Wikipedia:WikiProject Television
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This is a WikiProject, a collaboration area and open group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of a particular topic, or to organizing some internal Wikipedia process. Please see the Guide to WikiProjects and the Directory of WikiProjects for more information. |
This is to guide the structure and normalize the standard of articles dealing with the Television medium and television series or other forms of episodic programs.
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[edit] Project-specific guidelines
- Wikipedia:Television episodes
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (television)
- Wikipedia:Notability (fiction)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Style guidelines
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Television Stations for advice on articles about television networks, channels, production houses etc.
[edit] Descendant WikiProjects and task forces
- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Culture#Television for an up-to-date list
[edit] Task forces which deal with specific types of articles
- Episode coverage task force - A task force managing season, lists and episode articles.
- Test cards task force
- Broadcast Engineering and Technology Taskforce
[edit] Region-specific projects and task forces
- WikiProject Australian television
- WikiProject British TV shows
- WikiProject Canadian TV shows
- WikiProject Indian television
- WikiProject Television Stations (for US television stations)
[edit] Genre-specific projects and task forces
[edit] Show-specific projects and task forces
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We now strongly recommend that new show/topic-specific WikiProjects become task forces of WP:TV. This still allows for greater focus on that show/ topic, but without having to start a whole new project from scratch. Many existing show-specific WikiProjects became projects before the concept of task forces was widely known, and many of them will become task forces in the future. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide for more info, or ask for help on WT:TV. |
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[edit] Related Wikiprojects
- WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers
- WikiProject Albums
- WikiProject Anime and manga
- WikiProject BBC
- WikiProject Deletion sorting/Television
- WikiProject Films
- WikiProject Literature
- WikiProject Radio
- WikiProject Screenwriters
[edit] Participants
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User WP TV
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A list of participants can be found at Category:WikiProject Television participants.
Technically speaking, anyone who edits / contributes to TV related articles is a participant, and there are no requirements other than that. If one wishes they can further identify themselves with the project by listing their name as a participant. This helps spread the word about the project and can help other editors see what types of articles that user is interested in editing.
To add yourself to the project listing add the following to your user page:
[[Category:WikiProject Television participants|{{subst:PAGENAME}}]]
Or, if you wish to use the userbox, add {{User WP TV}} to your user page instead as it includes the above wikicode.
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This project deals with a lot of television related articles, but they are not all the same. Therefore we have created separate pages with information for each type of television related article.
[edit] Guidelines
First of all, be sure to read these guidelines, policies and discussions if you want to write good articles on fiction.
- Avoid Trivia sections
- Writing better articles: Check your fiction
- Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information (#2, Plot summaries)
- Possible proliferation of fictional-universe-related articles is discussed in the essay Wikipedia:Fancruft and its talk page.
[edit] Characters and fictional elements
TODO Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Fictional elements (includes characters)
[edit] Featured articles
See these featured articles for examples of well written articles on characters and elements from fiction:
[edit] People working in television
Actors, producers, writers etc. are all real people. Turn to WikiProject Biography for help on writing such articles. Here are some quick guidelines and tips for you however.
- Notability of people
- Biographies of living persons
- Manual of Style (biographies)
- Wikiproject Screenwriters - project dedicated to screenwriters.
[edit] Categories
As a rule do not create categories for "People by series", because they can potentially work on numerous series or movies etc. You should categorize by profession. See the higher level Category:Television actors, Category:Television directors, Category:Television producers, Category:Television writers, Category:Television presenters in the top level Category:Television people.
[edit] Images
Fair Use images on pages of real people that are still alive are not allowed, because these images are replaceable. You also cannot use an image from a television program, etc., because you are not illustrating the character but the actor.
[edit] Infoboxes
The general infobox for an actor is {{Infobox actor}}. For voice actors use {{Infobox actor voice}}.
[edit] Featured articles
[edit] More television templates
Category:Television templates has a list of the available television templates. Please consult this before creating a new template and add any new templates to this category.
[edit] Television Project banner
{{WikiProject Television}}: Add this to the Talk pages of WP:TV related articles. This template can be used for making assessments of the television articles.
{{WikiProject Television|class=|importance=}}
If the articles needs an infobox and currently lacks one, use the template with the needs-infobox option like this:
{{WikiProject Television|class=|importance=|needs-infobox=yes}}
This will automatically categorize the page in Cat:Television articles without infoboxes.
