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 246 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.
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.
Our style guideline includes the following guidelines, aimed to standardise Hollyoaks-related articles:
The main criteria for inclusion should be notability. That being said, to avoid clutter and confusion, we should note the following.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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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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Here are some tasks awaiting attention:
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The following websites and magazines may be useful in referencing articles:
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