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 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		1	3	1			5
FL			1	2			3
GA		2	7	38			47
B	9	12	32	117			170
C	3	12	66	583		11	675
Start	2	10	123	2,094	1	218	2,448
Stub		1	26	2,793		412	3,232
List	1	1	3	354		8	367
Category				18	728		746
Disambig					5		5
File					50		50
Project					3		3
Redirect		4	6	214	241		465
Template					77		77
Other				4	2		6
Assessed	15	43	267	6,218	1,107	649	8,299
Unassessed				1			1
Total	15	43	267	6,219	1,107	649	8,300
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 34,936			Ω = 5.31

Articles for deletion

• 10 Apr 2024 – Michael Rymer (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Boleyn (t · c) was closed as keep by The Herald (t · c) on 17 Apr 2024; see discussion (6 participants)

Redirects for discussion

• 17 Apr 2024 – Ten Late News and Sports Tonight (talk · edit · hist) →10 Late News was RfDed by Nick Mitchell 98 (t · c); see discussion
• 17 Apr 2024 – Ten News First Late (talk · edit · hist) →10 Late News was RfDed by Nick Mitchell 98 (t · c); see discussion

Peer reviews

• 03 Apr 2024 – George Lazenby (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by OlifanofmrTennant (t · c); see discussion

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian television: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2024-04-03 Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : 6 Festivals, Armchair Experts, The Arts Show, Asking for It, Aussie Shore, Australia Behind Bars, Australia: Now and Then, Australia's Most Dangerous Prisoners, Back to Nature, Beach House Escape, Beyond the Dream, Beyond the Towers, Billion Dollar Playground, Blood on the Tracks: The Platform Killer, Budget Battlers, Carbon Cops, Clint Stanaway, Dance Life, Do You Want to Live Forever?, Dream Home, Eco House Challenge, Fake, Farm to Fork, FBOY Island Australia, The First Inventors, For the Love of Pets, Four Years Later, The Garden Hustle, Going Country, Great Australian Walks, The Hack Half Hour, The Hospital: In The Deep End, How to Make Gravy, Human Error, The Hunters, Invisible Boys, Is Your House Killing You?, Listing Melbourne, Lost for Words, Made in Bondi, The Matchmakers, Metro Sexual, Million Dollar Island, Mirror Mirror, Mix Tape, Muster Dogs, The Offroad Adventure Show, Once in a Lifetime, Our Law, Ray Martin: The Last Goodbye, Places We Go, Roads Less Travelled, See What You Made Me Do, Shaun Micallef's Origin Odyssey, Step into Paradise, Stranded on Honeymoon Island, Strife, The Swap, Swift Street, Taste of Australia with Hayden Quinn, Tipping Point Australia, Ultimate Classroom, Undressed with Kathryn Eisman, White Fever Expand : The 7.30 Report, Action Earth, Advancing Australia, AFL Game Day, Australia's Next Top Model, Can We Help?, The Car Show, Changing Rooms, C'mon Kids, Commercial Breakdown, The Cook and the Chef, Dateline, Difference of Opinion, Digital Forty Four, Dirty Jobs, Discovery Home and Health, Discovery Travel and Living, Dogstar, Game of Games, Gamify, The Gift, Going Places, The Great Outdoors, Just for Laughs, Lateline, Marx and Venus, Message Stick, MyTalk, Nat Geo Adventure, The Nation, Neighbours at War, NEN, The New Inventors, Parent Rescue, PTV, Rake, Saving Babies, Showtime Greats, Showtime movie channels, SGS/SCN, STV, Talking Heads, Teen Fit Camp, The Zoo, Things To Try Before You Die, Three Blue Ducks, WOW, Zack Heart Stubs : See: Category:Stub-Class Australian television articles Wikify : Channel 4, Subscription television in Australia(PRIORITY)

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

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. Lotsw73 (talk · contribs)
14. MicedVolvo (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

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Australia: Television NA‑class

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.AustraliaWikipedia:WikiProject AustraliaTemplate:WikiProject AustraliaAustralia articles NA This article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. This article is supported by WikiProject Australian television.

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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:

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

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

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(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

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.

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Australia: Television NA‑class

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.AustraliaWikipedia:WikiProject AustraliaTemplate:WikiProject AustraliaAustralia articles NA This article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. This article is supported by WikiProject Australian television.

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

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Stub

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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}}

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.

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

• 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:

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