Forum:Origin of articles that need updating policy

The Sarah Jane Adventures have been on the BBC iplayer lately, and I've noticed that a lot of the articles for the episodes are stubs and in need of cleanups. A lot of them don't correctly place references, continuity and story notes in the correct sections, and the plots are very undetailed. I know that I've been criticised before for the length of my writing plots, but The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith actually started with the plot half way through the episode, summing up the time before with a quick "which they discovered earlier".

These are in serious need of updating. I have a suggestion as to how to do this. Perhaps, as a weekly thing, we post a "community project" kind of thing on the main page, with the selected article being linked from there. Then, users will be invited to help out clean up and update each of these pages every time they visit the site.

But I'd like to hear others' opinions as well. The Thirteenth Doctor 20:41, July 26, 2010 (UTC)

"Community project" sounds great! But I'm afraid I can't help... You should really start that. You could even give limited edition "medals" at the end for user that partipated more than other and made great improvements. Even if it's just some golden circle with a date and a legend, I'm sure people would love to get them. :) --4me 22:31, July 26, 2010 (UTC)


 * I certainly like the idea of getting the community involved in a weekly community project.
 * I'm not sure it would be best to just base it around stories being accessible on the BBC iPlayer though, as many of our users can't actually get the BBC iPlayer.
 * I think it should be a group of pages rather than a single page, as anyone who's tried to edit a recently broadcast story (or in fact any highly edited page) will know you finish making an edit and find someone's edited the page while you've been changing things around and you end up with an edit conflict. --Tangerineduel 14:38, July 29, 2010 (UTC)