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The Swap

I haven't seen the movie yet, but I'm willing to bet it boosted ratings for the new episodes of both Bunk'd and Bizaardvark, which I did see, before and after, respectively. We shall see tomorrow. Bizaardvark could certainly use some high ratings, as well as Best Friends Whenever if you saw my comment on Nyuszika's talk page. Amaury (talk | contribs) 09:23, 9 October 2016 (UTC)

Just finished the movie. Certainly got me very teary on quite a few occasions. :) It's kind of funny. I get more emotional over sad events I see in movies or TV shows, like some Girl Meets World episodes, than something happening around me, even if it isn't something that directly affects me, but still involves me. Amaury (talk | contribs) 06:21, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
I was right, Michael! I bet even our ol' friend IJBall will find that impressive. If you don't feel like looking, it was 2.00 million viewers for Bunk'd and 1.92 million viewers for Bizaardvark on Friday. Amaury (talk | contribs) 20:05, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
@Amaury: Does anyone have the ratings for "The Swap" itself yet? I was just looking for those 10 minutes ago... --IJBall (contribs • talk) 20:07, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
@IJBall: Yeah, Showbuzz Daily posted just about five minutes ago. The Swap had 2.64 million viewers Archived 2016-10-11 at the Wayback Machine. Amaury (talk | contribs) 20:08, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
Interesting. The DCOMs have really been under-performing lately (they used to regularly pull in 4 million viewers, and in their heyday it was 7+ million...). Again, I blame time-shifting and VOD. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 20:11, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
@IJBall: I mean, it made #8 in the top 150 (with Bunk'd at #16 and Bizaardvark at #49), so that's still really impressive. But were they at different times before? And what's VOD? Amaury (talk | contribs) 20:14, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
VOD = "video on demand" (i.e. "OnDemand"). --IJBall (contribs • talk) 20:15, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
@IJBall: You mean like Watch Disney which sometimes releases episodes earlier than on TV, right? But yeah, that probably explains TV series in general. I can only hope they take into account how many viewers watch a certain show when it's released on demand and add it to the number of viewers for the original airing on TV. So say a show receives 1.24 million viewers on TV and another 0.55 million viewers on the on demand service. That would total to 1.79 million viewers. Amaury (talk | contribs) 20:24, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
I'd say The Swap helped out with Bunk'd and Bizaardvark in the viewership. The 2.00 million for Bunk'd is the highest for the season, and actually the highest since the first four episodes, which at that time I was wondering if there was gonna be any more Bunk'd (I think we had to wait like three months or something for the fifth episode). The 1.92 million for Bizaardvark is second to the show's premiere (2.41 million for that back in June). On the other hand, The Swap itself didn't really have a good showing relative to other DCOM premieres; if the List of Disney Channel original films article is correct, that 2.64 (rounded to 2.6 for that article) million is the lowest shown for those reporting viewership numbers. I tend to agree the VOD options, including those ahead of its airing on Disney Channel, could be affecting the numbers we're seeing.

@Amaury: On your comment about the movie causing you to tear up at times, I don't think it did for me (and I've watched it twice so far). But you also mentioned some Girl Meets World episodes did that - I definitely felt my eyes water with "Girl Meets the Bay Window" last season, particularly when the three pairs of Riley and Maya (young, adult, and current) left the bay window at the end. MPFitz1968 (talk) 21:18, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

General viewership data discussion

Since we've been talking a lot about ratings lately, how would you and IJBall and Nyuszika7H rate the ratings for the current seasons of Henry Danger, Game Shakers, and School of Rock? It would be using a scale of one to ten... or very bad, bad, okay, good, very good, if that makes it simpler. (Direct links below.)

Just curious on what you guys think. Amaury (talk | contribs) 13:27, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

I don't follow Nick ratings close enough to have an opinion on this. In fact, I haven't watched a Nick show regularly since Victorious... --IJBall (contribs • talk) 16:36, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
Same here - I really don't know about any of these shows since I don't watch them, and the latest ratings data compared to each show's past ratings doesn't help me in figuring out what you're asking. Last time I watched anything regularly on Nickelodeon was Sam & Cat. MPFitz1968 (talk) 16:46, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
It was more what you think of the ratings in general without really looking at previous ratings, but that probably doesn't really clarify anything. In any case, I'll just have to ask this same question with some Disney Channel shows at some point in the future. c: Amaury (talk | contribs) 23:12, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Zap2it#Name change to Screener

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Zap2it#Name change to Screener. nyuszika7h (talk) 20:56, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Liv and Maddie awards

