Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/American television task force

Welcome to WikiProject American television. Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of American television and the of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see WikiProject and WikiProject best practices.

Goals

 * Standardize coverage of the American television series, networks and stations
 * Improve lower-quality articles to Good or Featured status.
 * Maintain and further improve articles already of high-quality.

Scope

 * This purpose of this project is to standardize the coverage of American television series, channels, networks and stations within Wikipedia. This includes deciding how pages should be formatted, which pages should and should not be created, designing templates, etc. This project is not yet completely defined, so feel free to make suggestions on the talk page.

Parentage

 * WikiProject Television
 * WikiProject United States

Guidelines
The following is the guidelines which tries to help editors improve the quality of Wikipedia's articles within scope of American television related articles. For Wikipedia guidelines regarding how to write about fiction in general, see Notability (fiction) and Manual of Style (writing about fiction). These are only guidelines and may be altered depending on current Wikipolicies and/or project participant consensus.

Naming conventions
For clarification in specific instances, please view:
 * For biography articles: Naming conventions (people)
 * For television articles: Naming conventions (television)

Article construction
For information on what should be included in an article, please view:
 * For biography articles: Manual of Style (biographies)
 * For television articles: Manual of Style (television)

Official guidelines

 * Naming conventions (television)
 * Notability (fiction)
 * Notability (television)
 * Manual of Style (writing about fiction)
 * WikiProject Television/Style guidelines
 * Avoid trivia sections in articles
 * Naming conventions (television)
 * Image use policy
 * Citing sources

Participants
If you want to get involved in this project, please add your name to the participants' list. There is a userbox available for members of this project. Please feel free to put this on your userpage by adding User WikiProject American television. Alternatively, if you do not wish to use the userbox, you may add to the end of your user page.

Tagging and Assessment
Any articles that are within the scope of this project should be tagged with  banner. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to help in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work. They also play a role in the WP:1.0 program, which the WikiProject uses to help automate some of the assessing process.


 * The template should be placed on the talk pages of relevant articles to put them under the project's radar. It looks like this:

The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the WikiProject Television project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:American television articles by quality. WP:1.0 also produces a statistics page, and a log of articles assessed.

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