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This template is for Babylon 5 articles with a corresponding Guide page at The Lurker's Guide, specifically the individual Babylon 5 episodes. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 08:26, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

How to use this template:

Type {{Lurker|###}}. Replace the ### with the number that appears on the Guide page. For instance, Midnight on the Firing Line's Guide Page appears at "http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/001.html". So, typing {{Lurker|001}} creates the following:

--Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 08:37, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Encourages poor sourcing

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I'd suggest, based on what I see at All Alone in the Night, that this template encourages poor sourcing practices for a genre of articles (TV episodes) that is famous for being badly sourced or totally unsourced. This makes these articles delete-bait for conscientious editors trying to improve encyclopedic quality by adhering to essential Wikipedia policies of verifiability and reliable sourcing. I would ask users of this template to consider how they might instead work on providing specific citations of the material supporting text in B5 articles, as I recently did for one item in "AAitN". (Perhaps this template could be made more compatible for use in footnotes, tweaked along the lines of {{cite web}}.) It would also help to bring in additional (and wherever possible, more independent) sources to bolster both the documented accuracy and the notability of these articles. Thank you for your consideration. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 02:58, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Suggested Category Change

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Category:Television external link templates would be more specific than Category:External link templates. -- Pemilligan (talk) 22:42, 2 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Suggested Formatting Change

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Remove the bullet. Editors can add that on their pages if they want it. As is, this template works poorly in ref tags (see Stephen Macht). -- Pemilligan (talk) 22:44, 2 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]