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List of M*A*S*H episodes

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I've listed this article for peer review because M*A*S*H is one of the most popular and most acclaimed series in the history of American television, hence it warrants an excellent episode list page. It is my hope to bring this list up to featured list status. What existed before was not a list at all but a season guide. I think I have vastly improved it. Still, there is probably room for improvement. I've used Allmovie.com as a source rather extensively. Since this site was used equally extensively for the List of Moonlighting episodes (which was recently promoted to FL) I thought it would be okay to use it here. Likewise, the Moonlighting list used TVShowonDVD.com and Amazon.co.uk to list, respectively, the regions 1 and 2 DVD releases for the series, so I used this as sources as well. (Now watch some clown come along and say that none of them are reliable sources and never mind what has been promoted in the past).

So, anyway, here is the list. Give a look and offer up some useful comments about how i can spiff it up for an FL consideration.

Thanks, Jimknut (talk) 17:30, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Comments from Legolas

The references: Allmovie should not be italicized as it is an online source. Try putting work=''All Movie''. This removes the italicization of the work parameter.

Corrected.

In the section List of episodes, the heading Season : is misleading. I believe it should have been Episode :.

Changed.

The internal links (aka A, B, C....) donot have a gobakc associated with them. Can you correct it? Coz, suppose I click on the link A and it takes me to "A One-hour season premiere; later divided.." but to go back up to where I was reading, I have to scroll up and manually find it.

Corrected.

Move the portal to the external links.

Moved.

"Originally the regular cast consisted.." It does not say anything about the principal cast changing later. Hence it should be changed to "The regular cast consisted..."

Changed.

Many times in the lead, full-names are repeated even though they have been introduced before. Revert to their surnames for the second instances.

Changed.

became at the time of its broadcast the most-watched television in American television history with a 106 million viewers – looks clunky, maybe split up?

I dropped "at the time of its broadcast"

These are the things I could find ata basic glance. Wonderful work Jimknut. This is almost FL ready with some minor nitpicks being removed. --Legolas ^(talk2me) 04:04, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the help, Legolas. Jimknut (talk) 20:51, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Comments from Canada Hky

Cool list, I love M*A*S*H, so its a great read.

Couple comments, the wikilinking of directors is very repetitive, I checked out the Moonlighting list you referred to, and it only had the directors, etc WL'd on the first mention. They won't look out of place, as not all the directors are WL'd.

A fair enough suggestion, but I'll leave the linking the way it is, as these are sortable lists. (See the section on repeated links)

In some of the bullet points, references to characters are inconsistent - you use both 'Major Houlihan' and 'Margaret Houlihan' Also a bit inconsistent with multiple WL's - Hunnicut is linked twice, other characters are only linked on first appearance.

I changed these so they should be consistant.

Probably just personal preference here, but any thought to making the references in multiple columns to shorten the list up a bit (in terms of scrolling required)?

I changed this as well. The refs should show up in two columns (unless, like me, you're using Internet Explorer).

As I said - great list and fun to read. Canada Hky (talk) 23:17, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestions. Jimknut (talk) 04:44, 22 May 2010 (UTC)