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Just a note to say that the issue with the tables of contents appearing incorrectly is known and has been reported by the admins of other wikis. One of the central admins has replied "We've reproduced the issue, and are working on it further. Essentially, the updated Table of Contents code is a little confused by images within section titles, and we'll put it back to the way it was before (where the image is stripped out)."--Jtomlin1uk (talk) 08:11, October 24, 2013 (UTC) 16,000 articles and counting! Great work everyone! This site has undergone many revisions since it started in May 2008. Although the templates that were set up at the time were good, new ideas come to mind which mean that we have to go back over old ground, investigate data and make those amendments and, in the case of episode pages, that means over 8000 amendments to make! Back in September 2010, we agreed to expand the infoboxes on our episode pages to show designers, producers, storyliners etc. Previous to that, we'd only credited the writer and director of an episode. The first episode to be amended was, of course, Episode 1 (9th December 1960) where I input the changes on 14th September 2010 and today, just under three years later, Karen made the final addition when the infobox on Episode 5236 (24th March 2002) was expanded. Some individual credits still remain to be found - especially designer credits from 1974 - 1975 when neither the episodes nor TV Times carried this credit but overall a long and laborious task is now complete!--Jtomlin1uk (talk) 20:04, August 4, 2013 (UTC) Today marks five years of Corriepedia! David (talk) 09:48, May 21, 2013 (UTC) David has had the excellent idea of starting a petition to ask ITV to repeat old classic episodes of Corrie again on one of their four channels (ITV3 is suggested). Please sign it here! The more signatures, the better!--Jtomlin1uk (talk) 09:47, April 11, 2013 (UTC) Thanks to the Coronation Street blog who pointed my ways towards this Radio Times article - http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-01-29/coronation-street-joe-duttine-and-the-weatherfield-stars-weve-seen-before about Corrie stars who have appeared in the programme in other roles. RT journalists David Brown and Tom Cole have given a fairly good high-level summary of the subject and used a lot of photos from this very site and, I guess, some of the info in the articles as well! By the way, I say "high-level" as they've identified 5 members of the regular cast who have previously appeared in guests roles - we've listed 68!!!--Jtomlin1uk (talk) 09:17, January 30, 2013 (UTC) I like to keep an eye out on favourable mentions for this site across the web. Fom now on when I find one, I'll post it here. Although they make no comment, positive or negative, about the style and content, this site in a general write-up about Coronation Street does make mention of us as if our very existence enhances the special place that the Street has in UK culture: http://bestofbritishblog.co.uk/c-is-for-coronation-street/ Jtomlin1uk (talk) 15:11, October 4, 2012 (UTC) Once again, another reminder to all users - Please give an edit summary when you make changes on a page. There have been far too many edits recently without any explanation given and checking every single one is taking up a lot of our time. Thanks! --Karen2310 17:58, July 21, 2012 (UTC) Long term users of this site know that behind the scenes we keep copious spreadsheets and lists of precisely where we are up to with regard to things like “percentage of character pages completed by year” and “number of episodes with full cast lists”. Another one we’ve maintained is the number of episodes which have a screencap image in the infobox and this weekend just gone, thanks to Karen’s efforts in uploading many from 1997, we have just passed the two-thirds complete mark. The exact figure is 66.73% and that represents 5248 images loaded out of 7864 episode transmissions. It will come as no surprise that the most complete years are the more recent ones, or at least those shown in the “video age” but even in the early years there are some good numbers to boast about – such as 1961 having 43 out of 102 pages uploaded, or 42%. We have plenty left yet to upload, particularly from the 1980s and 1990s so the figures quoted above can only get higher.--Jtomlin1uk 13:13, July 9, 2012 (UTC) A milestone day - just a scant few days after our fourth anniversary: I've just added the regular cast to Episode 3232 (29th May 1991) which was the final episode on the site missing that feature. We now have the only set of cast lists per episode in the public domain. Many, many thanks to everyone who contributed information over the past four years to achieve this, some on this site such as Karen, SylvesterFan, Kerry1983 and some who we've been in touch with by e-mail such as John Richardson who gave us the final pieces in the puzzle. There's still an awful lot to be done to verify and on occasion correct but the first part of the work is now complete!--Jtomlin1uk 21:46, May 23, 2012 (UTC) A further update on episodes without cast lists - there is just one to go (Episode 3232 (29th May 1991) and we have every expectation that that situation will be changed within a very short time!--Jtomlin1uk 20:34, May 22, 2012 (UTC) Happy fourth anniversary guys! David 14:46, May 21, 2012 (UTC) Another reminder to add a reason in the edit summary as to why you are making a change to a page, please. A few pages were updated yesterday with a reason being added and it slows down checks we have to make to prevent errors or vandalism.