Talk:Episode 4358

I quite like the layout here, good work Stewart. If we can streamline it a bit more then I'll turn it into templates, then write a tool to dump in as many existing recaps as possible. Soo 02:49, 9 September 2007 (BST)

Thank you. You've probably noticed that I've included other words only where they beat what the contestants found. I don't know if there's a good way to extend it to show more than this (or distinguish between what DC/CV found and other words/solutions found by viewers) without cluttering the layout too much. -- Smjg 16:33, 9 September 2007 (BST)

I think from an encyclopaedic perspective, it's not worth recording which words DC bother to mention, especially since words get left out of the edit. I think we should list only the longest words from each round (excluding those found be the contestants, obviously.) Within those, maybe we should mark those that beat DC with a star (in case I do something statistical in future.) In general I like the lightweight look of the current page. Soo 23:54, 9 September 2007 (BST)

Have a look at Episode 1 to see how it might work with templates. The numbers rounds are rather painful but overall it's not bad. That would allow us to dump in existing recaps with a lot of structure. Everyone happy? Soo 00:45, 10 September 2007 (BST)

I've just done Episode 4359 in the new template style. BTW do we have a template for tea-time teasers? We could also do with a house style on how to indicate invalid words, failed numbers solutions, misdeclarations and the like. -- Smjg 23:19, 11 September 2007 (BST)

We don't have a template for teasers yet, but I will write one. For invalid words, I suggest lowercase followed by a cross (☓), and for failed numbers (including by misdeclaration), just follow the declaration by a cross. Soo 12:03, 12 September 2007 (BST)

I forgot to mention, I really like how you've laid out the template parameters. I will modify my recap parser to output in that format. I hope to start uploading the parser's output in the next day or so, so check the example output (Episode 4131) and let me know soonish if I've missed anything important. Soo 13:11, 12 September 2007 (BST)