Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-7971816-20150227002010/@comment-25112275-20150302181934

It was brought to my attention that some users are confused over the character Appearances Template for episodes?

This template was coded by me. The Appearances Template has a default setting. That default is: absent. This default is coded into the whole template. This template already has 5 different types of settings. To add more makes more work for the admins and the editors. Instead of leaving a slot blank, they will be forced to type in “absent”. This is why it was easier just leaving it blank.

Many of our editors are used to this way and may not like a change to this template. To add a "information unavailable" or "unknown" options, I would have to re-code the whole template as well as go to every page that hosts the Appearances Template and edit the template on those pages.

This creates more work for the admins and is something that would be very low the priorities list. The admins have a long list of things that need to be finished.

Originally this template was only supposed to display aired episodes only. This was to avoid this type of confusion. However, someone (I don’t know who) has been adding episodes before they air.