User:ButlerBlogBot/Task 2

Status: approved

Primary functions
The primary objective of this task is to fix date formats per the documentation for the following templates:


 * Infobox television
 * Episode list
 * Series overview

This includes the correct use of Start date, End date, and removing Start date format of the Episode list AltDate.

Additional functions
This task applies general fixes for Infobox television per that template's documentation and previous discussions on its talk page:


 * Remove unnecessary use of name: See name param documentation
 * Remove deprecated parameters: The following parameters have been deprecated. See notes at template docs
 * preceded_by
 * followed_by
 * distributor
 * first_run
 * production_website
 * production_website_title
 * show_name
 * audio_format
 * picture_format
 * Fix known/common invalid parameters: removes unknown parameters and attempts to update commonly misspelled or misused parameters.
 * convert opentheme to open_theme
 * convert endtheme to end_theme
 * Remove "File:" or "Image:" when infobox uses image
 * Remove "px" specification from image_size
 * Remove yes (which is invalid).

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Change log

 * 1.0 - original fixes listed above
 * 1.1. - unrecorded updates
 * 1.2 - add removal of  , reformatting of
 * 1.3 - adds support for
 * 1.4 - (current version) replaces Film date with Start date and End date

Maintenance categories monitored
This task monitors the following maintenance categories from the television project:


 * Infobox television with unknown parameters
 * Infobox television with nonstandard dates
 * Infobox television with unnecessary name parameter
 * Episode lists with unformatted air dates
 * Episode lists with incorrectly formatted alternate air dates