Wikipedia:WikiProject EastEnders
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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to EastEnders. 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.
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[edit] Scope
The objective of this WikiProject is mainly that of organisation and improvisation in relation to articles regarding EastEnders. What this means is, that there should be a clear standard set for both the editing and creation of articles regarding its structure and layout, articles should also be placed correctly in the correct category. Quality should also be a priority, it does not matter how many articles are created on different subjects, what matters is the substance and content of that article. Taking the main EastEnders article as an example, it has taken time and effort by those that have edited it over the past few months, it is up to a fairly good enyclopedic standard but there are still problems. Yet there is a sense that some articles are created from a fanatical point of view. This is something that is mostly one sided rather than adding any useful information that can be referred to in the long term for research purposes.
[edit] Participants
If you're interested then add yourself to the list below. You may also add yourself to Category:WikiProject EastEnders participants by placing the template {{User EastEnders}} on your userpage.
- Active members
- Inactive members
- EastEnders the great (founder member)
Sweetie Petie(banned)- The JPS
- Quentin Smith
- Wootking
- MrSecret
- Notfred
- Badbilltucker
[edit] Parent projects
The parents for this project are:
[edit] Structure
All encyclopedias follow a consistent style, thus when editing or creating an EastEnders-related article, attention should be paid to this as well as the content itself.
The following has been devised to help establish a set structure.
- When referring to EastEnders you should be sure not to use "Eastenders". The show officially capitalises the second E due to the creators' opinion that down on paper 'Eastenders' just didn't look right.
Also, when referring to EastEnders in an article it should be formatted in italic, as with all programmes.
[edit] Character pages
When creating a character page, you should remember to write as though you are writing for an enyclopedia, and not from the opinion of a fan. This is a current problem that we have, wikipedians assume as if the reader knows other characters and watches the show, an example includes:
Joe Macer is a fictional character in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders. He is played by Ray Brooks.
Pauline and Big Mo both danced with Joe at a salsa night.
As a reader who does not watch this show, I am immmediately made aware that he danced with Pauline and Big Mo at a salsa night.
But who is Pauline?! Big Mo? Is that some type of farmyard animal?
It should read 'Pauline Fowler and Big Mo', this allows the reader to follow up from the reading, by providing the surname it is much more enyclopedic than what sounds like a friend of yours telling you about the character.
Also there needs to be a standard of importance, having the most relevant & important information towards the top of the page, such as first arrival, history etc... rather than jumping into a characters later storyline.
Character pages should also begin:
John Smith is a fictional character in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders. He is played by John Smith.
If the character has died, or in any other way left the show, then the past tense should be used.
John Smith was a fictional character in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders. He was played by John Smith.
If the character has changed their name, pages should begin:
Jane Smith (née Jones, previously Williams) is a fictional character in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders. She is played by Jane Smith.
[edit] Infoboxes
This is the infobox that provides an example of how it should be used within an EastEnders character page. Copy and paste the code below to add the template to a character page:
{{EastEnders_Character
| image =
| character_name =
| actor_name =
| years =
| first =
| last =
| appeared =
| books =
| dob =
| dod =
| status =
| home =
| occupation =
| family =
| owner =
}}
All fields are optional so may be left blank if they do not apply.
| EastEnders character | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Lou Beale | |
| Portrayed by | Anna Wing |
| Duration | 1985–1988 |
| First appearance | 19 February 1985 |
| Last appearance | 26 July 1988 |
| Book appearances | Home Fires Burning Swings and Roundabouts Good Intentions The Flower of Albert Square |
| Date of birth | 1915 |
| Date of death | 26 July 1988 |
| Marital status | Deceased |
| Occupation | Housewife |
| Family | Albert, Maggie, Harry, Dora, Ronnie, Kenny, Pete, Pauline, Terence, Flo, Doris, Liz, Elsie, Queenie |
An example is displayed on the right.
- Character name (character_name)
The infobox should show only the name of the character at the present time OR their last known name (example: "Janine Evans", not "Janine Butcher/Evans" or "Janine Evans (neé Butcher)"), previous names can be provided in the article. Also, please do not provide titles such as "Dr." or "Rev." in the infobox, it can be put in the article.
- Actor name (actor_name)
Only the name of the actor/acress who last played the character should be used (example: Kim Medcalf and not Daniella Westbrook for Sam Mitchell).
- Duration (years)
The duration should be how long the character has been in the show, not the actor. Closed dates should be separated by an en dash (–). Open dates (for characters still in the show) should end with an em dash (—).
- First and last appearances (first and last)
The first and last appearances should be the first and last dates the character appeared in the programme.
- Appeared on (appeared)
For characters who only appeared in one episode.
