Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Television/British television task force

Merge banner templates together
Since channels and shows WikiProjects were merged together as taskforces of this project, I suggest that the WPP banners ( British TV shows project & British TV channels project ) also be merged together


 * {{WPUKTV} } -- Template:WikiProject British TV

This would have a taskforce switch for each task force
 * "|channel=yes" for channels
 * "|show=yes" for shows

70.24.249.190 (talk) 01:35, 22 January 2012 (UTC)


 * An example can be see at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject British TV/banner



With Scottish TV 70.24.249.190 (talk) 02:35, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

WP:WikiProject Scottish Television
As WP:WikiProject Scottish Television is fairly inactive, should it also be merged here, similarly to how shows and channels were last month? An alternate idea would be to merge it to WP:SCOTLAND, like how USA and Canada have set up theirs.

For the discussion, please see WT:WikiProject Scottish Television

70.24.249.190 (talk) 02:35, 22 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Many aspects of television in Scotland differ from the rest of the UK, but merging to either this project or WP:SCOTLAND is probably ok. If merged here, I do wonder how a yes vote in September's referendum would affect things. Interestingly, this project (of which I was unaware) predates my creation of a list of years in Scottish television. Paul MacDermott (talk) 21:20, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Membership page
There are two membership pages, WikiProject British TV/Channels/Membership and WikiProject British TV/Shows... both lists should be combined at WikiProject British TV/Membership, and the project page updated, since it looks like you're only joining the channels task force according to the current instructions. 70.24.249.190 (talk) 02:39, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:British TV will have interest in putting on events related to women's roles in British television: as producers, writers, show subjects, actors, etc. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 19:10, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Merger of this project into WikiProject Television as a task force
It has been suggested that WikiProject British TV 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)  08:42, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Royal Wessex Rangers
Template:Royal Wessex Rangers has been nominated for deletion. (Royal Wessex Rangers is the fictional British Army regiment featured in Spearhead (TV series)). You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. DH85868993 (talk) 12:14, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

Series overview tables
Please come to Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Television to discuss the implementation of these tables in television articles, from main articles to List of Episode pages.  BIGNOLE     (Contact me)  19:24, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


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Harej (talk) 16:56, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride!
 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.)

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Discussion at Talk:Les Misérables (2018 TV series)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Les Misérables (2018 TV series). Should Les Misérables be disambiguated as (2018 TV series) or (2018 miniseries)? --  Alex TW 14:35, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Formal requested move at . --  Alex TW 07:20, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

Discussion at Files for discussion/2018 December 25
You are invited to join the discussion at Files for discussion/2018 December 25. -- Marchjuly (talk) 13:35, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

List of Doctor Who Christmas and New Year's specials listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for List of Doctor Who Christmas and New Year's specials to be moved to List of Doctor Who specials. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 01:04, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
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Just to note this move request covers the scope and intention of the article in question, and could do with some objective eyes from outside the Doctor Who project. Please do take a look if interested, and consider the draft changes at User:U-Mos/sandbox also. U-Mos (talk) 22:40, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Cabaret (British TV series) listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Cabaret (British TV series) to be moved to Cabaret (UK TV programme). This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 22:02, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
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RfC on disambiguation of TV articles
An RfC has been opened at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (television). Additional participation is welcomed. -- Netoholic @ 18:58, 3 April 2019 (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)

Portal:BBC & two other UK television portals up for deletion
The following hand-curated UK television portals are currently listed at Miscellany for deletion:
 * Portal:BBC in Miscellany for deletion/Mixed bag of group portals
 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:EastEnders
 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Strictly Come Dancing (2nd nomination)

Most of these are in need of maintainers, if anyone is interested. Espresso Addict (talk) 11:33, 23 April 2019 (UTC)


 * But first the two remaining portals (the Strictly Come Dancing portal has now been deleted) need to be saved from deletion by advocating for their retention, as I have already done. Rillington (talk) 18:55, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Portal:Television in the United Kingdom
Portal:Television in the United Kingdom has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Television in the United Kingdom. Certes (talk) 00:37, 29 September 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)

