Wikipedia:WikiProject Animation/SpongeBob SquarePants work group

Welcome to the SpongeBob SquarePants work group of WikiProject Nickelodeon and WikiProject Animation! This group was formed to better organize and develop articles on SpongeBob SquarePants, and to pursue goals more specific than those of either WikiProject in a spirit of cooperation.

Scope[edit]

Our project is designed to help collaborate a group effort in improving all articles related to the television series SpongeBob SquarePants (characters, cast, crew, episodes, seasons etc.). Our goal is to expand and improve all articles in relation to SpongeBob SquarePants.

Members[edit]

To join the SpongeBob SquarePants work group, edit this section and add # {{user|yourusername}} and any comments to the following list of members in alphabetical order by username.

Member userbox[edit]

You may place {{User SpongeBob SquarePants work group}} on your user page to display the following userbox:

This user is a member of the
SpongeBob SquarePants
work group.

This template will add your user page to:

Category:SpongeBob SquarePants work group participants

You may also place {{User WikiProject Animation}} on your user page.

Tagging and assessment[edit]

SpongeBob SquarePants work group assessment statistics

SpongeBob SquarePants articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
FL		2				2
FM					1	1
GA	3	9	5	1		18
B			1			1
C	1	1	4	2		8
Start		1	9	3		13
Stub			3	2		5
Category					20	20
File					2	2
Project					12	12
Redirect				3	4	7
Template					5	5
Assessed	4	13	22	11	44	94
Total	4	13	22	11	44	94
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 166			Ω = 3.69

worklist • log • category

Any articles that are within the scope of this project should be tagged with the {{WikiProject Animation}} banner and add |spongebob=yes as this will automatically put the page in the appropriate categories, such as Category:SpongeBob SquarePants work group articles.

Templates[edit]

For main project templates, see the project's main template page.
Userbox: {{User SpongeBob SquarePants work group}}
Navboxes:

{{SpongeBob SquarePants}} - This template is to be used on the bottom of a SpongeBob SquarePants article
{{SpongeBob SquarePants merchandise}} - This template should be placed on the bottom of all SpongeBob merchandise articles in addition to the main {{SpongeBob SquarePants}} template

{{SBSP Barnstar}} - The SpongeBob SquarePants Barnstar is awarded to Wikipedians for their contributions to Wikipedia stuff related to SpongeBob SquarePants. This is part of WikiProject SpongeBob SquarePants. Created by Computer97. Picture by Antonu
{{Bubble Award}} - The Bubble Award may be used as an alternative to the SpongeBob SquarePants Barnstar.
Introduced by MMXX.
For the talk pages (adjust to suit):

{{WikiProject Animation
|class=Stub
|importance=low
|spongebob=yes
|spongebob-importance=low
|needs-image=yes
|needs-infobox=yes
}}

{{WikiProject Nickelodeon
|class=Stub
|importance=low
||spongebob=yes
|spongebob-importance=low
}}

Categories[edit]

SpongeBob SquarePants

SpongeBob SquarePants characters

SpongeBob SquarePants episodes

SpongeBob SquarePants mass media and merchandise

SpongeBob SquarePants (film series)

SpongeBob SquarePants images

SpongeBob SquarePants lists

SpongeBob SquarePants location redirects

SpongeBob SquarePants seasons

To do[edit]

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Assess : Rate articles from Category:Unassessed SpongeBob SquarePants articles and Category:Unknown-importance SpongeBob SquarePants articles.
Cleanup : United Plankton Pictures
Expand : Add real world content not just from SpongeBob, other references to it as well to adherence to the Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Writing about fiction and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Television. See Objectives and Guidelines for details.
Stubs : Work on stubs on Category:Stub-Class SpongeBob SquarePants articles.
Verify : Sandy Cheeks, List of SpongeBob SquarePants characters, Ernest Borgnine

edit · history · watch · purge

Tag related articles.
Find editors who have shown interest in this subject and ask them to take a look here.
Identify articles for creation
Identify articles for improvement
Review importance and quality of existing articles

Objectives[edit]

Project Objectives are listed here.

"SpongeBob SquarePants" should be correctly capitalized on all articles.
Episode Article:

Please help us improve episode articles here. Please, no trivia, no quotes, and no original research. Quotes can be placed at Wikiquote. Once an episode article is good enough, it will be placed back on its original page. Screenshots and title cards should be uploaded once the episode article has been improved and is placed back on its original page. This is to reduce the amount of orphaned images. Also, for the individual season articles, help provide sources and other information outside of plot details to strengthen the articles.

Expansion - Many articles need expanding, please try to help us with these. These include game articles (See games section on template and book information here.
Classify all SpongeBob articles on the Assessment scale.
Improvement of articles: See here for the classification of SpongeBob SquarePants articles.
Please help come to a conclusion on the request of a new page that includes cultural references of SpongeBob SquarePants. See this discussion.
Write fair use rationales for DVD and VHS covers in List of SpongeBob SquarePants media.
Featured list: The List of SpongeBob SquarePants episodes is undergoing many changes to get to FL status. Improvements and suggestions are welcome.

Guidelines[edit]

Project Guidelines are listed here.

Layouts - Please use the following layouts for SpongeBob pages:

Images - Make sure all SpongeBob-related images contain copyright tags and are categorized with this category
Categorization - Make sure all SpongeBob-related articles are categorized.
Episode titles - When creating a new episode page, if the article exists as something else, name the article Episode title (SpongeBob SquarePants)
Moving pages - When moving a page, if the page is already created, please do not copy and paste. Please fill out a form at Wikipedia:Requested moves.
Tags - If you see any tags on any SpongeBob article, (i.e. cleanup, wikify, etc.) please notify the WikiProject here. This will make it easier for project members to fix whatever problem there may be.
Trivia - Per WP:TRIVIA, trivia is not recommended. Please try to incorporate relevant trivia into the rest of the article.
When describing something, please do not use words like "you will notice" or "if you..." etc. See Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words for further information.
When writing a new article or making changes to an existing one, please adhere to the manual of style. For example, formal writing on Wikipedia is preferred. Therefore, the use of contractions should be avoided.
Writing about fiction - In-universe perspective should not be used when writing about fiction. In-universe perspective includes plots framed as biographies and the birth and death dates of fictional characters. Instead, use perspective of the real world.

Importance scale[edit]

WikiProject article importance scheme
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Importance	Criteria	Example
Top	This article is of the utmost importance to the project, as it provides key information about a major topic that is fundamental to a study of the subject.	SpongeBob SquarePants
High	This article is very important to the project, as it covers either a general area of knowledge or provides information about a significant topic.	Mr. Krabs
Mid	This article is relatively important to the project, as it provides more specific knowledge of areas that a serious reader would need to understand.	Derek Drymon
Low	This article is significant but has limited importance to the project, as it expands the reader's overall knowledge of the subject into areas of general interest.	Pest of the West
Bottom	This article has no real significance to the project, but it covers additional topics of general or specific interest, some of which could be described as trivia, though all are notable in their own right. Others may be articles of high importance to another project that have an indirect connection with SpongeBob SquarePants. The category was created by the work group of WikiProject Animation to counter-balance "top importance" and to place "mid-importance" into the actual middle. In addition it serves to separate trivia from articles of low but significant importance.	N/A
NA	Subject importance is not applicable. Generally applies to non-article pages such as redirects, categories, templates, etc.	Category:SpongeBob SquarePants
???	Subject importance has not yet been assessed.	???

Recognized content[edit]

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged or categorized (e.g. Category:SpongeBob SquarePants work group articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.