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List of The X-Files episodes

You undid two of my edits to List of The X-Files episodes without leaving an explanation in the edit summary. I am reluctant to just revert you, so could you explain your reasoning now? – sgeureka ^t•c 23:48, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi! Yes, I'm new at this but I undone your changes because I've been using that article for a long time as I guide while I make my way through the seasons, I think it's helpful than just serching for it season by season, maybe other agree with me... or not. I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but I would rather have the episode's summary on the tables and not the way you've edited it now ;) CGLF (talk) 01:52, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

I have self-reverted. You just care about the plot summaries, right? Meaning the guest stars, production and reception info etc. can be left for the season articles, not the ep list. – sgeureka ^t•c 09:17, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Your version does not have sources, and most if not all the FL episodes articles here on wikipedia are repetetive, which is the whole point... Your one is in badly shape, see List of Stargate SG-1 episodes, List of Lost episodes or any other FL's on how they need to look...... Your and my one look just the same, the only difference is that if you want to change the episode summary you need to go to the season articles, which is good cause it stops edit warring.... on the main page (the episode page)..... Let's discuss this further before you revert okay..... cause you are the only one reverting.... so let's discuss this til we come to an agreement okay?

Don't revert. --TIAYN (talk) 14:32, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Dude, many people don't bother to read the main article because its so long, thats why we have a short lead to the list, and it doesn't matter what you think should be included in an article or list, the guidelines and FL here on wikipedia clearly shows that we need long and detailed leads for a list.You are the only one that seems to have anything with my version, go and discuss this at the talk page but your version needs alot of clean up my one don't. The only difference between my one and yours is thats its cleaned up and it has a lead.

Please read the guidelines, before you revert me again. --TIAYN (talk) 22:23, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

You are the only that has reverted my change, with the exception of another user which reverted me before i was finished, i want to make this list a good article, and its hard when you don't want to follow the guidelines. And yes my change was sudden and big, but as you said, nothing has been done with this article in a while, which means that no one has really bothered to work on it at all, this is were i come in, i want to make it a GA.

The point is, big and sudden pages are not approved by wikipedia if it doesn't really come to something, but my one does. It follows the guidelines which you don't follow. It gives a reader a short but important facts about the series so they don't need to read the X-Files page which is long, really long. My one follows wikipedia guidelines and rules better than your one, that is why you can't/shouldn't revert it back.--TIAYN (talk) 07:56, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

The X-Files episodes

I disagree entirely. I think having episode summaries on the main episode list page makes it look cluttered and makes it too long. Going into specific seasons to get summaries requires virtually no more effort than looking it up on the main page. Many, many episode lists have transcluded in this fashion for the exact reason that pages are too big if you include summaries for episodes across multiple seasons. I think it is especially relevant in this case because The X-Files ran for so many episodes. As for the "Season #" vs. "Episode #", that's just your opinion. Again, many episode pages have been formatted this way and it's no less correct than "Episode #". You can bring in a third party to decide what to do about it if you like, but as far as I'm concerned the page is better this way. It looks neater, is easier to navigate and eliminates have duplicates of identical information on different pages. SchrutedIt08 (talk) 22:30, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Actually I understand the different between season, series and episode numbers. "Series #" refers to the episode's number within the entire series. So in that sense, yes, the episodes are listed consecutively. However "Season #" refers to the episode's number within that particular season, that's why there are two separate columns for the numbers. They are listed consecutively within the whole series as well as within that season. As I've previously stated, many tables for episode lists are formatted in this manner. It's always been very clear to me the distinction between the two.

Now, as for the translusion thing, this is actually the first time that I have ever encountered someone who disagreed with removing the summaries from the main episode list and putting them on individual season pages. I've seen other pages transluded and done it myself on other pages and I've never heard of anyone who didn't think it was a good idea. It's neater, cleaner, more efficient, keeps the page from getting too large and makes it easier to navigate. It's not like by moving the summaries to season pages I've made it some huge ordeal to find the summaries, they're just one more click away. SchrutedIt08 (talk) 05:59, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Don't you think it's a little hypocritical to keep hounding me for not accepting other's points of view when you're doing exactly the same thing?' You're unwilling to accept my point of view as well, and if there are others that really don't like this way of doing things, they are more than welcome to speak up. But no one has so far, so far it really is just you. And exactly what is it that you want? You keep arguing your points and but I'm not sure I understand what you want? Do you want me to change it back? Do you just want to complain because it's not the way you want it? What is all this bickering is going to accomplish? It was a lot of work to reformat the pages and I'm not going to undo it. If you want to do it yourself, fine. Go into the season pages, scroll down to the episode list and remove the "|sublist/List of The X-Files episodes" bit and that will restore the summaries. It's my opinion that the page is better without them for the simple reason that it's shorter and the exact same information isn't just being repeated, but apparently you're not going to stop bickering until it's back the way you want it. So there's the way to do it. SchrutedIt08 (talk) 07:32, 4 March 2010 (UTC)