Template talk:Infobox Doctor Who episode

message: Following the Film infobox template, I've added a link to the IMDB profile. I think this has a lot of good information, now that individual episodes can be located on the IMDB. For multi-part serials, the IMDB has everything split up, so I recommend we only link to the first episode (as shown in the sample above) -- MisterHand 14:57, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added IMDB link 

message: I have made a slight adjustment to the template in order to bring it in line with WP:MOS-T, which outlines the Wikipedia conventions for television series and episode titles. The change involved adding quotes around the episode name variables. There are some pages (such as The Christmas Invasion) that use non-standard text in the variables, which unfortunately mucks things up. The alternative, though, is to go through every Doctor Who episode article and manually format the episode names. Thoughts? --Ckatzchatspy 00:37, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There's been a lot of discussion about this in the past. If you'll check out Talk:Torchwood#Torchwood episode titles as the latest round on this. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 01:00, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reformatting the template 

message: I think the Doctor Who episodes template is very good, and being new to wikipedia, I don't know how to do them. (I've tried to grasp it but I just can't!) I was wondering if there was anyone kind enough to edit this DW template to make it into a "The Bill Episodes" template, as I am going to make a lot of pages for The Bill Episodes. I've created the page Template:Thebillepisodes but there is nothing on there. What I want is:
The top title bit to say the title of the episode, so that would have to be editable. The categories would then be:
* Original Airdate (which of course is editable for each episode)
* Written by (editable, and if not filled in will not appear)
* Directed by (editable, and if not filled in will not appear)
* Produced by (editable, and if not filled in will not appear)
* Starring (editable, and if not filled in will not appear)
* Previous Episode (editable)
* Next Episode (editable)
* List of The Bill Episodes (a wiki link to List of The Bill episodes)
Thanks very much if anyone can do this. Feel free to leave a message on my talk page. ( Just The Q ) 12:38, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help with another template 

message: I'd like to add a Companions field. Any thoughts where it should go? Vagary 08:06, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Companions

message: Given the significance of the missing episodes of Doctor Who, I think the template should have an optional field that would allow the template to list what episodes are missing from the serial.  For flair, the field title should link to the Doctor Who missing episodes article.  I'm going to try to put this into the template, but I welcome other user efforts to do so. (Particularly since I may fail) -- Y|yukichigai (ramble argue check) 11:08, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding a "Missing Episodes" field 

message: There's a discussion underway here which is leaning towards removing the story number field from this template.  Any interested party should go there and express their view. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 17:37, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing story number 

message: Could we add a parameter for the composer of the episode's music? For example, Francis Chagrin on The Dalek Invasion of Earth. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 23:59, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Music 

message: Various inboxen around the project included either a general section for citations or specific section for citing specific data in the infobox.  uses a general section while  has specific sections. Below, I'm including some good points made by  to help understand some of the possible options.
Would it be helpful to include some area for citations in this infobox? 64.40.54.49 (talk) 10:47, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: This a copy of the infobox from the Christmas Special article on 13 December. The cast list is ref'd with five different citations. (These references are listed below.) I don't see that have a footnote box is going to be helpful, or that dedicated parameters would work with a cast list? Edgepedia (talk) 12:41, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: This is method no. 2 in my list. --Redrose64 (talk) 13:46, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd say 2 myself.  1 would work if the stuff in the infobox was also in the main article, but a lot of it isn't - so really 2 is probably the best option. 188.221.79.22 (talk) 11:59, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should this infobox include a section for citations? 

message: and . The reason why I added the extra parameters is because, with these extra parameters, it will say Doctors, rather than Doctor, singular, which I personally reckon is more correct. Could I ask you, why don't you think the extra parameters should be added?Theoosmond(talk)(warn) 18:01, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello . Your ping did not work though I am not sure why. IMO the "s" is not necessary. As to the "doctor2=" field I can guarantee that it will cause confusion among editors. They will want to change it to match the incarnation number of the Doctor listed. I just feel that this infobox works fine as is. Now this is one editors opinion. If you would like more input you could post a link to this conversation at the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Doctor Who. MarnetteD|Talk 19:13, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  It did not work because it was malformed... the edit has to be correct first time in order for a notification to work, you can't go back and . Similarly, your edit won't have notified  because you had one pipe too many. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:26, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

