Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Firefly task force



Welcome to our ’verse! This WikiProject Television taskforce has been formed to better organize information in articles related to Firefly, Serenity and all articles related to the Firefly ’verse! This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list on the right.

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 Scope Create a high-quality body of major articles that cover the most important aspects of Firefly in an encyclopedic way and avoid fancruft. Goals Our Latest Newsletter! Check out our shiny new newsletter! Announcements
 * 1) Get this project rolling
 * 2) Get another article Featured.
 * 3) Get an article to be "Today's featured article"
 * 4) Rewrite any articles that are written from an in-universe perspective.
 * 5) What else?
 * Firefly (TV Series) has been listed as a FA!
 * Both Serenity (film) and Firefly (TV Series) were just listed as GA! Way to go everyone who helped out!

Browncoats
''Please feel free to add your name in alphabetical order to this list if you would like to join the project. If you just want to show your support for our project instead, you can sign our Guestbook''
 * 1)  -- I've got a personal interest in the Browncoat page, and I'm going to be keeping an eye on it.
 * 2)  Might not be much, but I'll do what I can to help.
 * 3)  - New to this whole Wikipedia thing... and kinda to this whole Firefly thing, but I'll pop in here and there.
 * 4) - Can lend a hand as needed, especially with info and trivia for River and Simon Tam.
 * 5)  - I'll do my best!
 * 6)  - Creating new articles, as well as expanding upon stubs.
 * 7)  - Templates, Categories, Gnome activities
 * 8)  - Part of a hive-mind of Firefly quotes. Send me a message if you need a specific line.
 * 9)  - I'm usually plange or plangega on FF/Serenity forums
 * 10)   -I'm good for quotes.
 * 11)  - I don't have much time now, but when I do I'll get more involved!
 * 12)  - Japanese lettering tends me to think of Jun Kazama, but who cares, what the heck? I'm joining because I like the show (besides The 4400)!
 * 13)  - you can't take the sky from me! (mostly vandalwatching)
 * 14)  - I've seen every episode... twice... today.
 * 15)  - I've seen every episode... twice... since i started typing this
 * 16)  - Just started watching it today
 * 1)  Might not be much, but I'll do what I can to help.
 * 2)  - New to this whole Wikipedia thing... and kinda to this whole Firefly thing, but I'll pop in here and there.
 * 3) - Can lend a hand as needed, especially with info and trivia for River and Simon Tam.
 * 4)  - I'll do my best!
 * 5)  - Creating new articles, as well as expanding upon stubs.
 * 6)  - Templates, Categories, Gnome activities
 * 7)  - Part of a hive-mind of Firefly quotes. Send me a message if you need a specific line.
 * 8)  - I'm usually plange or plangega on FF/Serenity forums
 * 9)   -I'm good for quotes.
 * 10)  - I don't have much time now, but when I do I'll get more involved!
 * 11)  - Japanese lettering tends me to think of Jun Kazama, but who cares, what the heck? I'm joining because I like the show (besides The 4400)!
 * 12)  - you can't take the sky from me! (mostly vandalwatching)
 * 13)  - I've seen every episode... twice... today.
 * 14)  - I've seen every episode... twice... since i started typing this
 * 15)  - Just started watching it today
 * 1) - Can lend a hand as needed, especially with info and trivia for River and Simon Tam.
 * 2)  - I'll do my best!
 * 3)  - Creating new articles, as well as expanding upon stubs.
 * 4)  - Templates, Categories, Gnome activities
 * 5)  - Part of a hive-mind of Firefly quotes. Send me a message if you need a specific line.
 * 6)  - I'm usually plange or plangega on FF/Serenity forums
 * 7)   -I'm good for quotes.
 * 8)  - I don't have much time now, but when I do I'll get more involved!
 * 9)  - Japanese lettering tends me to think of Jun Kazama, but who cares, what the heck? I'm joining because I like the show (besides The 4400)!
 * 10)  - you can't take the sky from me! (mostly vandalwatching)
 * 11)  - I've seen every episode... twice... today.
 * 12)  - I've seen every episode... twice... since i started typing this
 * 13)  - Just started watching it today
 * 1)  - Part of a hive-mind of Firefly quotes. Send me a message if you need a specific line.
 * 2)  - I'm usually plange or plangega on FF/Serenity forums
 * 3)   -I'm good for quotes.
 * 4)  - I don't have much time now, but when I do I'll get more involved!
 * 5)  - Japanese lettering tends me to think of Jun Kazama, but who cares, what the heck? I'm joining because I like the show (besides The 4400)!
 * 6)  - you can't take the sky from me! (mostly vandalwatching)
 * 7)  - I've seen every episode... twice... today.
 * 8)  - I've seen every episode... twice... since i started typing this
 * 9)  - Just started watching it today
 * 1)  - I don't have much time now, but when I do I'll get more involved!
 * 2)  - Japanese lettering tends me to think of Jun Kazama, but who cares, what the heck? I'm joining because I like the show (besides The 4400)!
 * 3)  - you can't take the sky from me! (mostly vandalwatching)
 * 4)  - I've seen every episode... twice... today.
 * 5)  - I've seen every episode... twice... since i started typing this
 * 6)  - Just started watching it today
 * 1)  - Japanese lettering tends me to think of Jun Kazama, but who cares, what the heck? I'm joining because I like the show (besides The 4400)!
 * 2)  - you can't take the sky from me! (mostly vandalwatching)
 * 3)  - I've seen every episode... twice... today.
 * 4)  - I've seen every episode... twice... since i started typing this
 * 5)  - Just started watching it today
 * 1)  - Japanese lettering tends me to think of Jun Kazama, but who cares, what the heck? I'm joining because I like the show (besides The 4400)!
 * 2)  - you can't take the sky from me! (mostly vandalwatching)
 * 3)  - I've seen every episode... twice... today.
 * 4)  - I've seen every episode... twice... since i started typing this
 * 5)  - Just started watching it today
 * 1)  - I've seen every episode... twice... since i started typing this
 * 2)  - Just started watching it today
 * 1)  - Just started watching it today

