Wikipedia:WikiProject Television
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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.
[edit] Writing & editing television related articles
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. If you find such an article please tag them with one of the following templates. Please make sure to read and apply the guidelines of the corresponding templates when using them.
- {{Future television series}} For programs/series that have been announced, but are not yet airing.
- {{Future television episode}} For individual episodes that have not yet aired, but are confirmed.
- {{Future television episode list}} For "List of series episodes"-pages.
- {{Future tvshow information}} For gameshows which are still in progress, or programs with news for a next season that is not yet in production/broadcast)
[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
Please watch Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Article alerts, to watch for important alerts related to articles of this Wikiproject. "Article Alerts" will be updated frequently. It will also be transcluded here.
[edit] Article alerts
- Proposed deletion
- 24 Mar 2009 – Coleen's Real Women (talk) proposed for deletion by Stormbay.
- 24 Mar 2009 – The DAMN! Show (talk) proposed for deletion by Stormbay.
- 17 Mar 2009 – PROD tag removed from Criticism of Family Guy (talk).
- Articles for deletion
- 19 Mar 2009 – Jon Stewart's 2009 controversy with CNBC (talk) was kept; see discussion.
- 16 Mar 2009 – Opening and closing sequences of The Prisoner (talk) was kept; see discussion.
- Featured article candidates
- 17 Mar 2009 – Premiere (The O.C.) (talk) is promoted to FA status; see discussion.
- 15 Mar 2009 – Sozin's Comet: The Final Battle (talk) is nominated by NuclearWarfare; see discussion.
- Featured article reviews
- 10 Mar 2009 – Cheers (talk) is nominated by Fritzpoll; see discussion.
- Featured list candidates
- 25 Mar 2009 – List of Dexter episodes (talk) is nominated by Music2611; see discussion.
- 25 Mar 2009 – Veronica Mars (season 2) (talk) is nominated by Cornucopia; see discussion.
- 23 Mar 2009 – List of Victoria's Secret Fashion Show models (talk) is not promoted; see discussion.
- 15 Mar 2009 – List of awards and nominations received by Dexter (talk) is promoted to FL status; see discussion.
- 5 Mar 2009 – Veronica Mars (season 1) (talk) is nominated by Cornucopia; see discussion.
- Featured list removal candidates
- 9 Mar 2009 – BBC Young Musician of the Year (talk) is nominated by Diaa abdelmoneim; see discussion.
- Good article nominations
- 25 Mar 2009 – The Coon (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Hunter Kahn (on hold); see discussion.
- 25 Mar 2009 – New Boss (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Hunter Kahn.
- 25 Mar 2009 – The Ring (South Park) (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion.
- 20 Mar 2009 – Ocean's Three and a Half (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Cirt.
- 20 Mar 2009 – Golden Ticket (The Office) (talk) is promoted to GA status.
- 16 Mar 2009 – The Damage a Man Can Do (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by 97198.
- 7 Mar 2009 – Dan Castellaneta (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Scorpion0422 (on hold); see discussion.
- 24 Jan 2009 – Seinfeld (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by ErikTheBikeMan (on hold); see discussion.
- Peer review
- 28 Mar 2009 – Peer review for Don't Ask, Don't Tell (Roseanne) (talk) closed.
- 27 Mar 2009 – Peer review opened for Smallville (talk) by Bignole.
- 24 Mar 2009 – Peer review for Dexter (episode) (talk) closed.
- 19 Mar 2009 – Peer review for Wonder Woman (TV series) (talk) closed.
- 14 Mar 2009 – Peer review opened for The L Word (talk) by TLW.
- Requests for comments
- 20 Mar 2009 – RFC (art, architecture, literature and media) opened for List of Friends episodes (talk).
- 15 Mar 2009 – RFC for Ocean's Three and a Half (talk) has been closed.
- 4 Mar 2009 – RFC (art, architecture, literature and media) opened for Criminal Minds (talk).
- Requested moves
- 27 Mar 2009 – Move requested from Danger Mouse (TV series) (talk) to Danger Mouse by Badmachine; see discussion.
- Did you know
- 27 Mar 2009 – A fact from Mr. Adams and Eve (talk) appeared on the main page.
- 27 Mar 2009 – A fact from The DuPont Show with June Allyson (talk) appeared on the main page.
- 26 Mar 2009 – A fact from The Coon (talk) appeared on the main page.
- 25 Mar 2009 – A fact from Davy Crockett (TV series) (talk) appeared on the main page.
- 25 Mar 2009 – A fact from My Friend Flicka (TV series) (talk) appeared on the main page.
- 24 Mar 2009 – A fact from Golden Ticket (The Office) (talk) appeared on the main page.
- 24 Mar 2009 – A fact from The Damage a Man Can Do (talk) appeared on the main page.
- 21 Mar 2009 – A fact from Jon Stewart's 2009 controversy with CNBC (talk) appeared on the main page.
- 20 Mar 2009 – A fact from The Cisco Kid (TV series) (talk) appeared on the main page.
- 18 Mar 2009 – A fact from Law & Order: Criminal Intent (season 1) (talk) appeared on the main page.
- Bounty board
- 8 Mar 2009 – Bounty for bringing Rod Serling (talk) to FA status: US$1000 donation by Twilight Bounty (expires on ).
Other news
- 8 July 2009 – A new database dump is available. The cleanup listings from WolterBot should be updated.
- 29 June 2009 – A compilation of Academic Journal has been generated from the |journal= parameter found in citation templates, identifying the 500 most cited journals, and 500 most cited journals without articles.
- 18 June 2009 – A new database dump is available. The cleanup listings from WolterBot should be updated.
- 15 June 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out.
- 30 Apr 2009 – WikiProjects can sign up for Announcements & Milestones, listing the milestones of a particular projects (such as 10th FA, etc...). The list is managed by LivingBot.
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