Hey, Michael. I just tidied up Liv and Maddie, which included removing awards not for the show under the Awards and nominations section, and I just realized the table seems to have gotten a little broken, and I can't figure out where I messed up and was wondering if you could help. Thanks. Amaury (talk | contribs) 04:06, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

@Amaury: The problem was (mostly) 'rowspan'. (The problem is nearly always 'rowspan', which is one of several reasons that I don't like 'rowspan'!). --IJBall (contribs • talk) 04:38, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
@IJBall: Hey, no stalking! ;) But seriously, thanks! :) Amaury (talk | contribs) 04:41, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
Making tables is one of the things I got really good at pretty early on in my editing here... --IJBall (contribs • talk) 04:42, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

Re: K.C. Undercover

Can you confirm if this is correct? It's possible that's before we learn his name. I vaguely remember Nyuszika7H already going through the article a while ago and correcting guest stars, but I don't remember. Thanks. Amaury (talk | contribs) 13:43, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) (and also pinged)  Done – Per my revert, he was only credited as "Agent" in that episode. nyuszika7h (talk) 14:18, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

List of Halloweentown characters

I question the Notability of that article. I don't think that topic is notable enough to warrant its own article. If it went to WP:AfD, I'd vote "nuke". Probably the best way to handle that would be to trim it (a lot!), and merge it to Halloweentown (film series) converting it to a redirect... Just my $0.02... --IJBall (contribs • talk) 16:27, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

I definitely agree the article should be trimmed; it looks pretty disorganized after reading past the main characters. On the notability question, I could go either way with. But if the character article could be made pretty short, it can be merged to the film series article, which also appears to be a mess with the presentation of the characters in the table. Prose might be a better approach to that one (which would strengthen the need for the merge), and if there needs to be a table, limit it to the main characters and perhaps a few other notables. Both articles in their current states are also severely deficient in sources (outside of the films themselves), so there could be quite a need for trimming in that regard, too. MPFitz1968 (talk) 17:38, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
I did a little cleanup, though I have yet to see those movies, so I haven't attempted to do things like trimming or getting rid of the "Villains" section yet. One thing that I noticed is the Kalabar/Calabar situation – supposedly he's credited as "Calabar", but he is called "Kalabar" the second movie's title. nyuszika7h (talk) 17:57, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
(edit conflict) Regarding the Halloweentown film series itself, I only started getting into watching the movies. Until this year, I hadn't seen past the first movie, and only caught the first movie with some interest last year. With all four airing on Disney Channel this past week, I set out to catch more than the first one. I did catch at least parts of all of them, but then watched the first two entirely over the past couple of days on Watch Disney (on demand). Regarding details about characters and the plots, I'm pretty rusty overall, so I'd struggle with getting these articles in line unless I can watch these movies even after Halloween (which I'm gonna guess is when Disney pulls them from their on demand options). MPFitz1968 (talk) 18:00, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
I might watch these movies soon, seems to be a good time with Halloween around the corner and autumn holiday for me. I will prepare a complete cast listing for all four movies in my sandbox so that we can get the credits right. I just confirmed, the first movie's opening credits also list "Robin Thomas as Calabar", credited with a "C". nyuszika7h (talk) 18:14, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
For the second movie, the DVD cover and the title card both say "Kalabar's Revenge". nyuszika7h (talk) 18:25, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
Cast list done, see User:Nyuszika7H/sandbox1. – nyuszika7h (talk) 18:51, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
@Nyuszika7H: Looks good. I'd still merge it to Halloweentown (film series) – that topic doesn't justify a separate list article. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 19:35, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

"2016–present"

Maybe I'm just a cynical [redacted], but I just can't assume good faith on those edits. IMO, they happen too often to be anything than trolling most of the time (the rest being truly clueless IP newbies, I suppose). It wouldn't surprise me if we have one or more stealth IP sockers whose edits consist almost entirely of "2016–present"-type edits. I really think it's similar to the 'rowspan' vandals... --IJBall (contribs • talk) 03:04, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Okay, wow!

