Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Buffyverse task force/Episodes

Use this page to discuss episode articles & what work needs to be done to them before they can be 'striked off'. Please try and keep this page updated so that Wikiproject Buffy can map the progress of the task and know where work needs to be done.

Key

 * 'ep' = episode
 * Strike out = Adequately completed article
 * That means:
 * - keep punctuation and spelling accurate to the episode's official name
 * - synopsis completed ('Summary' of episode (prferably 100-300 wrds), & 'expanded' synopsis (preferably 500-600 wrds)
 * - A filled in infobox, with memorable screencapture from episode
 * - Some behind scenes information
 * However articles at this stage still benefit from editing
 * - Often they could use additional behind the scenes information
 * - Or cleaner writing..
 * - Such tasks remain a much lower prioroty than completing the synopses and infoboxes.


 * Bold - Priority article
 * Episodes are stubs, or need to be completely rewritten. Buffy eps in bold may need a synopsis, or a cleanup.


 * Unformatted names - Article in editing
 * Episodes that remain in editing stages. Almost all unformatted eps could benefit from further editing specialist information such as 'Production details' sections and 'Arc significance'...

Progress
This page is up to date as of:


 * July/August 2007


 * 1) All episode articles have been created and appropiately named. All episode names that require disambiguation due to other articles with the same name should be appended with "(Buffy episode)" or "(Angel episode).  For episodes that don't require (Buffy episode), a redirect from Episodename (Buffy episode) may be created for ease of linking.
 * 2) All Buffy eps have a synopsis/infobox/image
 * 3) Angel Seasons 1-4 have at least a synopsis/infobox/image
 * 4) Buffy Season 1 has been adequtely completed
 * 5) Some other episodes have been completed, please help by striking an ep (see key) once it is completed.

Contributors and their contributions
This section lists some of the key contributors and their preferred area of expertise, this maybe useful for coordinating work on the episodes. Users may also add themselves, or correct their descriptions and explain the areas of the episode articles they will be working on.

In alphabetical order:


 * AnGeL X - Reformed majority of Angel/Buffy synopses in early March 2006. (See site at Angelicslayer.com)
 * Avalon - Has helped to wikify many of the episode articles.
 * Binthemix - Uploaded 143 buffy images for the episodes. Overhauled buffy ep list to include those images within better chart system.
 * BuffyGuide - Used synopses from site to boost wikipedia. (See site at BuffyGuide.com)
 * Cooksey - Has done huge amount of work on Angel episodes, adding and filling in infoboxes as well as adding images to Angel seasons 1-5.
 * CheNuevara - Founder of WikiProject Buffy, has helped to refine many episode articles.
 * Doppelgangland - Involved in fleshing out of numerous episode articles.
 * Gregg02 - Began many of the episode articles, and provided many of the intitial synopses (especially for Angel).
 * Jeffq - Refined many of the episode articles.
 * MosheZadka - Began and made huge contributions to many Buffy episodes helping to bring many episodes to completion.
 * NP Chilla - Refined many of the episode articles. Added and filled several infoboxes for the later Buffy seasons.
 * Paxomen - Added low-res images (uploaded by Binthemix) to 144 Buffy ep articles. Uploaded 66 low-res Angel caps, and added them to Angel ep articles. Added/filled in infoboxes for a few dozen Angel eps. Also general refining & behind scenes info.
 * Quarl2 - Has helped to wikify many of the episode articles that required it.
 * Tamfang - Works on fleshing out crossovers between Buffy and Angel.
 * xiner - Has refined many character and episode articles.

Short term tasks
Each season has its own short-term tasks listed. Please update them and the appropriate episode annotation as you complete them.


 * An accurate and formatted infobox
 * Synopses
 * Behind Scenes
 * Wikiquote links
 * Angel list

Synopses
Every episode needs a well-written synopsis section, including 2 sub-sections:


 * 1 - 'Summary' - aim for around 20-100 words
 * 2 - 'Expanded overview' - aim for 500 words (almost all of these should be done)


 * Synopses should avoid self-referencing (e.g. avoid using words like 'episode', 'teaser', 'cut'... though it is acceptable to refer to other eps by name.


 * Wikify links if relevant (a common mistake is to wikify years like 1900).

Episodes without any/enough quotes
Several Angel episodes have very few (or no) quotes:


 * Angel
 * Angel
 * Angel
 * Angel
 * Angel
 * Angel
 * Angel
 * Angel
 * Angel
 * Angel
 * Angel
 * Angel
 * Angel
 * Angel

Behind Scenes
This needs to be expanded upon hugely in the sections. Try not to overuse quotes, there is alread a Wikiquote. Cite sources but try to do it fluidly within writing rather than clunkily.

