Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Torchwood episodes/archive1

List of Torchwood episodes

Featured list candidates/List of Torchwood episodes/archive1

Nominator(s): TheDoctorWho (talk) 22:54, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Torchwood is a British science fiction television programme and spin-off of Doctor Who, centered around former companion Captain Jack Harkness. Consisting of four series broadcast between 2006 and 2011, the programme has garnered a cult following, impressive viewing figures, and wide critical acclaim. Doctor Who itself has several FL's, but I realized that none of the spin-offs did. I've recently cleaned this article up significantly and believe that it would make for a proper addition to Wikipedia's Featured Lists. TheDoctorWho (talk) 22:54, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by OlifanofmrTennant

Wikilink Chris Chibnall, Catherine Tregenna, Helen Raynor, and Peter J. Hammond in the series 2 table.
Wikilink Russle T. Davies in the series 3 table
Source the plot summaries
Ref 3 should use Template:Cite press release
There's an extra bracket in ref 28
Attribute ref 29 to Gizmodo

Ping me when done Questions? four Olifanofmrtennant (she/her) 23:29, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@OlifanofmrTennant: Done on everything except the plot summaries. MOS:PLOTSOURCE says "The plot summary for a work, on a page about that work, does not need to be sourced with inline citations, as it is generally assumed that the work itself is the primary source for the plot summary" which is easily the case here TheDoctorWho (talk) 03:58, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support Questions? four Olifanofmrtennant (she/her) 04:24, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Lead image could probably be made larger
"In its final two series, Torchwood utilized" - as it is a British show, British spellings should be used and therefore the last word should be "utilised"
"The programme moved networks once more " => "The programme moved channels once more" (BBC One/Two/Three are not "networks")
"Subtitled Mircale Day" - second word is spelt incorrectly
"The term was later seeded in that programmes second series" - apostrophe missing in "programme's"
"The show centers" => "The show centres"
"Torchwood specifically centers" => "Torchwood specifically centres"
"around one of these groups, Cardiff's Torchwood Three which" => "around one of these groups, Cardiff's Torchwood Three, which"
"is lead by Captain Jack Harkness" => "is led by Captain Jack Harkness"
"are joined by Rex Matheson and Esther Drummond, an agent and analyst in the Central Intelligence Agency" - is Esther both of those things or are they each one of them?
"Torchwood had a small number of fictional crossovers with Doctor Who" - I don't think the word "fictional" is needed, as we have already established that the shows are fiction
"with an appearances in both a 2020 and 2021 episode" => "with appearances in both 2020 and 2021"
"The first two series of Torchwood were lead" => "The first two series of Torchwood were led"
"Series 1 focuses on Gwen Cooper, her introduction to Torchwood, and meeting Jack Harkness" => "Series 1 focuses on Gwen Cooper, her first meeting with Jack Harkness, and her introduction to Torchwood"
"It also focuses on Jack and Ianto's relationship, as well as Gwen and Rhys." => "It also focuses on Jack and Ianto's relationship, as well as that of Gwen and Rhys."
"Series 4 centres on an event called Miracle Day, where everyone in the world stops dying" => "Series 4 centres on an event called Miracle Day, when everyone in the world stops dying"
"It also focuses on Jack's past, his immortality, as well as" => "It also focuses on Jack's past and his immortality, as well as"
That's what I got :-) -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:54, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@ChrisTheDude: done, thanks for the review! TheDoctorWho (talk) 17:21, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 20:23, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by Matthewrb

Why does the {{DISPLAYTITLE}} have alt text? I suspect that was meant to go on the image...
Per MOS:ORDER, the Notes section goes after the See Also section.
Question: Is there a reason we're not using an infobox for this article? I recognize that per MOS:INFOBOXUSE it's not required but this seems to be an excellent candidate to have one.
The link to They Keep Killing Suzie is a circular link and should be removed.
For citations 31-34, is there any way to direct link to the data, rather than a link to a form to fill out?

Minor nit picks, this looks good overall. ~ Matthewrb ^{Let's connect · Here to help} 19:25, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Matthewrb: I addressed bullet points 1, 2, and 4.

Traditionally, in my experience List of Episode (LoE) pages haven't historically used Infoboxes. Programme pages have Template:Infobox television and season/series articles have Template:Infobox television season, but there's not a specific one for LoE's. I've also brought several of these types of pages to FL before, and the question has never been raised, but if you think it's a problem I could bring it up to the project talk page or something? It's presumably something outside the scope of this single FL.

Regarding the last point, I don't believe so. When the form on that website is filled out, it displays the data without generating a new URL. TheDoctorWho (talk) 05:03, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@TheDoctorWho: Fair enough - that's why I asked questions rather than made statements. If there is not a strong trend toward having infoboxes, then I have no concerns about this list not having one. Same with the URLs, I have no concern as long as the information is cited.

As my other concerns were addressed, I Support this nomination. ~ Matthewrb ^{Let's connect · Here to help} 07:33, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]