Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24761405-20160405203609/@comment-8671999-20160405212959

Thanks for raising this Aks, I've been meaning to do a post about this for a while now.

All viewing figures should be added to episode pages where known, but only the official BARB ratings or equivalents (JICTAR etc.). I did experiment with expanding the section with information on overnights and other broadcast dates in the past, but this was too tricky to efficiently maintain at that moment in time so think it's easier to just keep it at a basic level. The best plan I guess in future will be to expand on international pages (i.e. Emmerdale in Australia) and flesh them out with those sorts of details but that's likely a long way off yet. I've been adding viewing figures from 1972 through to 1994 to the year guides recently but have yet to transfer them over to individual pages. It has always been the intention this would happen at some point though. Thank you, by the way, for updating the year guides with the figures for the present details as you have been doing!

Again, the double length episodes were initially just an experiment. Some of the plots for the double episodes can become enormously text heavy and the splitting by 'episode' broke that up, but on the whole I'm not sure it works which is why I went back to the original layout. The splitting of casts by each half of the episode were originally a way of making things easier for international viewers, many of who receive the double episodes as two seperate ones, but once again I think this had the potential to muddy the waters somewhat (particularly where list of appearances were concerned) and am not sure the idea really worked. The layout, in particular, on mobile devices didn't look to good either.

I was planning to run the idea of switching around some of the headings for dialogue in a post soon as well. Hope this is not going to get too confusing... Personally, I believe any instances of 'Notable dialogue' on episode pages should be changed to 'Memorable dialogue'. Mainly, because a lot of dialogue we list isn't really technically notable to an episode or a character. Granted, there are some that fit the bill, but mainly the section tends to be humerous dialogue. However, I do think the 'Quotes' section on character pages should be renamed to 'Notable dialogue' as that section should really only be dialogue that's notable to the chracter - i.e. first and final lines and I think that would cut down on the random quotes we tend to have added in by contributors (some of the quotes on the Cameron Murray page for example). I've started to experiment with some possible clearer formatting for the section too (e.g. Viv Windsor page) but not to any great extent at the moment as I thought it would be easier to sort out when tackling the character pages properly, seeing as there's a lot of cleaning up that needs to be done. Any thoughts on this change would be greatly appreciated.

Lastly, the episodes where regular and guest cast are split was initially intended to be rolled out across the site to fill up some space but it looks terrible on mobile devices so I'll slowly be switching them back as soon as time allows.

Just a quick mention to say that the 'Places' section on episode pages should always now read 'Locations' to match the slider on the main page too.

Any thoughts/suggestions/disagreements welcomed as ever! And apologies for not clearing up some of these things sooner, I've been focusing too much time to the episode pages I think!