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You guys- feel free to add stuff. I'm not in charge, I just started it. ;) andrew 09:30, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
Question
editFor all the Degrassi related pages, do I put the wikiproject link in it?
Dammit...
editI was thinking of creating the exact same WikiProject... then I found out I'm too late, by about half a month. Oh well. hehe :D -→Buchanan-Hermit™/?! 19:53, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
That's alright. We need to do a bit of promotion to get more members. andrew 05:35, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
I'm interested in helping out—although I don't have any experience in WikiProjects. Zoë 07:08, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, I wanna join too. TPREX 01:54, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
- Anyone can join. First, add you name to the list of participants on the main page. That's basically it. Glad you guys want to join. :D --andrewI20Talk 05:44, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
- I added your names to the list, since you both said you wanted to join. I hope that's okay.--andrewI20Talk 05:45, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks alot TPREX 02:11, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Portal
editI was thinking, that in the future, if we have enough members, and guides and whatnot, that we could have a Degrassi Portal. Any comments? andrew 09:30, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
Project Directory
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Wikipedia Day Awards
editHello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 16:21, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
List of issues
editI started creating a list of issues in Degrassi TNG here. I've done everything up to the end of season 4; but before I go any further, do you guys think a list like this is useful for Wikipedia? -→Buchanan-Hermit™/?! 08:52, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
- It doesn't bother me. Some of the issues they covered were considered by some "controversial" and may be notable. If someone else doesn't think it's proper for wikipedia, they can always nominate it for Afd, and then it can be decided then. You're not hurting anyone by trying. Of course, it's a bit biased for us to properly decide it's notability, since we're involved. I looked over your test article, and it looks great. --theblueflamingoSpeak 02:22, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
- It's a good idea. It would relieve some strain from the main article page (a bit congested from attempting to list all the issues) and could be linked easily from the front page and degrassi template. Oh and remember to add spoiler alerts. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.229.220.235 (talk) 01:05, 15 January 2007 (UTC).
List of issues addressed in Degrassi: The Next Generation now exists, after weeks of work and re-watching/re-skimming of every Degrassi TNG episode to date. I'm pooped. But at least now the header for the TNG article won't have 5-8 lines just listing the issues addressed on the show. :) -→Buchanan-Hermit™/?! 08:54, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Redundant character articles.
editOK, I forget where exactly I saw this recently, but I do remember that it was a comment by an unregistered user. Anyway, they made a valid point: some of the character articles, as is, are rather redundant. Events are often described on the article for each character involved. Perhaps we can revisit the goal of creating episode articles; or even something to the tune of "Degrassi: The Next Generation episodes, Season x" wherein detailed summaries exist for each episode of Season x. What I'd worry about though is where character biographies would be left if the events were (re)moved from them. Thoughts? --TS1 23:40, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
- Well, since all the Buffy the Vampire episodes have articles, and they're no more notable than Degrassi, I think it would be okay if we made episode articles. If we did, we would have to keep working on them. Not just create them, and forget. I think we need a better template for Degrassi article talk pages (ratings, and importance scale). So far, this wikiproject has been really...slow, so to speak. Nice to see this finally pick up again.--theblueflamingoSpeak 05:11, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Me
editOk I'll be glad to join and contribute but I don't have an account and won't be creating one due to personal reasons. Anyways, if you see a couple edits by a random IP, it's most likely me as my IP changes.
If you have any image requests relating to the show, I will be willing to provide screenshots. It's much easier if you give me the specifics (such as episode... or time frame is possible). Just make a request here or something and I'll try to respond to it. As I'm not a member and cannot upload images, if a request is made, I'll simply just upload it to imageshack and relink it back here to ensure a smooth transition of the picture. My collection extends from the first season to the current one however, the quality in the fifth season is lacking.
I'll try my best to edit all aspects of The Degrassi Universe but I most likely may be busy and will not be able to fulfill requests/do page edits and additions until some time is made available.
Some major areas of focus:
- Degrassi Community School only a stub, needs a LOT of work and copy editing as there is a lot of information which can be added.
- Refix the degrassi template. I've added characters in accordance to the order of appearance in the credits/the order of addition to the cast and changed the title colour to coincide with the Degrassi colours for illustrative and descriptive purposes. Anyway, there needs to be two columns, as seen in the buffyverse template.
