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[edit] Quotes
We're doing a lot of restructuring here, so I'm setting up this space for us to talk about the changes.
First up, I want to talk about quotes. There are quotes on a lot of episode pages, including whole sections on some pages -- Love's Labours Lost in Space is an example. On Muppet Wiki, we had a lot of problems with quotes, and eventually decided to take them out entirely. So I want to bring that up here, and see what people think.
The problem is that the selection of quotes involves picking the one line (or more) that you think is the funniest or most important -- which is a matter of opinion. It's a really well-written show, so a list of "memorable quotes" could end up being a transcript of half the episode.
Personally, I think we should include quotes as part of the text -- for example, the article on a character can use quotes to demonstrate aspects of the character's personality. But I think a list of quotes on an episode page ultimately ends up being clutter. What do other folks think? -- Danny (talk) 22:23, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
- I agree we should keep "Quotes" sections out of episode articles. For "in universe" articles, we could perhaps restrict quotes to one per section? --Imperialles 01:00, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
- Per Imp. Maybe laying out a layout guide for various types of articles would be beneficial? That way, new users, and eventually new admins, of this site will have some type of base to work from so that episode, character, etc. articles have a standard among them. Just some food for thought :) Greyman(Paratus) 01:14, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
- Well, I meant it as more of a guideline for new admins and new users, rather than cold, hard "policy"...I don't think anything carved in stone would work at this stage in the game. Like I said above, it's just a suggestion to help point new users/admins in the right direction when they have questions of their own. Greyman(Paratus) 15:57, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Episode
It seems that every episode seems to have its own layout, with none really the same.Sgtcook 21:22, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
- It seems that a good place to start would be using a standard infobox/sidebar. A lot of the later episodes seem to use some sort of table rather than the infobox/sidebar. --Topher 20:16, 4 April 2008 (UTC)