Sections

 * Writing and acting - Relating to writing, writers, or actors, but avoid POV


 * Production details - 'Translations' and 'Music' can have their own sub-sections in here. Other topics might include special effects, sets, camera work...


 * Cultural References - So far very few episodes have this section, but Buffy is a show that contains lots of pop-culture references every episode (and these are sometimes obscure especially to foreign viewers, so these sections maybe potentially be very useful for the wikipedia Buffyverse guide). For an example of how this section can be written see, Ted (Buffy episode)


 * Quotes and Trivia (include link to each ep to its place at Wikiquote). Keep quotes without analysis to a minimum since the wikiquote is a place where those can go.


 * Continuity - Sub-sections: 'Arc signficance', 'Timing' (includes table of surrounding Buffyverse stories). Themes or events that have a wider impact on the arc (or are the result of earlier themes/events.

Researching Buffy/Angel eps
Research using:


 * Unofficial guide books
 * Official guides:
 * Watchers' Guides Vol.s 1-3
 * Monster Book
 * Angel: Case Files Vol.s 1-3


 * interviews in magazines
 * Especially official Buffy/Angel mags for UK which have been running for years (US version has been being released for past few years)


 * DVD commentaries, (transcripts can be found on the net - see below)
 * interviews on internet
 * internet including these:
 * Restlessbtvs.com - INVALUABLE for Buffy trivia
 * Restlessbtvs.com - List of resources
 * Buffyguide.com - esp useful for references/music info
 * Cityofangel.com - features such as interviews
 * Angel DVD commentary transcripts
 * Buffy DVD commentary transcripts

Wikiquote links
Each ep article should contain its link to that episode at Wikiquote. See all quotes on these pages:


 * Angel at Wikiquote
 * Buffy at Wikiquote

Here are examples of the wikiquote links to the right and slightly below this text:

Buffy Season One (1997)
Project progress:


 * Added synopses, a summary, and an expanded synopsis for each ep
 * Infoboxes completed for episodes every episode, along with image (though poss low-res)

Short-term tasks:
 * Synopses can be refined and more links wikified.
 * Expand behind scenes info.


 * 0. Unaired pilot


 * 1) Welcome to the Hellmouth
 * 2) The Harvest
 * 3) The Witch
 * 4) Teacher's Pet
 * 5) Never Kill a Boy on the First Date
 * 6) The Pack
 * 7) Angel
 * 8) I, Robot... You, Jane
 * 9) The Puppet Show
 * 10) Nightmares
 * 11) Out of Mind, Out of Sight
 * 12) Prophecy Girl

Buffy Season Two (1997-1998)
Project progress:


 * Added synopses, a summary, and an expanded synopsis for each ep
 * Infoboxes completed for episodes every episode, along with image (though poss low-res)

Short-term tasks:


 * Synopses can be refined and links wikified (but only if relevant).
 * Expand behind scenes info.
 * Second half of season2 almost done but many of unannotated eps require more behind scenes


 * 1) When She Was Bad
 * 2) Some Assembly Required
 * 3) School Hard
 * 4) Inca Mummy Girl
 * 5) Reptile Boy
 * 6) Halloween
 * 7) Lie to Me
 * 8) The Dark Age
 * 9) What's My Line, Part One
 * 10) What's My Line, Part Two
 * 11) Ted
 * 12) Bad Eggs
 * 13) Surprise
 * 14) Innocence
 * 15) Phases
 * 16) Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
 * 17) Passion
 * 18) Killed by Death
 * 19) I Only Have Eyes for You - needs behind scenes,
 * 20) Go Fish - needs behind scenes,
 * 21) Becoming, Part One
 * 22) Becoming, Part Two

Buffy Season Three (1998-1999)
Project progress:


 * Added synopses, a summary, and an expanded synopsis for each ep
 * Infoboxes completed for episodes every episode, along with image (though poss low-res)

Short-term tasks:


 * Synopses can be refined and links wikified.
 * Expand behind scenes info.


