Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/British television task force/Channels

Welcome to the British TV channels task force! Formerly the WikiProject British TV channels, the project became a task force under the new WikiProject British television on 29 December 2011. Our aim is to create good articles for all British TV Channels.

If you'd like to join us, please add your username to the membership page.

Adding {{User:Tghe-retford/Userboxes/User WikiProject British TV channels}} to your userpage will create this userbox:

Hierarchy definition

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Purely British TV channels should be included in Category:Television channels in the United Kingdom.

Where the UK just broadcasts a foreign network as it is broadcast in that country (eg Fox News or TV5 that article should be included in Category:Foreign television channels broadcasting in the United Kingdom

Templates

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Project banner

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The {{WikiProject British TV channels}} project banner template should be added (not subst:ed) to the talk page of every article within the scope of the project. While the template does not require any additional parameters, it has a number of optional ones that add various extra features to the banner.

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This article is supported by the British television task force.

Infoboxes

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BBC One
Ownership
OwnerBBC
History
Launched2 November 1936
Former namesThe BBC Television Service (until April 1964)
Links
Websitewww.bbc.co.uk/bbcone
Availability
Terrestrial
UK analogueUsually Channel 1
FreeviewChannel 1

A new infobox for British and Irish TV channels has been designed.

Instructions for use are at Template talk:Infobox television channel

A list of pages that include this template can be found at Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Infobox television channel

Stubs

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Articles that are TV channels that are stubs should be tagged with the template {{UK-tv-channel-stub}} which looks like

This will add these channels to Category:United Kingdom television channel stubs

Tools

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Main tool page: toolserver.org
  • Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
  • Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
  • Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
  • Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

Resources

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  1. Barb Audience share report
  2. DTT channel line-up (Freeview/BT Vision/Top Up TV)
  3. Freesat channel line-up
  4. Sky channel line-up
  5. Virgin TV channel line-up
  6. The TV Room: channel idents
  7. TV ARK: channel idents
  8. UK TV listings

External watchlist

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