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Can Planned by be added as parameter? Or can we continue using "Created by" and "Developed by"? The South Korean infobox has it and a lot of articles (TV series articles) use it. Manly, a planner is a production manager that oversees the production company and help it plan the work. He is not part of the production company or it is an entire different company that help plan everything before the production company start shooting. So far people have been using "Created by" and "Developed by" since there is no "Planned by". May question is, which is the correct parameter for this? CherryPie94 (talk)

Can someone explain the rationale behind this directive, noted in some but not all the relevant fields? Particularly in the case of Jeopardy!, removing the year/season information greatly reduces the meaningfulness of the information presented without substantially improving the aesthetic of the presentation. It just makes it seem like the show had multiple hosts/producers/directors/announces etc. simultaneously, when a simple inclusion of year/season eliminates any such confusion and keeps things clean. Is not this rule more of a "foolish consistency" hobgoblin? (For reference, here is the first diff that introduced this language, although initially it was only for "starring".) Robert K S (talk) 02:56, 26 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Just noting that this has also been raised at WT:TV#"Years or seasons should not be included"?. --AussieLegend (✉) 14:16, 28 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Shouldn't Stage designer or scenic designer be included in the template? Ali Pirhayati (talk) 08:40, 3 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This is not a thing that is used in most programs from my experience. --AussieLegend (✉) 09:26, 3 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I think all the TV shows have a scenic designer. Ali Pirhayati (talk) 15:35, 3 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal: Add |episode_list= as an alternative to |list_episodes= so all 3 television infoboxes (this, {{Infobox television season}} and {{Infobox television episode}}) use the same parameter name, making usage easier for editors (as editors won't need to learn/remember which parameter name is used where), and will make it easier when converting infobox from series->season or season->series. This parameter should also be the one shown in the documentation as while support for the previous one should still exist, it should be discouraged for the benefits given above. --Gonnym (talk) 11:45, 21 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This infobox is used in 47,000 articles while the other two are used in just under 17,000 so it be more logical to make those templates comply with this than the other way around. I thought we had actually done that some time ago. I remember a discussion. --AussieLegend (✉) 11:57, 21 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I think the parameter name of "episode_list" is more clear than "list_episodes", but if that is the only contention point and you think the other is better, I'm ok with going the other way. --Gonnym (talk) 12:16, 21 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Just as a followup, while this template is used much more than the other 2, it only has 3240 uses of this parameter, while the other two have 3421 and 8759 - so far less uses. --Gonnym (talk) 12:23, 21 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

narrator vs narrated

While we're on the subject, I noticed that this uses |narrated=, while {{Infobox episode}} uses |narrator=. Most of the "job" titles are in the latter's style (director, creator, developer, presenter, executive_producer) so this would also benift in changing to fit the style of other job titles and the other infobox. --Gonnym (talk) 12:16, 21 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]