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Shortcut: WP:TV

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.

Contents 1 Project-specific guidelines 2 Descendant WikiProjects and task forces 2.1 Task forces which deal with specific types of articles 2.2 Region-specific projects and task forces 2.3 Genre-specific projects and task forces 2.4 Show-specific projects and task forces 3 Related Wikiprojects 4 Participants 5 Writing and editing television related articles 5.1 Guidelines 5.2 Characters and fictional elements 5.2.1 Featured articles 5.3 People working in television 5.3.1 Categories 5.3.2 Images 5.3.3 Infoboxes 5.3.4 Featured articles 6 More television templates 6.1 Television Project banner 6.2 Images 6.3 Upcoming TV 6.4 Stub templates 6.5 Television technology templates 6.6 Television filmography 6.7 Citation 6.8 Episode lists 7 Tasks 8 Important Alerts 8.1 New articles 8.2 Article alerts

[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

• WikiProject Television Game Shows
• WikiProject Soap Operas

[edit] Show-specific projects and task forces

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.

24 Academy Awards The Apprentice UK Arrested Development Avatar: The Last Airbender BBC Big Brother Dad's Army Degrassi CSI franchise Desperate Housewives task force ER task force Holby House

ITC Productions Law & Order task force Lost Prison Break The O.C. task force The Office (US) The Simpsons Seinfeld South Park SpongeBob SquarePants Survivor task force The Amazing Race task force TUGS Veronica Mars

Science fiction related: The 4400 Battlestar Galactica Buffy Doctor Who Firefly Futurama Heroes Red Dwarf Stargate Star Trek The X-Files

Anime related: Digimon Gundam Pokémon Sailor Moon Transformers Yu-Gi-Oh!

[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

User WP TV This user is a participant of WikiProject Television.

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 and 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:

• Dalek
• Martin Keamy
• TARDIS

[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

• Kroger Babb
• James T. Aubrey, Jr.
• Aaron Sorkin

[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

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Television:

To do list: edit - history - watch - purge Contribute to the assessment drive by assessing articles in the unassessed category. Ensure that requests for article assessment are met promptly. Ensure that articles tagged for needing our expert attention are dealt with quickly. Participate in deletion discussions for television-related articles. Tag articles related to television with the {{television}} template Tag articles covered by Wikiproject Lost Tag articles covered by Wikiproject The Simpsons Tag articles covered by WikiProject The Apprentice UK Add Infoboxes to TV-show articles that don't yet have them Tag articles with requests for improvement Work on articles needing improvement Note or direct people to biography conventions for articles on actors, crew. Similar for characters and episodes etc. Take on the task of analyzing Category:Television and its subcats. What categories do we think should be added to the articles, and which should go (Overcategorization) ? We also need to better explain on the category pages what they are intended for and weed out the articles that do not belong there. Some categories might need renaming because of WP:TV-NC ?? Define a list of TV genres to be used in the Infobox Setup guidelines for trivia, ratings, filmography Ensure that shows are discussed in the present tense.

[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.

Proposed deletion

• 21 Nov 2009 – PROD tag removed from SpEd (talk).

Articles for deletion

• 30 Nov 2009 – Walter "Doc" Hartford (talk) was kept; see discussion.
• 30 Nov 2009 – Shane "Goose" Gooseman (talk) was kept; see discussion.
• 29 Nov 2009 – The Real Housewives of Washington, D.C. (talk) nominated for deletion by WFCforLife; see discussion.
• 28 Nov 2009 – List of United States television series cancelled or ended after 2006 season (talk) nominated for deletion by Treelo; see discussion.
• 28 Nov 2009 – List of United States television series cancelled or ended after 2007 season (talk) nominated for deletion by Treelo; see discussion.
• 28 Nov 2009 – List of United States television series cancelled or ended after 2008 season (talk) nominated for deletion by Treelo; see discussion.
• 28 Nov 2009 – 24 Hour Propane People (talk) has been deleted; see discussion.
• 26 Nov 2009 – Rachel Mason (talk) nominated for deletion by GaGaOohLaLa; see discussion.
• 26 Nov 2009 – Paul Langley (talk) nominated for deletion by GaGaOohLaLa; see discussion.
• 26 Nov 2009 – Grantly Budgen (talk) nominated for deletion by GaGaOohLaLa; see discussion.

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Featured article candidates

• 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.
• 16 Nov 2009 – The Chinese Restaurant (talk) is nominated by Music2611.
• 27 Oct 2009 – Dan Povenmire (talk) is nominated by SuperFlash101.

Featured list candidates

• 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.
• 24 Oct 2009 – List of Dancing with the Stars (U.S.) competitors (talk) is nominated by Another Believer.

Good article nominations

• 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 – Hannah Banana (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Pedro thy master.
• 27 Nov 2009 – Supernatural (TV series) (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by C.Fred.
• 26 Nov 2009 – Making Fiends (TV series) (talk) is not promoted.
• 25 Nov 2009 – Peter Griffin (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Pedro thy master.
• 24 Nov 2009 – The Rejected (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion.
• 23 Nov 2009 – The Stakeout (Parks and Recreation) (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Hunter Kahn.

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Good article reassessment

• 25 Oct 2009 – Television program (talk) is nominated for an individual reassessment by CzechOut; see discussion.

Peer review

• 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.
• 20 Nov 2009 – Peer review for 30 Rock (season 4) (talk) closed.
• 8 Nov 2009 – Peer review opened for Sakis Rouvas (talk) by Grk1011.
• 16 Jul 2009 – Peer review requested for The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (talk) by Zeality.

Requested moves

• 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.
• 25 Nov 2009 – Move requested from Samantha Womack (talk) to Samantha Janus by Arbitrarily0; see discussion.
• 24 Nov 2009 – Move requested from The Johnny Cash Show (TV series) (talk) to The Johnny Cash Show by Anthony Appleyard; see discussion.
• 23 Nov 2009 – Avatar (disambiguation) (talk) was not moved; see discussion.

Did you know

• 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.
• 23 Nov 2009 – A fact from Dances with Smurfs (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 21 Nov 2009 – A fact from The Camel (Parks and Recreation) (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.
• 3 Nov 2009 – A new database dump is available.
• 19 Oct 2009 – The cleanup listings from WolterBot have updated.

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