Wikipedia:WikiProject EastEnders
Welcome!
Welcome to WikiProject EastEnders. This WikiProject is a collaboration area and open group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to the 1985–present British soap opera television series EastEnders. We currently have 360 articles under the scope of this project, which generally includes articles where EastEnders is a relevant focus to the subject. This WikiProject aims primarily to improve and organise these articles in an attempt to establish a standard. Such an effort endeavours to produce a reference that has value as an authority on material within the television series, is easy to read, and has a consistent style.
If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page, add yourself to the list of participants, see the to-do list or just start editing.
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Style guide
This is a style guide for EastEnders articles. It includes guidelines and policies from the following pages:
Organisation
Task forces
There are presently no task forces.
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What do we include?
The main criteria for inclusion should be notability. That being said, to avoid clutter and confusion, we should note the following.
Characters
Most characters that appear in EastEnders do not pass the notability guidelines on fiction. Each character that appears can be included in one of the lists of characters by year, such as list of EastEnders characters (2010) (see lists of EastEnders characters for more). Even characters with a separate article should be included in these lists. Articles can be de-merged if they grow very large, but please discuss them first (generally an article will not be de-merged if the character has appeared on screen for less than six months).
Images
Illustrations for EastEnders-related articles are typically taken from screen captures and websites. As such they are nearly all non-free and must only be used in conformance with the Non-free content criteria. Exceptions include pictures of people involved in the production of EastEnders that have been released under free licenses, allowing third parties to modify images and use images commercially. For a gallery of free images relating to EastEnders, see here. Most non-free images currently in EastEnders-related articles lack detailed or sufficient fair use rationales justifying their use in the articles. Such images are in danger of deletion; you can remedy this by writing better rationales.
Articles
A complete list of Wikipedia articles relating to EastEnders can be found here and recent changes to those pages can be seen here. A list of the 500 most viewed EastEnders pages by month is here.
New articles
This is a list of the most recently created EastEnders-related articles on Wikipedia. If you create a new article, please list it here. 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. DYK has a 5 day limit from the creation (or expansion) of the article.
Achievements
Articles with featured status
Articles with Good Article status
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Articles selected for "Did You Know?"
- Did you know... that as Adam Best, David Proud will be the first visibly disabled adult actor to appear in the British soap opera EastEnders? — on the Main Page on 9 June 2009.
- Did you know... that a team of 13 writers from London aged between 17 and 22 created and wrote the entire series of EastEnders: E20 at a summer school? — on the Main Page on 2 November 2009.
- Did you know... that British producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins' first job in television was devising means of killing victims in the crime drama series Midsomer Murders? — on the Main Page on 13 February 2010.
- Did you know... that British soap opera EastEnders celebrated its 25th anniversary with a live episode revealing who killed Archie Mitchell? — on the Main Page on 5 March 2010.
- Did you know... that "Pretty Baby...." is the first soap opera episode to feature just a single character? — on the Main Page on 22 March 2010.
- Did you know... that British soap operas Coronation Street and EastEnders will cross over for the first time today in the Children in Need 2010 special "East Street"? — on the Main Page on 19 November 2010.
- Did you know... that in preparation for moving to HD broadcasting, the British soap opera EastEnders' set was lit on fire? — on the Main Page on 9 December 2010.
- Did you know... that EastEnders characters Anthony and brother Tyler were compared to EastEnders duo Phil and Grant Mitchell? — on the Main Page on 26 October 2011.
- Did you know... that Danielle Harold was the second person to act out a birth in a live episode of a soap opera, in EastEnders' 4466th episode? — on the Main Page on 13 November 2012.
- Did you know... that the current EastEnders executive producer Lorraine Newman is the first executive producer to have occupied every editorial role on the show? — on the Main Page on 16 November 2012.
- Did you know... that Danny Dyer, who is set to debut as Mick Carter in EastEnders on Christmas Day, was also approached to play Carl White in the show? — on the Main Page on 25 December 2013.
Templates and categories
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What you can do
Goals
- Organise and improve EastEnders-related articles that are in need of attention.
- Ensure character pages and other notable information is kept up to date with the events in the show.
- Maintain a standard style throughout articles, to provide a consistent and professional encyclopaedia 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 relevant EastEnders category.
- Ensure that EastEnders-related images and articles do not infringe copyright.
- 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.
Cleanup
For a list of articles requiring attention, please see Category:EastEnders articles in need of real-world perspective or the Operation: Cleanup page.
Adopt an article
Similar to a collaboration, 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, a stub or an article in need of constant updating. 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.
Potential featured topics
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See also
Useful reference websites
The following websites may be useful in referencing articles:
- The official BBC EastEnders site
- Walford Web, with a very efficient 'Who's Who' section
- EastEnders archive, with character information 1985-91, and episode guides 1985-
- Digital Spy, a good resource for soap news
- What's On TV, cast interviews
Community discussions
Article alerts
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Archived featured article candidates
- Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Pauline Fowler
- Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Pauline Fowler/archive1
Archived peer reviews
- Wikipedia:Peer review/Pauline Fowler/archive2
- Wikipedia:Peer review/Pauline Fowler/archive1
- Wikipedia:Peer review/EastEnders/archive1
Other project pages
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