Template talk:Smallville

message: Doesn't having the characters split into "Past" and "Present" kind of give away some of the plot?  Is there even a reason to separate them?  Besides, the actor playing the chacter that died in season 5 is still listed in the main credits (as of Vengeance), so it might be to early to say that he is gone for good. --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 11:20, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Spoilers?

message: Why was that page deleted?  It says it was defunct but why? --70.225.186.158 15:22, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: List of Smallville Allusions=

message: This template should be expanded to include things like the Smallville: Chloe Chronicles, LuthorCorp, Wall of Weird, Smallville (comics) etc. Davey4 11:35, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Needs more detail

message: Apparently there was a TfD for the actors of Smallville, which was closed as a merge to this template. My first problem is the fact that the TfD was not advertised on any Smallville related page, or WP:TV, as it should have been. My second problem is the result of a "merge" (which is typically not what TfD is for, plus I question how 2 "merge" votes become the consensus when 3 other people said delete flat out) to a page that was not aware of the discussion. Finally, my problem is with the inclusion of the material. This is a template for all of the articles that are only related to Smallville the show. These actors are not only related to Smallville. We don't typically include a "cast list" in a film/television nav box. Otherwise the list would be incredibly long (as can clearly be seen here). The original template should have been deleted flat out, as the actors do not need a nav box to begin with. The assumption that you need to know who Jensen Ackles is when visiting Tom Welling's page is a weak one, because the character was on the show for 1 season and didn't do anything significant. He also is not notable because he was on Smallville.   BIGNOLE   (Contact me) 13:37, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Actors

message: Book:Seasons of Smallville and Book:Smallville (season 1), are seperate books with different scopes, much like Book:Seasons of The Simpsons and Book:The Simpsons (season 1) are seperate books with different scopes. Both should be linked, as well as any new books related to Smallville as they get created.  Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 11:19, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: No they are not. Seasons of Smallville lists all of the seasons. If you click "Season 1" on that page, you get the same page as "Book:Smallville (season 1)". All we need is one master page, you are not providing "new pages" for the template. You are simply providing a page that provides a PDF version of pages already linked. We do not need multiple links to pages that already listed. Show me where it says they have to all be listed. Also, please follow WP:BRD. You have been reverted by two separate editors who disagree with you. Unless you can show some policy that says every individual book page should be listed in the template, then I don't agree with including a link to every individual page. Otherwise, you'd have to link to the episode pages that are listed, and the character pages. It's all clutter. There's no point to have them. You should have a master page that lists all of the individual pages that have books, and that's it.   BIGNOLE   (Contact me) 14:28, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: "If you click "Season 1" on that page, you get the same page as "Book:Smallville (season 1)." No you don't, books are collections of articles that can be printed or downloaded. If you print Smallville (season 1), you don't get the same things as printing Book:Smallville (season 1), so no this is not the same thing at all.  And yes usually it's good practice to lump everything in navboxes, including episodes. See  for an example. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 14:55, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right, when you click "season 1" in "Seasons of Smallville" you don't get "Book: Smallville (season 1)"...but why shouldn't you? Why should you even have the books listed on the template anyway? They are not separate pages of Wikipedia. They should be individual links on each respective page. It doesn't make sense to clutter a template with pages that are not separate. Otherwise, I could make the argument to include the different language versions of each page, a link to WikiCommons, a link to Wikiquote, a link to so many other things. There is no relevance in the nav box for them, because the nav box is for navigating between pages, not one stop shopping for books. Those book links should be listed individually, not cluttered on nav boxes.   BIGNOLE   (Contact me) 15:11, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: "They are not separate pages of Wikipedia." Yes they are...?  Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 15:20, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: No they aren't, not in the sense that the show anything new. They are only separate in the sense of providing a different look at the same page. In other words, they're only as separate as the "Printable version" of the page that appears to the left in the quick links. Which, btw, also already includes a link to the book version of the page and a PDF version of the page. I've realized that this disagreement is apparently wider-spread than just you and I. I've started a discussion at the WikiBooks home page.   BIGNOLE   (Contact me) 15:23, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Books