Template talk:Infobox television/Short description

Template-protected edit request on 23 February 2023

Replace the Americanism "program" with the universally accepted "show." As I found out today, if a British series/show article doesn't have a short description, it will automatically display this. Danstarr69 (talk) 15:28, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

 Not done as this will cascade and before we get in to an WP:ENGVAR discussion this should be more broadly discussed. Please invite attendees from Template talk:Infobox television to review this first. If after a reasonable time there are no participants, reactivate the edit request. — xaosflux ^Talk 16:57, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

Line-break problem

A linebreak is sometimes showing up within the short desc somehow. If you have diplay of short desc turned on with user CSS, you can see this at Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, where the short desc renders as:

[Short description: American TV series or program
]

 — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  16:09, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Perhaps I don't have my user settings set to see this issue, but it looks fine for me on Vector 2010 skin plus when I search for the article on the mobile site. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 23:32, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

SMcCandlish, I adjusted some html comments to see if that fixes the white space. I ran {{infobox television}} through Expand Templates for that page, and I didn't see any extra line breaks. Is it fixed for you? If not, how are you seeing this extra line break? – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:51, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

Yep, that fixed it, thanks. For seeing short desc., see near the top of User:SMcCandlish/common.css. I recommend doing this for any/all editors, since you'd be surprised how often these normally unseen lines need editing.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  17:41, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

Edit request 5 June 2024

Description of suggested change: Add "is Infobox in lead" template to the short description generator in order to prevent false positives for articles such as Call It Courage. -1ctinus📝🗨 14:07, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

 Done. SilverLocust 💬 20:11, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Bad syntax when the country parameter has a plainlist template

The current code is producing bad syntax when the country parameter has a plainlist template. See St. Ives (1998 film) which has the short description "`UNIQ--templatestyles-00000006-QINU`"'? TV series or program Gonnym (talk) 16:39, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Is there parser code to detected if a parameter has more than one entry via plainlist, ublist, or breaks? If so, then perhaps it could simply omit the country parameter in that case and just be "<year> TV series or program/me", or "<year> multi-national TV series or program/me". - Favre1fan93 (talk) 22:47, 24 August 2024 (UTC)

Would Module:Params be of help? - Favre1fan93 (talk) 18:19, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

@Gonnym: I added {{Pluralize from text}} to the sandbox and if |country= has multiple, I'm having it say "multi-national" (but that can obviously be changed or outright removed). Regardless, I tested it on St. Ives (1998 film) and it removed the plainlist code, so this is a path forward to resolve this. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 16:23, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

Looks good! Gonnym (talk) 19:15, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

Unfortunately, the change is causing problems when there is no specific year of release. A television series with a country list (or evil constructs such as Scotland, United Kindom) is generating a short description of multi-national TV series or program. This is currently flooding the Pages with lower-case short description error category.

If the infobox has {{{last_aired}}} set, then it should probably create a short description that uses that rather than omitting the year. That does create more complicated code – having a year range puts the years at the end: Television series, 1999–2000, but a single year leads with the year: 2002 television programme etc. — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 06:37, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

@GhostInTheMachine: I just implemented a quick fix which should take care of all the pages added to that category. However, I'm not the most versed in modules but I think something isn't checking correctly. Take Llama Llama (TV series) for example, which was previously in the category. That SD should generate as 2018 multi-national TV series or program. Something in the code is not happening in the first part of the code is not pulling the year from either |released= or |first_aired=. I was trying to adjust the sandbox to fix this, but my limited knowledge of using the check code for Module:String halted my work. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 17:29, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: as a recent (relatively) editor to this template, would you perhaps have a chance to see what's happening? The "year" part of the auto-generation isn't occurring. See Llama Llama (TV series) or The Flash (2014 TV series) as two examples. Each of theirs should be 2018 multi-national TV series or program and 2014 2018 American TV series or program, respectively, but both are missing the years though they have data in the |first_aired= parameters (using {{Start date}}. Perhaps that's the problem, the String module isn't looking at or accounting for that? - Favre1fan93 (talk) 17:34, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Wow, that was tricky, but I think I have fixed it. At some point, empty values of |released= and/or |first_aired= were being passed through, and that was causing the year to be left out. I think it was happening before the most recent changes. (ETA: My edits left a few hundred pages in the lower case short description category. I am clearing them out now.)– Jonesey95 (talk) 18:23, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: Really appreciate you giving it a look over! I only got so far with my template/module knowledge, so really appreciate it. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 20:06, 29 August 2024 (UTC)