Status:  approved

Description

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Primary functions

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The primary objective of this task is to fix date formats per the documentation for the following templates:

This includes the correct use of {{Start date}}, {{End date}}, and removing {{Start date}} format of the {{Episode list}} |AltDate=.

Additional functions

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This task applies general fixes for {{Infobox television}} per that template's documentation and previous discussions on its talk page:

  • Remove unnecessary use of |name=: See name param documentation
  • Remove deprecated parameters: The following parameters have been deprecated. See notes at template docs
    • |preceded_by=
    • |followed_by=
    • |distributor=
    • |first_run=
    • |production_website=
    • |production_website_title=
    • |show_name=
    • |audio_format=
    • |picture_format=
  • Fix known/common invalid parameters: removes unknown parameters and attempts to update commonly misspelled or misused parameters.
    • convert |opentheme= to |open_theme=
    • convert |endtheme= to |end_theme=
  • Remove "File:" or "Image:" when infobox uses |image=
  • Remove "px" specification from |image_size=
  • Remove |italic_title=yes (which is invalid).


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Change log

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  • 1.0 - original fixes listed above
  • 1.1. - unrecorded updates
  • 1.2 - add removal of {{start/end-date}} {{start/end date text}}, reformatting of {{start/end date and age}}
  • 1.3 - adds support for {{start and end date}}
  • 1.4 - (current version) replaces {{Film date}} with {{Start date}} and {{End date}}

Maintenance categories monitored

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This task monitors the following maintenance categories from the television project: