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Revision as of 02:45, 26 September 2007
Template:Globalize/North America WikiProject Television Stations was created to guide the structure of articles related to individual local television stations in North America. For articles relating to other parts of the world, see Descendant WikiProjects and WikiProject Television.
Anyone wishing to take part in this WikiProject is welcome. Nothing is definite, as it's possible that I've forgotten to include other things of importance in the table or structure, plus there are always special cases, so feel free to add something I've missed.
Participants
{{User WikiProject TV Stations}}
This user is a member of the WikiProject Television Television stations task force. |
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- AAARanger5
- Seregelly talk
- Midwest Roads
- csneed
- aido2002 22:59, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
- Baldster
- Intergeek
- Arbiteroftruth
- Kevmicester2000
- Rdash
- TheCustomOfLife
- Blue80
- Corey.spring
- RaccoonFox
- Firsfron
- CFIF
- TrackerTV
- A
- Kimmykun
- Guy-Smiley
- DHowell
- Time1
- Kirjtc2
- Myselfalso
- HappyApple
- Gatorman
- capsgm2002
- Wootking
- Lego872
- Xstryker
- Jalabi99
- AlexDW
- Bearcat 23:49, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
- Robert Moore
- Mhking
- - Mike Beckham
- Dhett
- Smartguy1306
- Dakd
- rickabbo
- Abreuzinho
- JStalk (KEZI)
- Jimj wpg 13:29, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
- ShawnHill
- Whomp
- stickguy
- Calwatch
- Mr mark taylor 03:38, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
- John
- Cleryvever 17:59, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
- Travis
- ~Pikachu9000
- Ntropolis
- Patricknoddy
- Nate
- Trodaikid1983
- EKlapper
- WAVY 10
- Amnewsboy 09:13, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- Open poppyseed
- Trodaikid1983
- gtbecbp
- AmericanAtl
- Jaxfl (covers stations in the Jacksonville, FL market)
- jeremybelpois
- NeutralHomer T:C 02:30, 21 May 2007 (UTC) Stations in VA, WV, and MD (DC, Balto, and Pittsburgh DMAs)
- NYYankee2684Only stations in Western New York
- Bill Huston Generally, stations in Central New York and NE PA
- CaptainObvious85
- ViperSnake151 20:06, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
- 69.141.79.71 04:39, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
- Erik16
- Boris Lee, tv stations in Indonesia
- Write On 1983, Generally TV stations in Pittsburgh and Erie
- Magioladitis
- Tcardone05 05:55, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
- User:cash082 Cash082
- Bdj95 23:48, 8 March 2007 (UTC) - Louisiana and Mississippi TV stations
- AP 06:50, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
- Blueboy96
- Strafidlo - New England, Southwest Florida
- CaptainObvious85
- Wcquidditch
- Mbrstooge 15:42, 14 May 2007 (UTC) - Mainly DFW area television stations, but can expand to other US stations.
- Jjc104
- Kd lvr
- Sean90
- --Fightingirish 19:59, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
- Creativity-II
- GETONERD84
- Vince220
- Spyke1077
- New World Man
- Weathermandan
- Tae04gu
- Rblaster 15:30, 12 September 2007 (UTC) - New York and Philadelphia DMAs
Parentage
Parent Wikiprojects
The parent WikiProject is WikiProject Television.
Can we add a legend explaining the color codes on the tv DMA maps?
Related WikiProjects
Descendant WikiProjects
Goals
- Provide comprehensive, high quality information about television stations on Wikipedia.
Projects
- Markets
- The goal of this project is to maintain the market templates like the one found at {{Pittsburgh TV}} and to keep the station articles current.
- Participants:
- Station Infobox
- The goals of this project are to maintain the Station Infobox and to implement it on all TV station articles.
- Participants:
- TV Article Name
- The goals of this project are to ensure that all TV station articles are named according to Wikipedia naming convention.
- Participants: A
- TV Station Lists
- There are many differnt lists of TV stations, some for each state, others by call letters. The goal of this project is to keep these all up to date.
- Participants:
Tasks
This is a partial list of the tasks the members of this project are currently working on to further the goals of the project.
- Infoboxes
- Add infoboxes to all TV station articles
- Otherwise add [[Category:Television stations that need an infobox]] to that article's categories
- Correct the following incorrectly used infoboxes
- Check against this prunable list of TV stations and the ones that need infoboxes
Stub sorting - {{US-bcast-stub}} to {{US-tv-station-stub}}- This is current, but keep an eye out for future opportunities.
- Make sure every article for a US station has a {{TVQ}} on it with the actual FCC call letters (note -TV/- status).
- Some pages are being used for more than one station (example: Idaho Public Television) at the present. These pages should have a {{TVQ}} for each callsign until a seperate article for each station can be created.