For a full explanation of the usage and options of this template see the usage instructions.
Additionally, any of these tags that can be added to the article's talk to request the addition of missing material:
- {{tvimage}} For articles needing an image, preferably a free one
- {{Television needs production section}} For articles that are lacking a production section
- {{Television needs character section}} For show articles that need a character (fiction) or cast (non-fiction) section added or expanded
- {{Television needs response section}} For articles needing a response section
- {{Television needs episode list}} For show articles needing an episode list added or cleaned up
- {{Television needs synopsis}} For show articles needing a plot synopsis (fiction) or format overview (non-fiction)
[edit] Images
Note: Most TV-related images are copyrighted, and are required to follow the non-free content guidelines and policy, or they will be deleted.
- {{Non-free television screenshot}} for screenshots of TV material.
- {{Non-free logo}} for logos of TV stations, channels etc.
[edit] Upcoming TV
Everything needs to be verifiable through official sources (for instance press releases), and rumours should be immediately removed from articles.
[edit] Stub templates
There are quite a lot of stub templates for TV related articles. The highest level stub that can be used is {{Tv-stub}} for anything television related, but it is prefererred to use a more detailed stub that adds Country and Type (actor/tv-prog/episode etc).
- The complete list of Television related stubs can be found here: List of Television related stubs
- You can find all stub articles by browsing the Television stubs category.
[edit] Television technology templates
{{TV resolution}} Inserts a graph of the various TV resolutions in existence.
{{North American DTV}} Inserts a list of articles relating to the ATSC digital television rollout in North America.
[edit] Television filmography
For television actors {{TV}}, {{ActingFilmography-tv}} and {{Filmography-tv}} currently exist. Needs cleanup
[edit] Citation
- {{episode}} for requesting a Television episode citation in an article.
- {{Cite episode}} for citing a Television episode in an article.
- {{cite video}} for citing a DVD special feature in an article.
[edit] Episode lists
- {{Infobox episode list}} is also much in use atm. It should probably be deprecated however.
- {{ER to list entry}} when merging/redirecting episode articles to an episode list, place this template on the redirected article after the redirect code.
[edit] Tasks
[edit] Important Alerts
[edit] New articles
AlexNewArtBot has been set up to identify new articles that are potentially within the scope of this project, based on the rules defined at User:AlexNewArtBot/Television. It is likely that some are false positives, in which case the log at User:AlexNewArtBot/TelevisionLog should be examined for more information.
[edit] Article alerts
Please watch Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Article alerts, for important alerts related to articles of this Wikiproject. "Article alerts" will be updated daily, and will also be transcluded here.
- Articles for deletion
- 6 Dec 2009 – List of United States television series cancelled or ended after 2008 season (talk) has been deleted; see discussion.
- 6 Dec 2009 – The Real Housewives of Washington, D.C. (talk) was kept; see discussion.
- 6 Dec 2009 – List of United States television series cancelled or ended after 2007 season (talk) has been deleted; see discussion.
- 6 Dec 2009 – List of United States television series cancelled or ended after 2006 season (talk) has been deleted; see discussion.
- 5 Dec 2009 – The Valley Girl Show (talk) nominated for deletion by Ttonyb1; see discussion.
- 5 Dec 2009 – Rachel Mason (talk) was kept; see discussion.
- 5 Dec 2009 – Grantly Budgen (talk) was kept; see discussion.
- 5 Dec 2009 – Paul Langley (talk) was kept; see discussion.
- 30 Nov 2009 – Walter "Doc" Hartford (talk) was kept; see discussion.
- 30 Nov 2009 – Shane "Goose" Gooseman (talk) was kept; see discussion.
- Featured article candidates
- 6 Dec 2009 – The Chinese Restaurant (talk) is not promoted.
- 29 Nov 2009 – Supernatural (season 2) (talk) is not promoted.
- 26 Nov 2009 – Supernatural (season 1) (talk) is promoted to FA status.
- 26 Nov 2009 – Weight Gain 4000 (talk) is promoted to FA status.
- 27 Oct 2009 – Dan Povenmire (talk) is nominated by SuperFlash101.
