Wikipedia talk:WikiProject BBC/Archive 1

message: You might indicate on the project page whether this project deals with the BBC in all of its aspects, like BBC radio, BBC television, and whatever else, or not. Right now, the project page is rather vague in that area, and it would be useful for an outsider like me to know, so that it could be placed in the appropriate areas of the directory to publicize it. Thanks. Badbilltucker 21:36, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, do those employed directly by the corporation or who appear on BBC programmes count? I created :Category:BBC newsreaders and journalists and have been working on List of former BBC newsreaders and journalists. Would they count under the project? Wikiwoohoo talk 15:55, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The BBC being so huge, and Wikipedia so (what's bigger than "huge"...?) unlimited, I think it's a good idea that we absorb all BBC-related articles. Why tie the Wikiproject down to just TV or just BBC output. The joy of the BBC (I only say such things on talk pages, honestly) is the immense breadth of the organisation, its unparalleled history and way it touches everybody in the UK and so many people world-wide. The bigger the better for this project, IMHO! ➨ ЯEDVERS 19:17, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure whether "absorb" is definitely, the right word here. There are, after all, already a large number of projects dealing with the BBC, including Wikipedia:WikiProject Blackadder, Wikipedia:WikiProject Dad's Army, Wikipedia:WikiProject Doctor Who, Wikipedia:WikiProject EastEnders, Wikipedia:WikiProject Fawlty Towers, Wikipedia:WikiProject HHGTTG, Wikipedia:WikiProject Monty Python, Wikipedia:WikiProject Spooks, and, to a lesser degree, Wikipedia:WikiProject Holmes and Wikipedia:WikiProject Soap Operas. However, it might well be a good idea to list them as "daughter" projects on the project page and at least make mention of the Featured articles and Good articles they have produced. It is always possible that one or more of those projects might fade to inactivity and then this project would be able to step in and at least manage the preexisting articles. Just a thought, of course. Badbilltucker 19:38, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The project covers ALL BBC related articles as it has done from the start. Unisouth 07:49, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Which parts of the BBC does this project deal with?

message: I proposed the merge yesterday of this article into BBC Scotland, for the reasons explained on Talk:BBC One Scotland. I'd like your opinions please. - Lee Stanley 20:12, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Merge it into BBC One and mention it at BBC Scotland. BBC One Scotland, Alba and NI are so very much the same as BBC One English Regions as to have very little encyclopedic reasons for standing apart. There's a very good argument to be made for BBC One Wales being a separate article (the schedule is noticeably semi-independent and the channel - as BBC Wales - has a history dating back to the mid-60s) but Sc, Alba and NI are just variations on a theme. Separate articles for them are just fancruft. ➨ ЯEDVERS 20:36, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  You meant BBC 2W, not BBC One Wales, right? - Lee Stanley 20:54, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  No, I meant BBC One Wales (formerly BBC Wales on One, formerly BBC Wales). ➨ ЯEDVERS 21:13, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  See, I could argue fancruft there too because you're Welsh. We don't have a BBC One Wales article either, but you're not suggesting we create an article for every national variation of BBC One and BBC Two... - Lee Stanley 03:44, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Since ITV has an article for each of its sectors, shouldn't BBC have them to? Unisouth 07:49, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

text:  I agree with you completely on your final point there, Redvers. - Lee Stanley 19:51, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  It is difficult to compare BBC One Midlands (or any other of the English regions) with BBC One Scotland. One is very much BBC One, whereas the other has considerable programming and technical distinctions 86.132.235.34 21:05, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  And I agree with that too. But all these debates all on different talk pages is getting confusing and now it appears people are moving and redirecting stuff willy-nilly... I give up, and a mess it can stay. (I'm actually quite tempted just to delete anything related to BBC One, BBC Scotland and BBC One Scotland so you could all start again but I'd probably get a ban for that). - Lee Stanley 21:08, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[BBC One Scotland]] 

