Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Dad's Army task force

WikiProject Dad's Army
General information (edit · changes)
Things you can do (edit)
  1. Restore the main Dad's Army page to Good Article status.
  2. Improve individual episode articles with real-world references.
  3. Improve "list of Dad's Army characters" to avoid unreferenced statements.
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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Dad's Army. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to do list there.

This WikiProject's primary goal is to improve and organize articles relating to the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. This project would like to produce well written and researched articles about this popular television series. Since completing its main goal of a page for every episode, the project's main goal is now improving the main Dad's Army page, and the most visible pages about the series.

History

The Wikiproject was founded in 2006, and was successful in creating pages for every episode of the popular series, as well as many of the characters. In addition, for a while the main Dad's Army page was listed as a good article and the List of Dad's Army episodes continues to be a Featured List.

Since completing its main goal of a page for every episode, the project has slowed down somewhat, and has now moved to work on the significant articles about the series - specifically those listed in the Dad's Army template - the TV show, episode list, stage show and film. We would strongly advise against creating any more individual character articles unless they are properly referenced to the many books/websites available on the series. This is especially true for minor characters, whose entries on the List of Dad's Army characters should be improved first.

Thus, the project's main goal is now improving the main Dad's Army page, and the most visible pages about the series.

Parentage

Participants

For a full list of all the participants see WikiProject Dad's Army/Participants. If you would like to join please add your name to the active participants list.

Structure

TV and Radio Episodes

All episodes must have an infobox in the style of template below. Also, they must have a brief synopsis, a fully detailed plot, and ending details. The page must also include a list of the main cast, e.g. Mainwaring, Mrs Pike, the Vicar etc., but not extras, for example the back rows of the platoon. Finally, you may add any notes that you believe are important about the episode in question. For example: This episode is lost or this episode was meant to be broadcast on the... or perhaps even trivia, such as the specific filming locations. Please use The Man and the Hour (first episode of Dad's army) page as a guide.

For a full describtion of what should be in each section of the episode pages see WikiProject Dad's Army/Episode Structure.

Goals

To create detailed pages on all Dad's Army TV and radio episodes and improve all articles so they may get nominated as a GA or a FA. To do this the following has to be done

Improve these Stub episode articles to Start

Improve these Start episode articles to C

Improve these C episode articles to B Improve these B episode articles to GA

Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

Templates

Infoboxes

Stub templates

It is recommended that this stub notice be placed on any article that you believe requires expansion.

Code: {{DadsArmy-tv-stub}}

Result:

See also the associated stub category Category:British television show stubs

A box of links to connected articles to be placed on the bottom of each Dad's Army page.

Code: {{Dad's Army}}

Result:

Project notice

This is the project notice, designed to be placed in the talk page of any article that has been edited as part of this Wikiproject.

Code: {{WikiProject Television|class=|importance=|dads-army=|dads-army-importance=}}

Result:

WikiProject iconTelevision: Dad's Army
WikiProject iconThis article is within the scope of WikiProject Television, a collaborative effort to develop and improve Wikipedia articles about television programs. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page where you can join the discussion. To improve this article, please refer to the style guidelines for the type of work.TelevisionWikipedia:WikiProject TelevisionTemplate:WikiProject Televisiontelevision
???This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.
Taskforce icon
This article is supported by the Dad's Army task force.

Userbox

This is a userbox that any members can put on their userpage to tell people that they are a member of this project.

Code Result
{{User:Mollsmolyneux/WPDad's Army}}
This user is a member of the WikiProject Television Dad's Army task force.

Categories

Articles

Dad's Army task force assessment statistics
Dad's Army articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FL 1 1 2
GA 1 1
B 1 1 2
C 1 2 1 4
Start 2 2 81 85
Stub 1 27 28
List 2 2
Category 7 7
Disambig 1 1
File 1 1
Project 1 1
Redirect 1 20 21
Template 2 2
Assessed 2 2 10 32 111 157
Total 2 2 10 32 111 157
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 617 Ω = 5.14

worklist • log • category

Wikipedia articles on Dad's Army

List of project achievements (up to 2009)

  1. To convince the Wikipedia Admins to approve the {{DadsArmy-tv-stub}}. Done
  2. Advertise the project to encourage at least 10 more people to join. Done
  3. Create a page for each and every Dad's Army TV episode and add a plot for it.
  4. Main Dad's Army page is now listed as a good article. Done
  5. Complete the big push see talk archive 1. Done
  6. Splitting the Dad's Army page up, for example put the characters, film and stage show on a separate page. Done
  7. Place {{dadsarmy}} on every related article, and {{Dadsarmyproject}} on every related Dad's Army talk page. Done
  8. Improve the It Sticks Out Half a Mile page. Done
  9. Create a page for the Stage Show. Done
  10. Improve the biography of David Croft. Done
  11. Improve Walmington-on-Sea article. Done