Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian television

WikiProject Australian television is a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to television in Australia.

Our goals

• To provide guidelines and recommendations for Australian television-related articles.
• To improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australian television by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles.
• To serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to Australian television in Wikipedia.

Our scope

The project's scope involves articles related to television in Australia.

Australian television articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	2	1			5
FL			1	2			3
GA		2	7	37			46
B	9	12	34	132		1	188
C	3	12	67	625		14	721
Start	2	10	126	2,164	1	220	2,523
Stub		1	25	2,762		403	3,191
List	1	1	3	356		7	368
Category					782		782
Disambig					5		5
File					51		51
Project					3		3
Redirect		4	7	212	249		472
Template					93		93
NA				2	3		5
Other					2		2
Assessed	15	44	272	6,293	1,189	645	8,458
Total	15	44	272	6,293	1,189	645	8,458
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 35,301			Ω = 5.29

Article alerts

Articles for deletion

• 16 Nov 2024 – Industry Leaders (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Boneymau (t · c); see discussion (2 participants; relisted)
• 23 Nov 2024 – Ivy Latimer (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Mathglot (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 30 Nov 2024; see discussion (6 participants)

Proposed deletions

• 25 Nov 2024 – The Squiz (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by JayCubby (t · c): no substantial coverage

Articles to be merged

• 25 Nov 2024 – Jemma Gawned (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Big Brother (Australian TV series) season 1 by LibStar (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 14 Jun 2024 – ABC Entertains (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Happily888 (t · c); see discussion
• 24 Nov 2024 – Australian and New Zealand television frequencies (talk · edit · hist) proposed for splitting by 121.98.204.148 (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Articles for creation

• 20 Nov 2024 – Draft:Adam Dovile (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by ChSePe (t · c)

Open tasks

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Participants

Active participants

Please feel free to add your name to the list below if you would like to participate in the project.

1. 5 albert square (talk · contribs)
2. 97198 (talk · contribs)
3. Avatar5991 (talk · contribs) - always looking at improving articles when my time permits :)
4. Chrisj8910 (talk · contribs)
5. Cyril Washbrook (talk · contribs)
6. GMH Melbourne (talk · contribs)
7. Happily888 (talk · contribs)
8. Ianblair23 (talk · contribs)
9. JamesR (talk · contribs)
10. JuneGloom07 (talk · contribs) - Specialising in soap operas, dramas and BLPs (particularly actors).
11. Lakeyboy (talk · contribs)
12. Laterthanyouthink (talk · contribs) happy to look when I have time; strengths are non-commercial TV, BLPs, copyediting and adding structure
13. MicedVolvo (talk · contribs)
14. Mr Sitcom (talk · contribs)
15. Nick Mitchell 98 (talk · contribs)
16. Raintheone (talk · contribs) - Specialising in fictional characters, soap operas, dramas and BLPs.
17. Reader781 (talk · contribs)
18. RingtailedFox (talk · contribs) - Specialising in radio/television station call-signs and their technical parameters (power, channel/frequency, and so on)
19. SatDis (talk · contribs) - Specialising in children's television
20. TapLover (talk · contribs)
21. TechGeek105 (talk · contribs)
22. Trisreed (talk · contribs)
23. TVHead (talk · contribs)
24. Whats new? (talk · contribs)

Inactive participants

This list includes those members of the project who have not edited for at least three months; it is manually updated on a periodic basis. If your name has been moved here, please feel free to move it back to the active members section upon your return.

1. Allied45 (talk · contribs)
2. Banana Concoction (talk · contribs) - Specialising in Prime (Newcastle) Television
3. DENAMAX (talk · contribs) - Maxim Stoyalov
4. Eddie Blake (talk · contribs)
5. Figaro (talk · contribs)
6. J Bar (talk · contribs)
7. Longhair (talk · contribs)
8. Normangerman (talk · contribs) - Specialising in Network Ten, Nine Network and the ABC
9. SmaccaWA (talk · contribs)

Retired participants

This list includes those members of the project who have not edited for a number of years, and are unlikely to return to Wikipedia; it is manually updated on a periodic basis. We thank all past members for their editing expertise.

1. Andrew Rickert (talk · contribs)
2. Astrogirl (talk · contribs)
3. Bacco007 (talk · contribs)
4. Bboundy (talk · contribs)
5. Bbmaniac (talk · contribs)
6. Bcollier (talk · contribs)
7. Bortholomew (talk · contribs)
8. Brentonniel (talk · contribs)
9. Byron312 (talk · contribs)
10. Chicken7 (talk · contribs)
11. Chocaholic29 (talk · contribs)
12. Daniel99091 (talk · contribs)
13. Drworm (talk · contribs)
14. Gezzza (talk · contribs)
15. Gombowiki (talk · contribs)
16. Ingleburn (talk · contribs)
17. Jamesnd (talk · contribs)
18. Jeffmister (talk · contribs)
19. Katana Geldar (talk · contribs)
20. Mattom123 (talk · contribs) - Specialising in soap operas, dramas, episode guides and characters.
21. Matturn (talk · contribs)
22. Mick 96 (talk · contribs)
23. Motsa (talk · contribs)
24. Mr.Television (talk · contribs) Specialising in Children's Television
25. Nbound (talk · contribs) - Specialising in broadcast related information.
26. Nico357 (talk · contribs) - Specialising in ABC Television and Nine Network
27. piano01 (talk · contribs)
28. Permafrost (talk · contribs)
29. RaNdOm26 (talk · contribs)
30. Rogerthat (talk · contribs)
31. RuffleSomeFeathers (talk · contribs) - Specialising in Seven Network, SBS and TV ratings.
32. Scoobysit (talk · contribs)
33. Senators (talk · contribs)
34. Smadhavichandra (talk · contribs)
35. Sound of white (talk · contribs)
36. Stickeylabel (talk · contribs)
37. Swanny92 (talk · contribs)
38. Theloon (talk · contribs)
39. The Strikester (talk · contribs) - Specialising in Digital TV, Nine and WIN
40. Thewinchester (talk · contribs) - Specialising in Aussie TV Biographies
41. Timg231 (talk · contribs)
42. Tjkirk (talk · contribs) - Specialising in the Nine Network
43. trompettiste (talk · contribs)
44. Tsuite (talk · contribs)
45. WTVJ6 (talk · contribs) - Specialising in Imparja/Seven Network