- Featured list candidates
- 3 Dec 2009 – List of Dancing with the Stars (U.S.) competitors (talk) is promoted to FL status.
- 2 Dec 2009 – List of The Apprentice (U.S.) candidates (talk) is nominated by Another Believer.
- 23 Nov 2009 – List of Supernatural episodes (talk) is promoted to FL status.
- 31 Oct 2009 – List of awards and nominations received by Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (talk) is nominated by SuperFlash101.
- Good article nominations
- 3 Dec 2009 – Road to the Multiverse (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Pedro thy master.
- 3 Dec 2009 – The Apartment (Seinfeld) (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion.
- 3 Dec 2009 – Hannah Banana (talk) is not promoted.
- 3 Dec 2009 – No Meals on Wheels (talk) is not promoted.
- 2 Dec 2009 – Catalysts (The Spectacular Spider-Man) (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by SuperFlash101.
- 2 Dec 2009 – James T. Kirk (talk) is not promoted; see discussion.
- 2 Dec 2009 – Spies Reminiscent of Us (talk) is not promoted.
- 1 Dec 2009 – Ferb Fletcher (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion.
- 28 Nov 2009 – Perry the Platypus (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by SuperFlash101.
- 27 Nov 2009 – Supernatural (TV series) (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by C.Fred.
- Good article reassessment
- 5 Dec 2009 – Television program (talk) has been demoted; see discussion.
- Peer review
- 3 Dec 2009 – Peer review opened for History of Sesame Street (talk) by Figureskatingfan.
- 3 Dec 2009 – Peer review for Sakis Rouvas (talk) closed.
- 2 Dec 2009 – Peer review for Tyne Tees Television (talk) closed.
- 29 Nov 2009 – Peer review for Power Rangers (talk) closed.
- 28 Nov 2009 – Peer review opened for Supernatural (season 2) (talk) by Ophois.
- 26 Nov 2009 – Peer review opened for Family Guy (talk) by Pedro thy master.
- 25 Nov 2009 – Peer review for A Rugrats Chanukah (talk) closed.
- 16 Jul 2009 – Peer review requested for The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (talk) by Zeality.
- Requested moves
- 5 Dec 2009 – Move requested from The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (talk) to PBS NewsHour by Petersam; see discussion.
- 4 Dec 2009 – Samantha Womack (talk) was not moved; see discussion.
- 3 Dec 2009 – The Johnny Cash Show (TV series) (talk) was not moved; see discussion.
- 28 Nov 2009 – The League (talk) was not moved; see discussion.
- 27 Nov 2009 – Move requested from Supernatural (TV series) (talk) to Supernatural (TV series) by 76.66.197.2; see discussion.
- 23 Nov 2009 – Avatar (disambiguation) (talk) was not moved; see discussion.
- Did you know
- 5 Dec 2009 – A fact from Blind Young Things (talk) appeared on the main page.
- 5 Dec 2009 – A fact from Catalysts (The Spectacular Spider-Man) (talk) appeared on the main page.
- 4 Dec 2009 – A fact from Perry the Platypus (talk) appeared on the main page.
- 1 Dec 2009 – A fact from Skavlan (talk) appeared on the main page.
- 29 Nov 2009 – A fact from Ferb Fletcher (talk) appeared on the main page.
- 28 Nov 2009 – A fact from Hunting Trip (talk) appeared on the main page.
- 26 Nov 2009 – A fact from Jeff "Swampy" Marsh (talk) appeared on the main page.
- 25 Nov 2009 – A fact from List of The Apprentice (U.S.) candidates (talk) appeared on the main page.
- 24 Nov 2009 – A fact from Pee (South Park) (talk) appeared on the main page.
- 23 Nov 2009 – A fact from Alice (TV miniseries) (talk) appeared on the main page.
- Copyright problems
- 22 Nov 2009 – The copyvio tag was removed from Police Interceptors (talk).
- Bounty board
- 8 Mar 2009 – Bounty for bringing Rod Serling (talk) to FA status: US$1000 donation by Twilight Bounty (expires on ).
- Other news
- 30 Nov 2009 – The new book-class is released. See the Signpost article and the setup guide for details.
- 30 Nov 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out.
- 28 Nov 2009 – A new database dump is available.
- 6 Nov 2009 – The cleanup listings from WolterBot have updated.
- Archives
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