message: The above seems to have become a Scotland v The Rest debate, so I hope the following helps:
:The difference between Scotland, Wales, & NI and the rest, is probably best understood by the fact that the first three are nations with their own programming, and sometimes their own language (and were denoted by the coloured underlines on the old BBC logo). Output has increased over the years, trouble is - no dedicated channel to put it on - so they now end up "time shifting" some of the networked programmes coming up the pipe from London to accommodate their own within the BBC1/BBC2 transmission structure.
:The other UK TV regions of the BBC grew as a response to the opening of ITV in the mid 1950's - midlands, north, west, etc. - and were fairly large, and based around the existing regional radio structure. They were capable of producing TV (and radio) programmes for the network as well as daily regional "opt-outs" of local TV news programmes for their own area.
:In the late sixties/early seventies - partly as an introduction of colour which had generated more income (and led to new premises for Birmingham and Manchester) - they (plus Bristol) were designated as Network Production Centres (NPC) and the rest, which only produced local "opt-outs" became Island Sites in BBC parlance (Southampton, Plymouth, Norwich, Newcastle plus the newly created Leeds).
:In recent years - just like an amoeba - all these have further divided to produce even more regional output, and most of these regional variants are now put back down the pipe and up-linked to Freesat! Hence, wherever you are in the country - and a fair distance outside it - you can now tune your dish in to most of the Island Sites which only differ from BBC1 (which they rebroadcast) for around an hour a day of regional news plus the odd stand alone weekly programme of local interest, the best of which are sometimes given a network airing.
It's a paradox - ITV started as a regional structure, but in recent years, as individual companies are taken over has become less so - certainly in branding (ITV1) as regional identities are absorbed. The BBC has stolen it's clothes, producing output now on a micro-regional basis, having started as a national broadcaster.
Zir 17:17, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Islands 

message: thumb|250|right|Pre 1997 BBC Logo
Trawling the BBC website today, I found: http://www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/tvbranding/usage.shtml It's really meant for programme credits, but leads to links useful to this group. I'm making enquiries about using logos which are BBC copyright, in the meantime the old logo can be found here:
Zir 20:18, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  BBC Logos 

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replies: text: Sorry if you tried to update it before, and the corrections were gone. I have now put the new draft in the old directory pages, so the links should work better. My apologies for any confusion this may have caused you. B2T2 00:38, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project Directory 

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thread_title:  Category:Lost BBC episodes 

message: Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 16:14, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
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thread_title:  [[Portal:BBC]] 

message: On the BBC Regions without much copy - BBC South East - BBC South - BBC North East - BBC East Midlands - BBC East - BBC North West - BBC South West - I've tried tweaking the portal box to be above the Ext Links header to give the same layout but without all that white space within the Links layout. Discuss. Zir 08:19, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portal box 

message: In the BBC radio "navigational box" there is a typo (Gemeral Forces Programme) and I would like to add BBC Radio 5 (former). Briantist 21:42, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks Briantist, I have fixed the typo and added Radio 5. mattbr30 12:52, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks Briantist 15:11, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure on that, as it was an extension of Radio 4 rather than a separate station. mattbr30 19:15, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It wasn't, please read http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/speeches/stories/abramsky_oxford2.shtml Briantist 19:28, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, and please see Talk:Scud FM. mattbr30 20:11, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I have provided acres of proof that the service was known as Scud FM, please change the box to read Scud FM as "Radio 4 News FM" is confusing as there are many news programs on Radio 4 Fm each and every day.  Briantist 00:11, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Radio Box

message: Hello everyone, I have created Template:BBC as the corporate navigational template for the BBC, and I would welcome any comments/suggestions/improvements before it is distributed fully amongst the articles (it's in a few including the BBC and BBC Trust articles). Thanks, mattbr30 21:36, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template:BBC 

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thread_title:  Template:Bbc name 

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replies: text: CBBC is also in need of urgent cleanup, for the same reasons as per above. --tgheretford (talk) 23:08, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  CBBC Channel - urgent cleanup required

message: I have just started an article on Go For It (radio series) if anyone is interested but it is very short at the moment and needs expansion. Simply south 18:32, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Scrap that, i didn't realise it already existed. It still needs expansion (Go 4 It). Simply south 18:54, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Go For It 

message: Keep an eye on the article BBC. It lists Mark Thompson as the current Director General  - that is correct, but on The Media Show on March 7 2012, it was announced that they are looking for a successor to him. So, the article will need updating before too long. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 16:56, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Article on [[BBC]] will need updating soon

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thread_title:  BBC World Service Television 

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thread_title: BBC Caribbean

message: I started an article on The Living World, but I'm having trouble finding better sources, not least as most searches, on Google or the BBC website, are swamped by iPlayer pages. Can anyone help, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:19, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Living World 

message: I don't have a good grasp of whether the roles and works that he's appeared in qualify as "notable" in the Wikipedia sense of the word.  Please take a look at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Joe Sims and my comment on the author's talk page.  I'd hate to say "no" to including a notable personality simply because I'm ignorant of what's considered "notable" in the United Kingdom.  davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 00:41, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: This article has been declined for lack of notability.  However, I would encourage people who watch U.K. media and theater to keep an eye out.  If and when he is notable, this old submission can be the basis for a new article.  davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 23:10, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is the actor Joe Sims notable enough for an article? 

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thread_title:  FAR 

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thread_title: Request for input

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thread_title:  Horrible Histories 

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message: Hello Wikiproject BBC. Could editors review BBC First World War centenary season with regard to notability? I think this article is, at present, a bit premature, as there is currently little third-party discussion of the BBC's proposed programming, none of which has yet been broadcast. --IxK85 (talk) 20:57, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  First World War centenary programming - notable enough for its own article? 

