Module:Television episode disambiguation description

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This module depends on the following other modules:

Module:Television episode disambiguation creates an entry in a disambiguation page by converting a plain text episode article name into a correctly formatted link and its short description. The style of the links follows the guidelines at WP:NCTV, MOS:DABENTRY, MOS:ITALICTITLE and MOS:QUOTETITLE.

This module implements the {{Television episode disambiguation description}} template.

Usage

{{#invoke:Television episode disambiguation description|main}}

Parameter list

Parameter	Explanation	Status
`name`	The episode's full article name	required
`not_disambiguated`	Set if the parentheses is part of the episode name	optional
`link_only`	Set if you are only interested in getting a formatted article link	optional

Examples

local p = {}

function p.getFormmatedArticleLink(frame)
	local articleName = frame.args[1]

	local disambiguation = string.match(articleName, "%s%((.-)%)")				-- no match? returns nil
	local stylizedArticleTitle

	if not disambiguation then													-- look for nil here
		stylizedArticleTitle = "\"" .. articleName .. "\""
		return stylizedArticleTitle
	else
		local articleTitle = string.gsub(articleName, "%s+%b()$", "", 1, false)
		stylizedArticleTitle = "\"" .. articleTitle .. "\""
		
		local isDisambiguationExtended = string.find(disambiguation, "episode")
		local stylizedDisambiguation
		
		if (isDisambiguationExtended == 0) then -- false  -- currently this fails the check
			stylizedDisambiguation = "(''" .. disambiguation .. "'')"
		else
			local tvSeries = string.gsub(disambiguation, "episode", "", 1, true)
			stylizedDisambiguation = "(''" .. tvSeries .. "'' episode)"
		end
		
		local newTitle = stylizedArticleTitle .. " " .. stylizedDisambiguation
    return newTitle
    end
end

return p

Usage

Parameter list

Examples

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