Not really a question, more of a general discussion, so, IJBall, Nyuszika7H, you're free to leave whatever if you have anything to say. But wow! Is Disney Channel doing jack shit on advertising their shows or what? Look at Friday's Bunk'd airing, for example. Disney Channel's ratings, even for its popular shows, seem to be doing meh at most for the second half of 2016 or jump back and forth, unlike Nickelodeon which is usually more consistent, like when I used that K.C. Undercover example in that other discussion and IJBall thought maybe it's because kids don't follow a "schedule" and the like, which I'm sure Disney Channel takes into account, but even so, wow! The only exceptions to this "curse," I guess we can call it, that I can think of are Liv and Maddie and Girl Meets World. Even taking into account that school and college are going on, no show on Disney Channel, that I know of, has ever gotten below a million viewers, and Bizaardvark and Bunk'd just set record lows with their respective October 23 and October 28 airings. (And there have been ratings of two million or more before during school and college, so yeah.) Even season premieres haven't been very good, with Bunk'd's season two premiere having 1.35 million viewers, which is okay for a regular airing, I guess, but not a series or season premiere, and Best Friends Whenever's season two premiere having 1.18 million viewers. I mean, what in the hell is going on? LOL! Amaury (talk | contribs) 20:30, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

List of Henry Danger episodes

Could use your help there. Check out the article history. IP locates to the UK, so I don't think it's our guy, just your typical run-of-the-mill stubborn IP. The commas they added are actually correct, but everything else, no. Amaury (talk | contribs) 17:14, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

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The Thundermans

I just added a ratings section to the The Thundermans, but I am having a problem maybe you, Geraldo Perez, or Nyuszika7H could help me out with, and that is dealing with the special on October 10, 2016. I'm not exactly sure how to integrate it, and I've commented it out for now, but it's there, just not being counted. Amaury (talk | contribs) 04:40, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

@Amaury: This problem is actually similar to that one episode of Girl Meets World between season one and two ("Girl Meets Demolition"), which we consider part of neither season and identified it as a "special". That episode is not included in the ratings table. Since the way we're presenting the ratings tables is to show average viewership for each season, the special episodes that aren't classified in any season, or are between seasons, simply don't figure into those averages. On the other hand, it is still part of the series, so if we were presenting an overall average viewership for the entire run of the show, then the special(s) would be included in the average. MPFitz1968 (talk) 09:08, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
Hopefully support is added for specials, if possible. Amaury (talk | contribs) 13:59, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
AlexTheWhovian works in this department. Maybe he can make it possible. So for specials, instead of link1, episodes1 (or whatever season number), and so on, something like linkS, episodesS, and so on. And since there would only be one episode, we could also merge the start and end and premiere and finale cells. Amaury (talk | contribs) 14:17, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
Personally, I see no need to include the specials in a ratings table specifically designed for seasons, as a special doesn't have an average viewers rating or an ending date, and any such information that would be displayed in this table would be identical to information displayed in the episode table. However, if it's necessary, I'll see what I can do. Alex|The|Whovian? 02:21, 26 November 2016 (UTC)
@AlexTheWhovian: It's appreciated, Alex. Fortunately, it's not common, but I still see it being useful to list the specials, partly because it makes it match the number of tables over on the list of episodes of article. Amaury (talk | contribs) 02:32, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

Ratings

I don't know if this is something I'll end up adding to our articles, but it's just something I'm playing around with for now and thought you or Nyuszika7H could help. I assume you would just do another expression for the 18–49 ratings, but where do you get the rank, for example? Is it also the average of the rank each episode has gotten? See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Amaury/sandbox#Ratings_Test Amaury (talk | contribs) 01:24, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

@Amaury: Ranks are published at the end of each US TV season and only for the big US networks, like here, which is why I added a parameter to hide it from the table (|hide_rank=y). nyuszika7h (talk) 10:46, 26 November 2016 (UTC)
@Nyuszika7H: Ah! Okay! Also, strange. I didn't get an alert of your mention here, but thankfully I still got an email letting me know you mentioned me. Amaury (talk | contribs) 17:15, 26 November 2016 (UTC)
Of course the alert shows up after I post this. I'm wondering if it had been there, just didn't show the red alert. Amaury (talk | contribs) 17:16, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Lost in the West#Removing "Ratings" section

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Lost in the West#Removing "Ratings" section. If you have an opinion on this matter, your feedback would be more than appreciated. Amaury (talk | contribs) 16:43, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

Nickelodeon and Disney Channel ratings for Friday, November 18

Despite the record lows for Disney Channel with Liv and Maddie and Girl Meets World, the P 18-49 ratings are still high and they're still in the top 30, and they've been lower than that a number of times before: http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-friday-cable-originals-network-finals-11-18-2016.html Archived 2018-09-26 at the Wayback Machine It's interesting to know that just because an episode has low overall ratings does not necessarily mean it did bad or just because an episode has overall high ratings does not necessarily mean it did good. Amaury (talk | contribs) 21:33, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

