Wikipedia:WikiProject Entertainment

A few Wikipedians have gotten together to make some suggestions about how we might organize data in articles about entertainment. These are only suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you shouldn't feel obligated in the least to follow them. But if you don't know what to write or where to begin, following the below guidelines may be helpful. Mainly, we just want you to write articles!

Introduction There are tons of entertainment articles of various plays and shows on Wikipedia, including those in the movies, television, animation, and other forms of entertainment. Proposal to be defined by its members, if any.

Title WikiProject Entertainment

Scope This WikiProject aims primarily to normalize the standards for all the media articles in Wikipedia.

Parentage The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Arts and Humanities[?].

Descendant Wikiprojects The descendant WikiProjects are WikiProject Television[?] and WikiProject Movies[?].

Similar Wikiprojects The similar WikiProjects are WikiProject Novels and WikiProject Sports.

Participants

Structure To start of, for movies and tv articles, I like to have a list of characters on hand for that particular movie or tv show. A short premise/plot and list of characters would be a part of a tv/movie article, and would probably be something similar to IMDb.

If I were to modify the movie article Star Trek: First Contact, it might look like this:

Warning: Wikipedia contains spoilers

Plot

In it, the crew of the brand-new USS Enterprise E travel back in time to prevent the evil, cybernetic Borg drones from assimilating Earth. When they arrive in the mid-twenty first century, however, they find that they need to make sure Earth makes its first contact with aliens, in order to preserve their future.

List of Major Characters

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard, played by Patrick Stewart
  • Optional blurb about character here.
• Commander William T. Riker[?], played by Jonathan Frakes

More Information on the Movie (Probably used to help describe the movie more)

First Contact actually occurs on April 5th[?], 2063[?], when Zefram Cochrane makes the first ever warp flight, attracting a passing Vulcan vessel.

Some other categories:

• Production Notes,
• The effect of the show on society (I.e. Seinfeld on America and World)

Hierarchy Definition Entertainment can be classified into movies, tv programs, animations, and etc. For Movies and TV, they can be subclassified into their particular genre. List of movies and list of tv programs[?] are some examples.

See this example on dividing a topic into a hierarchy.

General Strategy and Discussion forum

• /General[?]
• /Strategy[?]