 * 1) Anne
 * 2) Dead Man's Party
 * 3) Faith, Hope & Trick
 * 4) Beauty and the Beasts
 * 5) Homecoming
 * 6) Band Candy
 * 7) Revelations
 * 8) Lover's Walk
 * 9) The Wish
 * 10) Amends - reqs clean-up and behind-scenes info
 * 11) Gingerbread
 * 12) Helpless
 * 13) The Zeppo
 * 14) Bad Girls
 * 15) Consequences
 * 16) Doppelg&auml;ngland
 * 17) Enemies
 * 18) Earshot
 * 19) Choices
 * 20) The Prom
 * 21) Graduation Day, Part One
 * 22) Graduation Day, Part Two

Buffy Season Four (1999-2000)
Project progress:


 * Added synopses, a summary, and an expanded synopsis for each ep
 * Infoboxes completed for episodes every episode, along with image (though poss low-res)

Short-term tasks:
 * Synopses can be refined and links wikified.
 * Expand behind scenes info.


 * 1) The Freshman
 * 2) Living Conditions
 * 3) The Harsh Light of Day - more triv
 * 4) Fear, Itself
 * 5) Beer Bad
 * 6) Wild at Heart - adequate but more be-sc would improve
 * 7) The Initiative
 * 8) Pangs - adequate but more be-sc would improve
 * 9) Something Blue
 * 10) Hush
 * 11) Doomed
 * 12) A New Man
 * 13) The I in Team
 * 14) Goodbye Iowa
 * 15) This Year's Girl
 * 16) Who Are You
 * 17) Superstar
 * 18) Where the Wild Things Are
 * 19) New Moon Rising
 * 20) The Yoko Factor
 * 21) Primeval
 * 22) Restless

Buffy Season Five (2000-2001)
Project progress:


 * Added synopses, a summary, and an expanded synopsis for each ep
 * Infoboxes completed for episodes every episode, along with image (though poss low-res)

Short-term tasks:
 * Synopses can be refined and links wikified.
 * Expand behind scenes info.


 * 1) Buffy vs. Dracula - more be.-scenes
 * 2) Real Me
 * 3) The Replacement
 * 4) Out of My Mind
 * 5) No Place Like Home
 * 6) Family
 * 7) Fool for Love
 * 8) Shadow
 * 9) Listening to Fear
 * 10) Into the Woods
 * 11) Triangle
 * 12) Checkpoint
 * 13) Blood Ties
 * 14) Crush
 * 15) I Was Made to Love You
 * 16) The Body
 * 17) Forever
 * 18) Intervention
 * 19) Tough Love
 * 20) Spiral
 * 21) The Weight of the World
 * 22) The Gift

Buffy Season Six (2001-2002)
Project progress:


 * Added synopses, a summary, and an expanded synopsis for each ep
 * Infoboxes completed for episodes every episode, along with image (though poss low-res)

Short-term tasks:
 * Synopses can be refined and links wikified.
 * Expand behind scenes info.


 * 1) Bargaining, Part One
 * 2) Bargaining, Part Two
 * 3) After Life
 * 4) Flooded
 * 5) Life Serial
 * 6) All the Way
 * 7) Once More, with Feeling
 * 8) Tabula Rasa
 * 9) Smashed
 * 10) Wrecked
 * 11) Gone
 * 12) Doublemeat Palace
 * 13) Dead Things
 * 14) Older and Far Away
 * 15) As You Were
 * 16) Hell's Bells
 * 17) Normal Again
 * 18) Entropy
 * 19) Seeing Red
 * 20) Villains
 * 21) Two to Go
 * 22) Grave

Buffy Season Seven (2002-2003)
Project progress:


 * Added synopses, a summary, and an expanded synopsis for each ep
 * Infoboxes completed for episodes every episode, along with image (though poss low-res)

Short-term tasks:
 * Synopses can be refined and links wikified.
 * Expand behind scenes info.


 * 1) Lessons
 * 2) Beneath You
 * 3) Same Time, Same Place
 * 4) Help
 * 5) Selfless
 * 6) Him
 * 7) Conversations with Dead People
 * 8) Sleeper
 * 9) Never Leave Me
 * 10) Bring on the Night
 * 11) Showtime
 * 12) Potential
 * 13) The Killer in Me
 * 14) First Date
 * 15) Get It Done
 * 16) Storyteller
 * 17) Lies My Parents Told Me
 * 18) Dirty Girls
 * 19) Empty Places
 * 20) Touched
 * 21) End of Days
 * 22) Chosen

Angel Season 1 (1999-2000)
Project progress:


 * Added synopses, a summary, and an expanded synopsis for each ep
 * Infoboxes completed for episodes every episode, along with image (though poss low-res)

Short-term tasks:


 * Synopses can be refined and links wikified.
 * Expand behind scenes info.


