Wikipedia:WikiProject BBC

Hello, welcome to WikiProject BBC!

We cover all articles that are related to the BBC and over time we aim to make all BBC related articles among the best that Wikipedia has to offer. We always welcome new members to assist us with this task, and so if you would like to help us with this, please feel free to add your name to our list of members.

Portal:BBC
On 3 January 2007, the BBC Portal was opened for the first time by this project. It contains a selected article, picture and biography as well as news relating to the BBC and a selection of interesting facts. Please feel free to join in and maintain the portal, as it needs updating regularly to keep things fresh. To link the Portal on BBC related articles add. For more information please see our Portal Maintenance page.

Guidelines
WikiProject BBC doesn't currently have its own guidelines. For content and style, the appropriate good and featured articles may be of help. In addition to the Manual of Style, editors may find the following resources useful:
 * WikiProject Television style guidelines
 * WikiProject Films style guidelines

Assessment
Almost all BBC articles have been assessed, however there is still work to be completed: articles that have already been reviewed need to be monitored, so that ratings can be changed when necessary. By rating articles you can help us to identify which are only stub or start class and thus need improving, and also which are most important to the project. You can help to rate WikiProject BBC articles at the assessment page.

Stub articles
A list of all BBC related articles that have been assessed as stubs can be found here. Please help the project by expanding and improving these articles. Also, please re-assess any articles that you no longer consider to be stub class.

Images
Add images of idents and programmes whenever possible, respecting the requirements of Wikipedia's guideline on "Fair Use" of copyright images. For biographical articles it is preferred that freely available images are used if the subject is alive. Fair use images are used normally where the subject is deceased and no free images are available. Please bear in mind the 'Fair Use' guidelines when uploading images.

Requested BBC articles
Anyone wishing to request an article relating to the BBC should add a URL link which provides information relevant to the request or provide a brief explanation of what the requested article is about on the BBC WikiProject Requests.

Articles
There are over 5000 pages that have been identified as being under the scope of WikiProject BBC; they can all be seen in the sub-categories of Category:WikiProject BBC. Any page that is related to the BBC should become part of this project. This includes articles relating to: If you think an article should be part of this project, simply go to the talk page and add the project template WikiProject BBC.
 * BBC Television
 * BBC Programmes
 * BBC Radio
 * BBC Staff
 * BBC Online
 * BBC Publishing
 * BBC Music

Featured content
These articles have been identified by the Wikipedia community as part of the Featured articles and Featured lists processes as being amongst the best Wikipedia has to offer. Please feel free to edit them to ensure that they maintain their current high standard. Our featured content includes:


 * The Apprentice (UK)
 * BBC Sports Personality of the Year:
 * BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award
 * BBC Sports Personality of the Year Coach Award
 * BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award
 * BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year
 * BBC Sports Personality Team of the Year Award
 * BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year
 * BBC Young Musician of the Year
 * Bernard Quatermass
 * The Boys from Baghdad High
 * Doctor Who missing episodes
 * Douglas Adams
 * Dustbin Baby (film)
 * Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel


 * The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)
 * Joking Apart
 * Last of the Summer Wine
 * List of Blue Peter presenters
 * List of Doctor Who serials
 * List of Joking Apart episodes
 * Only Fools and Horses
 * Our Friends in the North
 * The Power of Nightmares
 * The Quatermass Experiment
 * Quatermass II
 * Quatermass and the Pit
 * Sydney Newman
 * Yes Minister

The following are former featured articles. Please help to return them to the featured article standard:
 * BBC television drama (FA review comments)
 * Dalek (FA review comments)
 * Doctor Who (FA review comments)
 * The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (FA review comments)
 * TARDIS (FA review comments)

Good articles
These articles have been identified as part of the Good articles process as being of good quality, but have not yet reached the featured article criteria. Please help to ensure they continue to meet the good article criteria, and help make these featured articles. Some of our good articles are:

Film and television
 * The 39 Steps (2008 film)
 * The Black Adder
 * Blackadder II
 * Blackadder Goes Forth
 * Chalk (TV series)
 * Chartjackers
 * EastEnders: E20
 * Edge of Darkness
 * A Ghost Story for Christmas
 * "The Grinning Man" (Jonathan Creek)
 * Holby City
 * How Do You Solve a Problem like Maria?
 * Jekyll (TV series)
 * Judge John Deed
 * Lead Balloon
 * Live & Kicking
 * Madhouse on Castle Street
 * Moonbase 3
 * North and South (TV serial)
 * One Foot in the Grave
 * Outnumbered


 * Planet Relief
 * QI
 * Question Time British National Party controversy
 * Red Dwarf
 * Rock & Chips
 * Star Cops
 * The Stone Tape
 * Survivors (2008 TV series)
 * "Things Aren't Simple Any More"
 * Victoria Wood As Seen On TV
 * The Year of the Sex Olympics

Radio
 * Bigipedia
 * Mark Steel's in Town
 * The Museum of Curiosity
 * Nebulous
 * Planet B
 * The Quatermass Memoirs

People
 * Gethin Jones

The following are former good articles. Please help to return them to the good article standard:


 * The Apprentice (British series 3) (GA reassessment comments)
 * BBC (GA reassessment comments)
 * BBC News (TV channel) (GA reassessment comments)
 * BBC One (GA reassessment comments)
 * BBC UK regional TV on satellite (GA reassessment comments)
 * Cyberman (GA reassessment comments)


 * Dad's Army (GA reassessment comments)
 * EastEnders (GA reassessment comments)
 * Monty Python (GA reassessment comments)
 * Still Game (GA reassessment comments)
 * Torchwood Institute (GA reassessment comments)

Task forces and related WikiProjects
The following task forces and related projects may be of interest.

Task forces

 * BBC Radio task force
 * BBC Sitcoms task force

Parent and sister projects

 * WikiProject Television
 * WikiProject Television Stations
 * WikiProject British TV channels
 * WikiProject British TV shows
 * WikiProject Television Game Shows
 * WikiProject Soap Operas
 * WikiProject BBC Radio
 * WikiProject Radio
 * WikiProject Radio Stations • UK radio task force
 * WikiProject Film
 * WikiProject Companies

Descendant projects

 * WikiProject The Apprentice UK
 * WikiProject Blackadder
 * Dad's Army task force
 * WikiProject Doctor Who
 * WikiProject EastEnders
 * WikiProject Fawlty Towers
 * Holby task force
 * Life on Mars taskforce (including Ashes to Ashes )
 * WikiProject Monty Python
 * WikiProject Only Fools and Horses
 * WikiProject Red Dwarf
 * WikiProject Spooks

Project boxes
WikiProject BBC has several templates created specifically for the project, and also navigational boxes to link BBC articles together. They can all be found at WikiProject BBC/Templates.

Resources and external links
The following websites are all useful to help improve our articles. Please feel free to add any more you can think of.


 * https://www.bbc.co.uk – BBC Online homepage
 * https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice – BBC Press Office, for press releases, press packs, official comment and biographies
 * https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes – BBC Programmes
 * http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk - BBC Genome Project, all listings information printed in Radio Times between 1923 and 2009
 * Aspidistra – Information about BBC History
 * Baird – Information about early British television
 * London's television studio history – Martin Kempton's site about BBC (and ITV) studios
 * TVARK - Lots of video clips and information about the stations, their news services, and the idents and strands

Tools

 * Main tool page: toolserver.org


 * Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
 * Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
 * Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
 * Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.


 * Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject BBC