I don't know if you already had a look, but some adjustments were made in terms of numbering because their charts were delayed. For example, The Lodge moved from #87 to #80. (Liv and Maddie and Girl Meets World are up a bit higher now as well, and I did ask if there were possibly typos in the overall ratings, so we'll see if Mitch responds.) Anyway, yeah, I still don't get what's going on with Disney Channel's ratings for its own shows in general terms. I mean, I know IJBall mentioned here that kids don't really follow a "schedule" and there are multiple viewing options, but those are things that exist for Nickelodeon as well, so why is it doing better in that regard? Although, ironically, Disney Channel beat Nickelodeon for total 2015 viewers (click!); however, for 20 years Nickelodeon held on to the most viewers record between the two channels. The only theory that I can come up with is that Disney Channel is doing crap at advertising its shows. I mean, look at how long Nickelodeon advertised "Thundermans: Secret Revealed" before it aired, which garnered 2.43 million overall viewers, and "Thundermans: Banished!" as well, which we'll know its ratings tomorrow. Amaury (talk | contribs) 02:05, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
Can't say I know exactly what has led to these record low ratings for the latest episodes of both Liv and Maddie: Cali Style and Girl Meets World - varying theories. But I am seeing that the GMW one has drawn ire from at least one YouTuber who has been reviewing episodes of that show [1], who up to this point considered the show one of Disney's assets but apparently not anymore. But I'm also aware he is pretty biased when it came to the love triangle thing and hated when it went in favor of Riley-Lucas (Rucas) instead of Lucas-Maya (Lucaya) in "Ski Lodge", and he feels the show has gone downhill since that episode. And all these rumors about cancellation since the filming of the "Goodbye" episode possibly could be weighing even more in the minds of faithful (or once faithful) watchers. In any case, no doubt Disney's ratings overall have dropped, and not just with their own shows ... acquired series like Backstage and The Lodge are not really drawing a large audience, and I wonder how come there are more reruns/first runs of XD shows airing now than ever before (Walk the Prank, Lab Rats, Mech-X4, etc.). And that last DCOM The Swap, not even reaching 3 million viewers (2.6 million, the lowest I could find according to what's in List of Disney Channel original films). Certainly other viewing options Disney has employed (e.g., Watch Disney app) may be lowering these numbers, but is it the only thing doing so? MPFitz1968 (talk) 02:48, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
I'm interested in reading what other theories you may have. :) Also, have acquired series ever done just as good, if not better on some occasions, than Disney Channel's own shows in the US? Amaury (talk | contribs) 02:54, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
I just watched that rant. Somebody's obviously butthurt. If you ask me, that wasn't a true review. A review should be totally unbiased. Amaury (talk | contribs) 03:05, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
Certainly other viewing options Disney has employed (e.g., Watch Disney app) may be lowering these numbers, but is it the only thing doing so? Exactly! It can't be the only thing, but there is an important question to ask: by how much do the other viewing options, if they're available before the cable/satellite airings, lower the numbers for the cable/satellite airings? Also, for the cases where they are available online before the cable/satellite airings, do they count viewers from the earlier online viewings? So if an episode that's scheduled to air on December 2 receives 0.57 million viewers from the online viewing option available since November 30 and then receives 1.31 million viewers for the cable/satellite airing on December 2, when Showbuzz Daily or whatever site posts its ratings from Nielsen, would that number be 1.88 million viewers or 1.31 million viewers? Unfortunately, I would guess the latter because I don't think they count online viewers and because the total viewers is live plus same day (up to 3:00 AM local time the next day). Amaury (talk | contribs) 04:28, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

Nickelodeon ratings for Saturday, November 19

In case you're interested based on the above discussion: http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-saturday-cable-originals-network-finals-11-19-2016.html

Amaury (talk | contribs) 14:37, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

Some more thoughts

I'm going to have to go with that Disney Channel is just doing absolutely crap at advertising their series' upcoming episodes. It's the only thing I can think of now. I mean, I know they're bound to pick up again, but still. Friday's Liv and Maddie episode garnered 1.24 million viewers, ranking at #26, and Sunday's Bizaardvark episode garnered 0.97 million viewers, ranking at #71. (IJBall) Amaury (talk | contribs) 17:29, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

Okay, so Liv and Maddie is not so bad, I guess, as it still made the top 30, but still, for total viewers, that's low. Amaury (talk | contribs) 17:34, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

