Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Media franchises

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Does your WikiProject care about talk pages of redirects?

Does your project care about what happens to the talk pages of articles that have been replaced with redirects? If so, please provide your input at User:Mikaey/Request for Input/ListasBot 3. Thanks, Matt (talk) 02:05, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Doctor Who at FAR

I have nominated Doctor Who for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Cirt (talk) 02:55, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Lynn Aloysius Belvedere

I've just declined a speedy deletion tag for this fictional character who may be better known as "Mr. Belvedere", the subject of a best-selling novel, three films (one of which garnered an Academy Award nomination for Clifton Webb's portrayal of the character) and a five-year television series; I've tagged it on the talk page as part of this project. The article could use some work on references if anyone cares to take that on. Accounting4Taste:talk 17:35, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Images of book covers in book series articles

There is discussion on how best to use cover art to "significantly improve reader understanding" for book series, without going overboard on non-free content images, both at WT:NFC#Requesting_comment_about_galleries_of_book_covers_for_book_series_articles and at Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2009 July 23, where a very large number of book covers has been nominated for deletion.

Please do pass this on to relevant associated WikiProjects and sub-projects whose members may be interested. Jheald (talk) 23:24, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

The time for talk is over and more action!! Masters of the Universe needs an overhaul

Masters of the Universe needs a radical change there are many articles which clearly don't meet WP:NOTE criteria in particular the comic book category and characters and the characters which are noteworthy lack alot of third person info. I adjusted some the character biographies in particular He-Man and She-Ra. I also believe Princess Adora and She-Ra should be merged the same with He-Man and Prince Adam its like Bruce Wayne and Batman having separate articles even though they are the same person.

Dwanyewest (talk) 17:40, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Spoiler Warning Discussion

A discussion is underway at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 55#SPOILER ALERT disclaimers discussing whether spoiler alerts should be added to all articles that cover a fictional topic or if spoilers should be removed by removing all plot summaries from all articles, except for any sentences that can be sourced to secondary sources only. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 04:12, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement

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Request for comment on Biographies of living people

Hello Wikiproject! Currently there is a discussion which will decide whether wikipedia will delete 49,000 articles about a living person without references, here:

Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people

Since biographies of living people covers so many topics, nearly all wikiproject topics will be effected.

The two opposing positions which have the most support is:

1. supports the deletion of unreferenced articles about a living person, User:Jehochman
2. opposes the deletion of unreferenced articles about a living person, except in limited circumstances, User:Collect

Comments are welcome. Keep in mind that by default, editor's comments are hidden. Simply press edit next to the section to add your comment.

Please keep in mind that at this point, it seems that editors support deleting unreferenced article if they are not sourced, so your project may want to pursue the projects below.

Tools to help your project with unreferenced Biographies of living people

List of cleanup articles for your project

If you don't already have this and are interested in creating a list of articles which need cleanup for your wikiproject see: Cleanup listings A list of examples is here

Moving unreferenced blp articles to a special "incubation pages"

If you are interested in moving unreferenced blp articles to a special "incubation page", contact me, User talk:Ikip

Watchlisting all unreferenced articles

If you are interested in watchlisting all of the unreferenced articles once you install Cleanup_listings, contact me, User talk:Ikip

Ikip 02:17, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Media franchises articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release

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We would like to ask you to review the Media franchises articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (♦) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.

We have greatly streamlined the process since the Version 0.7 release, so we aim to have the collection ready for distribution by the end of October, 2010. As a result, we are planning to distribute the collection much more widely, while continuing to work with groups such as One Laptop per Child and Wikipedia for Schools to extend the reach of Wikipedia worldwide. Please help us, with your WikiProject's feedback!

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Category:Comics franchises

I think it could be created a new category Category:Comics franchises (similar to Category:Video game franchises) under Category:Comics and Category:Media franchises, where we could have for example Category:DC Comics franchises, Category:Marvel Comics franchises... In these categories we would have Category:Batman, Category:Superman, Category:Spider-Man, Category:X-Men... that not only refer to superheroes, but also to all the things related to these franchises, like films, characters, TV series, videogames, comics... I think it would be better organized than how it is now. --Aliuken (talk) 19:51, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

The Wire & The Sopranos

Why are they not mentioned at all either on the list of subjects or even the discussion page. I know they both have their own projects and I believe The Wire is a featured article. Am I missing something? Mikist4 (talk) 00:34, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

FAR Notification

I have nominated Superman for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Dana boomer (talk) 20:42, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

Proper page name for The Firm

Please comment at Talk:The_Firm_(Canadian_TV_series)#Requested_move.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 15:48, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

Requested move at Gojira

There is a move discussion taking place here, and the input of any and all interested editors would be greatly appreciated. Evanh2008 ^{(talk|contribs)} 09:29, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

New sister project proposal

Hi, you may want to see this proposal for new project based on fiction. --213.155.255.148 (talk) 19:51, 2 November 2012 (UTC)