Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian television

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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 projects scope involves articles related to Television in Australia:

Australian television articles		Importance
Australian television articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	1		1		2	4
	GA	3	4	1		2	10
	B	2	10	9	5	63	89
	Start		5	36	50	755	846
	Stub	1		19	20	1525	1565
	Assessed	7	19	66	75	2347	2514
	Unassessed					39	39
	Total	7	19	66	75	2386	2553

[edit] Open tasks

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian television:

edit · history · watch · refresh

Here are some tasks you can do:

Requests: AFL Game Day, The Arts Show, The Boatique, Business Success, Can We Help?, The Car Show, Carbon Cops, C'mon Kids, Code Blue, Crime and Justice, Discovery Science Channel, Eco House Challenge, Emergency, Food Safari, Fish Out of Water, Is Your House Killing You?, Lightning City, Live 'N Local Up Close, Message Stick, My Home, Parent Rescue, Podlove, RPM, Runway to LA, The Singing Office, Sunday Business, Talking Heads,
Cleanup: The Catch-Up
Expand: The 7.30 Report, Action Earth, Australia's Got Talent, Australia's Next Top Model, Australian Story, Commercial Breakdown, The Cook and the Chef, Crime Investigation Australia, A Current Affair, Dateline, Difference of Opinion, Digital Forty Four, Dirty Jobs, Discovery Home and Health, Discovery Travel and Living, Dogstar, The Farmer Wants a Wife, Footy Classified, The Gift, Going Places, The Great Outdoors, Just for Laughs, Lateline, Marx and Venus, MyTalk, Nat Geo Adventure, The Nation, Neighbours at War, NEN, The New Inventors, PTV, Saving Babies, SGS/SCN, STV, Teen Fit Camp, The Zoo, Things To Try Before You Die, WOW
Stubs: 60 Minutes, At the Movies, Bondi Rescue, Border Security: Australia's Front Line, Channel 4, Difference of Opinion, Expo Channel, Footy Classified, Foreign Correspondent, Gardening Australia, The Great Outdoors, Inside Business, Insiders, Insight, Last Chance Learners, Lateline Business, The Librarians, The Lost Tribes, MGS/LRS, Mornings with Kerri-Anne, Meet the Press, MyTalk, The Nation, The New Inventors, The Real Seachange, The Singing Bee, Stateline, SBS World News Channel, Totally Wild, What's Good For You, Who Killed Harold Holt?
Update: 1 vs. 100, The Great Outdoors
Infobox: Australian Story, Channel 4, First Tuesday Book Club, Totally Wild

[edit] Participants

[edit] Active participants

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

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Andrewrox424 (talk · contribs) - Specialising in Prime (Newcastle) Television
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Thewinchester (talk · contribs) - Specialising in Aussie TV Biographies
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Tjkirk (talk · contribs) - Specialising in the Nine Network
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[edit] 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.

[edit] Article Assessment

[edit] Banner

Portal	WikiProject Australian television is within the scope of WikiProject Australia, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia and Australia-related topics. If you would like to participate, visit the project page.
NA	This page is not an article and does not require a rating on the quality scale.
NA	This page is not an article and does not require a rating on the importance scale.
	This non-article page is supported by WikiProject Australian television.

{{WP 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.

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

[edit] Quality

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

[edit] 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's region or demographic specific.	Mid	GTS/BKN
Article that fills in important details about Australian television.	Low	Storylines of Neighbours

[edit] Awards

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

[edit] 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 place the image on their talk page, and say why you've given it.

[edit] Templates

[edit] Project Banner

Portal	WikiProject Australian television is within the scope of WikiProject Australia, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia and Australia-related topics. If you would like to participate, visit the project page.
NA	This page is not an article and does not require a rating on the quality scale.
NA	This page is not an article and does not require a rating on the importance scale.

{{WP Australia|Television=yes|Television-importance=|class=|importance=}}

[edit] Userbox

This user is a participant of WikiProject Australian television.

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

[edit] Stub

This Australian television-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

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

[edit] Future television station, channel or network

This article contains information about a future television station, channel or network.
The content may change dramatically as the channel or network launch approaches and more information becomes available.

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

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

[edit] 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

[edit] Television station

Instructions for use are at Template talk:Infobox Broadcast

[edit] 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.