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• There's no need to wikilink US in the opening sentence, and I know TRM at peer review said to use "US" over "American" but after looking at any FA or FL about songs, episodes, films from the US, they all say "American". In both regular conversation and formal language, for me I think "The US sitcom Friends" jars compared to "American"
  • Done
• "Friends was broadcast in 236 episodes" in doesn't sound correct here
  • Fixed order
• "Each episode excluding the season finale has the title which starts with 'The one...' " is incorrect. The pilot is called "The Pilot", and it's the series finale, not season finale, which also doesn't end with "The One..." One needs capitalising, too, as it's a quote of the titles.
  • Fixed
• That entire sentence is a bit long, and would flow better if it was recast as separate sentences, especially since the topic jumps from titles to length.
  • Fixed
• "for a 30-minute timeslot" perhaps clarify by mentioning this is to allow for commercial breaks
  • Done
• is there an article for "first unit"? It's a bit of a specialised term that many people won't get
  • There isn't, I could only find Second unit. I have rephrased the terminology.
• Sentences shouldn't begin with "However", just as they shouldn't begin with a But, Although, etc
  • Fixed
• "filmed in Burbank" vs "Taped in London"
  • Fixed
• "broadcast on NBC after the first airing of "The One with Joey's New Brain" (February 15, 2001)" ---> "broadcast following "The One with Joey's New Brain" on February 15, 2001"
  • Replaced
• "Conan O'Brien hosted a light-hearted discussion with the cast from the Central Perk set" needs recasting, it currently sounds like "the cast from the Central Perk set", as opposed to him hosting it on the set
  • Fixed
• As well as DVDs, have episodes been released on BluRay, or for streaming at Hulu, Amazon, Netflix, etc?
  • Complete series on Blu-ray. Would I need to include a seperate table for that? Blu ray has been confirmed but no release date as of yet.
• "but Chandler falls in love with her only to break up when he suspects she is cheating on him with a fellow actor." -- "only to break up" what does this mean? You haven't told the reader they got together
• The season summaries need work. Have they been copy edited? Some of the sentences are a bit run-on or poorly structured in other ways. Some are contradictory, such as "Season five features Monica and Chandler trying to keep their new relationship a secret from their friends." ... "Monica and Chandler go public with their relationship"
• Season 8's "The One After "I Do"" -- because the template forces "" around the title, you should use single quotes around the I Do to avoid the repetition of ""
• Were Pheobs, Chandler and Monica absent from season 8?
• For me, you don't have to have the season plot summaries. It doesn't violate 3b by including them or excluding them. This is a page that just lists the episodes and any further information such as what happens in them can be found by looking at the season specific articles which have summaries for all episodes. There aren't many Featured episode lists that do this anyway -- certainly not the more recently promoted -- and looking through most of them I found only a couple that do. List of Veronica Mars episodes is one, and that has a lot of episode articles anyways so the summaries aren't really necessary. List of Lost episodes is another, but again, each episode has its own article. Those that don't have a lot of episode articles and also don't have summaries include List of Avatar: The Last Airbender episodes, List of Dexter episodes, List of Numb3rs episodes, List of Gunsmoke television episodes, List of The Unit episodes and List of Smallville episodes so I'm not sure where the precedent is for that request.
  • I decided to exclude the season summaries because they are covered in the seperate season articles (some in detailed length).
• MOS:HASH says to avoid using "№" and "#". I would name the first two columns "No. in series" and "No. in season" for clarity
  • Fixed
• The specials don't have numbers, so you don't need those columns in those tables
  • Fixed
• TRM said in the PR to make sure all tables meet MOS:DTT. Do they?
• What's the reasoning for the two left Ratings columns to be a different background colour, and why small text for the year ranges?
  • I assume rowscopes are needed to highlight ratings?
• Titles, writers, directors and production numbers and airdates are still unreferenced, despite being marked as Done in the PR.
  • They come under the 'General' reference, the 15th anniversary DVD which includes the specials.
• Not all articles lend themselves to images. The FL? doesn't require one to be promoted, it says they're to be included if appropriate for the topic. Here the topic is specifically the list of episodes, and a photo of a couch and coffee table doesn't illustrate a list of episodes even if those episodes did feature that prop.
  • Have removed the image.

Matthewedwards :  Chat  05:55, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