- Book appearances (books)
The book appearances should show the EastEnders novels that the character has appeared in, and should link to the certain novel's page, either in full or through the short redirect article (i.e. [[EEB1]] instead of [[EastEnders - Book One: Home Fires Burning]]), and should also only show the last part of the book's name, so should be typed as (example) [[EEB1|''Home Fires Burning'']] rather than [[''EastEnders - Book One: Home Fires Burning'']]. The title should be used, rather than the number of the book, to avoid confusion as it may seem that a character in book number 11 has appeared in 11 books if the number is used.
- Date of birth (dob) and Date of death (dod)
Dates of birth and death should be wikified (i.e. [[10 July]] [[1962]], not 10 July 1962 or [[10th July]] [[1962]]. If the full date of birth or death is unknown, a partial date (i.e. 1915) is fine, but the year should not be linked to unless the full date is given. See WP:MOSNUM for more information.
- Marital status (status)
Marital status should be one of the following:
[[Single (relationship)|Single]]In a relationship[[Married]]In a [[civil partnership]][[Widowed]][[Divorced]][[Legal separation|Separated]]Co-habiting
If the character is dead, "[[Death|Deceased]]" is acceptable. If the character is a child, marital status should be left blank.
- Home (home)
The current home of a current character, linked to the correct section of list of residences in EastEnders, e.g. [[list of residences in EastEnders#45 Albert Square|45 Albert Square]], or the last known home of a past character, e.g. [[Florida]] for Michelle Fowler. If a character is dead, this should be left blank.
- Occupation (occupation)
The character's occupation should be their current occupation, last known occupation, or last occpation before their death. If the character is unemployed, please state "Unemployed".
- Family (family)
The list of family members in the infobox should be the closest relatives only (i.e. parents, siblings, spouse and children), to keep the list short. Other relatives can be listed in a separate section in the article (see #Family below). If the closest relatives are not known, then the most relevant relatives can be listed, i.e. a cousin or aunt, etc.
- Owner (owner)
If the character is a pet, list the owners of the pet here.
[edit] Family
If any members of a character are known, they should all be listed in a separate section after the character's storylines. The order of the family should be as follows:
Father Mother Brother(s) Sister(s) Half brother(s) Half sister(s) Husband/Wife Son(s) Daughter(s) Grandfather(s) Grandmother(s) Great grandfather(s) Great grandmother(s) Grandson(s) Granddaughter(s) Great grandson(s) Great granddaughter(s) Nephew(s) Niece(s) Great nephew(s) Great niece(s) Uncle(s) Aunt(s) Great uncle(s) Great aunt(s) Cousin(s) First cousin(s) once removed Second cousin(s) etc.
For an example, see Ian Beale#Family. Step family and in-laws should not be included, but half siblings (etc.) should.
[edit] External links
If the character has a page on the offical EastEnders website (http://www.bbc.co.uk/eastenders), then this should be linked to in an external links section in such a way: [url Character name] at bbc.co.uk Any other relavant links should be included but must follow the guidelines set out at Wikipedia:External links.
[edit] Book pages
Pages about EastEnders books should contain a plot summary with a spoiler warning, a list of characters who appear in the book, with links to appropriate articles, and the {{EEBooks}} infobox.
{{EEBooks
| image =
| book_name =
| series_number =
| author =
| publisher =
| isbn =
| chapters =
| release_year =
| timeline =
| dedication =
| before =
| after =
}}
- image
- This should be an image of the book cover, with the correct fair use rationale.
- book_name
- This should be the full title of the book, i.e. EastEnders Book One: Home Fires Burning.
- series_number
- The number in the series.
- author
- Who wrote the book?
- Publisher
- Who published the book?
- isbn
- The ISBN for the book, i.e. ISBN 1-85018-045-8.
- chapters
- The number of chapters in the book.
- release_year
- The year the book was released, or the full date if known.
- timeline
- The years in which the events of the book takes place.
- dedication
- If the book has a dedication, put it here.
- before
- The name of the preceding book (linked if appropriate).
- after
- The name of the following book (linked if appropriate).
[edit] Article importance
| Importance level | What warrants this level |
|---|---|
| Top | The main EastEnders article or any of its sub-articles (e.g. History of EastEnders). |
| High | The 24 original characters, characters who have appeared for over 10 years (e.g. Phil Mitchell). |
| Mid | Current characters, characters who have appeared for under 10 years, significant baby characters (e.g. Janet Mitchell). |
| Low | Current babies, characters who appeared for under a year and are not of great significance (e.g. SJ Fletcher). |
[edit] Goals
- Ensure that all EastEnders-related articles can be easily found, through correctly placing them in the correct categories and making sure any other articles that refer to them link to them.
- Organise and improve EastEnders-related articles that are in need of attention.
- Character pages and other notable information should be kept up to date with the current events in the show.
- Where possible (e.g characters) a standard style should be set throughout the articles, to provide a consistent and professional enyclopedia style.
- Ensure that quality of articles is held above that of quantity of articles.
- Ensure that EastEnders related images are provided with the correct copyright information and that they are correctly placed under the most relevant EastEnders category.
