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Please add a module to check unknown parameters to this template. I made a list of parameters + regular expressions for all cases, which should cover ~98% of cases. I have already checked this list in Russian wikipedia and fixed about a dozen errors. There may be some unusual cases that will also need to be added to the exceptions or otherwise corrected in the articles. (Perhaps the list of expressions itself could be simplified somewhere).

{{#invoke:check for unknown parameters|check
| unknown = {{main other|[[Category:Pages using series overview with unknown parameters|_VALUE_{{PAGENAME}}]]}}
| ignoreblank = 
| preview = Page using [[Template:Series overview]] with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"
| showblankpositional = 1
| allreleased | caption | country | dontclose | id | multiseries | network | network_transclude | released | seasonT | series | seriesT | width
| regexp1 = aux[%u]
| regexp2 = aux[%u][%d]+[%u]?
| regexp3 = color[%d]+S?[%u]?
| regexp4 = end[%d]+S?[%u]?
| regexp5 = episodes[%d]+S?[%u]?
| regexp6 = info[%u]
| regexp7 = info[%u][%d]+S?
| regexp8 = info[%u]_transclude
| regexp9 = linkR[%d]+S?
| regexp10 = linkT[%d]+S?[%u]?
| regexp11 = link[%d]+S?[%u]?
| regexp12 = network[%d]+[%u]?
| regexp13 = postaux[%u][%d]+[%u]?
| regexp14 = postaux[%u]
| regexp15 = start[%d]+S?[%u]?
| regexp16 = aux[%u][%d]+[%u]?span
| regexp17 = info[%u][%d]+span
| regexp18 = info[%u]span[%d]+S
| regexp19 = network[%d]+[%u]?span
| regexp20 = postaux[%u][%d]+[%u]?span
}}

Solidest (talk) 23:13, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Added. Gonnym (talk) 06:07, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I'll clean up some of them and add to the list later on. Solidest (talk) 11:24, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

|part= (with number and special ability) needs to be added to this. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 21:17, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also some stuff with |network= with numbers, "S" and letters. See List of The Office (British TV series) episodes as an example. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 21:47, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I've been collecting all the cases too. So here's the final update, 7 & 12 to replace, and 21 to add:

| regexp7 = info[%u][%d]+S?[%u]?
| regexp12 = network[%d]+S?[%u]?
| regex21 = part[%d]+S?

The only problem left is with the Talking Tom & Friends article, which I think needs to be fixed in the module code rather than added to the tracking. I will write about it a bit later. Solidest (talk) 00:15, 6 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Added fixes to template. Gonnym (talk) 08:58, 6 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Solidest seems the 5 pages left in the category all have valid usages. Care to take a look at how to refine the regex for them? Gonnym (talk) 07:17, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Gonnym, I've cleaned up some of these pages and only "The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack" and "Talking Tom & Friends" remain. To fix the first one, we need to add a possible "Specials" letter where it's still missing. To do this, replace [%d]+[%u] part with [%d]+S?[%u] in regexp 2 3 16 19 20. And as for the second case - I'm still sure it's a bug in the module code, which should be fixed there instead of being added to exceptions. Because there is a parameter order logic that is described in the documentation, but the code in this single complex case only works with non-standard order when you change the standard order of part of the season letter and season number. I described this problem here. Solidest (talk) 12:09, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey @Alex 21, could you please make these 5 [%d]+[%u] into [%d]+S?[%u] fixes regarding "S?" regexes, I wrote above? Solidest (talk) 23:34, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Solidest  Done Apologies for the delay! -- Alex_21 _TALK 05:41, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Is there any way to get the subtitle without the series column? - X201 (talk) 09:23, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Which parameters are you referring to? And do you have an example of where you'd like this? - Favre1fan93 (talk) 15:21, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I want to recreate the table below using the template.

I've tried the document page but it appears that you can only have sub-headings like "Web series" and "Television series" if you use the multiseries option, which then gives a series column, which is not needed in this case. - X201 (talk) 16:43, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Adding subheadings in the middle of a table like that is generally discouraged due to accessibility issues. I also disagree that the series column is not needed here, as looking at Pure Pwnage and List of Pure Pwnage episodes it appears you are using this overview table for two different series: the original web series and then the 2010 TV adaptation. I don't see why this wouldn't be an appropriate format for such a table:

Thanks, adamstom97 (talk) 12:08, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, Adam's suggestion would be the way to go X201. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 15:16, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Or you could also split up the overviews and have two, one for the Web series and one for the TV series, similar to what List of Bluey episodes does with its two overviews. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 15:18, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I would also agree with Favre and Adam's suggestions. I'd also note, though, that the rowspan option is indeed possible (see here and the source code, for example), though this does cause an issue with MOS:COLHEAD. -- Alex_21 _TALK 20:09, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks all. I've used your table. The backstory: I'm converting all the television articles that use episode list, but then wrap it in a wikitable instead of the episode table template. Occasionally I come across series overview tables where editors have taken the same freestyle approach. I convert them to the series overview template and try and try to keep them in the same format that I found them; hence asking about the subheadings. - X201 (talk) 08:46, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Don't feel too committed to keeping the exact style. Part of the reason we use standardize templates is to better confirm with the MoS and other guidelines. A lot of what people did in the past or today manually, is just bad and shouldn't be supported. Gonnym (talk) 09:09, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Could editors please do something to improve the accessibility of the acronyms in this template? The acronym TBA is not properly explained. This is an encyclopedia, somebody somewhere wont know what that acronym means. Wikipedia is committed to accessibility and acronyms should normally have tooltips to explain what they mean. I would expect that the formatting of Template:TBA or Template:TableTBA could be copied here instead of overloading Template:NA a semantically meaningful template could be used. (If template programmers could check with accessibility designers or user of screen reading software to make sure their requirements are not being overlooked that would be even better.) -- 109.76.128.55 (talk) 02:01, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Valid accessability request. Changed frame:expandTemplate{title='N/A',args={'TBA'}} to tableEmptyCellModule._main({}), similar to what Module:Episode list uses. -- Alex_21 _TALK 03:38, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. -- 109.77.199.220 (talk) 16:07, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There is an issue with the code that is triggering this category, it is picking up examples like List of Star Wars television series where there is a start and end parameter but the end parameter is empty. This is a valid use of the template, we don't always know an end date when we know a start date. - adamstom97 (talk) 13:24, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]