Wikipedia:WikiProject Television

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Template:Portalpar This is to guide the structure of articles dealing with the Television medium and television series or other forms of episodic programs.

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Title

WikiProject Television

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Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to normalize the standards for all the television show articles in Wikipedia.

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Parent Wikiprojects

The parent of this WikiProject is the Wikiproject Entertainment (inactive).

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Descendant Wikiprojects

WikiProject Television episodes treats of single episode articles
WikiProject List of Television Episodes treats of list of episodes articles
Wikipedia:WikiProject Television Stations on structuring the articles about TV stations

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Similar Wikiprojects

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Related Wikiprojects

Projects that deal with similar subjects, but have no close relation to this WikiProject (yet??).

Soap Operas
Star Trek, which includes conventions that deal with the plethora of Star Trek episodes and incarnations
Stargate
Buffy
Doctor Who
Academy Awards
Television Schedules
TV IV.org A WikiMedia based project that archives television series.

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Participants

user:zanimum
Davodd
Acegikmo1
PedanticallySpeaking
Jeremy Butler 13:45, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
--Madcowpoo 11:30, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
Lvr 12:17, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 17:38, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Discordance 13:16, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Lady Aleena 21:13, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
Dogbreathcanada 23:01, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
The DJ 22:54, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
myselfalso 02:14, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
RayaruB
DrWho42 01:54, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
Tim! 12:23, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

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Structure

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Introduction

The first sentence should explain the premise, genre, and significance of the show. A good introductory sentence is:

"Inspired by the film of the same name, M*A*S*H (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) was an American television series about a team of medical professionals and support staff stationed in Korea during the Korean War."

Depending on the length of the article and the complexity of the show, the introductory paragraph(s) can contain several more sentences which elaborate on the series. The following information should be included in the introduction:

Years on the air
Premiere date
Channel of first and current airing
Production companies
Principal characters
Influence
Place in popular culture

It should be noted that the title of a television show is styled with italics (e.g. M*A*S*H) while the title of an episode is styled with quotation marks (e.g. "Pilot").

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Characters

Remember to follow the notability guidelines when creating lists and articles of characters.

Character, general description, usually contains profession, habits, psychological; character may be explained more indepth later. Play by First Name Last Name
Captain Jean-Luc Picard, one of Starfleet's most trusted captains; he has a keen sense of what to do, and thus has been known to ignore the Prime Directive. Played by Patrick Stewart.
Big Bird is an eight-foot-tall yellow canary with a long neck, and a large curiosity for the world around him. Puppeted by Caroll Spinney.

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Plot

This section should only be relatively brief, only discussing important plot elements that steered the course of characters lives, or the course of the show, or at least were popular with audiences (ie Seinfeld's Soup Nazi).

Don't discuss every episode unless necessary, and avoid discussing issues/developments in a rigid episode by episode format, if a more free-form plot-arc description would be more appropriate.

For episodes where 500 words or more can be written, without stretching things out, separate articles may be appropriate.

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Impact of Show on Society

If the show created a craze, popularized a word (Seinfeld with "yada, yada, yada", etc.), revolutionized the medium (Sesame Street in children's television, or the mini-series Roots), or something else (many stores and businesses closed early on Mondays for allowing employees to get home on time to watch I Love Lucy).

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Critical Reviews

Preferably from major syndicates (Associated Press, REUTERS, Canadian Press) and major newspapers (USA Today, The Toronto Star, The Times [London]) and major periodicals (TV Guide, TIME), these quotes can either critique the show, or comment on its impact. They should not just be descriptions of the shows, and preferably should not exceed three or so sentences.

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Production Notes

Any behind the scenes information is encouraged.

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External Links

Links to the Official Website and TV.com or IMDb profile pages, should go in the infobox and should not be REPEATED in the External links.

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Templates

Category that all television related templates should be part of. Please use this when creating new templates.

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Infobox

Template:Infobox television | creator = J.J. Abrams
Damon Lindelof
Jeffrey Lieber | starring = See Cast and characters below | country = USA | network = ABC | first_aired = September 22, 2004 | last_aired = present | num_episodes = 34 (plus two specials) (as of November 30, 2005) | imdb_id = 0411008 | tv_com_id = 24313 }}

The standard infobox for television articles is the Template:Tl template. The box to the right is an example. You can click on "edit this page" and copy-and-paste the markup from Template talk:Infobox Television to a different article, replacing the information with info on the album you choose to write about.

The infobox code should be placed at the top of the article.

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Code

For convenience, a copy of the template as of February 2006 is here; refer to Template:Tl for the latest version; its talk page has usage details, including information on the numerous optional fields.

{{Infobox Television
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| creator = 
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| starring = 
| narrated = 
| country = 
| network = 
| first_aired = 
| last_aired = 
| num_episodes = 
| website =
| imdb_id = 
| tv_com_id = 
}}

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User Box

Template:Tl Template:User WP:TV Template:Clear You are automatically added to Category:WikiProject Television Participants. You can also consider to add yourself Userpage to Category:Wikipedians interested in TV or one of it's subcategories.

There are many other TV related Userboxes for fans of various TV-shows.

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Television Project

Template:Tl Template:TelevisionWikiProject

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TV logo's

Template:Tl

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Upcoming TV

Template:Tl Template:Tl (should be merged with the tvshow one) and Template:Tl

There is quite some overlap here and it still needs to be fixed !!!!

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Stub templates

Some of these stubs need to be renamed, deprecated, deleted, or added to proper categories. This list is for easy of use. The REAL list should be maintained by WP:WSS/ST. Template:Seealso Template:Seealso

Parent stubs of TV: Template:Tl (also parent to tv channels/networks etc stubs)