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To do list: edit - history - watch - purge Create an educational program categories so that television programs do not clog up educational issue categories 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

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Contents 1 FAR for Cheers 2 Article alerts 3 Charmed mergers 4 Notability and fiction 5 Bart Sells His Soul at Peer Review 6 Italicized titles 7 Connor, Sarah (TSCC).jpg 8 Scrubs merges 9 Lost issue 10 Episode list templates 11 just a heads up 12 The Real Housewives of New Jersey 13 Taskforce organization 14 TV Episodes RS for Plots/Characters 15 Melanie LaPatin 16 Collaboration 17 Assistance 18 "Upcoming TV" templates 19 Prison Break GA Sweeps: On Hold

[edit] FAR for Cheers

I have nominated Cheers for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fritzpoll (talk • contribs) 08:12, March 10, 2009

[edit] Article alerts

This is a notice to let you know about Article alerts, a fully-automated subscription-based news delivery system designed to notify WikiProjects and Taskforces when articles are entering Articles for deletion, Requests for comment, Peer review and other workflows (full list). The reports are updated on a daily basis, and provide brief summaries of what happened, with relevant links to discussion or results when possible. A certain degree of customization is available; WikiProjects and Taskforces can choose which workflows to include, have individual reports generated for each workflow, have deletion discussion transcluded on the reports, and so on. An example of a customized report can be found here.

If you are already subscribed to Article Alerts, it is now easier to report bugs and request new features. We are also in the process of implementing a "news system", which would let projects know about ongoing discussions on a wikipedia-wide level, and other things of interest. The developers also note that some subscribing WikiProjects and Taskforces use the display=none parameter, but forget to give a link to their alert page. Your alert page should be located at "Wikipedia:PROJECT-OR-TASKFORCE-HOMEPAGE/Article alerts". Questions and feedback should be left at Wikipedia talk:Article alerts.

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Thanks. — Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 09:45, 15 March, 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Charmed mergers

see Talk:List of Charmed episodes#Charmed (season_5)_and_Charmed_(season_6). -- User:Docu

[edit] Notability and fiction

WP:FICT: There is an RfC discussing the consensus on notability and how it applies to elements of fiction. Please feel free to comment on views and proposals, and add your own at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Notability and fiction.

[edit] Bart Sells His Soul at Peer Review

The article Bart Sells His Soul is currently undergoing a peer review, input would be appreciated at its peer review page: Wikipedia:Peer review/Bart Sells His Soul/archive1. Cirt (talk) 02:28, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Italicized titles

A relatively new template, {{italictitle}} is currently being used to change the article titles on various pages that have the scientific name of an organism. There is currently a bot request to mass-update these articles. I just wanted to bring up a discussion here regarding the use of this template in other article titles where it may be useful.

Throughout many articles, including Stargate SG-1, the title is italicized when used within the article, but not in the actual title. All input is welcome to decide whether or not to implement this new feature in films, video games, and book titles.

Discussions on the use of this italicized title feature for use in organism articles can be seen here and here. --Spotty ¹¹²²² 20:28, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Connor, Sarah (TSCC).jpg

file:Connor, Sarah (TSCC).jpg has been nominated for deletion 70.29.212.226 (talk) 11:54, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Scrubs merges

I've put up multiple Scrubs characters or merge (here:Talk:List of characters on Scrubs#Main character merges), but have gotten opposition; I'm not against keeping the articles separate, but have not been given any real reasoning for keep them that way. It'd be great if someone could drop by and provide some information that creation/etc does exist and is clearely accessible, for at least some of the characters. Or, just to give your opinion on the matter. Thanks, WhiteArcticWolf (talk) 18:51, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Lost issue

Is there a limit on how many actors can be be placed in the Starring section here? I think the limit should be aa least ten.--23prootie (talk) 10:40, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

There is no specific number, but it is addressed at WP:MOSTV.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 10:53, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Episode list templates

I am proposing some code changes to both {{Episode list}} and {{Japanese episode list}}. The full discussion is occurring on Template talk:Japanese episode list#Code updates. --Farix (Talk) 20:57, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] just a heads up

I tagged The Real World: Washington, D.C. with your project. APK (If You Wanna) 23:45, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] The Real Housewives of New Jersey

Would someone help to improve the The Real Housewives of New Jersey article? ---kilbad (talk) 14:46, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Taskforce organization

Team, can we start arranging the TV WorkGroups into something more coherent; like genre's maybe? Medical, Police/Law, Comedy, Sitcom...I would even volunteer to fix up the project template....I trip over a number of articles about shows or movies; that really need the attention of someone who actually knows the genre... -- Mjquin_id (talk) 03:45, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] TV Episodes RS for Plots/Characters

There is a discussion going on at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard‎#Is a TV show a reliable source for its own plot summary and characters section questioning whether a fictional work can be the source for its own plot. As this discussion could potentially have wide reaching implications across television series articles and episode lists, I felt the project should be made aware of the discussion in case members would like to offer their reviews there. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 04:27, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Melanie LaPatin

Is Melanie LaPatin considered a "So You Think You Can Dance" choreographer? If so, perhaps someone could add that information to her article and the So You Think You Can Dance template? ---kilbad (talk) 02:16, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Collaboration

Does this project not have a collaborations of the week (or another length of time)? If not, can we please consider establishing one? They can be quite productive, and it is fun to work together and watch an article expand within such a short time. --Another Believer _(Talk) 02:20, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

For this one *grin* its been an issue of not enough active editor participation in the project as a whole to really allow for an organized collaboration effort. There are some informal ones done at times, when a request is made and responded to here, but not very often unfortunately. While they can be productive and fun, I suspect a lot of collaboration efforts also suffer from editor conflicts and basic differences in editing styles/methods that seem to hinder efforts. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 02:25, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Why not suggest a couple options informally? I might be down. Don't pick anything too hard (at least for me). - Peregrine Fisher (talk) (contribs) 02:41, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Assistance

I would like someone to assist me in finding reliable sources to state that several programs aired in various non-English speaking nations during the 1980s and 1990s. For specifics, see Super Sentai#Distribution.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 21:53, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] "Upcoming TV" templates

Has anyone ever looked at Wikipedia:WikiProject Television? At Wikipedia:WikiProject Television#Upcoming TV there's a link to a discussion about the use of the future television templates that has been added in April 2006, and has ever stayed there since. Needles to say, the discussion isn't active anymore. :)

Anyhow, I'm here because this project page implies that these templates should be added to each and every future television show, which directly contradict the longstanding guidelines for the template ("This template is not meant to be on all TV show articles that are currently running/about to be running, just on those articles where containing future information is an issue in some way"). So I propose to either change the section accordingly, or remove it entirely. --Conti|✉ 13:10, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

It seems to me that the section pretty clearly indicates the templates should be placed on articles that are not verified through reliable sources or that are full of rumors. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 15:49, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Well, at least one editor misunderstood the purpose of the template because of this page, and looking at the countless articles that use the future television template, I'd say that he's not alone. --Conti|✉ 10:05, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Prison Break GA Sweeps: On Hold

I have reviewed Prison Break for GA Sweeps to determine if it still qualifies as a Good Article. In reviewing the article I have found several issues, which I have detailed here. Since the article falls under the scope of this project, I figured you would be interested in contributing to further improve the article. Please comment there to help the article maintain its GA status. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 22:58, 5 July 2009 (UTC)