Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Episode coverage task force

This is a task force of WikiProject Television for the coverage of episode related content (as opposed to over-all show information, or other general TV article). This includes Lists of episodes, season / series / story arc articles, and individual episode articles.

This task force is the result of merging WP:TVE and WP:LOE. You will find all those guidelines, templates, and advice on this page, as well as new information. This was done to better organize all articles relating to episode-level detail.

To include articles in this task force, add episode-coverage=Yes to {{WikiProject Television}} on the article's talk page. To assess articles for this task force add for example, episode-coverage-importance=low after including the articles as part of the task force.

See also WP:NTVEP for guidance on writing articles on individual television episodes.

Guidelines

• Wikipedia:Notability (television), specifically WP:NTVEP
• Wikipedia:Notability (fiction)
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction)
• WP:TV-REVIEW Television article review process

Participants

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Article assessment

Ŋun su:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Episode coverage Some advice regarding television episode article assessment:

• Top-importance episodes have attained a status of significant importance not just to a single television series, but to the history of television or pop culture at large. Examples: "The Winds of Winter" (Game of Thrones), "The Last Show" (Mary Tyler Moore Show)
• High-importance episodes are very important or notable in the context of an individual series, and has gained recognition to general audiences outside of that series as well. Examples: "The Contest" (Seinfeld), "Made in America" (The Sopranos)
• Mid-importance episodes may have particular significance in the context of an individual show, but has not necessarily gained significant importance outside of that series. Examples: "The One with Ross's Wedding" (Friends), "Scott Tenorman Must Die" (South Park)
• Low-importance episodes are not of any particular importance, within the context of the series of the individual series or otherwise, but still satisfy Wikipedia's notability guidelines. Examples: "Ron and Tammy" (Parks and Recreation), "Lemon of Troy" (The Simpsons)

Individual episodes

Featured content

These articles about television episodes reached featured article status. You can use them as an example of what a well written episode article should look like. Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Episode coverage task force/Featured content

Writing episode pages

Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/How to write an episode article

Lists of episodes

Featured lists

The following lists of episodes have been identified as Featured lists:

• See Wikipedia:Featured lists#Media for a full list of TV-related Featured lists.

List guidelines

• Until a new guideline/how-to is made, simply follow the example of other Featured lists.

(see also, #Templates below for the structure guidelines via templates)

Additional relevant guidelines and advice:

• Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and series boxes
• Wikipedia:List guideline

• Wikipedia:Lists (stand-alone lists)
• Wikipedia:Embedded list

• Wikipedia:Featured lists

• Wikipedia:What is a featured list?

Templates

• {{Episode list}}
  • Simplifies the method of creating new lists in a table format, using the project's recommended layout. Participants are encouraged to begin applying them to episode lists.
• For lists that only list titles and air dates, etc., and do not include summaries, remove |ShortSummary=, which will remove the summary cell, colored line separator and default cell coloring.
• Please be sure to use {{Start date}} for the first-broadcast date of each episode.

Categories

When a list is in its own List of episodes or List of media article, add a category from Category:Lists of television series episodes.