Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Warner


 * The following discussion is an archived proposal of the WikiProject below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or the WikiProject Council).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The proposed WikiProject was not created.

UnitedStatesian (talk) 05:06, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

Description
WikiProject Warner would seek to improve coverage and quality of articles covering Warner: movies, theme parks, merchandise, affiliated actors/actresses and all other related topics. The project would serve to create a more synergistic interaction of the brand and all it's various aspects. The brand is already covered fairly well on Wikipedia, so much of the work would be to improve the quality of the existing articles. The project would principally serve to identify the areas requiring the most work, identifying all the related topics, and centralizing a list of editors who contribute to these articles. Chrisisreed (talk) 20:03, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

List of important pages and categories for this proposed group
 * warner bros. (number of pages in the category: 42 )
 * warner bros. franchises (number of pages in the category: 56 )
 * hbo network shows (number of pages in the category: 226 )
 * cartoon network original programs (number of pages in the category: 138 )
 * warner bros. (number of pages in the category: 42 )
 * warner bros. franchises (number of pages in the category: 56 )
 * hbo network shows (number of pages in the category: 226 )
 * cartoon network original programs (number of pages in the category: 138 )


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 * Why do you want to start a new group, instead of joining one of these existing groups?
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Support
Also, specify whether or not you would join the project.
 * 1) Chrisisreed (talk) 20:03, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Discussion

 * Oppose this an all similar project proposals. This is not AdvertisiPedia. See in particular WP:NOT.  The few corporation-specific wikiprojects we do have and which haven't been sent to WP:MFD as farms for non-neutral coverage have gone moribund, e.g. WP:WikiProject Microsoft.  An additional concern is that readers and editors do not approach pop-culture material from the perspective of who the publisher was, and it's become a fact or near-irrelevance in within the last two decades, as intellectual-property franchises and such change corporate hands on a regular basis; even entire TV series move from one network to another (or to an online-only producer/publisher like Amazon or Netflix).  In short, there is no encyclopedic purpose for such a wikiproject.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  22:25, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Just to comment on your last point, while TV series move from one network to another, such as Brooklyn Nine-Nine from Fox to NBC, the show was always an NBC intellectual-property and not a Fox one, as the show was produced by Universal Television, which is what matters. --Gonnym (talk) 17:28, 1 April 2019 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or at the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.