Talk:Shark Week

disambiguation page needed
I'm pretty sure "Shark Week" has a very well-known meaning that isn't related to some recent television production.

This page should be a disambiguation page that then redirects to a page about the TV show or a woman's menstrual cycle. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:AF8:1:1500:0:0:0:4239 (talk) 11:47, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

vandalism
changed chinchillas back to sharks in the opening paragraph. "average person have a greater respect for sharks." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 175.143.217.104 (talk) 17:35, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

20th anniversary
Am I missing something, or should the 20th anniversary of 1988 be in 2008? — thesublime514  •  talk  • 00:40, July 14, 2007 (UTC)

Agreed. This will be the "20th Annual" Shark Week, not the 20th Anniversary. I'll make the correction. 65.126.170.168 19:15, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

internal inconsistency
one section ("hosts") says les stroud hosted from 2007-2009, but the previous section says differently 67.173.44.126 (talk) 05:02, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

20th
Wasn't the 2007 one Hosted by Les Stroud of Survivorman? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Marhawkman (talk • contribs) 05:30, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Start year inconsistency
The show is listed as beginning in 1988 yet it says it began in 1987 in two different places on the page. The 20th anniversary/annual seems to have caused that confusion. 71.169.13.85 (talk) 03:37, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

In English?
The article currently has a line: "2009's Shark Week began the evening of August 2nd; the 2 word title phrase trended on Twitter the following morning, reaching as high as 2nd." Could someone who speaks Twitter please replace "trended" with a suitable translation (or delete the second half of the sentence if it doesn't belong here at all, which could well be the case)? Thanks. HenryAyoola (talk) 14:44, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

What are the programs about?
The whole article seems to be dedicated to listing the hosts. There is almost no effort to explain what the shark-related programming actually is. Wouldn't that be useful? john k (talk) 18:01, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Episodes
Usually, TV programs have a link to another articles citing and explaining individual episodes. Suggesting that it should be done here too. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wmcscrooge (talk • contribs) 00:53, 22 August 2011 (UTC) What would be gained from that though? I don't think Shark Week is that big for it to be done. If they missed it, they missed it. I'm sure another site has it posted already. (AutoRacingGenie (talk) 00:56, 22 August 2011 (UTC))

Shark Week Uncaged
But what with Shark Week Uncaged with Nigel Marven - Uncaged: Shark Week with Nigel Marven or the Uncaged: Žraločí týden s Nigelem Marvenem? It's from 2000. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Blogorgonopsid (talk • contribs) 15:49, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Notability outside of Discovery Channel?
Hello,

Is it notable enough to mention Shark Week events that occur outside of the Discovery channel? I don't feel strongly about it, and can't remember the notability policy for adding sections to existing articles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.136.192.1 (talk) 13:31, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

Longest-running cable television programming event
To avoid edit-warring, I'm providing an explanation for the distinction between an annual marathon event and a weekly, episodic TV show. The citation states, "[Shark Week is] now the longest-running cable TV programming event in history...", and this is explicitly different from a seasonal TV show with regular weekly episodes. Shark Week happens for one week on an annual basis, during which shark-related programming is broadcast nightly. This is similar to the Twilight Zone marathons that are broadcast annually on New Year's day (except Shark Week is an extended version of that).

The editor who is disagreeing with the cite is using Monday Night RAW and ESPN SportsCenter as counter-examples. Those shows are not annual events. The first is broadcast weekly on a seasonal basis (like regular TV shows with ~20 episodes per season), while the second is a daily news show. For all the puffery it contains, the phrase "longest-running cable TV programming event in history" is not incorrect (unless a counter-citation proves otherwise).

—Samatict (talk) 01:49, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

Criticism section?
I think we should probably start up a criticism section, as the last few years of Shark Week has garnered quite a bit of criticism in mainstream (and not so mainstream) press. Most of it criticizes DC for perpetuating myths, inaccuracies, and going for sensationalism over fact, but there are a few articles now that say that SW has encouraged more people to eat shark, which is putting them at more risk of endangerment. The stuff I'm listing is just from this year- I know that last year there was a big to do over a fake documentary that DC made, which apparently didn't get clearly labeled as being such. Basically, there's been too much criticism to not list it, but I figure I'll try to get some discussion going here rather than just add it myself and not start a discussion. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   06:07, 16 August 2014 (UTC)


 * I agree. I came here to see what was listed in a criticism / controversy section after hearing multiple podcasts discussing it. Taraba (talk) 16:21, 27 August 2014 (UTC)


 * I agree. The entire opening paragraphs of the article look like a massive bashing-fest of "Shark Week", and frankly, I call BS on the notion that it is somehow not promoting shark awareness and conservation anymore. The Megalodon row is hardly anything to get butt hurt about: it's a dramatic documentary of a real fish. I don't get the problem with sensationalism in documentaries if it doesn't change the facts it's reporting. Sensationalism and excitement make learning a whole lot more fun. --99.157.108.186 (talk) 21:22, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

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