Wikipedia:WikiProject Television

This is to guide the structure and normalize the standard of articles dealing with the television medium and television series or other forms of episodic programs, such as web series.

Related WikiProjects

 * WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers
 * WikiProject Albums
 * WikiProject Animation
 * WikiProject Anime and manga
 * WikiProject BBC
 * WikiProject Deletion sorting/Television
 * WikiProject Film
 * WikiProject Literature
 * WikiProject Radio
 * WikiProject Screenwriters
 * WikiProject Westerns

Participants
A list of participants can be found at Category:WikiProject Television participants.

Technically speaking, anyone who edits or contributes to TV related articles is a participant, and there are no requirements other than that. If one wishes one can further identify oneself with the project by listing one's name as a participant. This helps spread the word about the project and can help other editors see what types of articles that user is interested in editing.

To add yourself to the project listing add the following to your user page:

, if you wish to use the userbox, add to your user page instead as it includes the above wikicode.

Writing and editing television related articles
This project deals with a lot of television related articles, but they are not all the same. Therefore we have created separate pages with information for each type of television related article.

Project-specific guidelines and essays

 * Manual of Style/Television
 * Naming conventions (television)
 * Naming conventions (broadcasting) for advice on articles about television networks, channels, etc.
 * Notability (television) (essay)

Related guidelines and essays

 * Trivia sections
 * Manual of Style/Writing about fiction
 * Writing better articles: Check your fiction
 * Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information (#1, Plot summaries)
 * Notability (fiction)
 * Notability (media) (essay)
 * Possible proliferation of in-universe-related content is discussed in the essay Fancruft and its talk page.

Featured articles
See these featured articles for examples of well written articles on characters and elements from fiction:
 * Homer Simpson
 * Pauline Fowler
 * Martin Keamy

Naming a character
There is no guideline or policy about naming an article about a fictional character. See the essay Naming character articles.

People working in television
Actors, producers, writers etc. are all real people. Turn to WikiProject Biography for help on writing such articles. Here are some quick guidelines and tips for you however.
 * Notability (people)
 * Biographies of living persons
 * Manual of Style/Biography
 * WikiProject Screenwriters – project dedicated to screenwriters.

Categories
As a rule do not create categories for "People by series", because they can potentially work on numerous series or movies etc. You should categorize by profession. See the higher level Category:Television actors, Category:Television directors, Category:Television producers, Category:Television writers, Category:Television presenters in the top level Category:Television people.

Images
Fair Use images on pages of real people that are still alive are not allowed, because these images are replaceable. You also cannot use an image from a television program, etc., because you are not illustrating the character but the actor.

Featured articles

 * Kroger Babb
 * James T. Aubrey
 * Aaron Sorkin

Maintenance categories
See also

Maintenance reports

 * Database reports/Broken episode anchors

New articles
InceptionBot has been set up to identify new articles that are potentially within the scope of this project, based on the rules defined at User:AlexNewArtBot/Television. It is likely that some are false positives, in which case the log at User:AlexNewArtBot/TelevisionLog should be examined for more information.

Article alerts
Please watch WikiProject Television/Article alerts, for important alerts related to articles of this Wikiproject. "Article alerts" will be updated daily, and will also be transcluded here.