Wikipedia:WikiProject EastEnders

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Family	Barry, Frank, Ricky, Diane and Clare

WikiProject EastEnders
WikiProject EastEnders
Duration	1989–1996, 1999–2004
Occupation	Unknown
In-universe information
Occupation	Unknown
Family	Barry, Frank, Ricky, Diane and Clare

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Albert Square is the fictional location of the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders.

WikiProject on EastEnders

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.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

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.

Participants

User:EastEnders the great
User:Trampikey
Sweetie Petie
User:Stephenb
User:The JPS - not overly familiar with the show, but will keep an eye on things like copyright.
User:Shakirfan
Quentin Smith - I ought to be on here as I made the stub cat and was one of the catalysers for this, but I don't watch the show.
User:Gungadin

If you're interested then add yourself to the list. You may also add yourself to Category:Participants in WikiProject EastEnders by placing the template {{User EastEnders}} on your userpage.

Parent projects

The parents for this project are:

Structure

All encycolpedias 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 officialy 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.

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 (neé Jones, previously Williams) is a fictional character in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders. She is played by Jane Smith.

Infoboxes

This is the infobox that provides an example of how it should be used within an EastEnders character page:

Note that the duration should be the times that the character has been in the show.

Also, please make sure the infobox provides only the name of the actor/acress who last played the character (example: Kim Medcalf and not Daniella Westbrook for Sam Mitchell), and that the infobox shows 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.

The duration should be how long the CHARACTER has been in the show, not the actor. Dates should be separated by an en dash (–). Dates of birth should be wikified (i.e. [[10 July]] [[1962]], not 10 July 1962 or [[10th July]] [[1962]]). See WP:MOSNUM for more information.

The list of family members 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.

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 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.

Projects

Family pages:
"Christmas in EastEnders"
Characters who desperately need pages (characters in bold are the most important): Mo Butcher, Polly Becker, Sanjay Kapoor, Gita Kapoor, Ruth Fowler, Rev. Alex Healy, Tony Hills, Ted Hills, Jeff Healy, Sandra di Marco, Nellie Ellis
Other characters that need pages (but not as much as the above): Graham Foster, Precious Hudson, Angel Hudson, Asif Malik, Nita Mistry, Joanne Ryan, Shirley Benson, Gavin Sharp, Joe di Marco, Donna Andrews, Milton Ebert, Maureen Carter

Tasks

Discuss and look at the size of the main EastEnders article, it needs to be desperately reduced in some form.
~~Expand List of buildings in EastEnders.~~ (all sections expanded as of 9 May 2006)
Add to The Beale/Fowler Family, all information 1985-1996 is complete, but 1996-2006 needs to be on there!
Update Storylines of EastEnders#2006 to the day.

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.

Lists

Articles

Wikipedia articles on EastEnders

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.

Requests

Resources

Templates

What to type	What it makes	What it's for
{{EastEnders-stub}}	Template:EastEnders-stub	The official EastEnders stub that should be used for short articles in need of more information.
{{EastEnders_project}}	Template:EastEnders project	The project notice, designed to be placed in the talk page of any article that is deemed to be a part of this WikiProject.