Style guide
To keep a consistent style to the articles, these guidelines should be followed. For a more detailed guide, see the TV Project guidelines and Writing about fiction. We need to be conscious of not writing for fans as there are already two Wikis for that (Firefly and FireflyWiki), plus Wikipedia frowns on that practice and will keep our articles from achieving GA (or dare we hope FA) status. Let's avoid the label of adding to the fancruft on Wikipedia :-)

General
The following general guidelines reflect standard Wikipedia style policy:


 * All article and section titles should follow sentence case, in which only the first word and proper nouns are capitalized.
 * The article name, when first mentioned, should be bold.
 * Titles for televisions series, books, comic series, roleplaying publications, and soundtrack albums, as well as names of ships, should be italicized. Such a title or name that is also the article name should be both bolded and italicized when first mentioned.
 * Titles for episodes, short stories, comic issues, book chapters, and songs should be "double-quoted". Such a title that is also the article name should be both "double-quoted and bolded" (in outisde-to-inside order - i.e., don't boldface the quotation marks) when first mentioned.
 * American English spelling should be used, per WP:ENGVAR, as these articles are about a U.S. TV show. With the exception of episode synopses and ongoing events, the past tense should be preferred in the main article text.
 * Do not link dates, per WP:MOSNUM.
 * Articles should be categorized in the correct subcategory at Category:Firefly (TV series).
 * A List of quotations constitutes non-encyclopedic trivia, such as is regularly removed from Wikipedia articles. Quotations are better added at Wikiquote, for example at Firefly. However, if a quotation is used to illustrate a point in the article text, then it is allowed.
 * Avoid using peacock terms, weasel words and "in-'Verse" perspective. Remember that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and Wikipedia is not a fansite, a collection of indiscriminate information, nor a soapbox for personal perspectives or suppositions.  Everything must be reliably sourced.

Episodes
Format for episode articles should be:


 * 1) A general description of what the episode/serial is and when it was first broadcast. It should include a teaser synopsis.
 * 2) Plot - A more fully detailed Plot.
 * 3) Arc significance
 * 4) Allusions to earlier episodes
 * 5) Foreshadowing
 * 6) Production - emphasis on the process of authorship of the shows - who wrote it, when, how long they took, where they got their ideas from, influences, its production etc. things to include are wardrobes, props, budget, casting, direction, lighting, cinematography, sound design, music. there should be discussions of ratings, and dvd sales. If enough sourced material is available, break it out into subsections, i.e.:
 * 7) Writing
 * 8) Casting - obviously omitting ensemble cast, this is the area to discuss the guest cast, with the name of the character followed by the name of the actor in parentheses. This should be in prose format, not list
 * 9) Direction
 * 10) Sound Design and music
 * 11) Reception
 * 12) Themes - only if you have sources
 * 13) Influences - if you have cited sources of any influences for the show. Did a particular theme or character owe its incarnation to an earlier work?
 * 14) Legacy - how did it influence others? how did the episode change the show? do other works reference this one?
 * 15) Notes - where the . If they want, they can then copy it onto their main User page, or use the award userbox. The award is:



Award holders
The following is a list of project participants who have received the award.


 * The Filmaker - awarded by Plange on 11 July 2006 for redoing our synopsis and getting it to a reasonable length.
 * User:Deckiller - awarded by Plange on 25 November 2006 for copyediting Firefly (TV series) and getting it to FA status! --plange 04:56, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Browncoat Wikipedians
These are Wikipedians who have one of our userboxes on their User page.
 * Category:Wikipedians who like Firefly

Parentage

 * WikiProject Entertainment
 * WikiProject Television
 * WikiProject Firefly task force

Firefly episode creation sometimes overlaps with the Episode coverage task force.

Related Wikiportals

 * Portal:Television
 * Portal:Film

Related pages in sister projects

 * Firefly
 * Firefly

Similar taskforces

 * Buffyverse taskforce
 * Stargate taskforce

External watchlist

 * Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Firefly