Talk:List of DuckTales episodes

message: If somebody is interested in Justice League Unlimited, please go to the List of Justice League episodes to help fix that page, meet this one's high quality standarts.Some users refuse to expand info and create article per episodes, even though they know the existence of the wikiproject and well developed pages like the sub-articles here.--T-man, the wise 02:25, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help needed in Justice League Unlimited 

message: Although we have a fair amount of episodes pages completed, there are a number of ways that people can help out.
*Co-operate with other contributors. Although this has not been a big issue in the past, if you don't like something that one person has done, talk to them about it.
*If you can provide a screenshot for an episode that doesn't have one, please upload one.
*Writing an episode page.
**Use the correct episode title for the page name. Refer to the episode's title screen for accuracy.
**Look at existing DuckTales episode pages for examples and copy the format.
**Only write a page if you can watch a full episode in the same room as your computer. Do NOT write a page from memory.
**Notice how each episode (including ones that make up multi-parters) has several paragraphs devoted to the summary, meaning that there's a good amount of text to get out of a twenty-two minute cartoon. You don't need to include every last detail, but this isn't something you should rush either. 
**Wikilink all the main characters, but only for the first time they're mentioned in an episode.
**Use proper grammar and sentence structure. I'm not asking for Shakesphere here, but try to make it readable.
**Be sure to include an info-box as well, and a ((Category:DuckTales episode)) tag.
*The (DuckTales episode) qualifier is unecessary in most cases, as a lot of DuckTales episode titles are usually unique enough to not need it. There are some exceptions though:
**Armstrong (has other meanings)
**Nothing to Fear (has another meaning)
**The Status Seeker (shares its name with a Carl Barks story, which could receive its own article in the future)
**The Golden Fleecing (shares its name with a Carl Barks story)
**Micro Ducks from Outer Space (shares its name with a Carl Barks story)
**The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan (shares its name with a Carl Barks story)
**Back to the Klondike (shares its name with a Carl Barks story) 
**Hero for Hire (has another meaning)
**Time is Money (is a common term in general)
**The Golden Goose (has another meaning)
*Magica's Magic Mirror and Take Me Out of the Ballgame are to share the same page at Magica's Magic Mirror / Take Me Out of the Ballgame.
*Currently, I'm doing write-ups of episodes in production order. If you don't want to conflict with me, do an episode that isn't next in line, or let me know that you want to do the next episode in advance, just to be safe. I only have the Vol 1 DVD set, so it would be very helpful if you could write up a page on an episode that isn't on the set if you can. Narlee 03:52, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contributions 

message: The use of images in a decorative gallery is expressly prohibited by our fair use policies. This is not a consensus issue. Please do not revert again. (ESkog)(Talk) 01:10, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Your argument is not original and others who have used this rationale were not supported by consensus.  Both "gallery" and "decorative" are loaded words with no common meaning. Cburnett 04:17, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing images 

message: All of the episodes of this series fail the notability guidelines for television episodes. The way for these articles to be improved is through the inclusion of real-world information from reliable sources to assert notability. That is unlikely to happen, and these only contain overly long plot summaries, trivia, and quotes. Per that, they need to be a small part of this list. If there are no objections, these will be redirected soon. TTN 23:29, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, I also want to point people to the oringal discussion. TheBlazikenMaster 06:20, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I object.  Please use the Wikipedia:Television episodes/Review process. - Peregrine Fisher 05:44, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Is there any reason why you seem to be going around and objecting to everything User:TTN does? Seems to be more of a WP:POINT you're trying to make here. -WarthogDemon 05:15, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

text: I agree with Peregrine. DuckTales was very much a notable series; its episodes deserve to have their own articles.--74.167.107.134 (talk) 03:21, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

text: No objections here.  Redirect away.  SchuminWeb (Talk) 04:52, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Episode notability

message: This episode was deleted from the page for a few days.  Then, it was put back, but the airdate was changed to November 20, 1989, a couple days after "The Masked Mallard".  Why?  Where did that date came from?  Did someone just make it up?  (The way this page used to have a bunch of made up dates placing all of the Bubba episodes before all of the Fenton episodes ...)  "A DuckTales Valentine" first aired, logically, the week of Valentine's Day, as a prime time special on The Magical World of Disney. It actually probably wasn't even produced until later than the rest of the second season - the DuckTales second season episode guide in Gladstone's DuckTales comic didn't list it.  (And left viewers wondering until the fall of 1990 where on earth "Ducky Mountain High", "The Duck Who Knew Too Much", and "Scrooge's Last Adventure" were.) It's coralled with the second season because its original airing still fell within the fall 1989 - summer 1990 television season.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.177.59.251 (talk) 22:57, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  A DuckTales Valentine 

