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Is there any specific reason why episode are not titled, for example, "Day 5 4:00p.m.-5:00p.m." as they are written on the introductory episode cards beyond the fact that, visually, it looks worse? --SignorSimon (talk/contribs/email) 22:36, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Anyone? --SignorSimon (talk/contribs/email) 18:07, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
Not a clue! Are you considering moving them so they all have the periods? Blue Rook  talk  contribs 20:18, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Haha, well no because I do actually prefer them as they are. It's just, we stick very specifically to things such as unnamed characters, aliases/codenames (your recent debate about Alpha 7 is a good example), yet the episode titles are, technically, all written incorrectly! --SignorSimon (talk/contribs/email) 20:21, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

It's true :( To move them might not be difficult (read: bot edits), but it absolutely will be the most colossal series of moves imaginable. We'd need a clear consensus before moving forward. If we get one, my idea is we approach Staffer Uberfuzzy for help. He was the fellow that did all the bot edits for the Quotes namespace, and I'm wondering if there is a way to update the redirects wiki-wide after all those moves. If we don't, I'm quite happy just leaving them alone, too. Blue Rook  talk  contribs 20:45, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
Revisiting this...I think it's acceptable to use "am" instead of "a.m." because that's how the episodes are listed on Fox.com's episode guides. However, another change that I think might be more ideal is adding a colon to each title so it's "Day 1: 12:00am-1:00am", etc. I know it seems trivial, but it's that way on IMDb, and it's always bugged me how we just throw the day and time together with no distinction at all. Also, we really should start using quotes around each title since they are, at the end of the day, television episodes. --Pyramidhead 00:30, November 2, 2009 (UTC)
There is no need to put the quotes there since it's already understood that these are television episodes. It would be extremely redundant, and also confusing because then people would or would not put novels and webisodes in quotes too.
As for adding the colon, this would be one of the biggest nomenclature changes in the wiki ever. Before undertaking this, I must insist we get a clear consensus and additionally some kind of bot assistance from Wikia or someone else who knows how to accurately mass edit with bots. Until then I strongly believe we should leave it at the discussion stage. Blue Rook  talk  contribs 02:44, November 3, 2009 (UTC)
Well, it's also understood that jack bauer is a character's proper name, but we still capitalize it. As for the novels and 24: Redemption, those should be in italics. It's just a matter of following grammatical convention for titles of different media - choosing to ignore one particular rule because it's "assumed" is really inconsistent and, at least in my view, inappropriate for a resource that aims to be the 24 encyclopedia. Not to be a broken record, but I think we might benefit from implementing something similar to Lostpedia's episode title system - they use one template, "ep," which drops in a complete episode title based on the given parameter - saving the trouble of having to type it out repeatedly with quotes and all. This would also help out new users who might not be sure what conventions to use when referring to episodes.
Just to clarify - I don't mean moving every episode page so it has quotes around it - just adding them outside of the links, like I've done on the season pages.

--Pyramidhead 06:02, November 3, 2009 (UTC)

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