Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-28398720-20160827152805/@comment-27794543-20160910110444


 * Season/Episode: Yes, one line under title, as in variant 3 & 7. It was 1½ votes each, because I couldn't tell which way Taya was leaning :)
 * Date: err ... still no consensus. (I'm using "consensus" by wikipedia standard which requires over 50% and often over 66%. I'm hoping that at least 3 of us can agree on a single term...)
 * Bugthe & Amethystkitten both like "Original Airdate". I don't like it for this wikia because it seems too long in our infobox – it'll take two lines, causing the date field's height to be twice the other fields' heights (see variant 7). Also, if the decision to use "air date" wikia-wide, do both of you like "Original Air Date"?
 * Bugthe likes "Premiere". Taya & I don't because the word often used for the first episode of a season.
 * Bugthe & Taya like "First Aired". Amethystkitten & I don't because it doesn't make sense with future dates.
 * Taya likes "Air Dates". Bugthe & I don't.
 * I like "Date" and "Air Date", with or without abbr tooltip "Original Air Date". Bugthe is okay-ish with "Air Date" with tooltip, but prefers other options above.
 * Air Dates vs Airdate: I prefer two-words. Amethystkitten prefers one-word. Bugthe abstains. Taya (& everyone else on this wikia) hasn't responded yet.

Programming tangent:

Programming comes in many shapes. I had a friend in college who turned in an assignment written in whitespace (a language that only uses spaces, tabs, and new-lines). Many universities still teach assembler. I had multiple courses in which our development environment was a notepad (think .txt files). As a teaching assistant, I spent a year grading printed out code (thus lines that overflowed, with no colored text or anything), having to compile it in my head. (A good fourth of the students submit code that doesn't even compile, much less does what it's suppose to, hoping that graders won't catch it. Why professors have students print their code, I have no idea, though this is a minority practice.) At work, plenty of complex scripts are still written without any fancy environment (unless you consider vi fancy).

Wiki markup (e.g. bracket links, italics and bold apostrophes, etc. ) is a lightweight markup language, which means it's a computer language. So in a sense, all of wiki editing is lightweight coding. Template code is definitely code. Lua is programming language used to make even more complex templates. Most wikia editors avoid 'coding' by using a visual editor instead of seeing the source code (compared to wikipedia, where it seems the majority still prefers source code editing).

If we had all of our parameters be 4 letters, it's one thing. But truncating one parameter, when other parameters stay at 8 letters, doesn't add value.