User:ByteBard/prevnext

For figuring out which episodes can have prev and next airdates removed from their Infobox Episode, and which ones will need humans to curate a unified previous and next.

In general, PrevEp and NextEp refer to the next thematic episode, which occurs in the sequence, usually the same Campaign code and one number less or more. PrevAirdateEp is the episode that aired immediately before, and NextAirdateEp is the episode that aired immediately after.

Note that because this page can be parsed itself, it is possible to make the desired changes in the tables here, and use pywikibot to then propagate those changes to each of the episode pages.

All of these were calculated using the data from Module:AirdateOrder/Array.

Group 1: Prev & next episodes are the same
This means that the values for PrevEp and PrevAirdateEp are the same, as well as NextEp and NextAirdateEp. This means the two fields are duplicated data and the airdate ones can be safely deleted. (89 episodes)

Group 2: Talks Machina exceptions
When a Talks Machina episode follows the episode it's talking about, that's not very notable. It's also not very notable for an episode to be followed by a Talks Machina episode. These episodes have different values for prev/next and prev/next airdates, but they all follow this predictable pattern. Plus, there's already a more helpful field in the inbox for an "Associated Talks Machina episode". Campaigns and one-shots are both taken into account here. The proposal here would be to again remove Prev and Next AirdateEp, with prev and next being from the same episode code (TM for TM, Campaigns for Campaigns, One-shots for one-shots). (254 episodes)

Group 3: the mish-mash
These are going to need the most human judgment to figure out a custom previous and next. (223 episodes)

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