnace to add what they know about the show when they can't even find the page to edit? Matthewedwards : Chat  03:45, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Are you effing serious? Wow, you are not even worth arguing with. Do what ever, I don't have time for small minded people. Mortetviolachaud (talk) 18:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, I am serious. By the way, have you checked out WP:No personal attacks? I think you'd benefit from it if you haven't already. Funny, though, that you can't manage to figure out the difference between a discussion where I try to explain why things are done a certain way, and an argument. Small mind.. Hmm. Matthewedwards : Chat  01:21, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh my god, Matthewedwards, get a life. I doubt he read it because he has a life. And Mortetviolachaud, just stop. This conversation is rediculous. You both are huge dicks, so Matthewedwards, do something usefull with your life, beside Wikipedia, and Mortetviolachaud, don't start fights with people. 67.164.162.37 (talk) 04:04, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

These spinouts already contain absolutely nothing that isn't already present in the merged list, and Wikipedia already has a very clear precedent for how to format lists — namely, you do not create separate lists and then transclude them back into a third list; either you just have separate lists, period, or you just have a merged master list which directly contains the list content rather than transcluding other pieces. There's simply no valid reason for the lists to be structured this way, and an explicit policy reason for them not to be, so merge it is. Bearcat (talk) 20:35, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I disagree! Change it back! 71.229.150.29 (talk) 02:52, 29 April 2009 (UTC)