User:ButlerBlogBot/Task 2

The primary objective of this task is to fix formatting problems, especially dates, per the documentation for the following templates:

• {{tl|Infobox television}}
• {{tl|Infobox television episode}}
• {{tl|Episode list}}
• {{tl|Series overview}}

Date fixes includes the following:

• Formatting unformatted dates as {{tl|Start date}} or {{tl|End date}}
• Removing {{tl|Start date}} format of the {{tl|Episode list}} {{Para|AltDate}}
• Replace {{tl|Film date}} with {{tl|Start date}} in {{tl|Infobox television}}
• Converts {{para|startN}} to {{para|releasedN}} when there is no {{para|endN}} in {{tl|Series overview}}

Generally, the bot will not make minor date formatting edits or update alias parameters unless it is making a larger change. However, if other changes and fixes are made, the bot will also fix {{tl|Start date}} format so that it is in the format of {{Start date|YYYY|MM|DD|df=yes}} (with leading zeroes and df specification at the end).

This task applies other general fixes for {{tl|Infobox television}}, {{tl|Episode table}}, {{tl|Episode list}}, and {{tl|Series overview}} per each template's documentation:

Fixes in {{tl|Infobox television}}

• Remove unnecessary use of {{para|name}}: See name param documentation
• Remove deprecated parameters: The following parameters have been deprecated. See notes at template docs
• {{para|preceded_by}}
• {{para|followed_by}}
• {{para|distributor}}
• {{para|first_run}}
• {{para|production_website}}
• {{para|production_website_title}}
• {{para|show_name}}
• {{para|audio_format}}
• {{para|picture_format}}
• Fix known/common invalid parameters: removes unknown parameters and attempts to update commonly misspelled or misused parameters.
• convert {{para|opentheme}} to {{para|open_theme}}
• convert {{para|endtheme}} to {{para|end_theme}}
• Remove "File:" or "Image:" when infobox uses {{para|image}}
• Remove "px" specification from {{para|image_size}}
• Remove {{para|italic_title|yes}} (which is invalid).
• Replace alias parameters
• "host" => "presenter"
• "studio" => "company"
• Replace flag icons
• Convert self link in {{para|list_episodes}}
• Link {{para|network}} and {{para|channel}}

Fixes in {{tl|Episode table}}

• Removes unknown parameters

Fixes in {{tl|Infobox television episode}}

The episode infobox is a lot like the general television infobox with some formatting exceptions. One major difference is how lists are handled. In {{tl|Infobox television}}, lists need to apply {{tl|Plainlist}} or {{tl|Unbulleted list}}. However, in {{tl|Infobox television episode}}, the {{tl|Plainlist}} is applied automatically, so this does not need to be applied to the parameter manually. This bot task scans for this and either replaces
lists with a bulleted list or it removes {{tl|Plainlist}} markup.

• 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 - replaces {{Tl|Film date}} with {{Tl|Start date}} and {{Tl|End date}}
• 1.5
• 1.6 - (current version) fixes lists in {{tl|Infobox television episode}}

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

• Infobox television with unknown parameters
• Infobox television with nonstandard dates
• Infobox television with unnecessary name parameter
• Episode lists with unformatted air dates
• Episode lists with incorrectly formatted alternate air dates
• Pages using infobox television episode with nonstandard dates
• Pages using infobox television episode with unnecessary list markup

Other minor tasks:

• Pages using infobox television with alias parameters
• Pages using infobox television with flag icon
• Pages using infobox television with list episodes parameter using self-link
• Pages using infobox television with unlinked values
• Series overview with deprecated start-parameter format
• Pages using episode table with unknown parameters