User:X201/Episode table horrors

Why are you changing the episode table?

There are 3600 articles that use the Episode list template inside a standard wikitable, instead of inside its sister template, Episode table. This has a number of issues, all of which impact readers and especially readers with a visual impairment.

There's a lack of consistency. e.g column titles The first column in an episode table usually shows the overall number of a particular episode in the life of a series. All the headings below are for just a single column overall number of episodes. Although some look the same, behind the scenes they all have different table code.

Mighty Orbots

My Favorite Martian

Law & Order: Trial by Jury

Tables that contain colour info that isn't actually working

The complexity and interaction between fixes gets more and more complex, because of the vast number of table code combinations. Something that worked yesterday, now causes errors on the next page you try to modify. Only about 30 articles into this, but already the amount of AWB code is huge. Have to cater for every little difference in the many different styles of table code.

Average speed, 1 per day (until I hit Kingdom Hospital)

Inconsistencies: Headings changing between tables on the same page

Misuse: Bending episode list to fit, when it should have been book list and book table doing the job properly.

Bad examples
All the below are genuine examples of table header colours that were in active use on Wikipedia.

Police Squad!
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Mighty Orbots
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Tijuana Toads
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Messiah (British TV series)
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My Favorite Martian
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Scenes from a Marriage
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Sea Hunt
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Longstreet (TV series)
Two for the price of one with this one

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Bug Juice
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