Article assessment

Banner

{{WikiProject Australia|television=yes|television-importance=|class=|importance=}}

This template can be placed at the top of talk pages of articles related to television. Please add importance levels, both under standard importance and television-specific importance, and please add an article class.

If the article already has WP Australia but not Television, simply add television=yes inside the brackets.

Assessment parameters of relevance are:

television-importance=

(Top, High, Mid, Low, NA) Importance to the Australian television project

importance=

(Top, High, Mid, Low, NA) Importance to the overall Australian wikiproject

class=

(FA, A, GA, B, Start, Stub, NA, List) quality assessment of the article's current state

Quality

When rating articles, determine the quality rating using the grading scheme table.

Importance

Type	Importance Rating	Example
Article about the central aspects of Australian television.	Top	Television in Australia
Article about a nationally-recognisable aspect of Australian television.	High	WIN Television
Article about an aspect of Australian television that is region- or demographic-specific.	Mid	GTS/BKN
Article that fills in important details about Australian television.	Low	List of Neighbours characters

Awards

It is the custom to reward Wikipedia contributors for hard work and due diligence by awarding them barnstars.

TV Star

The TV Star is awarded to those who make outstanding contributions to television-related articles. The barnstar is used for WikiProject Television, and all descendant WikiProjects, including WikiProject Australian television. Don't hesitate to award someone; just add the below code to a user's talkpage.

Adding {{subst:TV Star|Add your message here. ~~~~}} to a user's talkpage will award them The TV Star.

Templates

Project banner

{{WikiProject Australia|television=yes|television-importance=|class=|importance=}}

This template can be placed at the top of talk pages of articles related to television. Please add importance levels, both under standard importance and television importance, and please add an article class.

Userbox

This user is a participant in
WikiProject
Australian television.

{{User WikiProject Australian television}}
This template can be placed on userpages.

Stub

{{Australia-tv-stub}}

This template can be placed at the bottom of stub articles on Television-related topics. It places the article in Category:Australia television stubs.

Future television station, channel or network

Usage: {{future channel|Title, the}}

If the channel is part of a section in an article use: {{future channel|Section}}

Television channel or network

Instructions for use are at Template talk:Infobox TV channel. A list of pages that include this template can be found at Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Infobox TV channel

Television station

Instructions for use are at Template talk:Infobox Broadcast

Television program

All non-stub articles should include the Template:Infobox Television (note that all fields are optional). Current TV shows should have final air-date set to "present". The first occurrence of the title of the show should be emboldened and italicised, and later occurrences should be italicised. Likewise, all references to other shows should be italicised and the first occurrence linked.

Resources

Navigational boxes

• {{Free-to-air television channels in Australia}}
• {{Subscription television channels in Australia}}
• {{Australian Broadcasting Corporation}}
• {{Seven Media Group}}
• {{PBL Media}}
• {{Ten Network Holdings}}
• {{Special Broadcasting Service}}
• {{Aus ratings box}}
• {{Ausnewsratings}}

Television markets

• {{Brisbane TV}}
• {{Queensland TV}}
• {{Northern NSW TV}}
• {{Sydney TV}}
• {{Southern NSW TV}}
• {{Victoria TV}}
• {{Melbourne TV}}
• {{Hobart TV}}
• {{Adelaide TV}}
• {{Perth TV}}
• {{Darwin TV}}

Templates

• {{Infobox television channel}}
• {{Infobox television station}}
• {{Infobox television}}

Stubs

• {{Australia-tv-stub}}

Categories

• Category:Television in Australia
• Category:Australian television journalists
• Category:Television networks in Australia
• Category:Original programming by Australian television network or channel
• Category:Australian Broadcasting Corporation
• Category:Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming
• Category:Nine Network
• Category:Nine Network original programming
• Category:Seven Network
• Category:Seven Network original programming
• Category:Special Broadcasting Service
• Category:Special Broadcasting Service original programming
• Category:Network 10
• Category:Network 10 original programming

Related WikiProjects

• Parents:

Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia

Wikipedia:WikiProject Television

• Sister: projects might have regional television articles or articles about local television:

Wikipedia:WikiProject Adelaide

Wikipedia:WikiProject Brisbane

Wikipedia:WikiProject Melbourne

Wikipedia:WikiProject Northern Territory

Wikipedia:WikiProject Sydney

Wikipedia:WikiProject Tasmania

Wikipedia:WikiProject Victoria

Wikipedia:WikiProject Western Australia

• Others:

Australian cinema task force

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks – Edits bare references – adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks – Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver – Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer – Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.