Template talk:Aired episodes

grammar for when a series is done

The text for a finished series should be:

During the course of the series, X episodes of Y aired over Z seasons.

Basically, it needs a comma after "series" (because the normal/ordinary form would be "X episodes of Y aired over Z seasons during the course of the series", so when rearranging the clause, a comma's required. Made the change... just wanted to explain it. —Joeyconnick (talk) 08:50, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Agreed. Thanks for doing that. -- Alex^TW 09:43, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Comma breakage

User:Joeyconnick, please could you have another look. The use of the template on List of Top Gear episodes (and many other pages) appears to be broken. It throws up the error "Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character ","" —Sladen (talk) 12:16, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

@Sladen:  Fixed This was caused not by edits to this template, but by vandalism to {{Ordinal to word}}, which this template uses. I've reverted the edit. -- Alex^TW 13:15, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

"Released" and "finished=all" agreement

Just noticed on the Longmire episode page that, when both the "released=y" and "finished=all" parameters are used, it reads "During the course of the series, 63 episodes of Longmire been released over six seasons," causing a grammatical error. I removed the "released" answer altogether. — Wyliepedia 06:50, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

@CAWylie:  Fixed -- Alex^TW 08:37, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

"airing" parameter is problematic

I think the |airing= parameter is problematic, because it causes the display of "currently airing its xth season/series" text. As we know from WP:PRECISELANG, we should avoid statements that will date quickly.

Also, it looks like the template generates this text:

As of January 1, 2016, 50 episodes of Generic Series have aired, currently in its fourth season.

This is grammatically incorrect: currently in its fourth season is a dangling modifier because it's not clear what is in its fourth season.

It should read:

As of January 1, 2016, 50 episodes of Generic Series, currently in its fourth season, have aired.

So that definitely needs fixing.

Still, that doesn't address the whole currently issue. I would suggest something pretty simple like:

As of January 1, 2016, 50 episodes of Generic Series have aired over [or "across"] four seasons.

That remove "currently" and also won't date quite as quickly because even when the fourth season of Generic Series ends, that statement will stay accurate until (and unless) a fifth season starts.

Then the |finished=ALL version can just remove the "as of" bit and change the tense to:

During the course of the series, 50 episodes of Generic Series aired over four seasons.

Anyway, would be a good start to fix the grammar of the current version and then discuss how to avoid the "currently airing" phrase altogether. —Joeyconnick (talk) 23:04, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

This is still an issue. Could someone address it? —Joeyconnick (talk) 04:25, 20 February 2022 (UTC)