Turn some inactive child WikiProjects into a Taskforce?
WikiProject British television has some inactive TV-show specific child WikiProjects. I invite editors to join the discussion at WP:WikiProject Television to convert those (NOT this parent WikiProject) into taskforces. – sgeureka t•c 12:56, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Turn this WikiProject into a WikiProject TV taskforce?
I invite editors to join the discussion at WP:WikiProject Television to convert many inactive WikiProjects into taskforces, including this one. --Gonnym (talk) 11:07, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

Discussion about article "National Geographic (UK and Ireland)"
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:National Geographic (UK and Ireland), which is about an article that is within the scope of this WikiProject. How the channel was operated during its early years? JSH-alive/talk/cont/mail 15:04, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

Renaming television programmes
Quick question. When a television programme changes its name and format do we start a new article for the newly named programme or move the existing one? Thanks in advance, This is Paul (talk) 15:13, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
 * My question refers to Brexitcast and Newscast, which I've chosen to treat as separate entities. If that's not right then please feel free to make any changes, merge, etc. Cheers, This is Paul (talk) 20:44, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the late reply . Since I've seen it done both ways I don't think there is a hard and fast rule. My preference is for the option you've chosen as there are usually differences (some subtle and others overt) when a programme changes its name. Your mention of format changes only reinforces my feeling. Best regards. MarnetteD&#124;Talk 20:49, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

Michael Ward (British Actor) listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Michael Ward (British Actor) to be moved to Michael Ward (actor, born 1995). This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 22:01, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
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Rick Stein's TV seies
Currently there's only an article or page Rick Stein's Cornwall while he has many other TV series. Should there be some more Rick Stein TV series articles or are they not notable as yet?

Condo951795 (talk) 07:08, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

Discussion
There is a discussion here which I started that I think should apply to all XXXX year in British Television articles. Please do comment on it! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 00:27, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

Postcode
There was a programme called 'postcode' which only had three episodes and aired in December 2011 on CBBC, it was intended to be a 'gritty' drama similar to the likes of Byker Grove and Grange Hill. The drama is about teenagers from high-income living side by side with asylum seekers. The main character who is an asylum seeker gains a friendship with one of the teenagers who lives in a supposedly well-income family. It also linked with another show on CBBC called 'School for Stars' in which one person who was studying in the acting school gained a part on the show 'postcode'. Some actors who were on more prominent shows on CBBC were on this show called 'postcode' too.

As you can see, the show didn't do too well for some forever unknown reason, and a full-fledged series was never picked up, so those three episodes are all there is of the show. The three episodes are available to watch on YouTube.

Here is some proof of this show's existence:

CBBC to air gritty new drama aimed at pre-teenage audience | BBC | The Guardian

CBBC | Postcode - Episode 1 (2011) - YouTube

CBBC on BBC One | Postcode - Episode 2 (2011) - YouTube

CBBC on BBC One | Postcode - S01 Episode 3 (Finale) - YouTube

Postcode (TV Series 2011– ) - IMDb

Does this obscure show deserve a Wiki page? it will be nice to inform people of a British show that seems much forgotten. 123typewrite123 (talk) 22:02, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

Good Article reassessment for Mr. Bean
Mr. Bean has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Nineteen Ninety-Four guy (talk) 18:06, 24 December 2022 (UTC)

FAR
I have nominated The Quatermass Experiment for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Desertarun (talk) 20:20, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

Notice of move discussion
A move discussion has been opened at Talk:Van der Valk, since the recent move to add the date of that series to the article title was reverted as undiscussed. Softlavender (talk) 08:35, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Dumped
Dumped has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 11:11, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments
Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate 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 has decided 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) 17:29, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Kix (UK and Ireland TV channel)
Would somebody from WP:BTV mind taking a look at Kix (UK and Ireland TV channel)? The content in it appears to be essentially the same as the content in Pop Max. It looks like there might have been an attempt to boldly split the article from Pop Max the other day by an IP. That was boldly reverted, but then reverted back by the IP. -- Marchjuly (talk) 20:19, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Blackadder Goes Forth
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Good article reassessment for Moonbase 3
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Good article reassessment for Star Cops
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Good article reassessment for Edge of Darkness
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Good article reassessment for The Stone Tape
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