Wikipedia talk:Good articles

More television episode splitting

I was thinking about creating a subcategory for Family Guy (~90 GA's) and South Park (~30 GA's). What do you guys think? --Maitch (talk) 10:39, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Support I was thinking the same thing... Glimmer721 ^talk 23:05, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

I agree! I might just do the South Park ones for now, as I am not too knowledgeable Family Guy. Basilisk4u (talk) 06:30, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Y Done. I think we should consider merging "Other animated episodes" and "Other live action episodes". It was amazing how many episodes were misplaced (how did two Parks and Rec episodes end up in the animation category) and the animation category is not that big now. --Maitch (talk) 10:59, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

I have now been going over the "Other" categories and fixed all the misplaced episodes. If I should recommend any other shows for splitting, it would be Seinfeld, Dexter and Homicide: Life on the Streets. Maitch (talk) 12:28, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

I went over the "Other live action" category and counted shows with over 10 episodes. These were:

1. Seinfeld: 15 episodes
2. Homicide: Life on the Streets: 14 episodes
3. Desperate Housewifes: 11 episodes
4. Dexter: 11 episodes
5. Will and Grace: 11 episodes
6. StarGate franchise: 10 episodes

Maitch (talk) 15:26, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

I think that's a bit overkill; just splitting those with 20 or 25 GA's at least seems the best route. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 15:28, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Having lots of small categories is probably not any better than having a few large ones. I would merge the live action and animation episodes under a generic "Television episodes" heading (keeping "other live action/other animation" as separate sub-categories though). AIRcorn (talk) 22:41, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Well, I have been using a couple of hours on moving animated episodes such as The Simpsons out of the live action category and moving episodes from show such as Parks and Recreation and Modern Family away from animation. I think it would be easier for people if there only were one "other" category. --Maitch (talk) 22:54, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

I guess if it was combined it would only add an extra 40 and still be smaller than the Simpsons. AIRcorn (talk) 23:11, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Could we change "Doctor Who" to "Doctor Who universe" which would incorporate Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures? I think there's only 4 GAs (Day One (Torchwood), Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (Torchwood), Cyberwoman, and Invasion of the Bane), but at least they'll all be in one place. Glimmer721 ^talk 23:20, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Video Games

Why are video games listed under "Everyday life" rather than "Arts"? unless (talk) 19:57, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Bueller? unless (talk) 21:53, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Albums

Perhaps categorizing the albums (as done for the singles) by the year they were released? Till I Go Home (talk) 10:47, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Why not. It does involve a bit of work though. I would suggest sorting them by categories, but you will still have to click on many to find their year of release. AIRcorn (talk) 11:55, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Good Article without images?

May an article pass as a GA without images? See Commons, about which I see:

• • Given its primary function as a supporting project for the other Wikimedia web sites, the main content policy for files uploaded to Commons is that they must be potentially useful on any of the Wikimedia projects. This excludes material such as purely personal pictures and artwork, in contrast to image sharing repositories like Flickr, Photobucket and DeviantArt. Nevertheless, large numbers of files hosted on Commons are not used directly on any Wikimedia project and likely never will be; as such, the project has grown into a repository of multimedia in its own right, which is frequently linked to from articles on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia websites to provide supplemental materials.
  • Most Wikimedia projects still allow local uploads which are not visible to other projects or languages, but this option is meant to be used primarily for material which local project policies allow, but which would not be permitted according to the copyright policy of Commons, such as fair use content. Wikimedia Commons itself does not allow fair use or uploads under non-free licenses, including licenses which restrict commercial use of materials or disallow derivative works. Licenses that are acceptable include the GNU Free Documentation License, Creative Commons Attribution and Attribution/ShareAlike licenses, other free content and free software licenses, and the public domain.
  • The default language for Commons is English, but registered users can customize their interface to use any other available user interface translations. Many content pages, in particular policy pages and portals, have also been translated into various languages. Files on Wikimedia Commons are categorized using MediaWiki's category system. In addition, they are often collected on individual topical gallery pages. While the project was originally proposed to also contain free text files, these continue to be hosted on a sister project, Wikisource. --Philcha (talk) 00:43, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

  Short answer: yes. Long answer: It's not desirable to an article to have no image, but if no free image exists, then it's better not to have one than to force a non-free one in somehow. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 03:44, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

  Thanks, User:Wizardman. --Philcha (talk) 06:55, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

New page for War and military articles?

Wikipedia:Good articles/History is a huge 126KB page which is hard to sort through, thanks much in part to the 1,800+ Military History articles which are arranged in 300, 400 and 500-article lists which desperately need to be subdivided. The Warships subsection alone is larger than all of the Philosophy and religion and Mathematics pages combined. I'd like to suggest we give MILHIST a separate page of its own so its articles can be better subdivided. Thoughts? —Ed!^(talk) 19:15, 24 February 2012 (UTC)