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This is an effort to combine the information on [[List of videos|here]] and [[List of videos produced by Christian Weston Chandler|here]] into a single page for all videos Chris appeared in or personally made.

I'm using a table format because I think it organizes the information best, and it helps to clarify the various symbols use to describe the videos.  It should now be lots easier to quickly see how many videos belong to a particular saga, or how many consecutive days Chris was filmed wearing the same shirt.  When it's complete, I look forward to charting the lengths of "dry spells."

The only way to make an article listing ALL the videos (without making it prohibitively huge) is to make smaller articles and transclude them into the full list.  The CWCki has done this by way of using templates but I just learned you can transclude an article--for example, pasting <nowiki>{{:Rainbow}}</nowiki> into a page would cause the entire "Rainbow" article to appear at that point in the page.  Wikipedia uses this technique for lists of TV episodes, transcluding the table of episodes for each season into the article for the whole series.

I propose breaking up the video lists into the following articles:

* List of Chris-chan videos, 1994-2006
* List of Chris-chan videos, 2007
* List of Chris-chan videos, 2008
* List of Chris-chan videos, January 2009
* List of Chris-chan videos, February 2009
[...]
* List of Chris-chan videos, October 2010
* List of Chris-chan videos, November 2010

Each month of 2009-present would get an article.  (Months with no videos or very few videos would still get their own article; it'd just be easier to keep track of than trying to remember whether it's May-June 2009 or May-July 2009.)

We could then transclude all of these pages into a single "List of Chris-chan videos" page, which would be really long but would save users the hassle of navigating through 20+ separate lists.

==Working on==

Summer 2009.  TGI Friday's videos, Rollin and Trollin, and the rise of the Liquid saga.


==Format==

* Each video gets its own row in the table, even if that video is part of a series or one of multiple videos on the same article.  
* Date: The date Chris posted the video to the internet, or (if known) the date Chris originally filmed it.  
* Title: The title Chris gave the video when he uploaded it, or the filename he used when it was leaked.  For his DVD stuff the names in his tracklisting are fine.  The title is linked to the article about the video; if the article title is different, the format should be <nowiki>[[Title of the article for the video|Chris's original title of the video]]</nowiki>.
* Topics: Include whatever icons are relevant to whatever the video is about.  If no icons are appropriate, leave this column blank.  Major topics like Clyde and Ivy should be put in the Saga column.
* Saga: If the video is part of a saga, use the corresponding icon. Sagas overlap, so it's possible for a video to belong to more than one.
* Style: Chris's attitude and delivery in the video.  If he's furious use {{Rage}}, if he's acting like a goofball use {{Crazy}}, etc.
* Shirt: If there's an icon for what Chris is wearing in the video, put it here. Chris occasionally dresses in layers so there can be more than one of these.
* Source: The way we first received the video.  If it first appeared on YouTube, list the account where it appeared (Chris has had several, so be specific).  If it was leaked, use {{Leaked}}.  Note that Chris's DVD was leaked, but some of its tracks were already put on his YouTube.
* Media: {{Live}} is for home video/webcam footage, {{Television}} is for news broadcasts, and {{Direct Feed}} is for when Chris is recording directly from his computer (e.g. PowerPoint) or video games (e.g., Game Boy camera, Animal Crossing, LittleBigPlanet).
* Description: brief summary of the video.  Remember, if people really want a lot of information, they'd just go to the article for it.

==1994-2006==

{{:List of Chris-chan videos before 2007}}

==2007==

{{:List of Chris-chan videos, 2007}}

==2008==

{{:List of Chris-chan videos, 2008}}


==2009==

{{:List of Chris-chan videos, 2009}}

==2010==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! style="min-width: 120px;" | Date
! Title
! Topics
! Saga
! Style
! Shirt
! Source
! Media
! Description

|}