Wikipedia:WikiProject Television

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WP:TV
Television portal

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

Project-specific guidelines

Descendant WikiProjects and taskforces

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Culture#Television for an up-to-date list

Task forces which deal with specific types of articles

Region-specific projects and taskforces

Genre-specific projects and taskforces

Show-specific projects and taskforces

Caution 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.

Science fiction related:

Anime related:

Related Wikiprojects

Participants

User WP TV
Wikiproject:Television 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.

Writing & editing television related articles

Further information: WP:MOSTV

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.

Guidelines

First of all, be sure to read these guidelines, policies and discussions if you want to write good articles on fiction.

Characters and fictional elements

TODO Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Fictional elements (includes characters)

Featured articles

See these featured articles for examples of well written articles on characters and elements from fiction:

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.

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.

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.

Infoboxes

The general infobox for an actor is {{Infobox actor}}. For voice actors use {{Infobox actor voice}}.

Featured articles

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.

Television Project

{{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
| 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:

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.

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 contribute to the current discussion on these templates.

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).

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.

Television filmography

For television actors {{TV}}, {{ActingFilmography-tv}} and {{Filmography-tv}} currently exist. Needs cleanup

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.

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.

Ratings

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


Featured article candidates

Featured article review

Featured list candidates

Good article nominations

Television articles in this category are listed at Wikipedia:Good article nominations#Theatre, film and drama.

Peer reviews

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.

Articles missing main elements

Infoboxes

Images

If you find an article that is has no image, please find an appropriate image, upload it, license it appropriately, include a fair use rationale if applicable, and add it to the article. However, if you do not have access to an appropriate image, please add the {{Tvimage}} tag to the article's talk page.

Production section

Using template: needs production section.

Character section

Using template: needs character section.

Response section

Using template: needs response section.

Episode List

Using template: needs episode list.


Synopsis

Using template: needs synopsis.

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