Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Australian television/Archive 2

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 You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!


 * What? Wiki Loves Pride, a campaign to document and photograph LGBT culture and history, including pride events
 * When? June 2015
 * How can you help?
 * 1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here
 * 2.) Upload photographs or other media related to LGBT culture and history, including pride events, and add images to relevant Wikipedia articles; feel free to create a subpage with a gallery of your images (see examples from last year)
 * 3.) Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)

Or, view or update the current list of Tasks. This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. Visit the group's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome!

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User:Another Believer and User:OR drohowa (timestamp may not be accurate) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Another Believer (talk • contribs) 15:13, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!
A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
 * – Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Relevant discussion
There is an ongoing discussion occuring at WP:TFD which may be interests to the followers of this page. &#8211; MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 22:10, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

Monday Night with Matty Johns
This article should be moved to Sunday Night with Matty Johns as it's now on Sundays. Thoughts? WDM10 (talk) 05:46, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Freeview entry on Wikidata
I had proposed a property on Wikidata to see if a entry suits onto there and once the property is being created, it is possible to link those available programme onto the Free view website. Shinjiman &#8660; &#9832; 01:42, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

OzTAM Ratings data via TV Tonight
I noticed that David Knox of TV Tonight wrote a post that said he had to delete 11 years worth of ratings reports from the site, and that OzTAM is also addressing Wikipedia for compliance similarly. Does this mean that we will have to remove citations for the removed data? I understand that the daily ratings wrap articles are not affected by this change, but I'm concerned that a number of articles under the project are going to have to go under major reference changes due to using the now-unavailable data. Reader781 (talk) 21:22, 23 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Wow, this is big news. Also interested to see what others think. SatDis (talk) 21:56, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from cite web, cite journal and doi.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Move discussion at The Cheap Seats (Australian TV series)
An editor has requested for The Cheap Seats (Australian TV series) to be moved to The Cheap Seats. Since you had some involvement with The Cheap Seats (Australian TV series), you might want to participate in the move discussion (if you have not already done so). Happily888 (talk) 01:24, 19 June 2022 (UTC)

Request for Assessment
I was wondering if anyone would assess the article First Day (TV series)? I am hoping for a C-class or B-class listing. Thanks. SatDis (talk) 03:23, 21 December 2020 (UTC)


 * I am still hoping for a B-class assessment if anyone is able to. Thanks. SatDis (talk) 05:13, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments
Quality assessments are used by Wikipedia editors to rate the quality of articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a class parameter to WikiProject banner shell, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to WikiProject banner shell, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project decides to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass WPBannerMeta a new custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 14:34, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

AMV (TV station) references
@Happily888, and other members of this WikiProject, I can't improve the references with a missing title on AMV (TV station), which I put into that article, as I am too busy in my personal life. Can you members please do that for my convenience. See this discussion for more information: Help desk. Yours sincerely, TechGeek105 (his talk page) 10:00, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

Expanding Foxtel 3D with the references I found via Google
@Happily888, @5 albert square, and other members of this WikiProject, can you please expand Foxtel 3D with the references I found via Google, as I simply am busy with my personal life. I recently PRODded the article on 17 September.

Yours sincerely, TechGeek105 (his talk page) 08:40, 21 September 2023 (UTC)


 * @Happily888, can you please add these references to the article, after I add 4 other references to the article. Yours sincerely, TechGeek105 (his talk page) 06:36, 22 September 2023 (UTC)

Can you, members of various WikiProjects, please update the 2022 in Australian television article?
Can you, members of this WikiProject, and related WikiProjects, please update the 2022 in Australian television article? The reason why I am doing this, is because I don't have time to rewrite the article in the first place. I will then do WP:BOLD edits to that article afterwards. Yours sincerely, TechGeek105 (his talk page) 07:50, 23 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Pinging @Lotsw73, to see if he could potentially improve the article, per the update tag I added to the article in July and per other Australian television articles, with more 2022 Australian television shows. Yours sincerely, TechGeek105 (his talk page) 06:53, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi TechGeek105, I will take a look and see what I can improve. All the best, Lotsw73 (talk) 00:39, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

Filmography tables
Hey. I wanted some clarification from other participants of this project. In a performer's Filmography section I thought that it was not encouraged to add non-notable television credits such as appearances on talk shows or game shows, where the person is appearing as themselves. User:Whitleyscott1973 has been mass editing endless Australian actors and actresses articles adding these to the filmography tables. Some long-term performers end up with massive slogs of information in their acting credits, that are not even film roles. Is there a consensus, a guideline or a rule against adding this information? I noticed the editor has been approached about their additions but nothing has changed. Some examples I have removed are this and this Previous discussions on Filmographies have determined that "in addition to excluding ads, we always leave out 'talk show' appearances out of filmographies as well" for actors and filmmakers. An editor on their talk page mentioned this discussion: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers/Archive 16.Rain the 1 19:46, 10 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi @Raintheone, I can't help you with this one, but I will ping a few other editors to see if they can help. @Happily888 @TechGeek105 @5 albert square @JuneGloom07 @SatDis Any thoughts? Lotsw73 (talk) 05:44, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I agree that talk show appearances shouldn't be included, unless perhaps the interviewee is performing as a character (or is a recurring guest on a panel show). If there isn't a guideline as such, then I'd go by the previous agreed consensus at WP:FILMBIO. It might also fall under WP:INDISCRIMINATE. - JuneGloom07 Talk  20:23, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Digital terrestrial television in Australia
Please see this discussion on an important article in our project's scope, at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Television. Lotsw73 (talk) 13:20, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

More participants needed
Hi everyone, I've been looking at our active participants list on the project page lately and found that there are just 19 active editors who still edit Wikipedia and who are part of this project.

So, I was wondering whether all members could please attempt to recruit more editors to join this project. I know it's easier said than done, but it would be nice to have additional editors around here to help us edit the large project that is Australian TV.

No doubt you all know this already, but editors can be recruited by posting comments on the user talk pages of other editors who regularly edit Australian television articles, or who edit television articles in general. You can also view the edit history of Australian television articles to find like-minded editors from there.

I will post a message on the WikiProject Television talk page and reach out to other editors to see whether I can recruit editors myself. Hopefully we'll see a few more members around here soon. All the best everyone, Lotsw73 (talk) 05:31, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

Australian cinema task force
Hello everyone, I stumbled across a task force called the Australian cinema task force. I was wondering whether anyone here would consider joining the task force and perhaps reviving it. Thoughts? Lotsw73 (talk) 03:44, 26 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi Lots - I've added myself to both mainly because I do edit film and TV articles from time to time, including at the moment. I don't really want to be involved in driving the task force though, because I like to edit on a range of topics rather than confine myself to one (and like most of us, have limited time and energy and only edit erratically). Laterthanyouthink (talk) 04:31, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
 * @Laterthanyouthink: Fair enough. :) Lotsw73 (talk) 11:12, 3 March 2024 (UTC)