Talk:So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 9

Rewrite
The section, IMO, about the format of this run should be rewritten. Too many run-ons and syntactical errors. YellowAries2010 (talk) 06:33, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
 * That would be "syntactic" errors. ;) But can you be more specific; there are no syntactic errors that I can see, but I can understand where the wording might cause it to read as vague to some.  This occurred to me previously, but the problem is that it's difficult to explain explicitly how things have changed (and still keep to encyclopedic style) without using embedded clauses, due to the fact that the voting results and the performances now overlap from week to week.  Honestly I don't think it's going to get too much clearer than it is, but in any event, that section will likely get revised once the first competition episode airs in a couple of weeks, so maybe it will iron itself out. Snow (talk) 13:35, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

Results in tables
I changed the scheme for representing the results as the method being used was needlessly confusing, counter-intuitive, and, in any event, inaccurate -- the judges/producers have said (both on the show and in interviews), that the new week's routines are factored into the elimination decisions at the end of the show, as of course are solos, so eliminations are clearly the product of the show in which they occur and all routines performed up until the moment of elimination. So the "already eliminated" was not just likely to be confusing to the average future users of the tables, it was also inaccurate in that it implied the eliminations are already finalized before the show in which the respective decision is announced, which is not the case. I think the new format not only presents the status/elimination dates more accurately, it also reads more clearly in general and it more closely reflects which performances (all of them, that is) factored into the ultimate decision. Note also that there are many other shows in the SYTYCD franchise which have always had a one-show-per-week format and that their articles (at least the ones that have performance charts), all use something similar to this format (adjusted for the manner in which eliminations are handled on the show, of course) and seem much cleaner for it. Snow (talk) 05:48, 26 July 2012 (UTC)