Wikipedia:WikiProject Television: Difference between revisions

{{shortShort description|Wikimedia subject-area collaboration}}

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This is to guide the structure and normalize the standard of articles dealing with the [[Televisiontelevision]] medium and [[television series]] or other forms of episodic programs, such as web series.

{{seealsoSee also|Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Descendant WikiProjects and task forces}}

{{User WikiProject Television|category=}}

Technically speaking, anyone who edits /or contributes to TV related articles is a participant, and there are no requirements other than that. If one wishes one can further identify oneself with the project by listing one's name as a participant. This helps spread the word about the project and can help other editors see what types of articles that user is interested in editing.

To add yourself to the project listing add the following to your [[Wikipedia:userUser pagepages|user page]]:

''{{em|Or''}}, if you wish to use the userbox, add '''{{tltlx|User WikiProject Television}}''' to your user page instead as it includes the above wikicode.

===Guidelines and essays===

See these [[WPWikipedia:FEATUREDFeatured content|featured articles]] for examples of well written articles on characters and elements from fiction:

* [[Homer Simpson]]

* [[Pauline Fowler]]

* [[Martin Keamy]]

* [[WPWikipedia:BIO|Notability of(people)|Notability (people)]]

* [[Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons|Biographies of living persons]]

* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies)/Biography|Manual of Style (biographies)/Biography]]

* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Screenwriters|WikiprojectWikiProject Screenwriters]] -– project dedicated to [[screenwriter]]s.

[[WPWikipedia:FUNon-free content|Fair Use]] images on pages of real people that are still alive are not allowed, because these images are replaceable. You also cannot use an image from a television program, ''etc.'', because you are not illustrating the character but the actor.

* [[Kroger Babb]]

* [[James T. Aubrey, Jr.]]

* [[Aaron Sorkin]]

{{seealsoSee also|Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Templates}}

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