Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Animation/South Park task force/Archive 2

"I Have a Little Dreidel"
It would be appropriate of others would involve themselves in a content dispute at I Have a Little Dreidel over whether the references to South Park's use of this traditional Jewish song is relevant to the article. __meco (talk) 08:27, 9 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Regarding that article's talk page, and the discussion over there thus far, I don't see how or why that article falls under the scope of the SP WikiProject, so I went ahead and removed the banner. -  SoSaysChappy   (talk)  04:42, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Not All Good Articles are listed
Is this intentional? There are many that aren't listed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Iankap99 (talk • contribs) 03:44, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixed. :) -  SoSaysChappy   (talk)  05:23, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Cool.--Iankap99 (talk) 21:11, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Good article template
Consensus has been reached to use the template: Please feel free to add it to all WP:GA rated articles within this WikiProject, in the same manner of placement used as featured article. Thanks for all of your quality improvement work within the topic of this WikiProject! :) Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 15:00, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Good article

Edits by 174.26.80.68
Edits by this IP to multiple episode pages, include removal of number of episode and season, replacing it with some unsourced number for overall episode order. These should be reverted, and the IP warned for disruption. Thoughts? -- Cirt (talk) 21:52, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

AFD for The Meteor Shower Trilogy
At Articles for deletion/The Meteor Shower Trilogy. East of Borschov 12:04, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

Updates to TV#MOS
I'm not sure how many people monitor WP:MOSTV or even WP:TV (the basic WikiProject for all of us), but we've been trying to get some feedback on additions to the TV Manual of Style. It largely has to do with the inclusion of "Overview" tables at the start of the page, the order in which season lists are presented (currently, there is no concrete order), and what is considered too much info for DVDs (i.e. should we be placing every detail about the box set in the article, from each interview to the aspect ratio, or should be keep it more generalized). Please see discussion at WT:MOSTV. Thank you.  BIGNOLE     (Contact me)  22:10, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

South Park articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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South Park
Something is wrong with the article, the navigation pane is about halfway down the page, and the Series overview section looks like someone messed up a table. Sephiroth storm (talk) 03:03, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixed it . -- Cirt (talk) 03:07, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject cleanup listing
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Lets Have Episode of The (time frame)
Let's have an episode every two weeks where we all work together to get it up to GA. I figure we could really get this project off the ground if we do that. Anyone else up for that? Or have another suggested time frame?--Iankap99 (talk) 00:45, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
 * There was an ongoing quality drive for articles that started a few seasons back, it seems to have done a really good job on newer articles. Older articles though haven't yet benefitted from that drive. How's about those with access to stronger Google-fu start on those? WikiuserNI (talk) 17:24, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

More than i quality drive, I'm suggesting a Good Article drive, getting articles up to good article standards. I suggest however, that we start on the best articles that aren't up to GA standards and work our way down. I'm not going to do this on my own, I would need a very committed partner, are you up for it?--Iankap99 (talk) 20:47, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Please see WP:SOUTHPARK/TOPIC. -- Cirt (talk) 00:06, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Iankap99, as the above users pointed out, what you are suggesting is largely what we were doing at the SP Topic Drive, which led to some real success with Seasons 1 and 13, but has been fairly inactive lately. I'd love to try to get it started again, so how about we try your GA-drive idea with season 2? We can work on those episodes, and try to get the good topics like the South Park (season 1) FT and the South Park (season 13) GT? —  Hun ter   Ka  hn  01:34, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Sounds good, but lets have 2 or 3 articles selected from those to be the ones of current emphasis. So that us three can know which ones to cooperate on. Pick them yourself, I have no preference. Sounds like a plan?--Iankap99 (talk) 02:05, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
 * There are 3 articles claimed. Collaborating on those might be a good starting point. Nergaal (talk) 06:52, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Actually, since those articles are already claimed and have been worked on a bit, I was thinking it would be better to work on some of the unclaimed articles, since they need the most attention. I thought we could start with "Cartman's Mom Is Still a Dirty Slut" and/or "Chickenlover", perhaps? —  Hun ter   Ka  hn  15:32, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Let's start with articles that need less work to get to GA. On second though, season 2 isn't as developed. How about season 11?--Iankap99 (talk) 04:41, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Inside xBox
Hey SP fans,

I've noticed that in a couple of South Park episode articles Iside Xbox is written as Inside xBox (like over here). Since I don't have the time or energy to fix it myself, I thought I'd drop a line for you guys to do the work. Isn't that nice? ;-) Kind regards, -- Soetermans |  drop me a line  |  what I'd do now?  15:29, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Episode notability tags
A while ago, an drive was made to generally improve article content across the seasons. I've not kept an eye on that of late, but some of the earlier, untouched articles are being tagged for notability. Rightly too I suppose, they're reasonably bare bones at the moment. WikiuserNI (talk) 23:17, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