• "Each episode excluding the series premeire and finale has the title which starts with 'The One...'". Second "the" should be "a".
  • Fixed
• Might want to let those who haven't seen the show know what "the Central Perk set" means.
  • Added
• In each table, Prod No. should be Prod no. as the second word is being overcapitalized.
  • Fixed
• Refs 13, 16, 19, 22, 25, and 28 need publishers (DVD Warehoure in each case).
  • Fixed
• Refs 29 and 30 have printed publishers, which should be italicized. For 29, the Chicago Tribune needs cites in addition to The Washington Post.
  • Italicized ref 30, removed Chicago Tribune ref and replaced it with a better one.
• What makes Dan G's Website (ref 31) a reliable source. It looks like somebody's personal website to me.
  • Removed
• What makes Classic TV Hits (refs 34 to 38) reliable?
  • Removed and double checked all sources which replaced it.
• Ref 41 is a Google Groups site, and forums are not reliable sources. I can accept the occasional style defect that can easily be fixed, but when personal websites and forums are being used to cite much of the ratings section, that's where I reach the point where I need to oppose. It's not like reliable publications never wrote about this show and its ratings when it was on the air. I suggest finding some of those publications and using them. Giants2008 (Talk) 00:43, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
  • Replaced that ref with a BBC one. Thank you for your review. – Lemonade51 (talk) 16:04, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
• The general reference and all DVD Warehouse refs need en dashes in their titles to replace the hyphens. Same for ref 42.
  • Fixed
    • General ref still needs two dashes in its title, by the looks of it. Ref 38, a new one, also needs one. Giants2008 (Talk) 11:17, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Whoops, have fixed them now. – Lemonade51 (talk) 13:12, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

• The bolded episodes violates WP:MOSBOLD. Note that we tend to bend that guideline a bit when bolding is forced by scopes, but I can't tell whether that's the case as the formatting is on a separate template. Come to think of it, does anyone have a problem with the tables being on separate templates? I'm not too familiar with this type of formatting myself, so I can't say if it violates any guidelines or not.
  • Formatting has been done on the seperate season articles. Similar to the Family Guy list or the ones Matthewedwards has named above.
    • Mostly all episode lists transclude the episode table from season articles, calling on {{episode list}} to do so. If you look through the history of episode list FLC nominations, I have often queried and opposed because of that, because we're basically reviewing content written on other pages not the page in question. There's also issues regarding what happens when bad information gets added at the season page or it's vandalised. Because it automatically gets displayed on the episode page, we have a case of two incorrect articles and those who have the episode list watchlisted might not necessarily watchlist the season pages, so they don't notice that it's been messed with (when I was a FL director I had all FLs watchlisted). However, WP:TRANSCLUSION seems to okay this practice (and I've been told that it's actually okay because at least both articles are the same -- even if they're wrong -- rather than having conflicting information across two pages!!!!), MOS:TV is indifferent, and it felt like I was running a losing battle.
    • As for the bolding, that's set by {{episode list}}, so all episode and season lists automatically display it as bolded, and there's no way to undo it without changing the template, which would require discussion on the template's talk page. Matthewedwards :  Chat  22:45, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
      • Looks like there's been some discussion about this before. Suggest we try to comply with MOS if possible... The Rambling Man (talk) 10:42, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
        • Right, used

• Looks in good shape, just one concern, do the episode tables meet MOS:DTT, I'm not sure if they do. NapHit (talk) 17:13, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

I'm not sure if it meets DTT as they aren't wikitables -- it derives from a template: Template:Episode list. -- Lemonade51 (talk) 18:18, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Is there a reason why it couldn't be made to comply with DTT? I often find User:RexxS can be extremely helpeful with this sort of thing. The Rambling Man (talk) 09:42, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

WP:TRANS? Perhaps I could just create tables from scratch, like List of M*A*S*H episodes? -- Lemonade51 (talk) 10:16, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

I guess until the episode list template has a consensus to be modified to meet DTT, hand-coding a simple Wiki table would be the best approach. The Rambling Man (talk) 10:25, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Right, tables done. -- Lemonade51 (talk) 16:01, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Cool, will review tomorrow. Cheers. The Rambling Man (talk) 17:55, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Good stuff, but you need to add rowscopes as well, sorry to be a pain. NapHit (talk) 22:28, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

• A shame there's not even a single image to brighten the lead up. Added, Goodraise or another reviewer may need to double check the image.
• Shouldn't ten year run have a hyphen somewhere? Done
• "They are on average 22 minutes " would recommend a comma after are and average. Done
• You have "Warner Brothers" and "Warner Bros.", suggest consistency here. Fixed
• Ross' Wedding is Ross's Wedding. Fixed
• "The One with the Ick Factor has a spare " Fixed
• Check "The One Where Old Yeller Dies"'s number in series. Fixed
• Four episodes (all different titles) have (1) or (2) after them, why? -- They are considered two-part episodes because the dialogue continues into the next episode. However, they haven't been coupled in the DVD's so it's removed.
• "The One Where They're Going to Party!" are the italics intentional? Fixed
• "The One with Chandler and Monica's Wedding (1)" our article on the episode has it as Monica and Chandler, not Chandler and Monica. Fixed
• Don't think you need # in the rank column, it's pretty obvious that what follows is a number... Removed
• The 1998 A & E Entertainment Almanac has missing info e.g. ISBN. Added
• Not overly keen on using Amazon and DVD warehouse to reference this, have to see what others think.

It's pretty difficult to find any press releases dating back to 2000 regarding the release dates of Friends DVDs. Particularly for Region 4, hence why I used DVD Warehouse, a retailer.

• Ref 38 should be pp. not p. Fixed

The Rambling Man (talk) 07:31, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for the thorough review. -- Lemonade51 (talk) 10:14, 11 April 2012 (UTC)