Thread:BigChill493/@comment-14250-20191122185347

template:episode was protected back in 2007 by CapitalQ (who hasn't edited since 2008), and last edited in 2011 by TDK who hasn't edit since 2012.

It has places to put the number of the season, and the number of the episode within the season, but there is no field for the overall total number an episode is in regard to the entire series.

I was hoping we could add that to this template, and then it would be possible for us to add that information to articles.

For example with Why Is It Wet ? we list it is the 15th episode of season 9, but List_of_Robot_Chicken_episodes also points out it is the 174th overall episode, and we do not list it as being episode 174 on the page.

I figure we could keep the season-respective numbering field as episode_number and perhaps call the new field series_number or overall_number. If you agree with the idea, I was wondering which you might prefer?

Another issue is that the "Segment List" field is often empty or incomplete, and it might not be obvious to some users how to add to that. I figured out you need to add "template:" before the article name to access that by looking at the code, but I imagine most users don't understand how to check template source code.

So I'm also thinking as a 2nd modification to template:episode that perhaps we could make "List" a clickable hyperlink to the embedded template so that people can easily venture there and make additions. 