Wikipedia:WikiProject The Wire

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Welcome to WikiProject The Wire. Some Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of The Wire and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and it's subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, enquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

1 Goals
2 Scope
3 Guidelines
4 Open tasks
5 Participants
6 Articles Created
7 Newsletter Archive
8 Templates
9 Categories
10 Resources
- 10.1 Related projects

[edit] Goals

To improve the general standard of articles pertaining to the television series, The Wire.
To establish a style guide in furtherance of this.
To establish a general standard of notability for these articles.
To improve the quality of information within these articles.
To organize information in an efficient and appealing manner.
To get any of the articles to Featured status.

[edit] Scope

Any article related to The Wire; these include the individual seasons and episodes, as well as related articles such as characters, actors, writers, directors, tie-ins, etc.

[edit] Guidelines

[edit] Open tasks

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject The Wire:

edit · history · watch · refresh

Here are some tasks you can do:

Transwiki
- Transfer The Wire content to The Wire wikia - done characters and episodes, begin cast
Episode articles
- Define a consistent structure that incorporates more real world information
- Try to establish notability of each episode listed at List of The Wire episodes
- Add page numbers for Alvarez plot summaries for season 1 & 2 of List of The Wire episodes
Season articles
- - Expand The Wire (season 1)
  - Expand The Wire (season 2)
  - Expand The Wire (season 3)
  - Expand The Wire (season 4)
  - Expand and up date The Wire (season 5)
Cast
- - Add infobox and filmography to Anwan Glover
  - Add infobox and filmography to Delaney Williams
  - Add infobox and filmography to Robert F. Chew
  - Add infobox and filmography to Bill Raymond
  - Add infobox and filmography to Amy Ryan
  - Add filmography to S. Robert Morgan
Producers
- - Expand the stub article for Robert F. Colesberry
  - Expand the stub article for Karen L. Thorson
  - Expand the stub article for Nina Kostroff Noble
  - Expand the stub article for Joe Chappelle
  - Expand the stub article for Eric Overmyer
  - Add awards recognition to George Pelecanos
  - Add awards recognition to David Simon
  - Expand the article for Ed Burns
Directors:
- Add infobox and filmography to Leslie Libman
- Add infobox and filmography to Milčo Mančevski
- Add infobox and filmography to Steve Shill
- Add infobox and awards recognition to Jim McKay (director)
- Add infobox and awards recognition to David Platt (director), wikify filmography
- Add infobox to Tim Van Patten
- Add infobox to Peter Medak
- Add infobox to Ed Bianchi
- Add infobox to Elodie Keene
- Add infobox to Thomas J. Wright
- Add infobox to Daniel Attias
- Add infobox to Agnieszka Holland
- Add infobox to Rob Bailey (director)
- Add infobox to Anthony Hemingway
- Add infobox to Christine Moore
- Add infobox to Seith Mann
- Add infobox to Alex Zakrzewski
- Expand the stub article for Clement Virgo
- Expand the stub article for Ernest Dickerson
- Expand the stub article for Gloria Muzio
- Expand the stub article for Brad Anderson and add refs
- Expand article for Clark Johnson update with role for Season 5 and refs to filmography
Writers
- Create Kia Corthron
- Expand the stub article for William F. Zorzi
- Expand the stub article for Shamit Choksey
- Expand the stub article for David H. Melnick
- Expand the stub article for Rafael Alvarez
- Expand the stub article for Chris Collins (writer)
- Expand the article for Dennis Lehane
- Expand the article for Richard Price (writer)
- Expand the article for Joy Lusco
- Expand the article for David Mills (writer)

[edit] Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

[edit] Articles Created

[edit] Featured content

The Wire (TV series)

[edit] Candidates

[edit] New articles

Please feel free to list your new Wire-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.