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[edit] Wikiproject The Office (US) discussion from Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals

Description 
This wikiproject would try to assess and centralize all articles about the American TV show, The Office. It would try maintain articles concerning The Office so that they are correct, insightful, interesting, and up to date! This ever changing topic needs a Wikiproject to keep it at its best all the time.
This proposal has been created! Please go here to see this Wikiproject![1]
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. YaanchSpeak! 23:42, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
  2. BabuBhatt 05:46, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
  3. Jercius 11:37, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
  4. Tphi 00:38, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
  5. Viewdrix 01:52, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Comments
  • We're starting to encourage TV-specific WikiProjects to becoming task forces of other projects, such as WP:TV, This makes things to get going as far as pre-existing templates, style guides, etc, but still allows for the larger focus on that specific show. -- Ned Scott 05:52, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

I noticed that your is pretty much empty. In addition, it's been decided (see [2]) that Actors By Series categories are not allowed. Perhaps you could make a List of The Office cast members? Polymathematics 20:00, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

How do we reconcile the goal of being "comprehensive" (see {{WPTO}}) against Wikipedia content guidelines? A "comprehensive" guide would include speculation ("Pam probably did confusing thing X because of Y"), trivia, lists, episode cross-references, none of which are suitable for Wikipedia. -- Raymondc0 17:37, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Episode coverage

The WikiProject Television episode coverage taskforce have recently been working on a review process for episode articles. There are a rash of articles about individual episodes which fail notability, and are unlikely to ever reach such requirements. Many contributors are unaware of the specific guidelines to assess notability in episode pages: Wikipedia:Television episodes. We have expanded these guidelines to make them more helpful and explanatory, and we invite you to read the guidelines, and make any comments on its talk page. After much discussion, we have created a proposed review process for dealing with problem articles. See: Wikipedia:Television article review process. We invite discussion of this process on its talk page. General comments about this whole process are welcome at the episode coverage taskforce talkpage. Thanks! Gwinva 10:13, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Can I Help?

I want to help with WikiProject, but I don't know where to start. What needs to be done? --Mr.crabby (Talk) 00:43, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia sections under the guise of 'Notes'

Just about every episode article has a 'Notes' section that is half the length of the rest of the article. It's all trivia and is discouraged under WP:TRIVIA. That kind of information belongs on other websites (and I'm not saying those should be linked). I've been adding {{trivia}} to the sections as I see them. --William Graham talk 20:20, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

I agree. The "notes" are rarely encyclopedic in nature. I've proposed Dunderpedia as a home for non-encyclopedic information, but nobody else seemed interested. -- Raymondc0 04:11, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Spam: Please delete on sight!

Inserting this into all episode articles is spam:

"For a list of songs featured in this episode, see List of songs featured on The Office."

One point in particular that WP:EL mentions is to avoid linking to most open wikis. Also, avoid linking to any site that does not provide a unique resource beyond what the article would contain if it became a Featured article. Unless anyone disagrees, be bold and delete spammy links ON SIGHT! Mrtea (talk) 20:10, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cite episode

I've noticed in alot of episode and character pages, episodes are referenced like this.

Dwight has a Second Life character. ("Local Ad")

Or

In the episode "Local Ad", it is revealed that Dwight has a Second Life character.

Wouldn't it make more sence to convert all these statements to using Template:Cite episode? E.G

Dwight has a Second Life character[1]

--Jamie jca (talk) 20:28, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Local Ad". The Office. NBC. 2007-10-25. No. 5, season 4.

[edit] Centralized TV Episode Discussion

Over the past months, TV episodes have been redirected by (to name a couple) TTN, Eusebeus and others. No centralized discussion has taken place, so I'm asking everyone who has been involved in this issue to voice their opinions here in this centralized spot, be they pro or anti. Discussion is here [3]. Even if you have not, other opinions are needed because this issue is affecting all TV episodes in Wikipedia. --Maniwar (talk) 03:56, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Guidelines

[edit] WP:FICT has been revised

WP:FICT, the notability guideline for elements within a work of fiction (characters, places, elements, etc) has a new proposal/revision that is now live [4] Everyone is encouraged to leave feedback on the talk page. Ned Scott 22:10, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Notability (serial works)

There is a proposal to split WP:EPISODE into a more general notability guideline, Wikipedia:Notability (serial works), and make the rest of WP:EPISODE just a MOS guideline. Please join in at WT:EPISODE#Proposed split of EPISODE and/or Wikipedia talk:Notability (serial works). -- Ned Scott 22:10, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Office

The Office (U.S. TV series) has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here.

[edit] Ideas to for the Project?

Maybe to get people interested in this project again, we should all try to get one article featured or have a contest to see who can get an Office-article to GA status first. Does anyone have any ideas on what could be done?

P.S. I know I haven't been active in the project, but I plan to now contribute more. --Mr.crabby (Talk) 21:30, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

I think our main focus should be keeping The Office (U.S. TV series) at FA-status. Also, I'm going through (or at least I was, I'm using a lot of time for season pages and episode lists) the season 1 episodes, and improving them. I've gotten Pilot (The Office) and Diversity Day to GA, and I think it'd be great if we could get all of season 1 to GA. Then, the episodes and the season page, which is a Featured List, could be a featured topic. I think this would help the exposure of the topic greatly. Anyone agree?Mastrchf91 (t/c) 21:34, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Booze Cruise (The Office episode)

I've been working on the article for Booze Cruise and think I may have gotten it up to GA quality. Before I nominate it however, I would like someone with experience in these kind of articles to look over it and make sure everything is okay. Thanks! --Mr.crabby (Talk) 16:00, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Nevermind, I just nominated it. --Mr.crabby (Talk) 16:25, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Dunder Mifflin made GA

As of a few hours ago. I'd almost forgotten about the nom. But I am relieved. It was a long road from saving it from deletion a couple of months ago. Now I'd like to point to it as an example of how to write an article about a fictional company. Daniel Case (talk) 03:48, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Props to you and anyone else who worked on the article, it looks great! --Mr.crabby (Talk) 18:08, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Dinner Party (The Office)

I've nominated this for GA since I was working on this quite alot yesterday and I believe I got it up to GA quality. I also submitted it for DYK since I also expanded the article. -- Jamie jca (talk) 15:04, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Episode Article Names and Wikipedia:Naming conventions (television)#Episode articles

Ive just noticed the most of the episode articles have titled formated like this, "Pilot (The Office episode)" when according to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (television)#Episode articles using (The Office episode) should only be used if "an episode title is the same as a character or object from the series which has its own page." Shouldn't they all be moved to "Episode Title (The Office)" or "Episode Title (The Office U.S.)? -- Jamie jca (talk) 15:09, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes, they should all be "xxxxx" (The Office) Mastrchf (t/c) 15:23, 14 June 2008 (UTC)