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I say these options can now be removed. I suggest to remove them visually and let the categories in place, to make sure that the bulk of them was truly removed. --TheDJ (talk • contribs) 15:04, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Weren't they already removed?  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 15:06, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, the bot was still working on moving them. I removed them now however. --TheDJ (talk • contribs) 15:51, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Television articles with an IMDb link in the infobox and Category:Television articles with an IMDb link in the infobox --TheDJ (talk • contribs) 15:55, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have to disagree, they should stay in the infobox. They never should have been removed in the first place (at least the IMDb one). TJ Spyke 22:45, 27 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have a question, I hope it's appropriate to ask it here. For certain shows, if they have an expected ending to their run, yet the show is still airing, should the "original run" date be "– present"? Or "–date"? The main article I am asking for is LOST. The show is scheduled to conclude 2010, but, in the infobox should it read "September 22, 2004 – present"? Or "September 22, 2004 – 2010"? Just wondering. --HELLØ ŦHERE 23:24, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In theory, there is a chance that the series could still be continued beyond it's currently intended ending. Although unlikely in the case of Lost, it wouldn't be the first time. Due to a strike, difference of opinion or sudden lack of money, the series can also be shortened unexpectedly. So "present" is more accurate than "planned". --TheDJ (talk • contribs) 00:24, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What am i meant to do for Voice Director? IAmTheCoinMan (talk) 00:08, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What are you looking at, because "Voice Director" isn't a field in the template.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 01:12, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That's exactly my point Bignole. I have a series that has no director, but has a voice director, assistant directors and various other ones. My original question was what do i do.IAmTheCoinMan (talk) 03:11, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You mean like a Voice Director for every episode, who works in the same vein as a live-action Director? You'll have to show me what you're looking at (series and the source that has the "Voice Director"), because I'm not sure what you're referring to precisely. My assumption is that the "Voice Director" is the "Director" of the episode, because animated series don't generally have "direction". Someone draws and someone writes, and then you have someone who directs the people doing the voice work. "Assistant Directors" are just assistance, and they don't typically get mentioned.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 03:23, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

But you generally do have directors on animation, because someone has to tell the storyboarders, and then the animators what the hell to do in relation to shots, camera movement, colours, characters etc. The problem is it's too hard to tell if the voice director is in fact the director, or the producers and assisant directors are doing the job. IAmTheCoinMan (talk) 03:31, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Again, without example with some links I cannot tell you. There isn't a section for it, because it's not something that comes up regularly. If "Voice Director" is what is listed then use that. "Assistant Director" is the same no matter what you're working with. They're the "AD", and they are not listed on any infobox we or anyone has. It's just the personal assistant of the director.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 04:01, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I added a check that tries to find articles that use some of the color options that are NOT in {{television colour}}. When the queue is done processing the changes, they will all show up in Category:Television articles that use colour in the infobox. Then we can go and see what we will do with these options, that some people have argued needed to disappear. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 12:29, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hey guys,

Just thought of this, but what about adding a section on this template where it states what production company has developed/created/designed the opening/closing credits?

Anyway, thats all I'm bringing to the table.

Shieked ^:3 10:21, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Uh...why? That is beyond trivial information and not even worth mentioning in the article itself 99.9% of the time, must less in the infobox. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 13:31, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

{{editprotected}} Add an 'announcer' listing. 12.23.2.98 (talk) 19:55, 3 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This has been proposed before and rejected by consensus. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 20:11, 3 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Either we need to get an admin to go in an widen the box a little bit, or we need to abbreviate some teams. I just noticed that the "Executive Producer(s)" line says
"Executive Producer
(s)".
It's kind of annoying and unprofessional looking. From what I can tell it's the only item that does that, and can be corrected by either adding a couple of digits to the width em, or by changing it to say "Exec. Producer(s)". It's probably prefer the former.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 13:31, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What I'm looking at is on the Smallville page, and it appears to be dicated by the image size. When I made the image 300px it solved the problem, but 300px seems rather large. Most infoboxes, from my experience, use 250 px. If they use a default setting then random readers get the 180px (which would probably break quite a few section terms into two lines).  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 13:36, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

While I'm curious as to how you got the (s) to wrap in the first place (it isn't a word boundary; what browser are you using?) a better solution than arbitrarily overriding the table width would be setting labelstyle = white-space: nowrap so that the labels always kept to one line. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 14:10, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I use IE8. If there is an easier way to keep the text from wrapping, I'm all for it. I just know that the image size is dictating whether it is going to wrap the text or not (smaller image the more likely it will wrap the longer words).  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 14:14, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Have a look at the test cases as see what you think. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 14:18, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]