User talk:Matthewedwards/Archives/2008/01

Objective criteria for episode notability
I've attempted to synthesize the discussion. Again, feedback welcome.Kww (talk) 18:35, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Re: Degrassi: The Next Generation

 * 1) The italics-I've seen Degrassi alone italicized like this in other media, that's why I said this.
 * 2) The cast section is indeed extremely confusing. Think about it like a person who has never seen Degrassi before. As I said, I'm a closet Degrassi fan, so I understood it to some degree. Even I had to read it several times to get the full gist of it, though. The section basically throws a bunch of names and seasons at the reader all at once. It's information overload. I had a similar problem with an article I got up to GA status, Last of the Summer Wine, a show which also has a large cast and used a table to describe the decade in this case that each non-main cast member joined the series. Whether you use a table or not is up to you. However, it is bad form to simply have seven different paragraphs with a group of names in each paragraph.
 * 3) For the first run broadcast table suggestion, see Smallville (TV series).
 * 4) You're probably right about the syndication information. It could probably be combined with something else. With the stations, it could become overwhelming as you're inviting everyone in the US with a station that airs reruns to add their station to the list. (I know that my local station back in the states that airs reruns is not on the list.)
 * 5) Just a suggestion, for some tidbits on casting, check the DVD special features for the first couple seasons. I remember it having something on casting.

Hope this helps. Cheers! Redfarmer (talk) 09:01, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

AutoWikiBrowser
Hi,

Thanks for applying for AutoWikiBrowser. I have approved you, so you can get to work immediately (you can download it from here ). Good luck!

 jj137  (talk)  22:24, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Help desk request
Hey there! I fixed up your table. I think that's how you wanted it. If you need any more help, feel free to respond here or on my talk page. Cheers! -- omtay 38  06:27, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I knew it could be done in HTML, but I'm still not used to wikitables. -- Matthew Edwards | talk | Contribs 00:01, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

AWB
I saw your question about the AWB reference tags. If you go to the (2) Set options and check general fixes, then AWB should fix what you are asking. I am pretty sure the programmers implemented that feature in the last release. If it is not then you should bring it to the AWB bug page along with your example. I have been working on cleaning up the AWB manual the last few days. So I ask what is so confusing? And how can we make it better? AWB is really a program that can do so much that it's hard to document it. It looks like they would implement a feature and forget to put it in the manual. I just asked about the subst: section and they really could not explain it to me either. Jeanenawhitney (talk) 17:08, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
 * A-ha! You're right, it did fix it! I've only had AWB for seven days, or so, and when I looked at the manual, I thought it very confusing. I noticed you said you planned to fix the manual up, and that it "confused the heck" out of you when you started. To be honest, I hadn't rechecked the manual since then to see if it had been worked on, but I will do that now. I'm also thinking of copying the content of an article into my sandbox, and play with AWB on it, until I figure out what everything does.
 * The only way I can describe the use of "subst:" is to say that if you wanted to put, for example, a userbox on your userspace and you typed, you'd get


 * (Image removed for style and formatting reasons)


 * and it would stay that way forever even if I changed it to say "This user lives in Lancaster, California". However, if you typed without the "subst:", you would see every change I made to it. I don't know if this helps you any for the manual, but that's the basic principal behind it.
 * I do have a question about it when an article doesn't have any categories. Is there a way AWB to find the article when that happens? -- Matthew Edwards | talk | Contribs 17:55, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I have another question. When I load up the categories, for instance, Category:Degrassi, why doesn't it bring up the subcategories Category:Degrassi characters, Category:Degrassi: The Next Generation, Category:WikiProject Degrassi and Category:Degrassi images? -- Matthew Edwards | talk | Contribs 18:15, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
 * See the new manual AutoWikiBrowser/User manual and read the section, Make from. (hint. it's recursive). Jeanenawhitney 15:36, 31 January 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeanenawhitney (talk • contribs)
 * I found it. I guess I should read the entire manual right now! -- Matthew Edwards | talk | Contribs 23:03, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Responses from Voyagerfan5761
Tuvok[T@lk/Improve] 17:22, 31 January 2008 (UTC)