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The Section Standardization Project aims to standardize the names and order of sections for various types of articles. The idea behind this project originated during a layout discussion on Ten Forward.

Our currently goals are (1) to standardize the order and names of background information subsections on episode articles and (2) to rename, remove, or integrate all "trivia" sections.

Episode background information[]

For the proper names and order of episode background sections, please refer to Template:Episode/preload.

The following is a list of all episode pages that fail to meet the standards (it is likely there are some items included erroneously, though). If you cleanup the background information section of one of these articles, or you find one that has already been cleaned up, you may remove it from the list.

"Trivia" sections report[]

This section lists pages that, as of 25 April 2024, include at least one section header containing the word "trivia" or "miscellaneous" (capitalized or lowercased). The list was generated by searching the database for the following regular expression:

=.*([Tt]rivia|[Mm]iscellaneous).*=

If you fix one of these pages, feel free to remove it from the list. (If you do not, it will be removed the next time the list is regenerated.)

Discussion[]

Use this section to discuss how to move this project forward, decide what sorts of things we should be focusing on, and propose changes to (un)standardized section orders and/or names.

Happy editing 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talkcontribs) 12:35, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

The "Trivia" list above should probably be limited to Main namespace pages; we don't really care if User: or any Talk: namespace pages have trivia-related stuff. -- Renegade54 (talk) 18:22, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Done. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talkcontribs) 18:36, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Excellent. For reference, also in regards to culling trivia: Memory Alpha:Nitpick -LauraCC (talk) 14:37, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

References to other episodes[]

I noticed DS9: "The Way of the Warrior" has an additional section "References to other episodes" (of which there are many in this case) - should this be folded into "Continuity", or continue to be its own section, to be added to the preload template? -LauraCC (talk) 19:25, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

Since it's only a subsection, I think we can leave it there without adding it to the standard format. That is to say, if an episode page has an esspecially large section, that section can be broken up into non-standard subsections as needed. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talkcontribs) 20:56, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

Okay. :) -LauraCC (talk) 20:58, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

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