Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates/List of Gunsmoke (TV series) episodes/archive1
- The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.
The list was kept by Giants2008 via FACBot (talk) 12:26, 20 November 2023 (UTC) [1].[reply]
List of Gunsmoke (TV series) episodes (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
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- Notified: Jimknut (FL nom)
I am nominating this for featured list removal because, since its promotion in 2010, it has become an utter mess of an article. A boatload of needless trivia has been added, plot summaries of questionable copyright, and it has become needlessly long (as of this posting it's the 8th largest article and will probably break top five by the time this is closed, which is not a compliment). Wizardman 18:03, 10 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- When I first put this article together, it was a listing of just the episode titles. it was in that form that it was promoted to featured article. The plot summaries have been added by someone else. Since Gunsmoke is a famous television series I think it should remain a featured list, but not in its present form. My suggestion is to create lists for each season. That way, this list could potentially be returned to its original form. Does that sound like a good idea? Jimknutt (talk) 19:15, 10 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- I'd be totally fine with a return to the 2010 version personally, though I imagine that'll be easier said than done. Wizardman 20:17, 10 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Even very tiny improvements I'm making are being reverted so yeah delist is unfortunately the only option right now. Wizardman 23:01, 10 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- If you pick a version that you could roll back to that would avoid FL delisting, I'd support that as a stopgap to working on what Jimknutt suggested. I'm not sure 2010 would be the ideal as it's wikitable markup rather than the episode list template. We didn't have the episode list template back then, I don't think. But I have a python script that can convert the markup later to get it back to episode list. I'd rather see a drastic rollback as an alternative to delisting. Jim's also correct that the preferred solution for long episode list articles is to split to season articles while maintaining a more general series list (i.e. no plot summaries) per MOS:TVSPLIT. There is a way to transclude individual season article lists without the plot summaries using {{Episode list/sublist}}. But we don't have to do that first - you could roll the article back to a preferred state and we could work on season articles later. Just spitballing a bunch of thoughts there - ultimately, I'd support rolling back to whatever state you believe avoids delisting, and we can pick up the other pieces later. ButlerBlog (talk) 11:39, 11 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Actually, just started on article splitting. There evidently are season articles already in existence that were changed to redirects. I have started season 1 as an example of the way it is supposed to be done per MOS:TV (a good working example is Justified (TV series), see Justified (season 1) and List of Justified episodes to see what I mean). Note how when doing it this way, the transclusion of the episode list leaves off the episode summary. @Wizardman: I'm not sure how long redoing these individual seasons may take, so if you feel the need to roll back the article to an FL-appropriate state while I'm doing this, that's fine - just let me know (although I guess it will be obvious), and I'll just use page history to grab some of the other stuff if it is needed. ButlerBlog (talk) 13:19, 11 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- If you pick a version that you could roll back to that would avoid FL delisting, I'd support that as a stopgap to working on what Jimknutt suggested. I'm not sure 2010 would be the ideal as it's wikitable markup rather than the episode list template. We didn't have the episode list template back then, I don't think. But I have a python script that can convert the markup later to get it back to episode list. I'd rather see a drastic rollback as an alternative to delisting. Jim's also correct that the preferred solution for long episode list articles is to split to season articles while maintaining a more general series list (i.e. no plot summaries) per MOS:TVSPLIT. There is a way to transclude individual season article lists without the plot summaries using {{Episode list/sublist}}. But we don't have to do that first - you could roll the article back to a preferred state and we could work on season articles later. Just spitballing a bunch of thoughts there - ultimately, I'd support rolling back to whatever state you believe avoids delisting, and we can pick up the other pieces later. ButlerBlog (talk) 11:39, 11 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Even very tiny improvements I'm making are being reverted so yeah delist is unfortunately the only option right now. Wizardman 23:01, 10 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- I'd be totally fine with a return to the 2010 version personally, though I imagine that'll be easier said than done. Wizardman 20:17, 10 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Oppose While the state of the list as of the nom is questionable, I don't think it warrants delisting as the issues can be quickly resolved (and hopefully, by the time this is ready to close, I will have gotten through most/all of the seasons to resolve). The subject content certainly warrants remaining a featured list, and the proposed remediation above should resolve the primary issues (which I would identify as essentially FLCR#5. ButlerBlog (talk) 15:53, 11 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Just an update to this: The article has been essentially restored to the state it was when originally FL listed - no episode summaries and all home media tables removed. I have removed the {{very long}} tag from the article as I believe that issue is now resolved. @Wizardman: If you could take a look at how it stands now and comment on the talk page (or here, or my TP), I'd welcome the feedback. I have also reached out to the user reverting the trivia to explain that what was being added there was not appropriate content per MOS:TV and I believe that will resolve any issues that might be considered page instability. ButlerBlog (talk) 13:48, 12 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- I'll take a peek in a couple days; want to make sure those accounts don't start mass reverting, but on a surface look it does look infinitely better. Wizardman 23:43, 12 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- @Wizardman: Wondering if you've had a chance to re-look at this? I haven't seen any reverts (actually, zero activity from that particular editor) and I continue to monitor it. My hope with the other editor, should they return, is to get them to channel their enthusiasm into something productive (i.e. within existing MOS) rather than rogue fan-cruft. ButlerBlog (talk) 13:24, 29 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- I actually forgot to follow-up, thanks for the reminder. Since it has been fixed up and is also stable I'm considering this withdrawn. Wizardman 21:15, 29 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- @Wizardman: Wondering if you've had a chance to re-look at this? I haven't seen any reverts (actually, zero activity from that particular editor) and I continue to monitor it. My hope with the other editor, should they return, is to get them to channel their enthusiasm into something productive (i.e. within existing MOS) rather than rogue fan-cruft. ButlerBlog (talk) 13:24, 29 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- I'll take a peek in a couple days; want to make sure those accounts don't start mass reverting, but on a surface look it does look infinitely better. Wizardman 23:43, 12 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Just an update to this: The article has been essentially restored to the state it was when originally FL listed - no episode summaries and all home media tables removed. I have removed the {{very long}} tag from the article as I believe that issue is now resolved. @Wizardman: If you could take a look at how it stands now and comment on the talk page (or here, or my TP), I'd welcome the feedback. I have also reached out to the user reverting the trivia to explain that what was being added there was not appropriate content per MOS:TV and I believe that will resolve any issues that might be considered page instability. ButlerBlog (talk) 13:48, 12 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- @FLC director and delegates: the nominator has withdrawn and no one has supported removal. Can this be closed as kept? Queen of Hearts ❤️ 17:41, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Closing note: This candidate has been kept, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FLC/ar, and leave the {{featured list candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Giants2008 (Talk) 01:07, 20 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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