Re: Best Friends Whenever

I still have to wonder why they only made it 13 episodes—or 12 finalized episodes—as that seems like a really odd season order for Disney Channel. Season one was closer to normal. Also, obviously actors can only speak for themselves, but she specifically states season finale, so maybe there's hope for a season three yet. And like I mentioned to you, as well as IJBall and Nyu, on IJBall's talk page, all of Disney Channel's sitcoms recently have been doing not so well at least in total viewers, but shows like Best Friends Whenever and Bizaardvark have also been doing not so well in the 18–49 department. But still, what are they going to do, cancel or just not renew all of their sitcoms because they're all not doing so well? That will leave them in a worse position. I predict the viewers for today's Best Friends Whenever and Bizaardvark will be low due to how it's been going, again, but I could be wrong, particularly with Best Friends Whenever since Landry is advertising it on her Twitter. Amaury (talk | contribs) 18:23, 11 December 2016 (UTC)

I don't want to spoil anything for you, but they definitely need to have a season three. Maybe you'll feel different, but this didn't feel like a big ending to me, like there's more that could be told without them actually leaving open a plot hole, but in a way it still did feel season end-y to me, if that makes sense.. At the same time, I do know that they didn't tape everything at once. Sometime after that first week of premieres is when they taped the rest, so I don't know if they wanted to see how the first few episodes of the season would do to determine what kind of episode they recorded for the season two finale or what. But then again, Best Friends Whenever could have also stopped after season one logic-wise based on the three-part finale, and that also didn't really leave open a plot hole. Amaury (talk | contribs) 02:49, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Re: Stuck in the Store

Did you see any directing, writing, and guest starring credits anywhere for these shorts? Obviously, it doesn't produce itself, and that store employee that was after the family had to be a guest star. Amaury (talk | contribs) 20:13, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

@Amaury: From what I recall watching them on the Watch Disney site (and I know I did at least twice apiece), I didn't see any. But I'll also double-check during the airing on Disney Channel. MPFitz1968 (talk) 20:49, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

Re: Bizaardvark

Nope. No guest star or co-star credits for Horse Face Guy. Amaury (talk | contribs) 15:12, 17 December 2016 (UTC)

@Amaury: Thanks. I know I didn't see any in the guest starring credits in the episodes listed. IMDb reported that Horse Face Guy was in 11 episodes, but since that's unreliable, I don't even know or think that's an accurate episode count. In any case, without any guest starring credits, it has no chance at being listed here as recurring either. MPFitz1968 (talk) 16:43, 17 December 2016 (UTC)

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@Amaury: Thanks. Merry Christmas to you, too. And a Happy New Year, and the best in 2017. :) MPFitz1968 (talk) 15:36, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

Re: List of The Thundermans episodes

Can you see if you can reword the last part of the Dinner Party summary from season one? I'm not going to keep playing this user's game who I suspect is possibly Orchomen. See User talk:IJBall#Re: Caedite eos. The word "family" is singular and this user wants to keep changing part of the sentence it's used in to either "who are" or "which is." Both versions are incorrect, the first one because of the aforementioned reason of "family" being a singular word, and the second one because "which" refers to an object, and people, which a family obviously contains, are not objects, they are, well, people, which means "who" is correct. Now, if this were a series in the UK, "who are" would be correct because there they go by what the words contain—which I don't get, personally, but whatever—not the words themselves, but it's not, it's a US series. Thanks. Amaury (talk | contribs) 02:13, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

@Amaury: I haven't seen the episode, so I don't know what "their family" in the final part of the summary refers to. Is it Max and Phoebe's parents and siblings, or is it the invited guests? Quite important if I'm going to rephrase it. ;) MPFitz1968 (talk) 06:24, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
Michael, how lucky are we!? http://www.nick.com/videos/clip/the-thundermans-102-full-episode.html (On another note, you probably saw an SPI was filed because I'm pretty sure it's them. All I can say is this person is persistent and needs to find something more productive to do with their time.) Amaury (talk | contribs) 06:33, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
I just happened to see it was available to watch (thru my cable provider) after I posted. MPFitz1968 (talk) 07:05, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
Made the fix, which avoids "their family" altogether and spells it out (found myself needing to revise three times - [2][3][4]). MPFitz1968 (talk) 07:36, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
Thank you. Hopefully you're not reverted, but they've pretty much given themselves away based on their comment at the SPI. I didn't notify them, and they just happened to find it. Right... They stalked me. Sigh. Amaury (talk | contribs) 07:40, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

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Re: Girl Meets World

I know this doesn't sound too promising, but hopefully it gives you as well as IJBall and Nyuszika7H some hope: http://tvline.com/2016/12/29/girl-meets-world-cancelled-season-4-renewal-update/. And remember, Bizaardvark didn't get any renewal announcement until a few days after its seventeenth episode from season one aired. And I know this has been the case before with some series of waiting until the last minute or even after the current season has ended. Amaury (talk | contribs) 03:38, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

