Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Holby City episodes/archive1

The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was not promoted by Dabomb87 23:00, 12 March 2010 [1].

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List of Holby City episodes

List of Holby City episodes (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Nominator(s): Frickative 02:06, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

• Featured list candidates/List of Holby City episodes/archive1

I am nominating this for featured list because, having worked on it for several months based on the format of other featured television episode lists, I feel it now meets the FL criteria. Frickative 02:06, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 18:08, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Comments Image caption isn't strictly correct (it's part of the set I guess but mainly just a window with the name of the hospital on it!) and the caption shouldn't have a full stop. All year ranges (as you have in the headings) should use en-dash for the separator. Got a ref for that premier date? " surgeons, nurses, other medical " - no doctors? Any reason to exclude HolbyBlue in the cross-over discussion? We tend to relink things in sortable tables rather than just their first occurrence as there's no guarantee that the linked item will be encountered first by our readers. Any particular reason why the title of each episode is in bold? I'm not sure it complies with WP:MOSBOLD. Any reason why Episode 324 is so out of order? Blank director for episode 495. I'd prefer to see the column widths remain the same from section to section. Note 2 has no ref. Date ranges in the references should use en-dashes, not hyphens. The Rambling Man (talk) 17:21, 14 February 2010 (UTC) Thank you very much for your helpful comments. I've changed the caption to: "A window pane bearing the Holby City NHS Trust name, on the Holby City set, at Elstree Studios in Borehamwood" - is this any better? Done. Added a ref from The Guardian. Added. Apologies, this was a complete oversight on my part. I've now mentioned it in the lead and "Specials" section. This should already be the case in all but the tables for the first two series. I only linked on the first occurrence there as these tables are much smaller than the others, and WP:LINK says to use repeated links in long sortable tables. That said, I don't mind changing them at all if you still think it's necessary, I just wanted to explain my rationale. Using {{Episode list}}, the titles are automatically bolded. Perhaps that's an issue to raise with the template itself? Typographical error on my part, I included two 324s instead of a 324 and a 334. It took me a while to spot that and work out what you meant, and in the interim it did lead me to correct a rather important omission. I thought at first you were asking why it aired on a Thursday rather than a Tuesday, so qualified in the lead that the show typically airs on Tuesdays, but is occasionally broadcast on different days dependent upon scheduling, and that for a period in 2007 it moved to Thursday nights, while HolbyBlue took the Tuesday timeslot. It wasn't something I had even considered when composing the article, so thank you for (however inadvertently!) prompting it. Added a TBA until full listings for the episode are released early next week. Done. Fixed. Fixed. Thank you again, that was immensely helpful. Frickative 19:41, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Comments from ChrisTheDude (talk · contribs)

• "below" is spelt wrong in note 1
• I can't see where note 2 links back to, unless I'm being really thick
• What's the source for the episode titles, writers and directors? The BBC page listed in the external links doesn't seem to give this level of detail and only goes back to 2003 anyway. Is it in one of the refs that I've missed? -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:54, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, I've fixed the typo and note 2, which links to series 8, episode 2 but wasn't working due to a typo in the transcluded article. The episode titles, writers and directors can all be verified using the opening and closing credits of the episodes as a primary source. Is it a requirement that they also be covered in a third party source? They're given at IMDb and TV.com, though I appreciate they're not considered reliable sources. There is a BBC microsite that details them, but it only goes back as far as 2007 [2]. Frickative 09:12, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

I've never reviewed a TV episode list before, so I'm not 100% sure on whether or not the episodes themselves are considered appropriate sourcing for the titles, writers, etc. I'll await other people's comments on this point...... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:21, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

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