 * 1) City of
 * 2) Lonely Hearts
 * 3) <S>In the Dark</S>
 * 4) <S>I Fall to Pieces</S>
 * 5) Rm w/a Vu
 * 6) Sense & Sensitivity
 * 7) Bachelor Party
 * 8) I Will Remember You
 * 9) Hero
 * 10) Parting Gifts
 * 11) Somnambulist
 * 12) Expecting
 * 13) She
 * 14) I've Got You Under My Skin
 * 15) The Prodigal
 * 16) The Ring
 * 17) Eternity
 * 18) Five By Five
 * 19) Sanctuary
 * 20) War Zone
 * 21) Blind Date
 * 22) To Shanshu in L.A.

Angel Season 2 (2000-2001)
Project progress:


 * Added synopses, a summary, and an expanded synopsis for each ep
 * Infoboxes completed for episodes every episode, along with image (though poss low-res)

Short-term tasks:


 * Synopses can be refined and links wikified.
 * Expand behind scenes info.


 * 1) Judgment
 * 2) Are You Now or Have You Ever Been
 * 3) First Impressions
 * 4) Untouched
 * 5) Dear Boy
 * 6) Guise Will Be Guise
 * 7) Darla
 * 8) The Shroud of Rahmon
 * 9) The Trial
 * 10) Reunion
 * 11) Redefinition
 * 12) Blood Money
 * 13) Happy Anniversary
 * 14) The Thin Dead Line
 * 15) Reprise
 * 16) Epiphany
 * 17) Disharmony
 * 18) Dead End
 * 19) Belonging
 * 20) Over the Rainbow
 * 21) Through the Looking Glass
 * 22) There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb

Angel Season 3 (2001-2002)
Project progress


 * Added synopses, a summary, and an expanded synopsis for each ep
 * Infoboxes completed for episodes every episode, along with image (though poss low-res)

Short-term tasks:


 * Synopses can be refined and links wikified.
 * Expand behind scenes info.


 * 1) Heartthrob
 * 2) That Vision Thing
 * 3) That Old Gang of Mine
 * 4) Carpe Noctem
 * 5) Fredless
 * 6) Billy
 * 7) Offspring
 * 8) Quickening
 * 9) Lullaby
 * 10) Dad
 * 11) Birthday
 * 12) Provider
 * 13) Waiting in the Wings
 * 14) Couplet
 * 15) Loyalty
 * 16) Sleep Tight
 * 17) Forgiving
 * 18) Double or Nothing
 * 19) The Price
 * 20) A New World
 * 21) Benediction
 * 22) Tomorrow

Angel Season 4 (2002-2003)
Project progress


 * Added synopses, a summary, and an expanded synopsis for each ep
 * Infoboxes completed for episodes every episode, along with image (though poss low-res)

Short-term tasks:


 * Synopses can be refined and links wikified.
 * Expand behind scenes info.


 * 1) Deep Down
 * 2) Ground State
 * 3) The House Always Wins
 * 4) Slouching Toward Bethlehem
 * 5) Supersymmetry
 * 6) Spin the Bottle
 * 7) Apocalypse, Nowish
 * 8) Habeas Corpses
 * 9) Long Day's Journey
 * 10) Awakening
 * 11) Soulless
 * 12) Calvary
 * 13) Salvage
 * 14) Release
 * 15) Orpheus
 * 16) Players
 * 17) Inside Out
 * 18) Shiny Happy People
 * 19) The Magic Bullet
 * 20) Sacrifice
 * 21) Peace Out
 * 22) Home

Angel Season 5 (2003-2004)
Project progress


 * Added synopses, a summary, and an expanded synopsis for each ep
 * Infoboxes completed for episodes every episode, along with image (though poss low-res)

Short-term Tasks:


 * Expand behind the scenes info


 * 1) Conviction
 * 2) Just Rewards
 * 3) Unleashed
 * 4) Hell Bound
 * 5) Life of the Party
 * 6) The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco
 * 7) Lineage
 * 8) Destiny
 * 9) Harm's Way
 * 10) Soul Purpose
 * 11) Damage
 * 12) You're Welcome
 * 13) Why We Fight
 * 14) Smile Time
 * 15) A Hole in the World
 * 16) Shells
 * 17) Underneath
 * 18) Origin
 * 19) Time Bomb
 * 20) The Girl in Question
 * 21) Power Play
 * 22) Not Fade Away