Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-961279-20130511174624/@comment-961279-20130608144719

Bobogoobo, that Nameconvert template gives me an idea about how to handle another set of navigational templates that display episodes by season.

I had already reduced the number of these templates by 80% because I spotted what was common and duplicated between them. I think I can reduce that down even further to 1 by having it pull values from a couple other support templates, and then it can auto-build the episodes to display based on the season.

By the time I get done, when an episode is moved around or we find out the name is different than what we thought it was, there should only be about 3 or 4 places it would need to be updated and everything else should auto-update. Considering that there's about 600 episodes of The Simpsons including what appeared on The Tracey Ullman Show and there's up to 7 pages per episode, this is going to streamline things tremendously. When I look at how the wiki was three years ago, I'm amazed no one thought of this before. They were making things harder on themselves and a lot of mistakes crept in because of all the different places where things had to be updated.