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Trying to join

Couldn't find the edit option to the members page. Assuming is is a sub-page. Will go hunt there. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 11:29, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes, that does overcomplicate matters - will deal with! User|Neddyseagoon 21:32, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Characters

What do you mean every single character?--SGCommand (talk • contribs) 13:32, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Well, major, permanent or recurring ones anyway - not '3rd policeman'. It is a long term goal after all! :-) User|Neddyseagoon 22:22, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Project Directory

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Adam Carter

The article on Adam Carter was listed for speedy deletion. I don't think it's a speedy candidate, but it needs work. It may be best to merge it into a larger article. I am leaving it to you in the WikiProject to decide what to do with it. Cheers! --Ginkgo100 ^{talk · e@} 21:35, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Spooks peer review

I've asked for one here. I think it would be great if we could get the main article up to GA status, it just needs some basic touching up, copy editing and a few short character/actor articles. Any help appreciated :) RHB 17:00, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

• Anyone out there? :P RHB 20:57, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards

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 16:18, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Categories

The "episodes by series" categories are under attack (see here) - everyone to the Grid! If we can create more good articles (ie at least 1/2 per series), that might help guarantee these categories' future.Neddyseagoon - talk 09:39, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Episode coverage

The WikiProject Television episode coverage taskforce have recently been working on a review process for episode articles. There are a rash of articles about individual episodes which fail notability, and are unlikely to ever reach such requirements. Many contributors are unaware of the specific guidelines to assess notability in episode pages: Wikipedia:Television episodes. We have expanded these guidelines to make them more helpful and explanatory, and we invite you to read the guidelines, and make any comments on its talk page. After much discussion, we have created a proposed review process for dealing with problem articles. See: Wikipedia:Television article review process. We invite discussion of this process on its talk page. General comments about this whole process are welcome at the episode coverage taskforce talkpage. Thanks! Gwinva 10:13, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Current/Former characters

These sections in Spooks and List of Spooks characters‎ violate WP:FICTION. Articles must be written in present continuous tense. None of the "former" characters were dead in the first episode for example. 59.167.45.168 (talk) 13:05, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme

As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.

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WikiProject Media franchises

Dear WikiProject Spooks participants...WikiProject Media franchises needs some help from other projects which are similar. Media franchises' scope deals primarily with the coordination of articles within the hundreds if not thousands of media franchises which exist. Sometimes a franchise might just need color coordination of the various templates used; it could mean creating an article for the franchise as a jump off point for the children of it; or the creation of a new templating system for media franchise articles. The project primarily focuses on multimedia franchises. It would be great if some of this project's participants would come over and help the project get back on solid footing. Also, if you know of similar projects which have not received this, let Lady Aleena (talk · contribs) know. Please come and take a look at the project and see if you wish to lend a hand. You can sign up here if you wish. Thank you. LA @ 21:43, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Franchise naming convention discussion at WikiProject Media franchises

Dear WikiProject Spooks participants...WikiProject Media franchises is currently discussing a naming convention for franchise articles. Since this may affect one or more articles in your project, we would like to get the opinions of all related projects before implimenting any sweeping changes. Please come and help us decide. Thanks! LA (T) @ 23:00, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Spooks

A collection of Wikipedia articles is being collected together as Wikipedia 0.7. This collection will be released on DVD later this year, and will be available for free download. The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations.

A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles; a team of copyeditors has agreed to help improve the writing upon request.

We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team, SelectionBot 20:30, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Proposed merger/redirection of episode articles

This wikiproject seems dead, but I'll leave a note here anyway that there is a proposal for a merger/redirection of episode articles at Talk:List_of_Spooks_episodes#Merger.2Fredirection_of_articles. – sgeureka ^t•c 18:44, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the notification. However not in favour. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 20:03, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks but what Kevinalewis said --SGCommand (talk • contribs) 13:47, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

These seem to be being merged isn't about time we had a concert go at finishing some of these article and fending off this sort of thing. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 06:45, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

• It's not a case of "fending off" or even defending anything, it's a case of establishing notability for each individual episode article, which does not appear to have been achieved. With the best will in the world, a project that hasn't had a talk page addition in two months seems to me to not very lively. --Rodhullandemu 23:28, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group

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Spooks articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release

Version 0.8 is a collection of Wikipedia articles selected by the Wikipedia 1.0 team for offline release on USB key, DVD and mobile phone. Articles were selected based on their assessed importance and quality, then article versions (revisionIDs) were chosen for trustworthiness (freedom from vandalism) using an adaptation of the WikiTrust algorithm.

We would like to ask you to review the Spooks articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (♦) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.

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Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Spooks listed at Requested moves

A requested move discussion has been initiated for Spooks to be moved to Spooks (TV series). This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 11:44, 21 May 2016 (UTC)

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Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

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Turn this WikiProject into a Taskforce?

I invite editors to join the discussion at WP:WikiProject Television to convert many inactive WikiProjects into taskforces, including this one. – sgeureka ^t•c 12:59, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Closing inactive task forces

I invite editors to join the discussion at WP:WikiProject Television to close inactive task forces, including this one. Gonnym (talk) 12:11, 10 July 2021 (UTC)