Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Episode coverage task force

This is a task force of WikiProject Television for the coverage of episode related content (as opposed to over-all show information, or other general TV article). This includes Lists of episodes, season / series / story arc articles, and individual episode articles.

This task force is the result of merging WP:TVE and WP:LOE. You will find all those guidelines, templates, and advice on this page, as well as new information. This was done to better organize all articles relating to episode-level detail.

To include articles in this task force, add episode-coverage=Yes to {{WikiProject Television}} on the article's talk page. To assess articles for this task force add for example, episode-coverage-importance=low after including the articles as part of the task force.

See also WP:NTVEP for guidance on writing articles on individual television episodes.

Guidelines edit

Participants edit

Technically speaking, anyone who edits / contributes to TV and episode articles is a participant, and there are no requirements other than that. If one wishes they can further identify themselves with the task force by adding {{User TV Eps}} to their user page.

Article assessment edit

Some advice regarding television episode article assessment:

Alerts edit

Did you know

Articles for deletion

Redirects for discussion

Files for discussion

Featured list candidates

Good article nominees

Good topic candidates

Requests for comments

Requested moves

Articles to be merged

Articles to be split

Articles for creation

Individual episodes edit

Featured content edit

These articles about television episodes reached featured article status. You can use them as an example of what a well written episode article should look like.

Featured articles edit

Former featured articles edit

Good articles edit

Former good articles edit

Did you know? articles edit

Good article nominees edit

Main page featured articles edit

Featured topics edit

Good topics edit


Writing episode pages edit

Lists of episodes edit

Featured lists edit

The following lists of episodes have been identified as Featured lists:

Featured lists edit

Former featured lists edit

Featured list candidates edit

Main page featured lists edit


List guidelines edit

  • Until a new guideline/how-to is made, simply follow the example of other Featured lists.
(see also, #Templates below for the structure guidelines via templates)

Additional relevant guidelines and advice:

Templates edit

  • {{Episode list}}
    • Simplifies the method of creating new lists in a table format, using the project's recommended layout. Participants are encouraged to begin applying them to episode lists.
  • For lists that only list titles and air dates, etc., and do not include summaries, remove |ShortSummary=, which will remove the summary cell, colored line separator and default cell coloring.
  • Please be sure to use {{Start date}} for the first-broadcast date of each episode.

Categories edit

When a list is in its own List of episodes or List of media article, add a category from Category:Lists of television series episodes.