# Talk:Smallville

e.g. am pretty certain that one Cable re-run in Britain was immediately halted and the series has never been re-run there at all since after the scandal broke and it was directly in response to the scandal.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.16.72.221 (talk) 08:26, 13 August 2025 (UTC) 

This is the only series I`ve seen (so far) with the omitted cast in infobox. It is one of the most important information of a television series. There is such shows as Greys Anatomy, Desperate Housewives and The Office (American TV series) that have the entire -long- list cast in infobox and it`s not quite harmful. The way it is now doesn't seem to be harmonic and differs from the vast majority of other series.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cvhcsee (talk • contribs) 06:03, 13 August 2020 (UTC) 

Explanation of the starring parameter on {{Infobox television}} doesn't give see below as an option. The list is not that long and some other series have twice the number of cast members and don't hide on infobox. Performing alteration per WP:SILENCE. Cvhcsee (talk) 04:21, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
It's from WP:MOSTV#Infobox: "Additionally, if any individual field becomes excessively long, again using the starring parameter as an example, it may be beneficial to link readers to a corresponding section of the article (in this case, the "Cast", "Characters", or "Cast and characters" section) instead." -- Just because others are choosing not to do it, doesn't mean that there is a mandate to keep them all in the infobox. I would generally say any cast list over 10 people should probably consider that. That said, at the time when we weren't linking them all in the infobox, we didn't have the series overview table where it is currently located. So, originally the infobox would bleed through multiple sections, and it was easier to avoid that by removing the lengthy cast list and just linking them (it also helped people trying to rearrange the cast list constantly to what they "thought" was the right order.   BIGNOLE   (Contact me) 13:17, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
Right, thank you. It would be nicer if the MOS already say what would be considered ...long... so less interpretations could come. Afterall, thats what conventions and MOS are for. Cvhcsee (talk) 15:54, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
Well, it's a guideline. It doesn't have an exact number because that can change per page (hence why we did it before, as opposed to needing to do that now). It can vary from page to page. Unlike say page size, which has a page that walks you through splitting a page. Size of the page is more important than number of seasons (doesn't stop people from creating pages when they shouldn't and barely have information to support a stub.   BIGNOLE   (Contact me) 18:59, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

sorry, i didn't follow the show, but i've always been curious as to why they cast a hapa for lana lane.  is it addressed in-universe (i.e., mother being asian), or did the producers honestly think they could slip kreuk by as caucasian?
article goes out of its way to point out how some caucasian character was recast as black in the show, but says nothing about one being recast as (hapa) asian.  2601:19C:527F:A680:29B4:B41C:75A8:70BA (talk) 06:42, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

How does {{:List of Smallville episodes}} invoke the series overview table in the List of Smallville episodes page? There's no template called ":List of Smallville episodes". Redjedi23 (talk) 22:11, 17 March 2023 (UTC)