- There are some splits (major characters from minor) and merges (kevin smith piece in Degrassi Series article to the Degrassi: TNG article) which are in need of attention.
- I'll try to contribute as much as possible. Oh and by the way, I've only seen up to Season 3 so far... so I don't think I'll be able to provide much information to anything after mid-season 3 but I'll be more than capable to extend the information prior to then.
Page Pictures
editOk for each individual series, i think that the procedure is that the image should be the logo. So for Degrassi TNG could somebody put that up there instead? And maybe for the main series article (Degrassi) we could actually have the pictures of the various people from the different series (like the one used for the Degrassi TNG article now) or something. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.229.225.212 (talk) 13:18, 15 January 2007 (UTC).
Character categories
editShould we split Category:Degrassi characters into separate ones, for the different Degrassi series? -→Buchanan-Hermit™/?! 04:32, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
- Yea, I suppose. Right now, it seems predominately DTNG characters, but that's because some character articles from the old series need to be categorized.--theblueflamingoSpeak 05:49, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
- Hmm, in that case, let's wait until we have more Degrassi Junior High characters until splitting the categories. -→Buchanan-Hermit™/?! 09:10, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Character Articles Manual of Style
editI think we should have a Maunual of Style for our Degrassi character articles. There are only 9 Good articles on fictional characters (James Bond, Darth Vader, Donut (Red vs. Blue), Pauline Fowler, Max Rebo Band, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Sarlacc, Homer Simpson,Storm). I also want to mention the Buffy Summers article, which isn't classified as good, but it's probably about B-Class on the wiki asssesment scale. Maybe if we took some ideas from their articles are come up with a style which we use on the Degrassi Characters article, the quality of those articles could greatly improve. Some facts should be included is a bio of character, impact, and other good details for a good article. --theblueflamingoSpeak 05:49, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
I agree. I've tried rewriting a few articles, but i'm not quite sure what we're going for in the character articles. An official WikiProject Degrassi manuel of style for character articles would help out alot. TPREX 02:14, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
- To add to this, the current character articles are to detailed. They give a blow by blow account of each episode (who kissed who etc). Looking at other character articles, they are written to give broad direcctions and summerised story lines. All the character articles in this project need shortening to get to the point. The reader should not have to wade through the text to find out about the character. Rimmeraj 03:10, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
- Agreed. The character articles would greatly benefit from a major overhauling, and the use of episode citations. Rather than having a blow by blow of every episode and season, prose sections to discuss the characters personality traits and history (with possible subsections on major life events) would be much more useful (with episode citations). AnmaFinotera 05:08, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
Article Assessment
editI changed the talk page template a bit, and now we have a assessment scale. I decided to leave the importance one out. So, from now on, feel free to assess an article or two when you get the chance. I did a few for now. --theblueflamingoSpeak 06:21, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
- I posted a question on the template's talkpage regarding a possible additional entry specifying which Degrassi show the article is about. -→Buchanan-Hermit™/?! 08:52, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
- And I also agree with you leaving the "importance" element out. Personally, I've never found that attribute particularly helpful. -→Buchanan-Hermit™/?! 09:12, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure if you're aware, but Degrassi's 40 Go There-ist Moments on The-N has been deleted before after an AfD debate (found here. The old version had the entire 40 moments listed, but was determined to be too fan-crufty to be a Wikipedia article, hence the deletion. Perhaps this should me merged into another article altogether, because I can see the reasons why it was too fan crufty and has a high chance of being re-deleted. -→Buchanan-Hermit™/?! 00:09, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
- I thought that got cancelled. Honestly, I'm not sure if that's really notable for wikipedia. I'm sure whoever created the 2nd one had no clue about the first one. Maybe we could do a Degrassi specials article, about the special Degrassi events (like every episode marathon ever, 40 most go there-est), but I doubt even that's even notable. If the article is fixed up a bit, it might be able to pass an afd. --theblueflamingoSpeak 00:27, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
- I found the article when I was browsing The N's wikipedia page and I just linked it from the Degrassi template hoping it to be expanded later. I didn't know about the previous discussion. I suggest that we either make it more acceptable by wikipedia standards, or delete it and have it as a article stub, on another page (i think thats the right terminology). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Xallium (talk • contribs) 13:54, 19 January 2007 (UTC).