--Jtomlin1uk 13:21, April 22, 2012 (UTC) An update from me too, to direct any interested parties to the 1980s minor characters status update: User blog:David the Wavid/Minor characters 1980-89 :) David 20:26, April 9, 2012 (UTC) And after just four days, 1990 is now complete and we're down to just nine episodes without a cast list.--Jtomlin1uk 19:02, April 9, 2012 (UTC) Quick update - 1996 is now complete and we have only 16 episodes to obtain a cast for - all from 1990, 1991 or 1993. We're getting very close to completion!--Jtomlin1uk 21:33, April 5, 2012 (UTC) Just a short update to say that outstanding cast lists now stands at just 22 with (hopefully) sources identified for all of them! The following years from the 1990s are now complete - 1992, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999. As a reminder, all other decades are complete but lots of verifications are needed.--Jtomlin1uk 10:46, March 18, 2012 (UTC) Another update on progress with cast lists can be found here. The number of episodes without a cast list nows stands at 376! A remarkable drop of 458 since I first posted on this subject back in November--Jtomlin1uk 12:05, February 8, 2012 (UTC) An further update on the state of play as regards episodes with/without full casts can be found here. After a lot of work by everyone, the number is now down to 599 outstanding with 1132 out of the 1731 episodes shown in the 1990s complete. As a reminder, all of the other decades are complete.--Jtomlin1uk 16:56, January 13, 2012 (UTC) Another blog - another mass of stats! This time on where we are as regards images/screencaps on episode pages. I thought it might be of interest.--Jtomlin1uk 14:15, December 14, 2011 (UTC) Hi guys, I've posted another blog about where we are with guest character articles, this time concerning the 1970s. Have a look here. The 1980s has been a bit neglected so it might be a while until the next project update! David 03:34, December 7, 2011 (UTC) An update on the state of play as regards episodes with/without full casts can be found here.--Jtomlin1uk 13:30, November 28, 2011 (UTC) Acclaimed Salford playwright Shelagh Delaney died on Sunday and this article in The Guardian laments that there is no one of her class and gender writing today. In one part it says, in reference to A Taste of Honey that, "as a film it spoke to that generation of women who identified themselves with the Elsie Tanners of the emerging televisual world" and the name of Elsie is linked to the article about the Corrie legend on this very site and not something like Wikipedia! The vast majority of our article is the work of David - even the national press are using you as an authorative source now, David!--Jtomlin1uk 13:18, November 22, 2011 (UTC) A red letter day for the site - David has obtained a source of information for the six episode cast lists we were missing from 1988 and we now have complete casts for the whole of the decade!--Jtomlin1uk 14:06, November 16, 2011 (UTC) Following all the hard work carried out to revise the look of the site, we've been given a very nice write-up on the (also excellent) Coronation Street blog site. Thanks, guys!--Jtomlin1uk 12:06, November 10, 2011 (UTC) In the same manner of David's post below, I've posted a blog item here about our completion rate of episode cast lists.--Jtomlin1uk 12:06, November 10, 2011 (UTC) Hi guys, we've just passed 10% of all minor character articles completed for each year of the 1960s! That may seem low, but altogether 21% of the articles for the decade are complete (as some years are more complete than others), and 28% if you count articles which only need an image - not bad for the most inaccessible decade of the programme! If you'd like to see more detailed statistics, I've made a blog entry here. Stay tuned for stats on the other decades! David 09:46, November 6, 2011 (UTC) Could I remind all editors to give a short description in the "Edit Summary" section to the right of editing-mode pages as to why they are updating a page when they do so? Too many changes are being made with no description whatsoever and admins and other editors are having to take time to check the changes. If nothing else, you should highlight the hard work you are putting in by completing these boxes!--Jtomlin1uk 15:07, October 28, 2011 (UTC) I echo John's sentiments above. Also I'd like to point out that if editors are making amendments to character infoboxes - notably in the "number of appearances" and "last appearance" fields, to also add/amend the list of appearances section (where applicable) at the bottom of the article so that the two sets of information tallies up. Please don't be afraid to ask for help if you're not familiar with how to format such edits. --Karen2310 17:42, October 28, 2011 (UTC) With so much work being done by people since May 2008 to get the site into the excellent shape that it's in today, this small section of Corriepedia has been totally ignored - until now! From now on we'll use this section to advise users and editors on major changes to the site and our manual of style. Also, we'll point the way to any new facts or pieces of interesting information we've dug up and recommend articles that we think are worth a good read, rather than a quick browse. Great feats of continuous effort (such as Karen's reformatting and clarification of plotlines from the late 2000s) will be highlighted and suggestions given as to how new users can really contribute to the site, should they wish to. If you intend to become a regular editor, please create an account for yourself. This will make it a lot easier to correspond with you about your edits. Please direct any questions or suggestions through our forum which can be accessed by clicking on the "Community" tab near the top of the page.--Jtomlin1uk 16:03, October 20, 2011 (UTC)