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FAR for Bart Simpson

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Discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Television § Episode Count in Infobox

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Television § Episode Count in Infobox. A discussion regarding whether the episode count in the Infobox should include episodes released early on a streaming service that isn't the original network. TheDoctorWho (talk) 18:10, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New standers?

Under the example character articles 2/3 of the example FAs have been delisted. The third is part of set currently being audited.

Because of this I was hoping that new examples could be selected? Questions? four Olifanofmrtennant (she/her) 04:28, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Lost (2004 TV series)#Requested move 28 October 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Lost (2004 TV series)#Requested move 28 October 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Raladic (talk) 05:16, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Year categories

Currently, the TV article category system is broken down by year as follows:

Category:YYYY in Fooian television
- Category:YYYY Fooian television series debuts
- Category:YYYY Fooian television series endings
- Category:YYYY Fooian television seasons

This is evidently based on the seasonal TV format common in the US. But it doesn't work well for places where limited-run series are the norm. For example, Descendants of the Sun is in Category:2016 South Korean television series debuts and Category:2016 South Korean television series endings, back to back (and is missing from the season category as there are no individual seasons). It becomes rather redundant when almost all of a country's drama series have to be categorised this way.

This is also the case for Thai drama series. Recently, User:วรุฒ หิ่มสาใจ has been creating non-standard categories such as Category:2022 Thai television dramas presumably to avoid this redundancy. However, this creates problems due to (1) incompatibility with the larger category scheme, and (2) introducing the term "television dramas" into the categorisation, leading to inconsistency and ambiguity, as there's already Category:Drama television series by country where drama is meant as the genre rather than an umbrella term. (Or is it? The current categorisation is really confusing.)

I'm reluctant to wholesale revert his edits, as they do address the issue mentioned above. But then I'm also unsure how to integrate these categories into the TV categorisation scheme. (The user has also made a complete mess of the Thailand TV tree.)

On the whole, I think it boils down to two things:

Should an additional by-year category tree be created for limited-run series, and how should the categories be titled?
Should television dramas be used as an umbrella term that covers TV dramas in the wider sense (all fictional scripted shows regardless of genre, so also including e.g. action, sci-fi, etc.)? Or does the existing drama television series category already serve this function?

--Paul_012 (talk) 05:46, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I want to separate the TV dramas and series from the TV shows such as game shows, talk shows, and variety shows into the own categories. How can I do this without causing any problems? วรุฒ หิ่มสาใจ (talk) 07:32, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

วรุฒ หิ่มสาใจ, I was hoping we might find some advice here, but it doesn't appear that much is forthcoming. I'll take another look at the category and see what I can do to make things at least internally consistent and compatible with the wider tree. --Paul_012 (talk) 03:45, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you @Paul 012 วรุฒ หิ่มสาใจ (talk) 04:02, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Combined year stubs 1970s in Croatian television

I have merged a set of ten nearly-empty pages for years into one page for the decade. I moved all the individual year stubs to draft space. Industrial Metal Brain (talk) 03:13, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good article reassessment for The Contest

The Contest has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 19:12, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Why is there no best TV list?

The NBC sitcom Seinfeld (1989-1998) was named by TV Guide as the greatest TV show of all time in 2002.^[1]^[2]
The HBO crime drama series The Sopranos (1999-2007) was named the greatest TV show of all time in 2013 by TV Guide^[3] and in 2016 by Rolling Stone.^[4]
Another HBO crime drama series, The Wire (2002-2008) was voted as the greatest TV show of the 21st Century by BBC in 2021.^[5]
The BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses was voted by viewers as Britain's Best Sitcom in 2004.^[6]

References

^ Cosgrove-Mather, Bootie (April 26, 2002). "TV Guide Names Top 50 Shows". CBS News. Associated Press. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
^ Fretts, Bruce; Roush, Matt. "The Greatest Shows on Earth". TV Guide Magazine. Vol. 61, no. 3194–3195. pp. 16–19.
^ Fretts, Bruce; Roush, Matt (December 23, 2013). "TV Guide Magazine's 60 Best Series of All Time". TV Guide. Archived from the original on December 24, 2013. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
^ Sheffield, Rob (September 21, 2016). "100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on September 23, 2016. Retrieved September 22, 2016.
^ Why The Wire is the greatest TV series of the 21st Century – BBC Culture
^ "The Final Top Ten Sitcoms". bbcattic.org. London: BBC. 2004. Archived from the original on 13 October 2014. Retrieved 8 October 2014.