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thread_title: WikiProject BBC radio

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thread_title:  Series overview tables 

message: Americanradiohistory.com had a collection of BBC Yearbooks available for download. Although they don't have a complete set, these would be useful for anyone working on BBC related articles. Paul MacDermott (talk) 17:14, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  BBC Yearbooks 

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thread_title:  BBC Magazines 

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thread_title:  BBC Radio newsreaders and continuity announcers 

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thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/Inside No. 9/archive1]] 

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replies: text: Wikipedia:Featured article review/Yes Minister/archive1 is created. --George Ho (talk) 22:49, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Yes Minister]] 

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thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/Inside No. 9/archive1]] 

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thread_title:  [[Talk:PM (Radio 4)#Requested move]] 

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message: Great news: late yesterday, the BBC launched their Genome, an online database of listings from (almost) every issue of the Radio Times, back to 1923.
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thread_title:  Genome 

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thread_title:  [[QI]] 

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message: I've put Only Fools and Horses up for review of its featured status at Wikipedia:Featured article review/Only Fools and Horses/archive1. Improvements and comments welcome BencherliteTalk 11:20, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Only Fools and Horses - FAR 

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message: Hi, Reece Pestill is an article about a young actor who it is claimed plays a part in Birds of a Feather. I'm not familiar with the show but I don't see his name in the Birds of a Feather article or in the cast listing at IMDB so I'm thinking that this is a hoax. Any thoughts? --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 02:09, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: It's been deleted. As you were. :) --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 15:16, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reece Pestill 

message: Hi, Reece Pestill is an article about a young actor who it is claimed plays a part in Birds of a Feather. I'm not familiar with the show but I don't see his name in the Birds of a Feather article or in the cast listing at IMDB so I'm thinking that this is a hoax. Any thoughts? --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 02:09, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: It's been deleted. As you were. :) --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 15:16, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reece Pestill 

message: There is an WP:RfC regarding the infobox image on War & Peace (2016 TV series) at Talk:War %26 Peace (2016 TV series)#RfC on infobox image. -- Softlavender (talk) 06:39, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
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On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace.  On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.
There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.
Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.
So far, 84 editors have joined.
If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.
If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.
Thank you.     — The Transhumanist    07:26, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject collaboration notice from the [[WP:WPPORT|Portals WikiProject]] 

message: On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace.  On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.
There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.
Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.
So far, 84 editors have joined.
If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.
If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.
Thank you.     — The Transhumanist    07:26, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Background 

message: Project members are invited to help expand Draft:One Love Manchester, which is about the upcoming benefit concert by Ariana Grande which will be broadcast on BBC One and BBC Radio. Thanks! ---Another Believer (Talk) 23:58, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Draft:One Love Manchester 

message: Is anyone in the project available to help start an article for BBC Women's Football Show? ref ref ref ref Hmlarson (talk) 18:21, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article request: BBC Women's Football Show 

message: Is anyone in the project available to help start an article for BBC Women's Football Show? ref ref ref ref Hmlarson (talk) 18:21, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article request: BBC Women's Football Show 

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thread_title:  Popular pages report 

message: I notice on Template talk:Superstars it says that Template:Superstars is within the scope of this project. However at the moment the template seems only to relate to the US version (rather than the programme broadcast on BBC). Dunarc (talk) 19:33, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I renamed that template to Template:United States Superstars champions, and removed its WP BBC template. – Fayenatic London 13:18, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks - I would agree that this was the best way forward. Dunarc (talk) 20:03, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template:Superstars 

message: Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.
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Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.— Rod talk 13:42, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation links on pages tagged by this wikiproject 

message: I notice on Template talk:Superstars it says that Template:Superstars is within the scope of this project. However at the moment the template seems only to relate to the US version (rather than the programme broadcast on BBC). Dunarc (talk) 19:33, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I renamed that template to Template:United States Superstars champions, and removed its WP BBC template. – Fayenatic London 13:18, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks - I would agree that this was the best way forward. Dunarc (talk) 20:03, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template:Superstars 

message: The article on Caroline Nicholls is headed by a tag saying that the article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline, and the article says that Caroline Nicholls only works part-time as a newsreader. Does anybody in your project group think that this article may be contested for deletion at Wikipedia: Articles for deletion?Vorbee (talk) 14:48, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Caroline Nicholls article

message: Empire Service In ictu oculi (talk) 17:00, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Move proposal

message: Is anyone in the project available to help start an article for BBC Women's Football Show? ref ref ref ref Hmlarson (talk) 18:21, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article request: BBC Women's Football Show 

