Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Holby task force

Welcome!

Welcome to the Holby task force of Wikipedia:WikiProject Television. This task force is a collaboration area and open group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to the three BBC television series set in the fictional city of Holby - encompassing Casualty, Holby City and HolbyBlue. We currently have 195 articles under the scope of this project, which generally includes articles where Casualty, Holby City and/or HolbyBlue are a relevant focus to the subject. This task force aims primarily to improve and organise these articles in an attempt to establish a standard. Such an effort endeavours to produce a reference that has value as an authority on material within the television series, is easy to read, and has a consistent style.

If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page, add yourself to the list of participants, see the to-do list or just start editing.

List of participants

Active

DBD (talk · contribs) (Old hand on Holby articles) 22:06, 6 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Skarloey (talk · contribs) (Interested in Casualty and Holby City) 19:29, 7 January 2010. (BST)
Farzeymedic (talk · contribs) (Interested in Casualty from 1986 to present day) 03:45, 11 August 2010 (BST)
Raintheone (talk · contribs) (Interested in Holby City and Casualty) 21:27, 16 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Tentinator (talk · contribs) (Interested in Casualty) 14:47, 6 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
JuneGloom07 (talk · contribs) (Interested in the whole Holby universe and everything within it.) 22:48, 10 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Soaper1234 (talk · contribs) (Intrested in Casualty and Holby City.) 19:06, 29 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
ElectrodeandtheAnode (talk · contribs) (Interested in Casualty and Holby City.) 07:12, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
DarkGlow (talk · contribs) (Interested in Casualty.) 17:43, 19 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
MediDude4345 (talk · contribs) (Interested in Casualty and Holby City.) 20:16, 7 February 2023

Inactive

Frickative (talk · contribs) (Founder, esp. interested in Holby City) 02:32, 6 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Tommyvilla47 (talk · contribs) (Really Interested in Holby City and a huge fan) 20:52, 21 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Charlottiepants (talk · contribs) (Interested in Holby City) 04:45, 6 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
AiselneDrossel (talk · contribs) (Editing and wikifying Casualty articles interest) 10:25, 6 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Riatsila (talk · contribs) (focus on present Holby City, Blue and Casualty articles)07:12, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Screech123 (talk · contribs) (focus on Casualty) 11:38, 13 September 2007 (BST)
MrSecret (talk · contribs) (focus on Casualty, adding past series tables) 16:16, 11 November 2007 (BST)
Police,Mad,Jack (talk · contribs) (HolbyBlue and Casualty related) 17:07, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
LostHavoc (talk · contribs) (mainly Casualty, some Holby City) 00:51, 2 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
LemotOTilt (talk · contribs) (Interested in Casualty 9:00, 4th October 2010 (BST)
InExcelsisDeo (talk · contribs) (Interested in Holby City) 12:49 4 August 2011 (BST)

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Style guide

Our style guideline includes the following guidelines, aimed to standardise Holby-related articles:

Adherence to the Wikipedia Manual of Style;
Adherence to the Television WikiProject MoS;
Adherence to the MoS with regard to fiction;
Categorisation;
Verifiability and citations;
Image usage.

Model character articles after Donna Jackson
Model series articles after Holby City (series 1)
Model episode articles after Tuesday's Child (Holby City)

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Organisation

What do we include?

The main criteria for inclusion should be notability. That being said, to avoid clutter and confusion, we should note the following.

Characters

Most characters that appear in Casualty, Holby City and HolbyBlue do not pass the notability guidelines on fiction. Each character that appears can be included in one of the lists of characters, such as Characters of Holby City or Characters of Casualty. Even characters with a separate article should be included in these lists. Articles can be de-merged if they grow very large, but please discuss them first.

Images

Illustrations for Holby-related articles are typically taken from screen captures, publicity materials, magazine articles and websites. As such they're nearly all non-free and must only be used in conformance with the Non-free content criteria. Exceptions include pictures of people involved in the writing or production of Casualty, Holby City and HolbyBlue, which have been released under free licenses: licenses that allow third parties to modify images and use images commercially. For a gallery of free Holby-related images, see here. Some non-free images currently in Holby-related articles lack detailed or sufficient fair use rationales justifying their use in the articles. Such images are in danger of deletion; you can remedy this by writing better rationales.

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Articles

A complete list of Holby-related articles can be found here and recent changes to these pages can be seen here.

New articles

This is a list of the most recently created Holby-related articles on Wikipedia. If you create a new article, please list it here. Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the main Wikipedia page. DYK has a seven day time limit from the creation of the article.

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Achievements

Holby task force assessment statistics

Holby articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
FL		1				1
GA	2	7	7			16
B	1	5	3	5		14
C		9	10	19		38
Start	1	25	8	30		64
Stub				1		1
List		7				7
Category					30	30
File					39	39
Project					18	18
Redirect				1	143	144
Template					5	5
Assessed	4	54	28	56	235	377
Total	4	54	28	56	235	377
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 693			Ω = 3.98

