Talk:List of Smallville episodes/Archive 1

message: This article is following this format List_of_The_O.C._episodes. Please feel free to expand, upload legal images, write summaries that do not divulge the ending, put in proper names and dates. Thanks --DragonWR12LB 07:04, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Format

message: Why are so many of the Season 1 episodes listed as both Season 1 and 5 episodes here? VolatileChemical 20:25, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Somebody created this out of a list of episodes of "The O.C." and that somebody hasn't replaced the old list with actual Smallville episodes yet. Kineticman 07:48, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I fixed season 5. - Peregrinefisher 18:36, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Season 5 

message: We need to merge the individual season episode pages Episodes of Smallville (Season 1), Episodes of Smallville (Season 2), etc. into this one with small explanations and and links to a page for each episode.  That seems to be the standard way at wikipedia. - Peregrinefisher 04:40, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merging Needed

message: The page for pilot has been made.  We should format it how we want them all to look and use it as a template. - Peregrinefisher 19:30, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have made a template for the individual episode pages.  Get it here.  Just paste it into the newly created and page and fill in the information.  Look at Metamorphosis (Smallville episode) to see how to fill it in. - Peregrinefisher 21:35, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I was wondering why Season One didn't have individual episode articles. Thanks for the template, I'll help out wherever I can. Hanshi 16:09, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You might want to read the below comments first. -- Ned Scott 18:47, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Individual episode template

message: Just figured I would state reasons for changing. I saw April 12 as date of the next smallville ("progeny") on this list, but everywhere else it was April 19. I also changed some wording. Dashboardy 17:15, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, thanks about that. When I changed the formatting I forgot to update the dates. I fixed them on Season 6, but I forgot they were listed here as well. Good catch.   BIGNOLE   (Contact me) 17:42, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Minor changes

message: I have created pages for the first two seasons.  All the info from the first two season pages has been incorporated.  The first season's pages have been referenced.  The second season's pages have also been referenced depending on how we want to deal with quotes taken from smallville.wikia.com (ideas?).  The episode page summaries for the first five episodes have also been improved. - Peregrinefisher 10:06, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm sorry, but what part of "do not create any individual episode pages" did you not understand? You are completely disregarding what everyone is saying, and what you asked for (which was a vote on the subject matter). You are showing a lack of respect and good faith for your fellow editors, because you HAVE to create all these pages. BTW, again, Quotes have their own place it's called Wikiquote because quotes are highly unencyclopedic, no matter how you look at them they have no value (that is why we have Wikiquote) and referencing them doesn't mean anything.
Bignole 11:25, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Getting there

message: I don't think you should be making individual episode pages, as all the information can be put more concisely on a season page, and no one wants to read a summary that is so long it's no longer a summary. The Harry Potter pages also have this problem - people want to include every little deatil because they love the books so much in the plot summaries, but that isn't what Wikipedia is for. The season pages work nicely. I think you should link all of the titles of the episodes in this list to the season pages. Emily (Funtrivia Freak) 00:31, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  I don't think you should be making individual episode pages 

message: Can we get rid of the DVD table?  It isn't a very good table of contents now that their are six seasons. - Peregrinefisher 20:50, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, you should see the simpson's table. That's a huge one. I always thought it should be anyway, because it already exists on the main article page. Bignole 20:55, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: DVD table

message: If it's red then it's dead. If it's blue then it's true. This page is probably the definition of over wikilinking. If the article has no page then it shouldn't be linked. I know some people leave them red in hopes that some editor will come in and fill out the information, but if that was the case then it would have happened and the link wouldn't be red. Also, you should only link once (unless there's a special circumstance involved, which would really only be linking the cast). All these directors and writers have been linking in almost every episode, shouldn't be that way. Also, I know from working on the season pages that certain directors and writers don't actually have pages, but actually link to the wrong individual. Please check your links in the preview mode by "opening in a new window". Bignole 21:48, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll create pages for some and de-link the rest. - Peregrinefisher 22:12, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If you want to create them then I'm cool with that. Just becareful they don't get deleted for lack of content. Bignole 22:25, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Linking