Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-28398720-20160827152805/@comment-28398720-20160910090841


 * Season/Episode: I am very happy with decision to combine the two fields in to one line. And put it bellow the title (unless I mistake Amethystkitten comment), which places the most vital/identifiable info together at the top. (btw, I think we should do the same for infobox books entries as well)
 * Air Dates: I still like 'First Aired' over 'Air Date', but I am ok with using abbr for clarification; No on any of the plural variants for the infobox, only the original should go there; (btw I am happy people like 'Original Air Date' because it would work perfectly for infobox season)
 * Air Dates vs Airdate: " (My post above goes over my brief investigation of US English use.) " - this is my queue out, whatever you guys decide here works for me.

p.s. How the hell did you managed to get 1½ votes ?! :)

Speaking as a software engineer, even variables hidden within functions should have descriptive names. Sometime later, someone will look at the code. (And if the only place it's seen is the infobox code, why do we need to make it shorter there?)

This is not programming. As software engineers you have much richer and flexible developing environment. However, here on wikia we use a little more then a text editor in a web-browser with limited width, and mostly people with no programming background. So its about finding works best here and under the worst possible scenario.

Formatting conventions are nice, but not everyone use them (hence why the prev\next always work) Many times i found myself getting creative with formatting e.g. instead of standard convention of using tabs for indent, here I always convert them to 4 spaces or less, depending on the circumstances I sometime use the abhorrent comment technique. And there are many such minor wikia specific practices that worked well for me over many template types that I would never suggest anywhere else.

Also it is easy to make a template that would return not just prev/next episodes but season/episode numbers and make the translation the other way around. (which I could use in many places) Its harder to make it easy to update and adapt if necessary for others.