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I was glancing at an article, and I realized to really present the information in a useful way, the table needed to be sortable (since air dates in various countries and production order differ). Is there an option to do this already somehow or is it worth considering here? I see this has been issue has been touched on before. In particular, I'm referring to List of The Avengers (TV series) episodes series 6 in this case. The information is all there but it's so hard to read in the current table format I've had to make my own. Tduk (talk) 13:43, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What come first? The BBC list the airdate as the date of terrestial broadcast not when it becomes available on iplayer REVUpminster (talk) 18:16, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Can you provide context? The date in the table should represent the first time viewers are able to watch the episode in the country of production. So for a British show, if it airs on the BBC, it should be that date. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 22:16, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The BBC and others have a tendency now to broadcast a series on Terrestial or satellite then after the first episode make all episodes available on line. I've been using the terrestial date with a note under the heading all episodes available on the I player if it's the BBC.REVUpminster (talk) 09:24, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Television § Released: Airing vs streaming. Editors are still needed to weigh in on this. This is affects the {{Series overview}} and {{Episode table}}. — YoungForever^(talk) 13:36, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm hoping someone here can help me; I'm trying to change the format of an episode table for the first time and I'm not sure where I'm going wrong. I'm want to rearrange the way episodes of Silent Witness are displayed in List of Silent Witness episodes so that it's the same for all series (at the moment it's a bit of a hodgepodge. I've done the table for series 1, but it's not displaying properly and I don't know why. I've done it in my sandbox, which you can find here: User:Adam Black/sandbox. It currently displays this:

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(Note: I'll remove this template call to my sandbox when this is resolved, as my sandbox is likely to change) As far as I can tell, I've done the exact same thing for all four stories/all eight episodes, but the first row is displaying everything correctly apart from the summary and rows 2 to 4 are displaying the summary but not the part numbers or the airdates. Any help would be very much appreciated. Adam Black ^{talk • contribs} 02:28, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I made some fixes, is this what you're looking to do?— TAnthony^Talk 04:24, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That's great, thanks. It's exactly what I was trying to do. I'll take a look at the diff, see where I went wrong. It still isn't displaying the plot summary for the first story, though. Do you know why that might be? Adam Black ^{talk • contribs} 04:34, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Fixed— TAnthony^Talk 04:39, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've looked at your changes; feeling like a bit of an idiot - I should have noticed I'd missed the NumParts parameter! Thanks for your suggestions on the column widths and table colours. I had planned on using unique colours for each series. With the column widths, there's no viewing figure data for the first few series. Should I add a placeholder column to the tables for those series with something like "NA" so that the columns are consistent for every series? Adam Black ^{talk • contribs} 04:42, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If the series doesn't have data for a certain thing (in this case viewership figures), we shouldn't be including the columns. Some formatting discrepancies between tables is fine for a series. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 16:25, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. It's only series 1-3 that has no viewing figures, and those are the ones I've updated the table for so far; I'll remove the viewership columns from those tables in my next edit. Adam Black ^{talk • contribs} 16:28, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

At least in some cases, the |dontclose= option appears to insert undesirable whitespace above the table. See this test case, taken from a real article. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:32, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]