Welcome!
Welcome to WikiProject Hollyoaks. This WikiProject is a collaboration area and open group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks. We currently have 250 articles under the scope of this project, which generally includes articles where Hollyoaks is a relevant focus to the subject. This WikiProject 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.
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Scope
The objective of this WikiProject is mainly that of organisation and improvisation in relation to articles regarding Hollyoaks. What this means is, that there should be a clear standard set for both the editing and creation of articles regarding structure and layout. Quality, substance and content should be a priority. All articles on Hollyoaks should strive to meet a good encyclopaedic standard. Some articles are created from a fanatical point of view, containing only unsourced plot summary. Wikipedia no longer accepts such articles per WP:PLOT, and this has resulted in a greater number of Hollyoaks articles being nominated for deletion. It is important that all Hollyoaks articles, particularly character pages, are written, in part, from a real-world perspective. This means that factual information should be included in the article (such as casting, impact, reception and critical analysis), based on both primary and secondary sources. In-universe information, such as a plot summary retold as if it really happened, cannot maintain an article by itself per wikipedia policy. To avoid possible deletion, an article on a fictional topic needs to include real-world information, in addition to in-universe information.
Style guide
Our style guideline includes the following guidelines, aimed to standardise Hollyoaks-related articles:
- Adherence to the Wikipedia Manual of Style;
- Adherence to the Television WikiProject MoS;
- Adherence to the MoS with regard to fiction;
- Wikipedia Manual of Style;
- Television WikiProject MoS;
- MoS with regard to fiction;
- Categorisation;
- Verifiability and citations;
- Image usage.
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 Hollyoaks do not pass the notability guidelines on fiction. Each character that appears can be included in one of the lists of characters by year, such as list of Hollyoaks characters (2010) (see lists of Hollyoaks characters for more). 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 (generally an article will not be de-merged if the character has appeared on screen for less than six months).
Images
Illustrations for Hollyoaks-related articles are typically taken from screen captures and websites. As such they are 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 production of Hollyoaks that have been released under free licenses, allowing third parties to modify images and use images commercially. For a gallery of free images relating to Hollyoaks, see here. Most non-free images currently in Hollyoaks-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.
Articles
A complete list of Wikipedia articles relating to Hollyoaks can be found here and recent changes to those pages can be seen here. A list of the 500 most viewed Hollyoaks pages by month is here.
New articles
This is a list of the most recently created Hollyoaks-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 5 day limit from the creation (or expansion) of the article.
Achievements
Articles with Good Article status
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Articles selected for "Did You Know?"
- Did you know... that British soap opera Hollyoaks introduced fictional killer Silas Blissett to raise awareness of Internet safety? — on the Main Page on 16 February 2011.
- Did you know... that Andrew Still wanted to portray the stabbing of his character Joel Dexter realistically because stabbings had often occurred in Glasgow? — on the Main Page on 6 August 2012.
- Did you know... that staff from Company magazine devised an internship storyline for the soap opera Hollyoaks after watching Esther Bloom discuss fashion on-screen? — on the Main Page on 25 November 2012.
- Did you know... that Hollyoaks storyline "Enjoy the Ride" killed off four regular characters whose identities were kept a secret from viewers until transmission?— on the Main Page on 10 December 2012.
- Did you know... that Vera Chok asked producers to place a rice cooker in the set of the home of her character, Honour Chen-Williams? — on the Main Page on 19 December 2023.
Templates and categories
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Please ensure that in the creation of a Hollyoaks-related article, it is placed in the most relevant category listed below.
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Goals
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Here are some tasks awaiting attention:
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Goals
- Cleanup all present character articles. Adding sources, OOU information, and condensing storylines to adhere to Wikipedia guidelines on writing about fiction. Please see operation cleanup for ideas on how to get involved.
- Organise and improve Hollyoaks-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 Hollyoaks-related images are provided with the correct copyright information and that they are correctly placed under the relevant category.
See also
Useful reference websites and magazines
The following websites and magazines may be useful in referencing articles:
Websites
- E4
- Digital Spy
- What's on TV
- Inside Soap
- The Free Library
- The Daily Record
- The Liverpool Echo
- Google News
Magazines
- Inside Soap
- All About Soap
- Soaplife
- Into Soap
- What's on TV
- TV Buzz!
- Total TVGuide
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