Wikipedia:WikiProject Television

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User WikiProject Television This user participates in WikiProject Television.

A list of participants can be found at Category:WikiProject Television participants.

Technically speaking, anyone who edits or contributes to TV related articles is a participant, and there are no requirements other than that. If one wishes one can further identify oneself with the project by listing one's 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 WikiProject Television}} to your user page instead as it includes the above wikicode.

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 and essays

Project-specific guidelines and essays

• Manual of Style/Television
• Naming conventions (television)
• Naming conventions (broadcasting) for advice on articles about television networks, channels, etc.
• Notability (television) (essay)

Related guidelines and essays

• Trivia sections
• Manual of Style/Writing about fiction
• Writing better articles: Check your fiction
• Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information (#1, Plot summaries)
• Notability (fiction)
• Notability (media) (essay)
• Possible proliferation of in-universe-related content is discussed in the essay Wikipedia:Fancruft and its talk page.

Characters and fictional elements

Featured articles

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

• Homer Simpson
• Pauline Fowler
• Martin Keamy

Naming a character

There is no guideline or policy about naming an article about a fictional character. See the essay Wikipedia:Naming character articles.

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 (people)
• Biographies of living persons
• Manual of Style/Biography
• WikiProject Screenwriters – project dedicated to screenwriters.

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.

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.

Featured articles

• Kroger Babb
• James T. Aubrey
• Aaron Sorkin

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Television: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2021-05-04 To do list: Contributes 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 {{WikiProject Television}} template Add Info-boxes to TV-show articles that don't yet have them Tag articles with requests for improvement Create requested articles Work on articles needing improvement Note or direct people to biography conventions for articles on actors, crew. Similar for characters and episodes etc. Ensure that shows are discussed in the present tense (see WP:TISWAS ) Create high priority episode articles. Create high priority season articles. Create high priority fictional characters. Major discussions/events: Incubators:

See also Category:Film and television backlog (30)

Infobox television

• Category:Pages using infobox television with alias parameters (0)
• Category:Pages using infobox television with flag icon (0)
• Category:Pages using infobox television with image-related values without an image (2)
• Category:Pages using infobox television with incorrectly formatted values (161)
• Category:Pages using infobox television with non-matching title (63)
• Category:Pages using infobox television with nonstandard dates (2)
• Category:Pages using infobox television with unknown parameters (1)
• Category:Pages using infobox television with unnecessary manual displaytitle (2)
• Category:Pages using infobox television with unnecessary name parameter (0)

Infobox television season

• WP:COLOR-violating colour combinations (per this discussion
  )
• Category:Pages using infobox television season with unknown parameters (6) – articles using unsupported infobox parameters
• Category:Pages using infobox television season with the season_name parameter (331)

Infobox television episode

• Category:Pages using infobox television episode with unknown parameters (0)
• Category:Pages using infobox television episode with unlinked values (1,115)
• Category:Pages using infobox television episode with incorrectly formatted values (42)
• Category:Pages using infobox television episode with non-matching title (4)
• Category:Pages using infobox television episode with nonstandard dates (41)
• Category:Pages using infobox television episode with unnecessary title parameter (2)
• Category:Pages using infobox television episode with unnecessary manual displaytitle (2)
• Category:Pages using infobox television episode with image-related values without an image (18)
• Category:Pages using infobox television with flag icon (0)
• Category:Pages using infobox television episode with the based on parameter (157)
• Category:Television episode articles with short description with no series name (10)
• Category:Television episode articles with short description with no season number (647)
• Category:Television episode articles with short description with no episode number (12)

Doctor Who infoboxes

• Category:Doctor Who articles lacking infobox image (52)
• Category:Pages using infobox Doctor Who episode with unknown parameters (0)
• Category:Pages using infobox Doctor Who doctor with unknown parameters (0)

Other infoboxes

• Category:Pages using Infobox broadcasting network with unknown parameters (0)
• Category:Pages using infobox Paris by Night with unknown parameters (0)
• Category:Pages using infobox reality competition season with unknown parameters (0)
• Category:Pages using infobox television channel with unknown parameters (10)
• Category:Pages using infobox television crossover episode with unknown parameters (0)
• Category:Pages using infobox television station with unknown parameters (0)

Aired episodes

• Category:Template:Aired episodes using equal showpage and title parameters (0)
• Category:Template:Aired episodes using both showpage and title parameters (1)

Episode table

• Category:Articles using Template:Episode table with invalid colour combination (1)

Episode lists

• Category:Episode list using the default LineColor (5,564)
• Category:Episode lists with a non-matching set of numbered parameters (84)
• Category:Episode lists with faulty line colors (0)
• Category:Episode lists with incorrectly formatted alternate air dates (0)
• Category:Episode lists with invalid top colors (0)
• Category:Episode lists with non-compliant line colors (2)
• Category:Episode lists with row deviations (97)
• Category:Episode lists with row dividers (0)
• Category:Episode lists with TBA values (1)
• Category:Episode lists with unformatted air dates (0)
• Category:Episode lists with unformatted story or teleplay credits (0)

Series overview

• Category:Articles using Template:Series overview with only one row (0)
• Category:Pages using series overview with unknown parameters (4)

Sections needed

• Category:Television articles that need a character section (186)
• Category:Television articles without infoboxes (9)
• Category:Television articles that need a production section (693)
• Category:Television articles that need a response section (919)
• Category:Television articles that need a synopsis (255)
• Category:Television articles that need an episode list (340)

Naming style

• Category:Television articles with incorrect naming style (905)
• Category:Television channel articles with incorrect naming style (9)

IMDb

• Category:Monthly clean-up category (Articles sourced by IMDb) counter (2)

IMDb country year

• Category:Pages using IMDb country year with unknown parameters (0)

IMDb episode

• Category:Pages using IMDb episode with a different name (197)
• Category:Pages using IMDb episode with unknown parameters (0)
• Category:IMDb episode ID different from Wikidata (97)
• Category:IMDb episode ID not in Wikidata (74)

IMDb episodes

• Category:Pages using IMDb episodes with unknown parameters (10)

IMDb event

• Category:Pages using IMDb event with unknown parameters (0)

IMDb name

• Category:Pages using IMDb name with unknown parameters (0)

IMDb title

• Category:IMDb template with invalid id set (1)
• Category:Pages using IMDb title with no id set (3,713)
• Category:Pages using IMDb title instead of IMDb episode (1)
• Category:Pages using IMDb title instead of IMDb episodes (1,319)
• Category:Pages using IMDb title with unknown parameters (2)
• Category:IMDb title ID different from Wikidata (4,291)
• Category:IMDb title ID not in Wikidata (4,160)

Citation templates

• Category:Cite Box Office Mojo templates with errors (1)
• Category:Cite Metacritic template with unknown parameters (1)
• Category:Cite Metacritic templates with errors (0)
• Category:Cite Rotten Tomatoes templates with errors (0)
• Category:Cite Rotten Tomatoes templates with unknown parameters (5)

Misc

• Category:Incomplete television lists (240)
• Category:Pages using WikiProject Television with unknown parameters (0)
• Category:Television articles needing attention (108)
• Category:Television articles needing expert attention (2)
• Category:Television articles needing references (370)
• Category:Television articles that need to differentiate between fact and fiction (25)
• Category:Television articles using incorrect infobox (1,400)
• Category:Televison awards that need updating (0)
• Category:Wikipedia requested television images (2,304)

• Wikipedia:Database reports/Broken episode anchors

New articles

InceptionBot 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.

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