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With a transcript section taking off, I think we should have a format for this. The currect format looks a bit plain, and I think we should have a format. Something along the lines of this, it looks neat and easy to read. Basically, it would be this:
| Inside Sokka's Tent. Rose petals surround Sokka, who is laying down on the floor with his hair down. | |
| Sokka: | Well, helloooooooo. |
What does everyone think?-- Olórin The White Talk・Friends 01:07, March 13, 2011 (UTC)
How do you get this format? PSUAvatar14 (talk • contribs) 01:17, March 13, 2011 (UTC)
{|class="wikitable" border="1" width="100%"
!
|style="background:#red;"|''Inside Sokka's Tent. Rose petals surround [[Sokka]], who is laying down on the floor with his hair down.''
|-
!Sokka:
|Helloooooooo
|}
- I've pasted the wikitext used above. Obviously, source mode editing is the way to go if you want to make pretty tables for transcripts. I quite like the idea — except for the red, let's come up with a better colour than bright red. :P The 888th Avatar (talk) 01:20, March 13, 2011 (UTC)
- Perhaps an easier color to read, I only used it because it was the color of Book 3, where the quote is from.-- Olórin The White Talk・Friends 01:21, March 13, 2011 (UTC)
- How about:
| Inside Sokka's Tent. Rose petals surround Sokka, who is laying down on the floor with his hair down. | |
| Sokka: | Well, helloooooooo. |
-- Olórin The White Talk・Friends 01:22, March 13, 2011 (UTC)
Test:
| Ozai gets up after the energybend by Aang. | |
| Ozai: | What did you do? |
It does look interesting...but it could be tedious to constantly have to move down the table. PSUAvatar14 (talk • contribs) 01:30, March 13, 2011 (UTC)
- If souther park archives can do it, I'm sure we can.-- Olórin The White Talk・Friends 01:32, March 13, 2011 (UTC)
- The last background color looks better. Dcasawang1 (talk) 01:33, March 13, 2011 (UTC)
| Inside Sokka's Tent. Rose petals surround Sokka, who is laying down on the floor with his hair down. | |
| Sokka | Well, helloooooooo. |
- More subtle is better, in my opinion. I can help out in converting if you want. The 888th Avatar (talk) 01:34, March 13, 2011 (UTC)
How about:
| Inside Sokka's Tent. Rose petals surround Sokka, who is laying down on the floor with his hair down. | |
| Sokka: | Well, helloooooooo. |
Dcasawang1 (talk) 01:46, March 13, 2011 (UTC)
- Hmm, I think that would overcomplicate things, having to paste that all the way down the page... The 888th Avatar (talk) 01:54, March 13, 2011 (UTC)
I did a sample format, it's here.-- Olórin The White Talk・Friends 02:28, March 13, 2011 (UTC)
- Looking good — but I'd put the cast and other information at the end, not at the start. The 888th Avatar (talk) 02:37, March 13, 2011 (UTC)
Done-- Olórin The White Talk・Friends 02:42, March 13, 2011 (UTC)
- I'm only just seeing this now, and ..... I love the suggested change! I agree it was very bland before. This is awesome!
- I have a big suggestion though. Don't mess around with the table stuff... make this a template so it could be easily used by everyone? Eh; no, hrm. How could that even be done? ...hm. Using *Trans:Row1|Text here* and *Trans:Row2|More text* in alternation just....well..think about it. Vulmen (talk • contribs) 04:07, March 13, 2011 (UTC)
I wouldn't mind there being a template. However will we able to keep the table all the way through without having to put the code in multiple times? PSUAvatar14 (talk • contribs) 04:10, March 13, 2011 (UTC)
- This is tough — templating the code that needs to be put in would actually make it even longer... if you observe the code for the pages that have been coverted to a table format, though, the number of items that need to be remembered isn't very high. The 888th Avatar (talk) 04:42, March 13, 2011 (UTC)
It would be rather tedious to copy this code for a simple transcript. Perhaps another way? I do think it looks excellent though. 
JaidynM (Talk) - (Blog) 08:21, March 13, 2011 (UTC)
- Read back, it's been mentioned.-- Olórin The White Talk・Friends 08:26, March 13, 2011 (UTC)
What do you guys think of adding another "section" to the episode transcripts. We have the transcript itself, then a "Cast" section, how about adding a "Location" section? For example, The Waterbending Scroll transcript could have links to "Waterfall Lagoon, Seedy Merchants Pier, Pirate Ship Boutique" - At least, I've looked in vain for information like this a time or two. Vulmen (talk • contribs) 17:08, March 13, 2011 (UTC)
- Sounds like a good idea to me. The 888th Avatar (talk) 22:09, March 13, 2011 (UTC)
- Also, in the case of interviews, if images are released in these interviews (in the case of recent Korra ones), will the image be in the article, or just linked to it? Also, has the namespace been made yet? Rassilon of Old (Talk - TTFF - Teru) 06:31, March 15, 2011 (UTC)
- As the image would also be in use on mainspace articles, I don't see why we wouldn't, as the image is directly relevant to the text on the page. The namespace hasn't been made yet. I sent an email, but I haven't received a reply yet. The 888th Avatar (talk) 08:07, March 15, 2011 (UTC)
I like the format a lot. Though, I'd like to propose that the scene descriptions are merged in one row, instead of two with the first one being blank. See here. ― Thailog 21:18, March 16, 2011 (UTC)
- At first; I was for this. Then after comparing the current method transcript side by side, I feel the current method is actually cleaner by keeping the text oriented in the same position. It's just easier to follow. Vulmen (talk • contribs) 00:02, March 17, 2011 (UTC
- Hmm, I have to agree with Thailog here. I had no trouble following the text, and it looks much neater for some reason. I support Thailog's proposal here. Rassilon of Old (Talk - TTFF - Teru) 05:32, March 17, 2011 (UTC)
- I agree with Vulmen. The current format is easier to read and looks better. Dcasawang1 (talk) 11:19, March 18, 2011 (UTC)
- I agree with Thailog. Renatabls http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Renatabls/Zuko_Sprite.gif 23:53, March 21, 2011 (UTC)
I agree with Vulmen and Dc. So when will this be implemented? JaidynM (Talk) - (Blog) 06:36, March 22, 2011 (UTC)
- The format is already being implemented, but it takes time and some of them haven't been converted yet. As for Thailog's proposal, we don't seem to be in agreement... The 888th Avatar (talk) 06:50, March 22, 2011 (UTC)