Trivia / Cultural References
I'm very sad, that Cultural References sections have to be removed. They are the fun part of episode articles. Does anyone know an alternative, where I can look up which movies are referenced in an episode? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.56.123.225 (talk) 05:22, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

Detlef Schrempf reference?
Leaving aside issues of noteworthiness, is this edit correct? I just watched the episode at South Park Studies, and I can't make anything out that looks like "Detlef Schrempf". I can see "Konverse", and something else about "performance tech", but nothing else. Zagal e jo^^^ 01:56, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Never mind, I can see it now. For whatever reason, I couldn't see that at all last night. Zagal e jo^^^ 02:39, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

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Featured portal candidate: Animation
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South Park episodes being redirected
If anyone is interested in making any South Park episode articles better, User: JDDJS has redirected a whole bunch of them, so you guys can try and improve them if you want them to stick around. Canuck My page89 (talk), 02:40, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I undid his edits since they were done without prior discussion, and not based on any policy. Nergaal (talk) 18:14, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Good, thank you. I'm trying to clean up some of the mess he made as well. Not sure how to fix what he did to the Cartoon Wars articles, though.  --Captain Infinity (talk) 23:42, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I am not against merging very similar episodes. He has some point there. Nergaal (talk) 23:53, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
 * It was based on the notability policy. JDDJS (talk) 05:09, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Which one exactly? You are essentially deleting articles without building any consensus. Are you even aware of the role of wp:AfD? Nergaal (talk) 07:15, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Merger of this project into WikiProject Television as a task force
It has been suggested that WikiProject South Park to be merged into WikiProject Television as a task force since the project might be inactive or semi-active. After reviewing this project that it appears that there have not been any active discussion on the talk page in some time and the only content updates appear to be simple maintenance so being supported by a larger project might be beneficial. If you have questions or comments, please let us know. JJ98 (Talk / Contributions)  08:43, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I guess its not active, I am going to convert into a work group of WP:ANIMATION. JJ98 (Talk / Contribs)  19:26, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

"Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo" is scheduled as "Today's Featured Article" soon
See Today's featured article/December 17, 2012. If members of this project can improve the article, or the blurb, before the article hits the main page, that would be good. It might not surprise you to learn that this TFA selection is not uncontroversial, and so it would be in the project's interests for the article to be as stunningly good as possible. BencherliteTalk 11:36, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

Leaflet for Wikiproject South Park at Wikimania 2014
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Redirects to lists instead of episodes
A lot of redirects (for spelling errors or related terms found in episodes) redirect the user to the list of episodes instead of to the actual episodes. Look for example at season 2 incoming redirects and season 7 incoming redirects. Is this done on purpose or could it be the next step for this project to take? - FakirNL (talk) 17:03, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

Cartman Joins NAMBLA
Where is the commentary in Cartman Joins NAMBLA? Without secondary source reception or commentary from the creators, this needs to be merged WhisperToMe (talk) 20:46, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

Obama Wins! Article mistake
The episode Obama Wins! Is misattributed as having a B grade on the Marcus Gilmer AV Club review. Mr. Gilmer gave the episode an A.

reference: http://www.avclub.com/articles/obama-wins,88389/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Littlenemoinslumbaland (talk • contribs) 19:33, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

Season Overview mistake

Don't know how and were to tell you folks so here I go. The author of the Season 16 overview stated that it is a season in which Kenny does not die. However our good old friend Mister McCormick suffers a terrible death of herpes in the Episode "I should have never gone Ziplineing"

Cheers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.53.201.183 (talk) 21:19, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

Archived some threads
I've archived some inactive threads to subsections which were notifications about discussions that have since been closed. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 03:49, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

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South Park talk page
Hi guys. Noticed that the talk page for the main South Park article goes all the way back to 2010. I tried to add a new section only to discover that's it's not showing up. Now it's been a while since I've edited on Wikipedia and can't quite remember 100% how things work...so I was wondering if the new section not being visible was related to the fact that it's gotten so crowded (50 sections) on the talk page (no apparent new sections since Dec 2014). If so, I can archive a lot of the old discussions (that much I remember how to do). -  SoSaysChappy   (talk)  13:03, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Portal icon change
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Turn this WikiProject into a Taskforce?
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Running time in the Infobox?
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Should AI software be credited as a writer?
The March 8, 2023 episode "Deep Learning", which depicts the characters using the AI-based app ChatGPT to write their romantic texts and school essays, credits ChatGPt in the closing credits. Some editors want this listed in the episode's Infobox, while others opposite it. Can editors please weigh in with their opinion at the RfC here?

The discussion that preceeded it, in which editors presented their arguments for and against the decision, is directly above it. Thank you. Nightscream (talk) 15:16, 13 March 2023 (UTC)