Wikipedia talk:Television article review process

message: I'd like to get some more opinions on some character articles that I have proposed a merger for. You can find the discussion at Talk: Smallville (TV series)#Merge characters.   BIGNOLE   (Contact me) 23:00, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Smallville

message: I personally like leaving a pilot of a series as its own article, because it has the greatest potential to be sourced, and just because I think it's a good idea. Does anyone else have opinions, so that we might be able to add it ito the process? I (talk) 05:22, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The general notability guideline is clear, it must assert its notability through secondary sources upon creation. We cannot say "it has potential because it is a pilot", when not all pilots will actually meet the guideline. That's why WP:EPISODE says to start from the top and work your way outward, instead of starting outward and being forced to push back in.   BIGNOLE   (Contact me) 05:28, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

text: While I agree with Bignole, I'd add that it depends on what kind of series you're dealing. If it is an old (5–10 years+) popular series whose episode articles need to be reviewed as "legacy articles", I prefer some temporary grace period to give the pilot ep article a proper chance for sourcing. But if it's a new show where most certainly no secondary information exists at the moment, WP:EPISODE should apply in full. – sgeureka t•c 10:41, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pilot 

message: This essay as it stands to me focuses far too much on how to fix rather than how to prevent. Without the later, we will simply find ourselves in a circle of remedial action, reviewing new episode articles for new TV shows. As things stand now, the length of the good (yet not strong enough for their own articles) episode articles seems to be generally small enough to allow their content to be merged fully into an episode list, with only minor editing (remove infobox, add list entry headers) needed. As such, rather than focusing on that process of merging, a clear consensus should be reached on the desired approach to covering a TV show's episodes and characters (including a common style guide for the lists), and then from there deal with the remedial action on existing articles. The desired list style does need to be discussed, since current episode and character lists often assume a full article will exist, and as such often only feature the date of airing, director/writer and only a single line of plot summary (which is so small as to be worthless). LinaMishima (talk) 20:09, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comment - too much remedial, not enough preventative 

message: Over the past months, TV episodes have been redirected by (to name a couple) TTN, Eusebeus and others. No centralized discussion has taken place, so I'm asking everyone who has been involved in this issue to voice their opinions here in this centralized spot, be they pro or anti. Discussion is here . Even if you have not, other opinions are needed because this issue is affecting all TV episodes in Wikipedia. --Maniwar (talk) 20:16, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Centralized TV Episode Discussion 

message: I don't think it ever had consensus, and people seem none the less to be referring to it. DGG (talk) 02:09, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: This process