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Featured lists

Good articles

Did you know? articles

... that Holby City woman is a voter demographic in the United Kingdom considered influential to the outcome of the next United Kingdom general election?
... that Holby City hospital's disabled CEO Vanessa Lytton is played by Leslie Ash, whose own disability resulted from a hospital stay?
... that British actress Emma Catherwood observed real bypass surgery being performed in preparation for her role as F1 Penny Valentine in the medical drama Holby City?
... that "Tuesday's Child", an episode of the BBC medical drama Holby City, was filmed entirely on location in Ghana?
... that a kiss between Dan Hamilton and Antoine Malick in the UK medical drama Holby City was criticised for "following the trend" of depicting gay relationships?
... that Holby City character Oliver Valentine has been described as "a doctor with the blue eyes of Fonda and the medical competence of fondue"?
... that NHS Blood and Transplant stated several people had asked to be removed from the UK organ donor register as a result of a storyline involving Holby City character Mo Effanga?
... that actor Michael Thomson toured a real-life hospital to help him prepare for his role as Jonny Maconie in Holby City?
... that Louise Delamere decided to make her Holby City character Colette Sheward childless after reading a national statistic?
... that Ty Glaser shadowed a surgical team at Whipps Cross University Hospital to help her prepare for her role as Gemma Wilde on Holby City?
... that actress Camilla Arfwedson attended three auditions to secure the role of Holby City character Zosia March?
... that David Ames auditioned for another Holby City character prior to winning the role of Dominic Copeland?
... that actress Sarah-Jane Potts filmed her own audition for the role of Eddi McKee in Holby City, after she was approached by the show's casting director?
... that Jules Knight auditioned for the role of Holby City's Harry Tressler four times before he was cast?
... that the Holby City production team built a new set featuring real pharmaceutical equipment for the introduction of the character Amy Teo?
... that William Beck, who played Dylan Keogh in Casualty, was told by the producers that Dylan should not smile?
... that actress Georgina Bouzova feared that people would spit at her because of the behaviour of her character Ellen Zitek?
... that to prepare for his role as surgeon Raf di Lucca in Holby City, actor Joe McFadden watched open-heart surgery?
... that actress Charlotte Salt likened her Casualty character Sam Nicholls to Lara Croft?
... that the role of Lofty Chiltern in Casualty was specifically written for actor Lee Mead?
... that Casualty producers worked with the Association of Air Ambulances for over half a year on the special episode "Too Old for This Shift"?
... that the BBC medical drama series Casualty received criticism for a series 29 episode which featured a crash that viewers believed resembled the 2014 Glasgow bin lorry crash?
... that actress Lucinda Dryzek secured the role of Jasmine Burrows in Holby City while she was training as a hairdresser?
... that the Casualty episode "Exile" was filmed entirely in Bucharest?
... that in order to accurately portray her character Kirsty Clements' domestic violence storyline, actress Lucy Gaskell spoke to women affected by domestic abuse?
... that the actress Claire Goose began research for her character Tina Seabrook's rape storyline, before the writers scripted it?
... that show creator Tony Jordan wanted HolbyBlue to emulate the American police dramas Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue?
... that fans noticed Doctor Who references in a promotional trailer for Paul McGann's first episode in Holby City as John Gaskell?
... that actor Jamie Davis asked his former co-star Sunetra Sarker to reprise her role for his departure in Episode 1068 of Casualty?
... that Casualty's list of special episodes includes the first webisode for a BBC continuing drama?
... that the Motor Neurone Disease Association criticised the two-part Holby City episode "Group Animal" for misleading viewers about a cure for motor neuron disease?
... that actor Art Malik wanted viewers of Holby City to perceive his character Zubin Khan as an "educated Muslim man"?
... that actress Jan Pearson's favourite storyline as Holby City character Kath Fox was a love affair with a priest?
... that the Holby City production team worked with Parkinson's UK to create a Parkinson's disease storyline for the character Alex Adams?
... that Radio Times critic Alison Graham called the character Jacob Masters "a cocky narcissist" following his debut in Casualty?
... that to create the fireball effect in episode 1094 of Casualty, the show's production team packed ten different explosions into one blast?
... that a storyline about domestic abuse from the eighteenth series of Holby City sparked 177 calls to the BBC's support line?
... that the Casualty production team wore medical scrubs on-set during the filming of the episode "One" so they could disguise themselves if they were caught on camera?
... that the storyline of Holby City's two-part episode "A Simple Lie" was compared to the Charlie Gard case?
... that actress Chloe Howman compared her Casualty character Rita Freeman to a Jack Russell Terrier?
... that actor Charlie Condou was offered the role of Ben Sherwood in Holby City without an audition?
... that despite suffering from vertigo, actor Bob Barrett performed his own stunt on the hospital rooftop in the Holby City episode "Man Down"?
... Casualty struggled to portray the open-air scenes from Episode 1067 as winter because passers-by were wearing summer clothing?
... that a same-sex kiss, broadcast in January 2020, between the Casualty characters Marty Kirkby and Jack Ward received 111 complaints?
... that scenes of Honey Wright driving in Casualty had to be filmed carefully as actress Chelsee Healey could not drive?
... that due to her Casualty character Ruby Spark's near-photographic memory, actress Maddy Hill had to learn all the intricate details of the medical terminology used by the character?

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How to help

Goals

Organise and improve Holby-related articles that are in need of attention.
Ensure character pages and other notable information is kept up to date with the events in the show.
Maintain a standard style throughout articles, to provide a consistent and professional encyclopaedia style.
Ensure that quality of articles is held above that of quantity of articles.
Ensure that Holby-related images are provided with the correct copyright information and that they are correctly placed under the relevant category.

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Templates and categories

Template	Usage
{{WikiProject Television}}	The project notice, designed to be placed in the talk page of any article that falls under the project scope.
{{User Holby}}	This can be placed on your user page to show that you are a part of this WikiProject.
{{Holby}}	Navigation template, designed to be placed at the bottom of any Holby-related article.
{{WikiProject Television/Holby task force/Invite}}	To invite new members.

Please ensure that in the creation of a Holby-related article, it is placed in the most relevant category listed below.

Holby

Casualty (TV series) characters

Holby City characters

Holby City episodes

Holby images

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Holby City series

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