Meh – Best Friends Whenever looks dead in any case... --IJBall (contribs • talk) 03:44, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
IJBall, I wouldn't give up hope on that, either. I know at least Landry and Ricky are fighting for season three.  :) By the way, how do you insert actual smilies here? Amaury (talk | contribs) 03:50, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
@Amaury: Use {{Smiley}} or one of its closely associated templates. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 03:56, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
The writers recently tweeted [5] [6] that no official decision has been made by Disney yet but it is "coming soon". (I mean, we don't need to put that in the article, and we will have other sources for the renewal or cancellation, but they should really get their Twitter account verified.) Also, happy new year to everyone. :) nyuszika7h (talk) 08:29, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
News has been announced of no season four. It does sadden me a bit, but I'm not going to go overboard like some other people and boycott Disney Channel after the season three finale and will continue watching its other shows. Although I'm thinking it's more of a just not renewed than being canceled like is being reported. And I can't imagine this going down without a fight to either seriously petition for Disney Channel to renew it or move it to ABC Family/Freeform. Amaury (talk | contribs) 07:22, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
Netflix is a possibility, too, from what comments I've been reading, if Freeform doesn't pick it up. MPFitz1968 (talk) 07:27, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

List of Girl Meets World episodes

Erg, that's frustrating! The U.S.C.O. still doesn't list either "Girl Meets Fish" or "Girl Meets the Real World"/"...Sassy Haltertop". It would really have helped to finally nail down the prod. codes for those two episodes. [sigh...] --IJBall (contribs • talk) 17:24, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

@IJBall: Those and "Girl Meets Goodbye" are the only episodes we need production codes for. Once we get the production code for "Girl Meets Goodbye," I think it would be okay to use the remaining unused production codes and fill in the blanks—at that point, we'd have one unused season one production code for season two and one unused season three production code for season three. There are sometimes exceptions made to the usual process when it's obvious what something should be. For example, when I did my second clean-up on List of Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn episodes, I added 104 for "Dawn Moves Out" in the first season—and mentioned it on the talk page—even though it wasn't listed on The Futon Critic. The Futon Critic has double entries for "The Quadfather" (102) which was originally supposed to air when "Dawn Moves Out" did on September 20, 2014, but was later moved back to January 10, 2015. For some reason, they didn't make their usual corrections since they're usually well on top of that. (I'll ping Geraldo Perez to invite him to this discussion for his opinion and see if he agrees or disagrees.) Amaury (talk | contribs) 17:39, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
@Amaury:@IJBall: I'm thinking the production code for "Girl Meets the Real World" is the one indicated on the Disney ABC Press site (309), but that code was tied to the title "Girl Meets the Other Side", as indicated by a script cover page that Ben Savage posted on his Twitter (being the director of the episode). I did mention there being a strong chance of it being the same episode as "Real World"/"Sassy Haltertop" on the LoE talk page, but secondary sources still haven't made the connection. I'm hoping the U.S. Copyright office will resolve this soon. MPFitz1968 (talk) 18:03, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
Unfortunately, you can't count on the U.S.C.O. bailing us out on this – there are plenty of TV series where they have only a subset (sometimes a very small subset) of all of the available episodes listed in the database. IOW, I suspect what they currently have for Girl Meets World is all we're ever going to get out of them... --IJBall (contribs • talk) 18:11, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
If you do add a production code based on everything else in the sequence is used but this one it should be tagged with {{cn}} and explained in hidden notes at least how that code was derived. Geraldo Perez (talk) 19:45, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Bad misunderstanding about "American Idol"

Sorry about my edit of "American Idol Season 15." It had been a controversy for the last few years that white guys with guitars were consistently winning "American idol." Hence, the term "WGWG" was discussed in many neutral articles and in "Idol" recaps. If you want, you can search the term through previous "American Idol" articles on Wikipedia or through a search engine.

It was a common term throughout the "Idol" era that was just an observation, nothing else.

I apologize for the misunderstanding and for offending you. I'm also sorry that I hadn't checked my talk page sooner.

I hope you have a good New Year.

Snoopy012 Snoopy012 (talk) 17:20, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Edits to My girl 2

Hi, What is wrong whit my second edit? How should it be done? If I haven't done it right could you edit it the right way, if I am not doing it correctly.