- Make sure all articles are named according to WP:NC#Broadcasting.
- Move all improperly named articles
- Update TV Station lists
- Add the talk page template ( {{TelevisionStationsProject}} ) to all TV station article talk pages.
- Is done for all articles with a {{TVQ}}. Keep an eye out for new station articles and those with a TVQ.
Station infobox
{{Infobox broadcast}} may refer to:
- Template:Infobox broadcasting network
- Template:Infobox television channel
- Template:Infobox television station
Click edit to the right to view the source of this table to copy to other television station pages!
Quickly, a small rundown of what's what in the table:
- call_letters - The station's call letters. Include "-TV" suffix if, and only if, it applies.
- station_logo - Include the station's logo - which should not be larger than 220px
- station_slogan - The on-air slogan used by the station. If none is available - enter "none"
- station_branding - What the station calls itself. Note, this is different from slogan or call letters (generally)
- analog - The station's analog channel position. Make sure to note if it is UHF or VHF
- digital - The station's digital channel position. Again, note if it is UHF or VHF
- other_chs - Channel positions of repeater stations.
- affiliations - What network or networks the station is affiliated with
- founded - Date or year the station began service
- location - The city or cities of primary service
- owner - The company that owns the station
- licensee - The company listed by the appropriate authority as the station's licensee, usually a subsidiary of the company above. Do not include if the parent company is the licensee.
- callsign_meaning - What the stations call letters mean, if anything
- former_callsign - What the stations former callsigns were
- former_affiliations - Networks the station used to carry affiliations with. Separate with a comma
- effective_radiated_power - how powerful the station's analogue and digital transmissions are
- HAAT - Height above average terrain; how tall is the transmission antenna tower
- class - Class indication, if any (ie. Class A or Translator for low-power stations)
- facility_id - The station's FCC facility ID number (US stations)
- homepage - Station website
Article structure
A television station article should include:
- a good introduction
- history of the station
- what kind of programming the station airs
- are there any original shows that the station shows?
- original shows that the station formerly broadcasted
- interesting facts about the station
- information on its personalities, past and present
- a link to the station's website
Categories
There are many categories that can be used. Many states and provinces now have their own categories for television. Normally, American and Canadian stations should use at least these categories (such as Category:Television stations in Washington). If a state or province subcategory exists or can be created, then please do not file a station in both the state/province and country categories; this is not consistent with Wikipedia policy on the use of categories. Instead, the station should be filed only in the state or province category; the category is then filed in the country category.
Similarly, if a distinct category exists for television stations in a particular city or metropolitan market, file the station only in the city category, and file the city category as a subcategory of the state or province. See Categories, lists and series boxes for more information.
A television station should never be filed directly in Category:Television stations, except in the rare circumstance where it would be impossible to create a more appropriate subcategory.
- Note
- The U.S. state of Georgia has peculiar category names to avoid conflict with the country: Category:Television stations in Georgia (U.S. state).
Ownership categories are also useful, if they exist:
- Category:Clear Channel television stations (Clear Channel Communications)
- Category:Fox Television Stations Group (Fox Television Stations Group)
- Category:CBS Corporation television stations (CBS Corporation)
- Category:Cox Television (Cox Enterprises)
- ...
Categories by country:
- Category:Television stations in the United States (and state subcategories)
- Category:Television stations in Canada (and province subcategories)
- Category:Television stations in Mexico (and state subcategories)
- ...
Network Affiliate categories:
- Category:PBS member stations
- Category:ABC network affiliates
- Category:NBC network affiliates
- Category:CBS network affiliates
- Category:UPN network affiliates
- Category:Fox network affiliates
- Category:CW network affiliates
- Category:MyNetworkTV affiliates
- Category:ION Television affiliates
- Category:America One network affiliates
- Category:Univisión network affiliates
- Category:Independent television stations
- Category:Telemundo network affiliates
- ...
Stations already serviced by Wikiproject Television Stations
Other templates
Stub templates
The official list of stub templates and categories is maintained by WP:WSS/ST. The most important stubs are mentioned below.
- {{bcast-stub}}
- {{US-tv-station-stub}}
- {{Mexico-bcast-stub}}
- {{Canada-tv-station-stub}}
- and other stub templates as specified in the subcategories of Category:Broadcasting stubs and Category:Television stubs.
Talk page template
Template:TelevisionStationsProject The tag {{TelevisionStationsProject}} or {{TVS}} should be added to the top of the talk page of all articles maintained by this WikiProject.
Cleanup template
- {{TVS-cleanup}}
Other templates
Barnstar
There is an official barnstar available for television related articles: Image:TVbarnstarproposal7.PNG, which produces:
Workshops
Resources
- Missing Television Stations portal
- List of US Television stations - Part of the Missing article project