Wikipedia:WikiProject Television

This is WikiProject Television, a collaboration area for Wikipedians interested in improving coverage of Television. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate!

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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, such as web series.

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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.

Writing and editing television related articlesedit

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 essaysedit

Project-specific guidelines and essaysedit

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 essaysedit

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 elementsedit

Featured articlesedit

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

Naming a characteredit

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

People working in televisionedit

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.

Categoriesedit

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.

Imagesedit

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.