@Davidgoodheart:
@Davidgoodheart: The problem I'm having with your edits there, and in My Girl, is that the character you are adding, Vada's friend Judy, is a minor character in the movie, and not even listed in the opening credits of the film. I do have both films on DVD so I can easily verify this. The actress is listed in the ending credits, but is quite a ways down in the listing. I left a note on your talk page to look at the guidelines for films at MOS:FILM, particularly the Cast section at WP:FILMCAST. Not every role in a film is prominent or notable, and in articles about movies, we need to list only those prominent roles, including the top-billed ones. Anything else is indiscriminate information and could also be seen as undue weight given to the roles in question. The character of Kevin in My Girl 2, whom you also listed there, is also a minor role, and again not in the opening credits of the film (also a ways down in the end credits listing). MPFitz1968 (talk) 08:53, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

Your probably right

Hi, I am not an expert on Wikipedia, so you most likely right about that, as well as Cassi Abel name in My Girl 1 is Judy not July.

@Davidgoodheart:

Jack Hunter

the grammar seemed find I doubled check on the second attempt Jack's fate was revealed on girl meets world so I put it in just like the other updates. Now if you felt the grammar was incorrect you could have at least kept the update.47.202.17.249 (talk) 02:15, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

@47.202.17.249: In reading what you added at List of Boy Meets World characters [7], the first part of it looks reasonably understandable and with the grammar fixes, I could restore that. The second part which talks about Jack meeting Riley and then the "decision not to go through with the proposal" is far less coherent. What proposal first of all (as the overall edit is not clear on that part)? And why is that bundled into a sentence where it says he meets Riley (who has nothing to do with his job)? MPFitz1968 (talk) 02:43, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
  • Jack has a corporate job trying to get Eric to vote for a pipeline that harms the environment. After Eric finds out what led Jack to take the job and his fate he took him to the school dance. He meets Riley there and gives her advice on how to choose Lucas or Charlie after that he has a change a heart and decides not to pitch the pipeline proposal. he also ended his relationship with Rachel and left the Peace Corps. 47.202.17.249 (talk) 02:59, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
@47.202.17.249: OK, I restored the edit but made some changes to it so it's more understandable, also identifying the specific episode of Girl Meets World [8]. MPFitz1968 (talk) 03:09, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

Girl Meets Goodbye

Catching up on Disney Channel Friday. Just have Liv and Maddie left and just finished Girl Meets World about 20 minutes ago. What did you think about it? Did it feel like it was an actual ending or did it feel like a cliffhanger, like something more could be said? With most Disney Channel—and I think Nickelodeon—series, but especially with Girl Meets World, I know they worked each season, including the first, as if it were their last just in case and always made the final episode of the season to be like an ending. Also, since Michael Jacobs already had an idea for season four, there's been speculation that if Netflix or other networks pick up the series for season four and possibly more seasons that the characters will be dealing with the death of a loved one. Based on the three seasons, what do you think a season four would look like? I don't remember where I read it—it was one of the reliable sources—but it was said that season one focused on Riley, I think, season two branched out, and I don't remember what it said about the theme of season three. Amaury (talk | contribs) 17:46, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

Re: Stuck in the Middle

I feel like what Gerlado Perez said here about not preserving obvious typos or errors applies nicely here, and after extensive searching, all I see is water park as two words when used to describe a park with water. Only time I see waterpark, which Chrome underlines in red—for some extra information—is when it's the name of a park: https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=Waterpark Just my view, though, and I'm not 100%, either. Amaury (talk | contribs) 02:17, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

Okay, changing my mind. After seeing the commercial from Disney Channel itself, it was used as one word. Still not entirely correct, but it's not an obvious typo or error from the sources. Amaury (talk | contribs) 19:34, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

Re: Girl Meets World

My bad. I completely spaced out there and blanked on the special. Amaury (talk | contribs) 02:55, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

Re: List of Girl Meets World episodes missing production codes

Geraldo Perez, IJBall

I've done what I mentioned here with this edit. Feel free to modify the wording of the notes if you guys believe it to be necessary. Amaury (talk | contribs) 04:23, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

Zoey 101

I don't remember if this is one of the ones on your watchlist, but I thought I'd drop you a line to let you know that the Zoey 101 suite of articles, esp. List of Zoey 101 characters, could use some additional cleanup, if you're interested. For example, the latter seems to violate WP:TVCAST by including listings of Absences/Appearances for various characters... In terms of the main Zoey 101 article, the 'Awards and honors' table is a mess, but I'll try to get to that on my end one of these days when I'm less busy. FWIW! --IJBall (contribs • talk) 17:43, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

I do have Zoey 101 and the LoE article in my watchlist, but not the LoC. But I did check out the characters article, and it definitely looks like it'll need some cleaning up from what I see. Also will need to see what's in those individual character's infoboxes. At one point not long ago, I remember looking at such infoboxes at List of Full House and Fuller House characters which had contained too much trivia or unsourced material and I ended up removing those infoboxes outright (this was after another editor had really trimmed that article, infoboxes included, and I think they went too far with that). MPFitz1968 (talk) 17:51, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

