Talk:Lists of television channels
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Al-Jazeera needs to go in here somewhere. But it doesn't fit in well to the nation-based lists. How about a list of worldwide TV channels for Al-Jazeera, CNN (which is also not on the lists), MTV, etc.? -- Hotlorp
What's the difference between this page and Television station? It appears they might be candidates for merging, no? -- Wfeidt
Massive problems
OMG. Seems the current state of the various "television channels" / "television stations" pages is pretty dismal. Someone needs to create a WikiProject to whip these pages into shape. Needed work includes the following.
- Standardize page titles:
- "Station" or "channel" (or both, depending)? (called <whatever> below)
- Pick one naming convention (adjective and noun refer to place names):
- "List of African television <whatever>s"
- "List of Africa television <whatever>s"
- "List of television <whatever>s in Africa" (I recommend this one)
- Name pages that only point to other list pages, "Lists of..." (i.e., plural, not singular).
- Move pages and #REDIRECT, as appropriate.
- Use bulleted lists when possible; use pipe syntax for tables.
- Decide what kind of "see also" links should be on each type of page (country, state, city...) and standardize that.
- Place appropriate Category designations on each page. (In fact, categories should be used as much as possible to reduce the need for direct linking in "See also" sections.)
I really have no desire to take a leading role in this project myself; I just got sucked into trying to improve some of the pages and then discovered the true dimensions of the problem. I'm getting out now, while I still can...
- dcljr 02:34, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
BTW, to see some indication of the problems I'm talking about, poke around the various "list" pages at Category:Lists of television channels. - dcljr 02:48, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)