Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Dad's Army task force

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Dad's Army. 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.

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Scope

This WikiProject's primary goal is to improve and organize articles relating to the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. This project would like to produce extremely well written and well published articles about this television series. We would like to create information about this television series that will encourage more people to enjoy one of the greatest programmes of all time.

Parentage

• WikiProject British TV shows
• WikiProject BBC Sitcoms

Suggested:

• WikiProject David Croft

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Suggested:

• WikiProject It Sticks Out Half a Mile

Similar WikiProjects

Similar WikiProjects are:

• WikiProject Blackadder
• WikiProject Doctor Who
• WikiProject Fawlty Towers

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Related pages in Sister projects

• Wikiquote:Dad's Army

Participants

For a full list of all the participants see WikiProject Dad's Army/Participants. If you would like to join please add your name to the active participants list.

Structure

TV and Radio Episodes

All episodes must have an infobox in the style of template below. Also, they must have a brief synopsis, a fully detailed plot, and ending details. The page must also include a list of the main cast, e.g. Mainwaring, Mrs Pike, the Vicar etc, but not extras, for example the back rows of the platoon. Finally, you may add any notes that you believe are important about the episode in question. For example: This episode is lost or this episode was meant to be broadcast on the... or perhaps even trivia, such as the specific filming locations. Please use The Man and the Hour (first episode of Dad's army) page as a guide.

For a full describtion of what should be in each section of the episode pages see WikiProject Dad's Army/Episode Structure.

Goals

1. To create detailed pages on all Dad's Army TV and radio episodes.
2. Improve all articles so they may get nominated as a GA or a FA.

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.

• Example article: User:Example
• Dad's Army Video and DVD releases: Mollsmolyneux Done

Templates

Infoboxes

Episode Infobox

This is how the userbox should be filed in twice on each episode page (one for the TV episode and one for the audio episode, for information on what the page should look like and where the infoboxes go take a look at The Desperate Drive of Lance Corporal Jones page). If you want the original template go to {{Infobox Dad's Army}}. If you need any help using it then just click on the link to the template and on the page there is a usage box which you just need to copy and fill in.

Character Infobox

Template:Dad's Army character This is how the userbox should be filed in on each character page. If you want the original template go to {{Dad's Army character}}. For an example page on how this infobox should be used see List of characters in Dad's Army and click on any of the character names for the infobox, it's best to click on one of the main character pages i.e platoon members, as they definitely all have complete infoboxes. If you need any help using it then just click on the link to the template and on the page there is a usage box which you just need to copy and fill in.

Stub templates

It is recommended that this stub notice be placed on any article that you believe requires expansion.

Code: {{DadsArmy-tv-stub}}

Result:

See also the associated stub category Category:Dad's Army stubs

Link templates

A box of links to connected articles to be placed on the bottom of each Dad's Army page.

Code: {{Dadsarmy}}

Result:

A list of the major cast members in Dad's Army, for the actors' pages.

Code: {{DA Cast}}

Result: Template:DA Cast

A list of the major character in Dad's Army, for the character pages.

Code: {{DA Characters}}

Result: Template:DA Characters

Project notice

This is the project notice, designed to be placed in the talk page of any article that has been edited as part of this Wikiproject.

Code: {{Dadsarmyproject}}

Result: Template:Dadsarmyproject

Userbox

This is a userbox that any members can put on their userpage to tell people that they are a member of this project.

Code	Result
{{User:Mollsmolyneux/WPDad's Army}}	This user is a member of the WikiProject Television Dad's Army task force.

Categories

• Category:Dad's Army
• Category:Dad's Army episodes
• Category:Dad's Army radio episodes
• Category:Dad's Army characters
• Category:WikiProject Dad's Army
• Category:WikiProject Dad's Army articles
• Category:Dad's Army stubs

Articles

Wikipedia articles on Dad's Army

• Dad's Army
• List of Dad's Army episodes
• List of Dad's Army radio episodes
• List of characters in Dad's Army
• Dad's Army missing episodes
• Dad's Army audio releases
• Dad's Army DVD and Video releases
• Captain George Mainwaring
• Sergeant Arthur Wilson
• Lance-Corporal Jack Jones
• Private Joe Walker
• Private Frank Pike
• Private James Frazer
• Private Charles Godfrey
• ARP Warden Bert Hodges
• Reverend Timothy Farthing
• Maurice Yeatman
• Janet King
• Elizabeth Mainwaring

New Wikipedia articles related to Dad's Army

Please feel free to list your new Dad's Army-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.

Featured lists

• List of Dad's Army episodes

Good articles

• Dad's Army