text: My first reaction is... Why did you not say so in the first place, or post this after the first revert. No one can read minds, you know? It is actually a good point. However, the number of episodes using this would still be too little to warrant all the extra parameters. "Doctor" being singular is not necessarily wrong. -- User:Edokter  20:00, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  I did say what my editing purpose was, I said in one of my reverts on the template page With this way of writing the infobox, it will say Doctors, not Doctor, if there is more than one Doctor. Just saying.Theoosmond(talk)(warn) 20:22, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  "...in one of my reverts" is what the problem is. Either say so in your iniital edit, or on the talk page after being reverted. -- User:Edokter  21:08, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, recieved and understood.Theoosmond(talk)(warn) 21:17, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

text:  Theoosmond seems to have an aversion to constructive discussion, preferring to re-revert and if that fails, hurl abuse. See User talk:Theoosmond#Redlinked cast members, User talk:Theoosmond#December 2015, User talk:Redrose64#December 2015. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:26, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Doctor2

message: Should this template be really used for episode articles of Doctor Who, in place of the standard infobox per MOS:Television - Infobox - Episode Articles? GUtt01 (talk) 17:49, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: , I'd say yes, due to the different formatting. Does the parent template list the Doctors and Companions separately, and also differentiate between episode and serial? -- AlexTW 00:50, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question over Template usage 

message: I would like to revisit this series of edits from October 2018, made by  and . Basically, it's taking the article Doctor Who (film), extracting the infobox from that from which it then extracts the value of the  parameter, all to obtain the value 156. This number is not going to change, although the total number of episodes/serials will increase. If this situation continues, the number of articles transcluding Doctor Who (film) will increase - it's presently at 341, with the result that yesterday,  .
I don't think that is necessary, and would like to eliminate the need for such protection by getting rid of all those transclusions. Accordingly, I would like to carry out  to the infobox. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 14:57, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I wholeheartedly agreed with this edit, if it improves the efficiency of the template. If, for some mircular reason, the numbering did change, then we just need to change that value as well. -- /Alex/21 15:26, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

text: Fine by me, I have no memory of this issue now! — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 15:30, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

text: I also agree. I don't think we should be translcuding mainspace pages on other mainspace pages – ever. I'm going to start a discussion on this over at WP:VPT. For now I maintain the article should remain semi'd given its high trasnclusion count. — MusikAnimal talk 15:56, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

text: Support. According to the last lead paragraph in List of Doctor Who episodes (1963–1989), the number is unofficial and other numbering schemes have been used. But then we can just change the number here. If somebody is worried that the number is changed in Doctor Who (film) but forgotten here then we can insert a source comment about it at the number in Doctor Who (film). We could also transclude it in both the article and template from a subtemplate but I don't think it's worth the effort. Just set it in the template. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:49, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

text: * Pppery * it has begun... 04:33, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  I wasn't sure whether to act upon it myself. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 17:12, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deriving an episode/serial number 

message: Would anyone be opposed to changing the parameter "Incidental music composer" to simply "Music by"? This is how  handles it, and I personally think it looks much cleaner when it's only on one line (and more consistent with "Directed by", "Written by", "Produced by" above it). Thanks in advance. – Rhain ☔ (he/him) 11:25, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: As the one who added that parameter, I have no objections - I don't remember now why I worded it as I did Etron81 (talk) 02:16, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I appreciate the response. There's certainly nothing wrong with the phrasing—it would have been changed years ago otherwise—it's just a small change that crossed my mind. Since it seems uncontroversial, I'll make the change; if anyone disagrees, feel free to revert and/or discuss here. – Rhain ☔ (he/him) 00:01, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Incidental music composer" 

message: I recently noticed that this template was missing parameters for cinematographer and editor, like at . I've added them to  and testcases. Would anybody be opposed to their inclusion in the main infobox? – Rhain ☔ (he/him) 00:13, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I see no issue with this. -- Alex_21 TALK 03:20, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inconsistencies with {{tl|Infobox television episode}}