- It's been deleted, and I agree with it.--<sup>[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Xallium|talk</sup>/<sub>[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Xallium|contribs]]</sub>]] 16:27, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
The Mall
editYou think we should make a mall article? Though we don't even know its name, its been featured in countless episodes and we could list the retail outlets in it. Or something like that —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.229.4.217 (talk) 14:42, 24 January 2007 (UTC).
Change Spouse?
editSince everybody's practically in high school an are hardly married, should we change spouse to something more practical? Like romantic relationship or somethign —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Xallium (talk • contribs) 13:07, 25 January 2007 (UTC).
- Since this show mainly has teenagers, I agree. We should change it. --theblueflamingoconfab 03:08, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
- Ok. What would be a suitable term though... Significant other? Romantic relatiionship?... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Xallium (talk • contribs) 02:40, 6 February 2007 (UTC).
- I changed it to Partner, since most of the characters are not married. Partner makes a bit more sense than spouse for teenagers. You have to manually change it though, otherwise it won't show up. I've fixed a couple at the moment, and will eventually get the rest. Oh, and if the character is married, you can put for example, Character (wife). --theblueflamingoSquawk 03:27, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
- Ok. What would be a suitable term though... Significant other? Romantic relatiionship?... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Xallium (talk • contribs) 02:40, 6 February 2007 (UTC).
Category:Degrassi actors up for deletion
editThe , as well as many other actors by series categories have for some reason been nominated for deletion here. Please voice your opinion on the matter. Personally, I feel the cat. is very useful for wikiprojects such as ours, and it could harm us a bit. Thanks. --theblueflamingoconfab 03:22, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
D:TNG episode Infobox
editHallo all, I'm currently involved in an improvement drive to limit the amount of various "Episode infoboxes" that exist in wikipedia. This drive comes from several points 1: maintenance. having many almost the same infoboxes makes it harder to present a consistent look. 2: Showspecific infoboxes tend to stick information from the fictional work smack down in the middle of "real world" information 3: they are often used for recurring elements in episodes which are often just trivia or running gags 4: they tend to be used to "pick my own color". All cute and funny, but not very handy. {{Infobox D:TNG episode}} is one of these templates. I would like to replace it on all D:TNG pages, and would like to merge the "title song" info back in to the article in some way. The colortheme will be lost by this process, but you can get it back by using {{television colour}} if you really want to. I'm just informing the project in advance and would like to hear your comments. --TheDJ (talk • contribs • WikiProject Television) 01:55, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Episode List
editFor List of Degrassi: The Next Generation characters, I am suggesting that the list be put in order by the amount of episodes the character has appeared in, then alphabetically if needed. Also, the last time I checked a LIST doesn't require a paragraph per item for explanation. Fortyfeet 00:11, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
KevinKellyLinda
editCould someone please check out this editors contributions and tag and link to/from the episode list. They may also require watching due to some odd edits. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 00:28, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Episode coverage
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AfD nomination of List of minor Degrassi: The Next Generation characters
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Guidelines
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editWho found this WikiProject? MagicBullet5 (talk) 20:19, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
Free images
editI'm looking for a free image to use in the featured topic of Seasons of Degrassi: The Next Generation, and I was wondering if anyone here knows of some easily accessible location used in the filming of which we could take a photo, like the exterior of some school. Thanks. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 17:49, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
YIPE!
editHas anybody noticed the huge tags atop several of the characters' articles? Some of the issues mentioned by the tags have not been addressed in months. YIPE! B.Wind (talk) 18:06, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
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Must get to GA or FL status
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Just to let you guys know...