Erin Sanders

Wow. I guess that's what happens when I don't put an article on my watchlist when I get to it. I had mostly cleaned up that article back in March 2016, but it looks like all of that was undone with (COI?) editing by the time you got to it. I think I've gotten all the rest of the WP:TONE problems, and I've managed to find a few sources for the article, but it's surprisingly (to me, anyway) borderline. I'm not going to 'notability' tag this one, but it's probably right on the borderline of the notability threshold, more in WP:GNG terms probably. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 04:56, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Liv and Maddie

Did you ever see the discussion I just started? This edit was reverted last year and I decided to get consensus, but only Amaury responded. Did you ever see the edit? The discussion exists at Talk:Liv and Maddie#Duplicate plot summaries. So far there hasn't been another reply from another user and I get the feeling that Amaury just doesn't like me at all. He claims this article doesn't need to follow the guidelines of other articles but I don't see why it shouldn't. I don't get the point of it not being like other Disney Channel and Nickelodeon teen sitcom articles. The lead lacks context and their does not seem to be a point in listing two plot summaries, especially when both lack certain details. Are there any other editors that should be involved in this discussion? Geraldo Perez failed to chime in this time like he usually does (I don't know why). Meanwhile IJBall wasn't interested. Kkjj (talk) 06:38, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Another request...

Hey, MPFitz1986, when you have some time to kill, can you please take a look at Katelyn Tarver? The article includes her "music career", but to my untrained eye this music career looks completely unnotable (including an article for the album Wonderful Crazy which is entirely unsourced and which looks like it should be WP:PRODed). In any case, the "sourcing" used to support Tarver's music career looks to be incredibly weak to me... Thanks! --IJBall (contribs • talk) 22:34, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Following up on this, should I at least WP:PROD Wonderful Crazy? It looks to be a pretty solid WP:NALBUM fail. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 22:14, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
Clearly no sources at all at Wonderful Crazy, and nothing else to demonstrate that it would satisfy any of the WP:NALBUM criteria, like chart performance or a notable music award nomination, so I'd have no problem with a PROD there. Regarding the music career section of Tarver's article, agreed there's not much notability, if any, with that. Not one source in that section demonstrated significant coverage of her music career—a number of the links were just to where to listen to or buy her music, one read more like a promotional press release, and one (supposed to talk about her American Juniors days) was a dead link. And like with her album Wonderful Crazy, no indication in the article about whether her music has made a national chart, received an award or nomination, etc. MPFitz1968 (talk) 02:57, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

Madison Hu

My, that article's thin. I've finally adding sourcing to it... but it's thin. I'm not going to {{Notability}} tag it, as I think it can be argued that Hu may clear WP:NACTOR – in other words, I'm somewhat convinced that it might survive at WP:AfD, so it's not worth pursuing deletion in this case... In other news, I've created Draft:Olivia Rodrigo (using much of the same sourcing as now found in Madison Hu) for the other Bizaardvark star – in Rodrigo's case, I don't think it's ready for mainspace yet, as Rodrigo's resume is even lighter than Hu's is. FWIW. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 22:50, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

Latest attack

I won't be fully available again for about another two hours, so could use some help with this latest attack if you and the others are able to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Barrysmilkman (Geraldo Perez, IJBall, Callmemirela.) Thanks in advance. Amaury (talk | contribs) 17:31, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

Ryan McCartan

Hi MPFitz1968! At the article Ryan McCartan, an Template:Infobox musical artist module is used, but somebody's put The Girl and the Dreamcatcher in the 'Associated acts' parameter, which I'm pretty sure is incorrect usage ('Associated acts' is supposed to be acts that are associated with the artist, not acts that the artist is actually in!). Yet I can't seem to find a "group" or "act" parameter within 'Template:Infobox musical artist' for The Girl and the Dreamcatcher, so I can't figure out where it's supposed to go in the infobox! Any ideas?! Pinging Geraldo Perez in case he knows what to do here... Thanks in advance. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 04:08, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

See John Lennon for an examplar. Geraldo Perez (talk) 04:22, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
@Geraldo Perez: Huh, that's odd – I didn't think the 'Associated acts' parameter was supposed to be used in that manner. But it's the same at Phil Collins and Don Henley... So, lesson learned! --IJBall (contribs • talk) 04:26, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:List of Girl Meets World characters#Morgan Matthews character description

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:List of Girl Meets World characters#Morgan Matthews character description. Amaury (talk | contribs) 08:06, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

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