message: Someone came along and changed some of the Season One air dates, deciding that the sixty episodes following "Treasure of the Golden Suns" first ran in one straight shot.  They didn't.  Mostly, yes, but the last few were stragglers.  I'm not sure why - I don't know if it's because the production schedule was behind, or if Disney wanted to stretch new episodes out until New Year's Day, 1988 (when the season finale, "'Til Nephews Do Us Part", aired).    
This person failed to realize that the serialized version of "Treasure of the Golden Suns" is actually what aired from November 9-13, 1987, and so bumped episodes 41-45 up to that span of time, so that the chart showed them (and subsequent episodes) airing a week earlier than they actually did.  
Because of this, I've changed the charts so that they differentiate between the TV movie versions and the serialized versions of "Treasure of the Golden Suns", "Time Is Money", and "Super DuckTales".  However, the episode numbers are still determined by when the TV movie versions first aired, not the serialized versions.
Anyway, I've reverted everything to the correct dates - as documented in The DuckTales Index by Christopher E. Barat and Joe Torcivia and The Wonderful World of Disney Television by Bill Cotter.
I also took the opportunity to do something I've been thinking about for a while: differentiating what aired during the 1988-89 television season ("Time Is Money" and "Super DuckTales") as Season 2 and what aired during the 1989-90 teleivsion season (the following 21 episodes) as Season 3, when previously, I'd collectively had them grouped as Season 2.  Production-wise, "Time Is Money" and "Super DuckTales" do seem part of the same season as the rest of the Bubba-Fenton era, but it only seems right to relent and consider what span of time ("fall to summer" being a traditional year/season of teleivsion) the episodes actually first aired in.  It's iffy with this series how to distinguish individual seasons after the first 65 episodes.  Thoughts?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by RWynns (talk • contribs) 00:27, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Excellent job! BTW, your research has helped me fix the airdates on the Internet Movie Database. I wish I could find such concrete information in my research on other shows.--71.142.217.218 (talk) 16:24, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Although your comment's almost a year old, I'm grateful that you set things right at IMDB!  Was just looking at the airdates that the Big Cartoon Database has (that's what's prompted me to post this note), and they're incorrect. I'll see if I can get a hold of them...  RWynns (talk) 05:30, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Adjustments 

message: A couple times, someone has changed the air date for each of the individual installments of the serialized version of "Treasure of the Golden Suns" to 9/18/87, the earliest known date that the TV movie version aired.  I've always made it a point to correct the change.  The most reverting stood for quite a while, though, and I finally took a few seconds, just now, to correct it.
The distinction between the two versions is important.  Scenes were cut for time from the TV movie version, and there were some strange editing and dialogue variations.  In spite of the discrepancies, we're essentially talking about different edits of the same five episodes.  Since the episode list is chronological by air dates, then "Treasure of the Golden Suns" is designated as Episodes 1 through 5, since the TV movie version aired earlier than any other episode.  Had there never been a TV movie version, and the serialized version still first aired from 11/9 to 11/13, then "Send in the Clones" would be Episode 1, and so forth, and "Treasure of the Golden Suns" would be Episodes 36 through 40 (in spite of the consequential continuity anomaly).  For clarity and thoroughness, it's important to distinguish between the TV movie version and the serialized version.  The same is done for "Time Is Money" and "Super DuckTales".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by RWynns (talk • contribs) 05:03, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Difference between TV movie version and SERIALIZED version; air dates 

message: Someone (whose acccount appears to no longer exist) tagged the article so as to raise various objections.  Some of them are beyond reasonable -- like including sources, which I've put off for WAY too long, and thus, I'm planning on sitting down later tonight and finally integrating citations into the article.  (In particular, for all of the air dates.)  I'm willing to shorten the introduction, but I'm not sure in what way the article sounds like it's "written from a fan's perspective" or why it might need copy editing.  Any specific suggestions/criticisms are welcome.  RWynns (talk) 21:59, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I was the one who tagged this article with issues; the whole article may look factual, but the material cannot hold on its own without variable sources.I did not mean to tag "fansite"/"fancruft" and "copyedit".  I'll replace "fansite" and "copyedit" into "unencyclopedic"; otherwise, I'll remove both of them right away.I will also add , not part of "Multiple issues" yet. --Gh87 (talk) 22:48, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks.  I have a source for a great deal of the information in the article; just have never set aside the time to integrate the citations. I will rectify that tonight, and will omit anything that I can't attribute.  RWynns (talk) 22:59, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

text:  Just an update: obviously, didn't get as far as I wanted to tonight.  I have a copy of The DuckTales Index, my source for the air dates, as well as various other facts -- with that book, I'll be able to cite much currently in the article.  In addition (and this is what kept me from touching the article again 'til now), I've spent the past few hours combing through TV listings in online newspaper archives, so that I'll be able to cite the air dates of the two-hour TV movie specials twice over.  I've found a couple articles confirming that The Disney Afternoon started in 1990 and that DuckTales joined it at that point, and a couple other articles alludng to the fact that DuckTales and Rescue Rangers were syndicated together from 1989-90.  Wnat to see if I can find a bit more supporting these points, though -- that's the biggest setback right now.  Hopefully, I'll have overhauled the article by late tomorrow night.  Thanks for your patience.  RWynns (talk) 08:11, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "multiple issues" 

message: I've revised the page to address the issues that the article was tagged with, but someone keeps trying to revert the article to the previous version.  I'm not sure why, as the newer version cites all of the air dates and various other details of the series' broadcast history, and so is a major improvement, as far as making the article encyclopedic.  The introduction being too long was one of the issues the article was tagged with, which is why it's now so minimal -- the information about each season was repeated at the start of each table anyway (and can be still be found there), and a general introduction to the series (like the former first paragraph) is not necessary, as this is only an episode list, and would be more appropriate to the general article about the series.  Also, placing DuckTales: The Movie between the 1989-90 season and the 1990-91 season (when the film was released, in the summer in between) was based on the X-Files episode list.  Unless someone can provide a really compelling reason for keeping the old version, I'd appreciate not changing it back, especially given that citations are now included.  Thanks. RWynns (talk) 19:47, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  editing conflict 

message: *"Scrooge's Last Adventure" is listed for November 17, 1990, but that day was a Saturday. What is the actual date? --Meadyforzbs (talk) 20:45, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Excellent question -- I've noticed this discrepancy. That's what's cited in The DuckTales Index. I didn't want to bother Barat about it -- 20+ years later, it's not likely that he or anyone would be able to say (for example), "Oh, that was Friday last week ... I wrote down the 17th when I should've wrote the 16th", even if he does have his original notes. But I could ask him. But even if he's able to correct, there'd be the problem of having a source to cite that meets Wikipedia guidelines (i.e., not a personal e-mail). --RWynns (talk) 09:50, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Airdates 

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