editLook I'm not a member of the project or anything; but I thought I would let you guys know what a mess all of the D:TNG character pages are. I;ve yet to find one that is well written, not fansite esque, or even sourced! I guess you're all aware of it but...... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Paycheckgurl (talk • contribs) 01:23, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
Size of Infobox tvseason images
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Airing on Much
editI have only been watch DTNG for a year now, and I know it has aired on MuchMusic later in the week than CTV. I was wondering when did it start airing on Much, it should be included on Degrassi: The Next Generation. 117Avenue (talk) 02:34, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
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will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. JJ98 (Talk) 19:26, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
Merger of this project into WikiProject Television as a task force
editIt has been suggested that WikiProject Degrassi 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) 08:32, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
- "It has been suggested"? Is this the suggestion, or is there a discussion elsewhere? 117Avenue (talk) 13:46, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
- No, just to clarify here that the project is not very active like WikiProject Canadian TV shows. Just adding and converting into a task force. The only change is adding to the project banner template as you can see the looks and with others such as Avatar: The Last Airbender, Glee and Dexter task forces. This would allow the project to be visible of much large editors as well as take advantage by various bots. See WP:INACTIVEWP for more information. JJ98 (Talk / Contributions) 11:40, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
- As the sole member of this project, I've wanted to close this project for quite some time, but there have been more important things to do. 117Avenue (talk) 14:24, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
- No, just to clarify here that the project is not very active like WikiProject Canadian TV shows. Just adding and converting into a task force. The only change is adding to the project banner template as you can see the looks and with others such as Avatar: The Last Airbender, Glee and Dexter task forces. This would allow the project to be visible of much large editors as well as take advantage by various bots. See WP:INACTIVEWP for more information. JJ98 (Talk / Contributions) 11:40, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Date format
editEven though I doubt many remain members of this project, I would like to discuss the date format being used on Degrassi related articles. In accordance with the first portion of the first point of WP:DATERET, many Degrassi articles use primarily one date style, dmy. However, the remainder of the first point states that it can be changed based on a national tie. I believe that most of English speaking Canada uses mdy, and that Degrassi has a strong following in the United States, which also uses mdy. For this reason I would like to change the date format used on articles in this project to mdy, despite what WP:STRONGNAT says. 117Avenue (talk) 23:55, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
I'll start then. 117Avenue (talk) 01:43, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
Series overview tables
editPlease come to Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Television#Series overview tables and the like to discuss the implementation of these tables in television articles, from main articles to List of Episode pages. BIGNOLE (Contact me) 19:27, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
Leaflet for Wikiproject Degrassi at Wikimania 2014
editHi all,
My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.
One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.
This is particularly aimed at highlighting less discoverable but successful projects, e.g:
• Active Wikiprojects: Wikiproject Medicine, WikiProject Video Games, Wikiproject Film
• Tech projects/Tools, which may be looking for either users or developers.
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The deadline for submissions is 1st July 2014
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Adikhajuria (talk) 10:42, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
editHello 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!
editHello everyone!
You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!
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I'm treating this as a new series, even though all the leads are being carried over from season 14 of the current show, as opposed to actually creating this as if it were only a season. -- Zanimum (talk) 14:59, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
A new newsletter directory is out!
editA 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)
Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
editHello 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 this WikiProject into a Taskforce?
editI invite editors to join the discussion at WP:WikiProject Television to convert many inactive WikiProjects into taskforces, including this one. – sgeureka t•c 12:54, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
Focus on the older shows
editI have been expanding many articles pertaining to the original series because this taskforce/WikiProject is heavily biased towards The Next Generation. I believe this taskforce, as inactive as it is, should now concentrate on covering the original series. ToQ100gou! ToQ100gou! Shupatsu Shinkou! (the chitter-chatter) 01:45, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
Featured article review
editI have nominated Degrassi: The Next Generation for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets 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" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here.
Closing inactive task forces
editI invite editors to join the discussion at WP:WikiProject Television to close inactive task forces, including this one. Gonnym (talk) 12:08, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
Need Feedback and submission help
editHi, I have created a draft for biography : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Zo%C3%AB_Belkin. She plays Athena in Dirt Off Your Shoulder. I need some feedback and suggestion to improve the article so it can be accepted. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reg.AmPm (talk • contribs) 16:18, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
There is a redirect from Rick Murray to List of Degrassi: The Next Generation characters#Rick, but I can't find a list entry for Rick Murray. The history of Rick Murray shows that there was previously an article that has been cut down to a redirect, but the redirect doesn't seem to be to a list entry. Am I missing something? Or is the list missing something? Robert McClenon (talk) 18:18, 5 May 2022 (UTC)