Talk:Escape Pod

message: I've just done a lot of work on the formatting and the wikilinks in the table.  For anyone who adds to the table, please keep in mind the following:
Stories from Escape Pod may or may not have articles, but books or movies that are reviewed on the podcast probably do.  Wikilinking media reviewed by Escape Pod is definitely a good idea.  Ditto for authors, whether they have an article or not.  Short stories tend not to get articles unless they're extremely notable (major award, made into a movie, etc), so linking story titles is entirely optional, but not discouraged.
If you decide to add a wikilink, please check that you are linking to the correct article or to a red link, and not to an unrelated article.  If there is already an unrelated article located at the story's title, you should disambiguate the link to point to the article's correct title or to an empty page where a future article on that story could go.  
If the title links to a disambiguation page (a page that is just a link to other pages), or to an article that has a link to a disambiguation page at the top, you can check that page to see if there's already an article on your subject that you can point to.  If there isn't, you need to make your link point to a new, nonexistent article.  For example, there is already a long disambiguation page at Imperial, the title of the story covered in the podcast's first episode, but not an article on the story, so I altered the link to point to Imperial (short story).  Per Wikipedia:Disambiguation, if anyone ever decides to write an article about that short story, Imperial (short story) is where that article will go.  
To make the disambiguated title read properly, I piped the link.  You can do this by adding a pipe (|) after (short story) and before I closed the brackets, like this: Imperial.  This causes only the text prior to the parentheses to be displayed.  You can also use a pipe to alter what text is displayed altogether, as in The Lego Moonbase Project, which points to Lego.  This is done by putting the target before a pipe, and your desired text after it: The Lego Moonbase Project.
An article only needs to link to a particular article once, the first time it's mentioned.  I haven't taken the time to remove all the extra links today, but linking to a frequent contributor over and over isn't necessary.
Finally, in general, the titles of short fiction should be placed inside double quotes, as "Imperial (short story)".  Longer works (for example, the films and books that are reviewed occasionally), should be put in italics using two single quotes.  For example, Primer (). -- Vary | Talk 07:20, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table of past episodes 

message: The article still states that the new joint Escape Pod-Daikaiju Album is coming in late 2006, but, as we are now in 2007, and that hasn't happened yet, this should be updated, does anyone know the new date?Haggisfarm 19:02, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Phasing Spider Menace

message: I feel it had value because it showed the type of writers and stories Escape Pod attracts, which may have bearing on it's notability.  It would be possible to list notable stories but that might violate NPOV -- Jason Penney 22:51, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think there's precedent; lots of TV shows have lists of episodes or a separate 'list of episodes' article.  -FisherQueen (Talk) 12:22, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

text: I believe episode listings should remain off the article. My reasons for removal was not solely WP:NOT#DIR; other reasons were stated on the WikiProject talk page. The specific part I was referring to on WP:NOT#DIR is that Wikipedia is not an Electronic Program Guide, though historically significant programme lists and schedules may be acceptable. Regardless of Wiki guidelines, episode listings seem to be overused by some podcast shows as article filler, and detract from writing an encyclopedic, FDL article. The reason why television shows may have episode lists is that due to the massive audience television has compared to podcasting, each tv episode has enough notability to merit an article on its own. An example being List of The Simpsons episodes, a featured article - note how each episode has its own notable article. Podcasts on the other hand, struggle to meet notability requirements for the entire show. The point of this exercise was to focus shows on writing encyclopedic articles, rather than copy-pasting from websites each time a new episode comes out. In order to keep discussion together, please respond at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Podcasting#Episode lists, as this relates to a few shows maintained by WikiProject Podcasting. Thanks. --Breno talk 01:42, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Restoring Episode Table?

message: I saw that there was no article for Pseudopod and was just going to create a stub when I then saw that it had already been deleted with what seemed to me a cut-off discussion of what constitutes "notable".
It would seem that since the Escape Pod article survived that metric, that Pseudopod would as well, and perhaps it just wasn't as notable at the time the decision was made to delete it?
And I guess as I have no axe to grind in this endeavor other than being a guy who tosses 5 bucks a month at Pseudopod, my unprompted attempt to create the article (and I guess my 5 bucks) would be a little more evidence of notability.
And I would then point out that unless the newly launched Podcastle tanks, any successful measure of "notability" for Pseudopod would equally apply to Podcastle.  Although I could perhaps understand a warm-up period to prove it's viability first.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by BrianDeacon (talk • contribs) 05:59, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Articles for sister podcasts? 

message: Shouldn't the company section be moved out of this article to its own (new stub)? Ofwaterfall (talk) 20:25, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Escape Artists, Inc.