Wikipedia:WikiProject Animation/South Park task force

Goals

 * Improve grammar and spelling in articles.
 * Lengthen stub articles.
 * Cleanup articles.
 * Update articles that need it.
 * Improve links.

Guidelines, layouts, and advice
Although we strive to comply with all Wikipedia guidelines, there are a lot of them. The ones here are listed for convenience and also may be particularly helpful when editing South Park articles:
 * Manual of Style (writing about fiction)
 * Notability (fiction)
 * Guide to writing better articles
 * Avoid trivia sections in articles
 * Naming conventions (television)
 * Image use policy
 * Citing sources
 * The &lt;ref&gt; element

Please do not add mention of pop cultural references, continuity notes, trivia, or who the targets of a given episode's parody are, without accompanying such material with an inline citation of a reliable, published, secondary source. Adding such material without such sources violates Wikipedia's policies pertaining to Verifiability, No Original Research, and Synthesis.

While a primary source (such as the episode itself, or a screencap or clip from it at South Park Studios) is acceptable for material that is merely descriptive, such as the synopsis, it is not enough to cite a primary source for material that constitutes analytic, evaluative or interpretative claims, such as cultural references in works of satire or parody, because in such cases, such claims are being made by the editor. This is called synthesis, which is a form of original research, and is not permitted on Wikipedia, regardless of whether one thinks the meaning of the reference is "obvious". Sources for such claims must be secondary sources in which reliable persons, such as TV critics or reviewers, explicitly mention the reference.

In addition, trivial information that is not salient or relevant enough to be incorporated into the major sections of an article should not be included, per WP:PLOTSUMMARIZE and WP:TRIVIA, and this includes the plot summary. As indicated by WP:TVPLOT, the plot summary is an overview of a work's main events, so avoid any minutiae that is not needed for a reader's understanding of the story's three fundamental elements: plot, characterization and theme. This includes such minutiae as scene-by-scene breakdowns, technical information or detailed explanations of individual gags or lines of dialogue.

If you're new to Wikipedia, please click on the wikilinked policy pages above to familiarize yourself with this site's policies and guidelines.

Participants
The list of members can be found at Category:WikiProject South Park participants.

To add yourself to the project add the following to your userpage.

If you wish to use the userbox, add User WP South Park to your user page instead as it includes the above wikicode.

Templates

 * WikiProject South Park - Banner for article talk pages.
 * WikiProject South Park

Userboxes

 * All userboxes add the Category:Wikipedians who like South Park

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Proposing tasks
To comply with Wikipedia's standards for WikiProjects, all proposed tasks are discussed on the talk page.

Open tasks

 * Featured Article candidates

We could also add sections for:
 * The Jeffersons (just made it and it may need to be cleaned up Ttony21 (talk) 22:50, 18 June 2008 (UTC))
 * Mr. Adler Can anyone help me this is my first page and it is not too good. (Ricefountian)
 * Cleo Broflovski

Parent WikiProjects
In addition to the above guidelines and recommendations, follow the guidelines and recommendations of the following "parent" WikiProjects when they apply:
 * WikiProject Animation
 * WikiProject Television

Similar WikiProjects
Even if not directly South Park-related, the following WikiProjects that may contain useful advice and information that you can use:
 * WikiProject The Simpsons
 * WikiProject Futurama