Wikipedia:WikiProject Media franchises

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WikiProject Media franchises aims to help various fictional series editors to form frameworks for articles on fictional series. This can include novel, television, and film series in a way that provides the best WikiExperience for all.

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[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims to organize information in fictional series, such as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Harry Potter, Star Wars, etc. For instance, Harry Potter refers to both a series of books by J. K. Rowling, a series of films, as well as a character in that series. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series is a series of books, a radio show, a film, a specific book in the series, as well as an entity in the setting of the series.

Further, we may look at the fact that a series - particularly if written as a saga, such as Star Trek or The Lord of the Rings - is much more likely to build up a large number of characters, some of whom (eg. Mr. Spock) might become famous outside of their fictional universes. We will look at how such information might be organized.

A list has been started to show various fictional series.

[edit] Task forces

Main article: Wikipedia:WikiProject Fictional series/Task forces

The task forces of this project will mostly be multimedia fictional series. Single media series could become task forces of that media's WikiProject. That does not mean that this project will always be for multimedia series.

If you come across a WikiProject of a fictional series that seems dormant, you can add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Fictional series/merge}} on its talk page.

[edit] Associated WikiProjects

[edit] Descendant Wikiprojects

  1. Wikipedia:WikiProject Sherlock Holmes
  2. WikiProject Balzac
  3. WikiProject Harry Potter
  4. WikiProject Middle-earth
  5. 1632 alternate history series
  6. Honor Harrington Books and sub-series wikiproject
  7. WikiProject Dragonlance
  8. WikiProject Redwall
  9. WikiProject Artemis Fowl
  10. WikiProject Narnia
  11. The Dark Tower WikiProject
  12. Wikiproject Nyeusigrube

[edit] Participants

  1. Gaurav
  2. Uncle Ed
  3. Phil
  4. Lee
  5. Tennessee Wood
  6. Wootking
  7. NicosT
  8. Badbilltucker
  9. Hedwig0407
  10. Fabartus-Signature: FrankB, I'm primarily working stuff by Baen Books, esp. By Eric Flint (1632 series) et al, but I was just told about this project, so I'm putting me where I've already been!
  11. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 19:45, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
  12. KGV
  13. Lady Aleena @ 10:01, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
  14. Pejorative.majeure 05:46, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
  15. lquilter 19:52, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
  16. --TomasBat 16:50, 10 January 2007 (UTC) Im currently working on the science fiction series and trilogy Christ Clone Trilogy.
  17. Vaishu2 07:16, 5 March 2007 (UTC) I will mainly contribute to the Nancy Drew pages as I am drawn to the series.
  18. · AndonicO Talk Interested in The Space Odyssey series.
  19. Munkee madness 19:19, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
  20. Pundit|utter 22:49, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
  21. John Carter (talk) 17:10, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
  22. DGG (talk) 02:05, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
  23. Jclemens I'm interested in fixing up a lot of the Michael Moorcock series' articles.
  24. Accounting4Taste. I'm interested primarily in detective fiction and franchises that extend to multiple media (comics, TV, radio, film, books).

All members should feel free to add {{User WikiProject Fictional series}} to their userpages. And, of course, feel free to edit it if you wish.

[edit] Structure

Under discussion. See the discussion forums below.

WP:FICT may be a useful guideline to some parts of this WikiProject.

[edit] Hierarchy Definition

Under discussion. See the discussion forums below.

See this example on dividing a topic into a hierarchy.

[edit] Recognized content

Media franchises
articles		 Importance
Top Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 1
Good article GA 1 1
B 1 10 11
Start 28 28
Stub 1 47 48
List 4 4
Assessed 1 1 1 90 93
Unassessed 15 15
Total 1 1 1 105 108

[edit] Featured articles

[edit] Good articlese

[edit] DYKs (Did You Know)s

[edit] Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections

[edit] Formerly recognized content

[edit] Former featured articles

[edit] Former good articles

[edit] Templates

{{WikiProject Media franchises}} - for the talk pages of related articles.

[edit] General Strategy and Discussion forum

  • /General
  • /Strategy

An important note for everyone to remember:

A few Wikipedians have gotten together to make some suggestions about how we might organize data in articles about Media franchises. These are only suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you should not feel obligated in the least to follow them. But if you don't know what to write or where to begin, the guidelines bloew may be helpful. Mainly, we just want you to write articles!

Some general guidelines for working with fictional subjects:

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