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.

Contents 1 Descendant Wikiprojects 2 Similar Wikiprojects 3 Show-specific WikiProjects 4 Participants 5 Writing & Editing Television related Articles 5.1 Guidelines 5.2 Television programs 5.3 Lists of episodes 5.4 Individual episodes 5.5 Characters and Fictional elements 5.5.1 Featured articles 5.6 People working in television 5.6.1 Categories 5.6.2 Images 5.6.3 Infoboxes 5.6.4 Featured articles 5.7 Media companies 6 Tasks 6.1 Article assessment 7 More television templates 7.1 Television Project 7.2 Images 7.3 Upcoming TV 7.4 Stub templates 7.5 Television technology templates 7.6 Television filmography 7.7 Citation 7.8 Episode lists 7.9 Ratings

[edit] Descendant Wikiprojects

• WikiProject Television episodes treats of single episode articles
• WikiProject Television Stations on structuring the articles about TV stations
• WikiProject British TV shows wants to complete the British TV show articles
• WikiProject Australian television wants to complete the Australian television-related articles
• WikiProject Canadian TV shows wants to complete the Canadian TV show articles
• WikiProject Television Game Shows to standardize the game show genre.

[edit] Similar Wikiprojects

• WikiProject Albums
• WikiProject Anime and manga
• WikiProject Films
• WikiProject Radio
• WikiProject Screenwriters

[edit] Show-specific WikiProjects

Note that not all TV shows have or need a specific WikiProject. A show specific project is best started when there is a good deal of work to be done on a good number of articles, and is not always proportional to a show's notability or popularity. Another reason to start a specific project is if a show has some unique element that might require special attention in the articles that cover the show. Some shows are also a part of a larger media franchise that includes elements (that have articles) other than TV shows.

Sometimes a WikiProject with a narrow scope, such as one that is focused on a show, can be beneficial, but sometimes it can over-complicate the collaboration process. It's always a good idea to get some feedback from other editors to see if starting a new project is a good idea, or if collaboration can be reasonably done within WP:TV and the article talk pages.

Good places to get feedback on proposed WikiProjects are on the main talk pages of the related articles, WikiProject Council and it's talk page, as well as on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Television.

An alternative to a show-specific WikiProject would be making a task force of WP:TV. This still allows for greater focus on that show/ topic, but without having to start a whole new project from scratch.

WikiProjects that deal with specific shows or sets of shows:

Academy Awards The Apprentice UK Avatar: The Last Airbender BBC Big Brother Dad's Army Degrassi

ITC Productions Lost The Office (US) The Simpsons South Park Baywatch Soap Operas SpongeBob SquarePants

Science fiction related: The 4400 Battlestar Galactica Buffy Doctor Who Firefly Futurama Heroes Stargate Star Trek

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

[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 & Editing Television related Articles

This project deals with a lot of television related articles, but they are not all the same. Therefor we have created seperate 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.

• Naming conventions for television articles
• Debate on articles of individual episodes
• Notability of fiction
• Writing about fiction
• Avoid Trivia sections
• Writing better articles: Check your fiction
• Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information (#7, Plot summaries)
• Possible proliferation of fictional-universe-related articles is discussed in the essay Wikipedia:Fancruft and its talk page.

[edit] Television programs

Please see our guide on writing an article about a television program or series.

[edit] Lists of episodes

We have a separate TaskForce that deals with lists of episodes articles.

[edit] Individual episodes

Writing good articles on individual episodes is much more complicated and harder then a lot of people think.
Please see our television episodes TaskForce, for tips and examples.

[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
• Felix the Cat
• 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 hunderds of different series/movies etc. You should categorize by profession. See the higer 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 can also not 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}}. If an actor primarily is notable for his television work use {{Infobox actor television}}. For voice actors use {{Infobox actor voice}}.

[edit] Featured articles

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

[edit] Media companies

Wikipedia:WikiProject Television Stations works on building articles for all the broadcasting entities. For Television networks, channels, production houses etc. look at.... TODO

[edit] Tasks

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Television:

To do list: edit - history - watch - purge Assess an article once in a while. Add Infoboxes to TV-show articles that don't yet have them 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

[edit] Article assessment

One of the most important tasks is assessing the quality and importance of all the articles. This work is being organized at Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Assessment.

Talk pages of TV-related articles are tagged with {{TelevisionWikiProject}}, which includes an assessment of the article quality and importance. The results of the assessments are collected by a bot, and can be seen at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Television articles by quality. Output includes a table (starting with best first, stubs last), a log of changes (to help track progress and vandalism) and statistics.

[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

{{TelevisionWikiProject}}: Add this to the Talk pages of WP:TV related articles.

	This article is part of WikiProject Television, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to television programs and related subjects on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
NA	This page is not an article and does not require a rating.

This template can be used for making assessments of the television articles.

{{TelevisionWikiProject
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If the articles needs an infobox and currently lacks one, use the template with the needs-infobox option like this:

{{TelevisionWikiProject
| needs-infobox=yes}}

This will automatically categorize the page in Cat:Articles that need a television infobox.
For a full explanation of the usage and options of this template see the usage instructions.

[edit] Images

• {{Tv-screenshot}} for screenshots of TV material. (Note that such images are fair use and may only be used in the list of episodes and on individual episode pages)
• {{Tv-logo}} for logos of TV stations, channels etc.
• {{Tv-program-logo}} for logos of TV programs.

[edit] Upcoming TV

Everything needs to be verifiable trough "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.

• {{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)

Please contribute to the current discussion on these templates.

[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.

[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.

[edit] Ratings

• {{Infobox TV ratings}} for listing TV ratings in a tvshow article.