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WikiProject Dad's Army

General information (edit · changes)

Main Project Page
Participants
Episode Page Structure
Announcements
- Article requests
- Articles requiring expansion (stubs)
- New articles
- Articles up for deletion
Project category
Dad's Army Portal

Departments

Assessment
Collaboration
Outreach
Peer reviews
Translation
Vandalism
Portal Upkeep

Things you can do (edit)

~~To convince the Wikipedia Admins to approve the {{DadsArmy-tv-stub}}.~~ Done
~~Advertise the project to encourage at least 10 more people to join.~~ Done
Create a page for each and every Dad's Army TV episode and add a plot for it.
~~Main Dad's Army page is now listed as a good article.~~ Done
~~Complete the big push see talk archive 1.~~ Done
~~Splitting the Dad's Army page up, for example put the characters, film and stage show on a seperate page.~~ Done
~~Place {{dadsarmy}} on every related article, and {{Dadsarmyproject}} on every related Dad's Army talk page.~~ Done
~~Improve the It Sticks Out Half a Mile page.~~ Done
Create a page for the Stage Show.
~~Improve the biography of David Croft.~~ Done
Improve Walmington-on-Sea article.
Advertise the project as much as possible.
Add an overview for each It Sticks Out Half a Mile episode.

Shortcut: WP:DAD

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Dad's Army. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to do list there.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject's primarily goal is to improve and organize articles relating to the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. This project would like to produce extremely well written and well published articles about this television series. We would like to create information about this television series that will encourage more people to enjoy one of the greatest programmes of all time.

[edit] Parentage

Suggested:

WikiProject David Croft

[edit] Descendant WikiProjects

No descendant WikiProjects have been defined.

Suggested:

WikiProject It Sticks Out Half a Mile

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

Similar WikiProjects are:

[edit] Related Wikiportals

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[edit] Related pages in Sister projects

Wikiquote:Dad's Army

[edit] Participants

For a full list of all the participants see WikiProject Dad's Army/Participants. If you would like to join please add your name to the active participants list.

[edit] Structure

[edit] TV and Radio Episodes

All episodes must have an infobox in the style of template below. Also, they must have a brief synopsis without spoilers and a fully detailed plot with spoilers and ending details. The page must also include a list of the main cast, e.g. Mainwaring, Mrs Pike, the Vicar etc, but not extras, for example the back rows of the platoon. Finally, you may add any notes that you believe are important about the episode in question. For example: This episode is lost or this episode was meant to be broadcast on the... or perhaps even trivia, such as the specific filming locations. Please use The Man and the Hour (first episode of Dad's army) page as a guide.

For a full describtion of what should be in each section of the episode pages see WikiProject Dad's Army/Episode Structure.

[edit] Goals

To create detailed pages on all Dad's Army TV and radio episodes.
Improve all articles so they may get nominated as a GA or a FA.

[edit] Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

Example article: User:Example
~~Dad's Army Video and DVD releases: Mollsmolyneux~~ Done

[edit] Templates

[edit] Infoboxes

[edit] Episode Infobox

042 - Keep Young and Beautiful
Script	Jimmy Perry and David Croft
Director	David Croft
Producer	David Croft
Recorded	Friday 9/6/72
Original transmission	Friday 13/10/72 8.30pm
Series	Five
Length	30 minutes
Original Viewing Figures	16 million
Preceded by	Asleep in the Deep
Followed by	A Soldier's Farewell

This is how the userbox should be filed in twice on each episode page (one for the TV episode and one for the audio episode, for information on what the page should look like and where the infoboxes go take a look at The Desperate Drive of Lance Corporal Jones page). If you want the original template go to {{Infobox Dad's Army}}. If you need any help using it then just click on the link to the template and on the page there is a usage box which you just need to copy and fill in.

[edit] Character Infobox

Dad's Army character

Captain George Mainwaring
Affiliated with	Home Guard
Occupation	Bank Manager
First appearance	The Man and the Hour
Last appearance	Never Too Old
Portrayed by	Arthur Lowe

This is how the userbox should be filed in on each character page. If you want the original template go to {{Dad's Army character}}. For an example page on how this infobox should be used see List of characters in Dad's Army and click on any of the character names for the infobox, it's best to click on one of the main character pages i.e platoon members, as they definitely all have complete infoboxes. If you need any help using it then just click on the link to the template and on the page there is a usage box which you just need to copy and fill in.

[edit] Stub templates

It is recommended that this stub notice be placed on any article that you believe requires expansion.

Code: {{DadsArmy-tv-stub}}

Result:

This Dad's Army-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

See also the associated stub category Category:Dad's Army stubs

[edit] Link templates

A box of links to connected articles to be placed on the bottom of each Dad's Army page.

Code: {{Dadsarmy}}

Result:

Dad's Army

Characters

Television episodes

List of Dad's Army episodes | Missing episodes | DVD and Video releases

Radio episodes

List of Dad's Army radio episodes | Audio releases

Spin-offs

The Film | The Stage Show | It Sticks Out Half a Mile

A list of the major cast members in Dad's Army, for the actors' pages.

Code: {{DA Cast}}

Result:

Major Cast Members of Dad's Army
Arthur Lowe • John Le Mesurier • Clive Dunn • John Laurie • James Beck • Arnold Ridley • Ian Lavender • Bill Pertwee • Frank Williams • Edward Sinclair

A list of the major character in Dad's Army, for the character pages.

Code: {{DA Characters}}

Result:

Main Characters in Dad's Army
Captain Mainwaring • Sergeant Wilson • Lance-Corporal Jones • Private Frazer • Private Walker • Private Godfrey • Private Pike ARP Warden Hodges • Reverend Farthing • Verger Yeatman • Mavis Pike

[edit] Project notice

This is the project notice, designed to be placed in the talk page of any article that has been edited as part of this Wikiproject.

Code: {{Dadsarmyproject}}

Result:

This article is part of WikiProject Dad's Army, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Dad's Army on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this notice, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.

Looking to help? Check out the to-do list:

[edit] Userbox

This is a userbox that any members can put on their userpage to tell people that they are a member of this project.

Code

Result

This user is a member of the
Dad's Army Wikiproject.

[edit] Categories

[edit] Articles

[edit] Wikipedia articles on Dad's Army

[edit] New Wikipedia articles related to Dad's Army

Please feel free to list your new Dad's Army-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.