- Ensure that EastEnders related images and articles do not infringe copyright.
- To ensure that images used within an EastEnders page are relevant to the text and provide the reader with a break up from long lines of text.
[edit] Projects
- See also: Wikipedia: WikiProject EastEnders/To do
- See also: Wikipedia: WikiProject EastEnders/Project log
- Family pages:
- The Branning/Jackson Family
- The Butcher Family
- The Miller Family
- The Mitchell Family
- The Moon Family
- The Slater Family
- The Watts Family
- The Wicks Family
- Characters who need pages: Polly Becker, Asif Malik, Donna Andrews, Willy Roper, Milton Hibbert, Brenda Flaherty, Neelam Kapoor, Sadie Banks, Jacques Butcher, Jabbar Ahmed, Luisa di Marco, Bruno di Marco, Nadia Mitchell, Susan Rose, Harry Osborne
[edit] Tasks
- Maintain Storylines of EastEnders#2007 to the day.
- Expand: Michael Rawlins, List of EastEnders television spin-offs, Audrey Trueman, Graham Foster, Tony Hills, Danny Whiting and Maureen Carter.
- Write a section about the website and internet fandom on the main article.
- Add Wendy Richard's criticisms to EastEnders and Pauline Fowler, see if there's anything worthwhile to be salvaged from James Alexandrou and Wendy Richard's interviews with Digital Spy.
- Add all first and last appearances and all book appearances to infoboxes.
- Clean up Phil Mitchell (see Talk:Phil Mitchell#Article).
- Expand and sort List of EastEnders crew members.
[edit] Completed tasks
- Expand List of buildings in EastEnders.
- Expand Christmas in EastEnders
- Expand Peggy Mitchell as it says very little about this major character.
- Update Honey Edwards.
- Expand Tony Hills.
- Add to The Beale/Fowler Family, all information 1985-1996 is complete, but 1996-2006 needs to be on there!
- Update Max Branning
- Add some images (see talk page) to the main EastEnders article.
- Clean up Ian Beale and put in chronological order, adding his storylines, from the beginning, including The Banned storyline, his boxing and his bankruptcy etc.
- Write a better lead paragraph for the main EastEnders article.
- Put all EastEnders-related images into Category:EastEnders images.
- Make sure all family sections have "half brother" or "half sister" without the hyphen (see Sibling#Half sibling).
- EastEnders in popular culture.
- Listify the categories Category:EastEnders directors, Category:EastEnders producers and Category:EastEnders writers into List of EastEnders crew members.
[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.
- List of past EastEnders characters by year of exit: User:Trampikey
- List of characters from EastEnders: User:Trampikey
- List of buildings in EastEnders: User:Trampikey
[edit] Categories
Please ensure that in the creation of an EastEnders-related article it is placed in the most relevant category listed below.
- Category:EastEnders
- Category:EastEnders characters
- Category:EastEnders images
- Category:EastEnders families
- Category:EastEnders locations
- Category:EastEnders people
- Category:EastEnders lists
- Category:EastEnders spin-offs
- Category:EastEnders storylines
- Category:EastEnders stubs
[edit] Articles
[edit] Good articles
- Current good article nominees
Phil Mitchell
History of EastEnders
[edit] Wikipedia articles on EastEnders
[edit] Protected articles
- Phil Mitchell (semi-protected)
- Ben Mitchell (EastEnders) (semi-protected)
[edit] New Wikipedia articles related to EastEnders
Please feel free to list your new EastEnders-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.
[edit] Community discussions
[edit] Archived peer reviews
- Wikipedia:Peer review/EastEnders - 19:05, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Resources
Some good resources for EastEnders related articles:
- The official BBC EastEnders site
- Walford Web, with a very efficient 'Who's Who' section
- EastEnders archive, with character information 1985-91, and episode guides 1985-
- Digital Spy, a good resource for soap news
[edit] Templates
| What to type | What it makes | What it's for | ||||||
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| {{EastEnders-stub}} |
The official EastEnders stub that should be used for short articles in need of more information. | |||||||
| {{EastEnders project class}} |
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The project notice, designed to be placed in the talk page of any article that is deemed to be a part of this WikiProject. For more information, see Wikipedia:WikiProject EastEnders/Assessment. | ||||||
| {{EastEnders}} |
Navigation template, designed to be placed at the bottom of any article that is mentioned in the template. | |||||||
| {{WPEE FUR}} |
This image is a low resoultion screenshot taken from the BBC television programme EastEnders.
Source - personally acquired by the uploader This image is subject to copyright. No free or public domain images have been located. I, the uploader, feel it is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:
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For use on EastEnders images - time saving so the whole fair use rationale doesn't have to be typed out or copied and pasted from elsewhere. This template MUST be substituted, i.e. {{subst:WPEE FUR}}. The template will also add the image to Category:EastEnders images. |
