Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Animation/SpongeBob SquarePants work group/Archive 3

A source that could be used: Jerry Beck's Not Just Cartoons: Nicktoons!
I found a book in the bookstore called Not Just Cartoons: Nicktoons! by Jerry Beck. I'm not going to buy it and join the project, but I will ask the other members to get the book so that they can add real world information about various fictional characters.

This makes the creation of separate articles for *many* fictional characters feasible. Having information about the development of the character will make the articles satisfy Notability (fiction) WhisperToMe (talk) 20:37, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Missing Information
There are many cases in the article where the information is just general like where it says that spongebob has won employee of the month many times he has actually won exactly 27 times and squidward once —Preceding unsigned comment added by Klg499 (talk • contribs) 16:31, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Centralized TV Episode Discussion
Over the past months, TV episodes have been redirected by (to name a couple) TTN, Eusebeus and others. No centralized discussion has taken place, so I'm asking everyone who has been involved in this issue to voice their opinions here in this centralized spot, be they pro or anti. Discussion is here. Even if you have not, other opinions are needed because this issue is affecting all TV episodes in Wikipedia. --User: (talk) 23:18, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Video game articles
I don't think that each individual SB video game is notable on its own. What do you think of merging them into a single List of SpongeBob SquarePants video games? -- Crazy Legs  KC  19:04, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Not sure why you think that, the vast majority of them pass notability with ease. There are a couple of obscure PC titles which nobody reviewed but the console ones are no less notable than the next game. Could you give some examples of SB games that you don't think are notable? Someoneanother 02:06, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
 * According to WP:N, a subject is considered notable only when it has received substantial coverage in reliable secondary sources independent of the subject itself. Most of the video game articles cite no sources or don't cite enough that could be considered "substantial." Also, according to WP:PLOT, articles about published works need to cover the work's development and reception, not just summarize its plot. Only about three of the articles have any of this information, and in most of them the coverage of that information is very brief. By the looks of the articles as they are now, only Atlantis SquarePantis and Creature from the Krusty Krab appear to possibly pass these guidelines. -- Crazy Legs  KC  12:03, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
 * They have received substantial coverage, it's just not cited. If every game was fed through Game Rankings or Metacritic then a slew of sources would turn up. It's the same-old same-old, everyone's happy to sling together articles but substantially fewer want to fine-tune them and nobody wants to reference what's there. If this project is actually active enough a list of which games need what could be put together to be worked on, or alternatively some reference tags could be put in place. Someoneanother 14:34, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Portal in disuse, roll-call/update member list?
Is the portal actually needed? Several of its links are red and it hasn't been updated for six months, it's just another time sink. Could I suggest some kind of roll-call too? Checking a few of the contribution histories shows that some of these editors haven't signed in since 2006. If it's not kept up to date it gives no indication of who could be contacted about SB articles. Someoneanother 14:46, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

WP:FICT has been revised
WP:FICT, the notability guideline for elements within a work of fiction (characters, places, elements, etc) has a new proposal/revision that is now live Everyone is encouraged to leave feedback on the talk page. Ned Scott 22:11, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Notability (serial works)
There is a proposal to split WP:EPISODE into a more general notability guideline, Notability (serial works), and make the rest of WP:EPISODE just a MOS guideline. Please join in at WT:EPISODE and/or Wikipedia talk:Notability (serial works). -- Ned Scott 22:11, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Userbox for this wikiproject
Can someone make a userbox for this spongebob wikiproject? Please tell me if there already is one. Bubblesmiles (talk) 15:37, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

One's already been created, here:. Someoneanother 00:45, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Request for comment: Gimme 5 season dispute
The title says it all. Comment here. Xenon54 22:49, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Various Issues
Okay, over the past year there have been various issues and situations regarding the SpongeBob articles. I will sum it up in this table:


 * Basically, these have occurred due to, mainly, lack of sources besides the show. Since then, SpongeBob's article has more sources, as well as video game articles and the main episode list. In ragards to the episode information, if we can find plenty of reception and production details for the episodes, we can enrich the season articles to a point where we can split them by individual episode where it meets the proper guidelines. It is quite a big goal, and in the long run can be made possible. - AMK152 ( Talk •  Contributions  • Send message) 02:39, 31 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry but I can't understand WP:Episode. But I really DONT like what they did to the seperate episode articles: "Redirected to episode list". Where and when did the voting started, please tell? Dar book (talk) 07:44, 19 April 2008 (UTC)