message: You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Les Misérables (2018 TV series)#Article title instability.  Should Les Misérables be disambiguated as (2018 TV series) or (2018 miniseries)? -- AlexTW 14:35, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: * Formal requested move at . -- AlexTW 07:20, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion at [[Talk:Les Misérables (2018 TV series)#Article title instability]]

message: On the talk page on the article on Escape to the Country, there is a note saying that this article is of interest to this WikiProject Group and has been rated as stub class on the quality stale. Does any one in this WikiProject group think this is long enough to be rated as start class rather than stub class? Vorbee (talk) 17:36, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Escape to the Country

message: There is a list in Wikipedia List of In Our Time programmes, but it needs updating. For the current series, it has "Napoleon's retreat from Russia", but it does not have the details of the programme on the Rapture, or the programme on Dorothy Hodgkins, which is on as I type these words. Could any one see to updating this article please? Thank you, Vorbee (talk) 08:11, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: List of In Our Time programmes

message: There is a list in Wikipedia List of In Our Time programmes, but it needs updating. For the current series, it has "Napoleon's retreat from Russia", but it does not have the details of the programme on the Rapture, or the programme on Dorothy Hodgkins, which is on as I type these words. Could any one see to updating this article please? Thank you, Vorbee (talk) 08:11, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: List of In Our Time programmes

message: Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.
We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for information on WP1.0 web tool 

message: The article List of In Our Time programmes needs updating again. It does not have the details for the programme on 14  November, nor does it have the details for the programme on 21 November 2019. Vorbee (talk) 09:27, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: List of In Our Time programmes

message: A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
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thread_title:  A new newsletter directory is out! 

message: Hello! I have recently created a bot to remove completed infobox requests and am sending this message to WikiProject BBC since the project currently has a backlogged infobox request category. Details about the task can be found at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PearBOT 2, but in short it removes all infobox requests from articles with an infobox, once a week. To sign up, reply with  and tell me if any special considerations are required for the Wikiproject. For example: if only a specific infobox should be detected, such as  for WikiProject Academic Journals; or if an irregularly named infobox such as  should be detected. Feel free to ask if you have any questions!
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thread_title:  New bot to remove completed infobox requests 

message: Hello! I have recently created a bot to remove completed infobox requests and am sending this message to WikiProject BBC since the project currently has a backlogged infobox request category. Details about the task can be found at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PearBOT 2, but in short it removes all infobox requests from articles with an infobox, once a week. To sign up, reply with  and tell me if any special considerations are required for the Wikiproject. For example: if only a specific infobox should be detected, such as  for WikiProject Academic Journals; or if an irregularly named infobox such as  should be detected. Feel free to ask if you have any questions!
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thread_title:  New bot to remove completed infobox requests 

message: The list List of In Our Time programmes will need revision, as the BBC are currently broadcasting programmes from the archives because of the coronavirus pandemic. I wonder whether any one in this WikiProject would be able to do the necessary revisions to the list? Thank you, Vorbee (talk) 17:53, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: List of In Our Time programmes

message: The list List of In Our Time programmes will need revision, as the BBC are currently broadcasting programmes from the archives because of the coronavirus pandemic. I wonder whether any one in this WikiProject would be able to do the necessary revisions to the list? Thank you, Vorbee (talk) 17:53, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: List of In Our Time programmes

message: Quatermass and the Pit is the oldest unreviewed featured article—last reviewed in 2004.  It still looks good to me, but I don't watch TV at all, much less British TV or science fiction.  Please provide feedback at Talk:Quatermass and the Pit#WP:URFA/2020.  SandyGeorgia (Talk)  18:30, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[WP:URFA/2020]] 

message: Quatermass and the Pit is the oldest unreviewed featured article—last reviewed in 2004.  It still looks good to me, but I don't watch TV at all, much less British TV or science fiction.  Please provide feedback at Talk:Quatermass and the Pit#WP:URFA/2020.  SandyGeorgia (Talk)  18:30, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[WP:URFA/2020]] 

message: Would any one in this project care to update the article on the BBC Radio 4 series Great Lives? It stops at the editions of the programme broadcast in 2020, but there have been editions of this programme broadcast in 2021, such as the programme in which Ben Miller nominated William Hazlitt for "Great Life" status. Rollo August (talk) 21:22, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Article on the series [[Great Lives]]

message: I have nominated Nigel Kneale for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Z1720 (talk) 23:36, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  FAR for Nigel Kneale 

message: We seem to be missing an artice on the TV/Radio mast at Wrotham, Kent. Also known as West Kingsdown mast as it's between the two villages. Not listed on . Mjroots (talk) 05:29, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Found it - Wrotham transmitting station. Will add to the template Mjroots (talk) 10:14, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Wrotham mast

message: I have nominated Doctor Who missing episodes for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Hog Farm  Talk 02:01, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  FAR notice