Status:  approved

The primary objective of this task is to fix date formats per the documentation for the following templates:

• ((Infobox television))
• ((Episode list))
• ((Series overview))

This includes the correct use of ((Start date)), ((End date)), and removing ((Start date)) format of the ((Episode list)) |AltDate=.

This task applies general fixes for ((Infobox television)) per that template's documentation and previous discussions on its talk page:

• Remove unnecessary use of |name=: See name param documentation
• Remove deprecated parameters: The following parameters have been deprecated. See notes at template docs
  • |preceded_by=
  • |followed_by=
  • |distributor=
  • |first_run=
  • |production_website=
  • |production_website_title=
  • |show_name=
  • |audio_format=
  • |picture_format=
• Fix known/common invalid parameters: removes unknown parameters and attempts to update commonly misspelled or misused parameters.
  • convert |opentheme= to |open_theme=
  • convert |endtheme= to |end_theme=
• Remove "File:" or "Image:" when infobox uses |image=
• Remove "px" specification from |image_size=
• Remove |italic_title=yes (which is invalid).

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• 1.0 - original fixes listed above
• 1.1. - unrecorded updates
• 1.2 - add removal of ((start/end-date)) ((start/end date text)), reformatting of ((start/end date and age))
• 1.3 - adds support for ((start and end date))
• 1.4 - (current version) replaces ((Film date)) with ((Start date)) and ((End date))

This task monitors the following maintenance categories from the television project:

• Infobox television with unknown parameters
• Infobox television with nonstandard dates
• Infobox television with unnecessary name parameter
• Episode lists with unformatted air dates
• Episode lists with incorrectly formatted alternate air dates