 * See this archive discussion. - AMK152 ( Talk •  Contributions  • Send message) 15:22, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
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Nicktoons Unite!
Patrolling recent changes I found some anonymous edits made to Nicktoons Unite! article. As they were unexplained changes of content, I reverted them (with the proper edit summary). The same IP kept making changes (diffs, , , ). It may be sneaking vandalism, but I'm not familiar with the subject, so I couldn't say. I'm posting this notice in WikiProjects Nickelodeon, Video games and SpongeBob SquarePants so maybe somebody familiar with the subject can determine whether this is vandalism or not. --PeterCantropus (talk) 06:58, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Request for image
We need Personal picture of some important characters like: Patrick Star, Mr. Krabs and Squidward Tentacles. --MMXX talk 10:19, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject SpongeBob SquarePants/Current Newsletter‎
I created WikiProject SpongeBob SquarePants/Current Newsletter‎ and updated it with July 2007's newsletter (the most recent one I could find). The page was created so that WikiProject Council/Newsletters doesn't have to be continuously updated. If the project plans to start with new newsletters, just paste the entire newsletter on this page and it will update it on the main newsletters' page. --Nehrams2020 (talk) 00:20, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Media franchises
Dear WikiProject SpongeBob SquarePants participants...WikiProject Media franchises needs some help from other projects which are similar. Media franchises' scope deals primarily with the coordination of articles within the hundreds if not thousands of media franchises which exist. Sometimes a franchise might just need color coordination of the various templates used; it could mean creating an article for the franchise as a jump off point for the children of it; or the creation of a new templating system for media franchise articles. The project primarily focuses on multimedia franchises. It would be great if some of this project's participants would come over and help the project get back on solid footing. Also, if you know of similar projects which have not received this, let know. Please come and take a look at the project and see if you wish to lend a hand. You can sign up here if you wish. Thank you. LA @ 21:43, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Franchise naming convention discussion at WikiProject Media franchises
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Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for SpongeBob SquarePants
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Episode screen shots on season episode lists
I've removed episode screen shots from the seasons articles. We do not permit the use of screenshots per episode on lists such as these. This has been the case for more than a year now. Please see Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-05-07/Fair_use for background, and WP:NFC for the guideline. Also observe WikiProject_Television/Episode_lists and note that not one of the featured lists contains screenshots for each episode. --Hammersoft (talk) 14:19, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

SpongeBob SquarePants (character)
I'm pleased to announce that SpongeBob SquarePants (character) has just passed its Good Article review and is now the first SpongeBob SquarePants article to reach GA Status. Bill (talk 20:55, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group
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New Member
I'm new to the project, and just thought I would introduce myself. Sean (talk || contribs) 05:20, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
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Tools to help your project with unreferenced Biographies of living people
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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)

SpongeBob SquarePants articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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Character Articles
Can anyone make seperated articles of every character on spongebob?

69.236.175.82 (talk) 01:21, 28 September 2010 (UTC)Drew Harris


 * Due to the way Wikipedia works, technically yes. But you should only make an article if you think its notable enough to have its own article. For instance, an article on the titular Sponge exists (and is a GA), but you shouldn't make an article for that one guy who appeared in the background in that one episode and said and did nothing. Harry Blue5 (talk) 21:05, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Newsletter
Could I help to write the newsletter? It doesn't seem to have been published in 3 years, and I'd like to know what's going on and to help others to know what's going on. "User:Nicky Nouse" is not a valid HTML tag.  See Help:HTML in wikitext.  17:51, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Links
Would it make sense to put links on all SB pages to the SBSP Wikia wiki and SpongePedia? Kind of like "read more here and here"? Wikia advises linking or partnering with other wikis, would that be applicable? Just wondering. —Preceding signed comment added by Nicky Nouse (talk • contribs • wikia) 09:45, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Task force of WP:NICK
I've have converted into a task force of WP:NICK since it is no longer active. JJ98 (Talk / Contributions)  21:39, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

B-Class checklist
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Request for comment on Biographies of living people
Hello Wikiproject! Currently there is a discussion which will decide whether wikipedia will delete 49,000 articles about a living person without references, here:

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The two opposing positions which have the most support is:
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Merger of this project into WikiProject Television as a task force
It has been suggested that SpongeBob SquarePants work group 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)  10:43, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:SpongeBob SquarePants (character)#What to do with the "Other Appearances" section
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:SpongeBob SquarePants (character). Chris the Paleontologist (talk • contribs) 15:24, 27 June 2012 (UTC)