Template talk:Infobox television channel

Make cable provider/channel number collapsable by country or continent?

The cable provider and channel list is getting kinda long as more and more countries get cable TV is there a way to make a collapsable list by country? So like "United States" may have within "DirecTV, Dish Network, Fios, Time Warner, Cox, etc." U.K. might have "Sky, etc., etc.... ", Canada "Rogers, Bell, Shaw, etc., etc." CaribDigita (talk) 00:52, 22 April 2013‎ (UTC)

If not by country perhaps why not by continent? Africa, Americas , Asia, Europe, Oceania?

Replaced/Replaced by

Exactly what are the "Replaced" and "Replaced by" parameters supposed to be used for? In most cases, the "Former name" parameter seems to be sufficient. Thanks. BilCat (talk) 20:14, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

In some cases, it makes sense because the change was so radical. Canal A to Canal Institucional, for instance, was a major change and the two merit coverage separetely. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 20:26, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

OK, thanks. BilCat (talk) 20:39, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

Is it mainly for channels with separate articles then? BilCat (talk) 20:45, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

Yes, or where the change was sufficient to justify a new article. Not every rename demands a new article, but some renames come with major changes in programming type. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 21:16, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

sister_channels

Outside a few entities with only a few channels they're sisters with (Hallmark Channel), this field now seems very pointless with corporate templates doing the legwork, and is now being abused by our regular vandals to make us think a reader somehow needs to care that CBS is owned by the same company that owns approximately 814 other networks, including Ego, a one-paragraph article which is just a PR logline of what 4 show reruns it carries followed by an absurdly long infobox of other one-paragraph PR logline network articles which are just themselves barely watched, with Paramount Global and WBD articles beyond the worst-polluted. I feel like it needs to be discussed. @BilCat 14:44, 28 August 2023 (UTC) Nate • (chatter) 14:44, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

Honestly I don't even know if Ego is an existing television network (can't find sources easily for it because of the word and it's a Hebrew network so with lack of proficiency in reading it, I can't really do so), so they're crufting up what may be a long-defunct channel. Nate • (chatter) 16:25, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

Disable embed_header

As title; the infobox I want to embed already has a title that I can't disable, and it seems uncommon to have a header for child infoboxes specified in the parent toobigtokale (talk) 00:37, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

@Toobigtokale Which article is this? Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 07:05, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

Example: Korean News. If I put in Template:Infobox Korean name under embedded I don't really need the header. toobigtokale (talk) 13:07, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

@Toobigtokale That article is about a TV program and should have {{Infobox television}}. I just edited that template to allow it to accept embeds. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 00:49, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

Oops, my mistake, thank you! toobigtokale (talk) 02:19, 30 October 2023 (UTC)