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Template:Ep infobox

I've created a template in the style of the movie template used at Wikipedia (see: MST3K: The Movie). I need suggestions on what info to include in it and what order to organize that info in.

Here's the template: Template:Ep_infobox. I based it on the MST3K Access database I made. Mainly, I wanted the title screen, episode director, air date, Turkey Day & MST Hour appearances, movie & short directors, movie & short years and navigation to previous and following eps. Not all of this info will appear in all episode articles, of course. It is constructed with IF statements, so eps without shorts, for example, won't display the short info.

I've implemented this template in the article The Crawling Eye so you can see what it looks like in real life (101 lacks an MST director and shorts).

Is there anything I should add to the template? Anything that shouldn't be in there? This template needs to be finalized before we go nuts adding it to episode articles -- it would be a pain to have to re-edit every infobox on every article if we changed something later (though that likely will happen, anyway).

Kernunrex 18:06, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

I haven't yet looked at the Wikipedia tutorial, so I'm still new to all of this and Wikietiquette. I think the info box should be almost seperated into three, as look at the thing, it's huge compared to most info boxes. One for the feature film, one for the short, and one for the episode itself.

Vanhagar3000 15 January 2007 (UTC)

I think the movie info template needs an added line for who stars in the movies. I think that's the only thing missing. I'm not familiar with the editing of templates, so I'm afraid I can't do it.

--Hugh Beaumont 18:47, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

I made some modifications... --Splarka (talk) 03:44, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia

Please, if you're going to grab articles from wikipedia (though I personally think that is bad form), fix the links in the article. The links are designed to work there, not here. Plus, MST3K Wiki will not (should not) have its own articles on things like Arby's, Webelos or A&E. Point those links back to wikipedia by doing this:
[[Arby's]]

change to

[[wikipedia:Arby's|Arby's]]

Kernunrex 21:14, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Film Infobox Template

Okay, I think that the main MST3K info box was too long and should have infoboxes for the films themselves (since it may get real messy if we should ever split them). I have it located here. Also a really quick question is why do you guys always have number that look like time next to your name. I thought it was time, but then a time I saw someone put down, it wasn't close to that time yet.

vanhagar3000 18 January 2007

You can add the timestamp by signing your name with four tildes (~~~~). The time is in UTC. Angela ^talk 01:16, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the help. Okay, now I'm having trouble using the infobox. I'm guessing multiple infoboxes on one page doesn't work. So I think we may have to have seperate pages on movies and episodes right away. Vanhagar3000 22:00, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Nah, the current infobox looks fine. Look at the template page - everything fits in there fine. I think, for now, we should leave the infobox editing to Kernunrex, as he knows what he's doing. And there's no need for more than one infobox on a page, although more than one infobox can be placed on pages. (I've seen numerous instances of it, on other wikis.) Sorry, VH, but I'm pretty sure we're sticking with the one-page system still. Trust us, we know wikis. ;)

--Hugh Beaumont 23:41, 19 January 2007 (UTC)