This project doesn't seem that active, but I'll ask here anyway.

Recently people have been adding episode airdates from other countries- Simpsons Christmas Stories and We're on the Road to D'ohwhere have UK airdates, and Bonfire of the Manatees has an Australian airdate. I haven't found any others, though.

Should the episode articles contain US airdates only, or should they all have airdates from other countries? IMDb has a complete listing of all UK Simpsons airdates from mid-1995 onward (and several from 1993-4) added by myself, but finding ones for other countries may be tricky. Plus, what if people start adding French, Spanish, Outer Mongolian airdates - do we allow them, or just ones for English-speaking countries? BillyH 17:30, 3 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Any thoughts on this yet? It's starting to get a bit out of hand now - people are adding multiple airdates for single episodes (The Call of the Simpsons now has four US dates). BillyH 07:33, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I believe that airdates should be listed as original air date, hence US airdate... you can check TV.com or SNPP.com if you have any question as to the proper date... - Adolphus79 10:48, 22 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia doesn't need a Wikiproject for The Simpsons - it has thousands of articles already, and although I'm a massive fan, what's the point? We can live with a few minor edits here and there. What we do not need is a thorough description of the two hairs on Homer Simpson's head, or a list of things Marge Simpson has put in her hair, and although there's always something to do, there's nothing particularly important enough to require a WikiProject, is there? ☺ -- The pathetic APclark Be nice not nasty 17:24, 24 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK... there's a lot of discussion going on on several character pages, and several lists, about the cleanup needed around here... it seems that a ton of information was added, but now we need to organize all that information... also, if we can make sure to relay all the information back here to the project, we can make sure that we all know what's going on...

here's what I propose:

A:) Remind people on the Simpsons talk pages about this WikiProject... There are several editors I see, that are contributing a lot to the Simpsons articles, that aren't here... we need all the Simpsons geeks in on this... if you see someone working on a page, or talking on a talk page, tell them to come here to the project... this being the Simpsons WikiProject means we are the ones responsible for all the simpsons information on Wikipedia... let's get it all organized and get the Simpsons featured!!!

B:) Sort out the one time Vs. recurring lists... there are a number of recurring characters listed on the one time list, and alot of people missing from both lists... if the character was only ever used on one episode, they go on the one-time list... we also merge all of the one time characters that have their own page into the list... those people do not need their own page, they were only in one page... we're already talking about merging Ling with Patty & Selma... if we can get serious about this, we can even break it down by season, or even episode, if we can get all the Simpsons geeks in on this...

C:) Recurring characters... if a character has been on more than one episode (not just several times in one episode), they go on the recurring list... I figure we can dole out individual pages from here as needed... obviously, the more the person is on, the more we know, and the larger their page is... if they have their own page already, merge any information one the list to their page, and their entry on the list is simply a link to the page... also, we could clean up and merge as neccesary the 'List of simpsons characters'... this page is simply redundant...

D:) Blood relatives of the nuclear family... any character that is actually related by blood to Marge or Homer (or Bart, Lisa, & Maggie)goes on this list... this will cut down on the number of characters listed on the one time and recurring lists...

E:) Family pages... I'd love to see family pages cleaned up... again, we could merge off characters off of the one-time and recurring lists, which helps clean them up... if each of the family has their own page, then the family page just needs to be an intro paragraph, links to each of the family members, then a list of the one-times under that...

F:) Fictional characters list, LGBT list, animals list... I think the LGBT is simply redundant, maybe a category for LBGT characters that have they're own pages, and a note on the recurring/family/one-time listings... fictional is simply confusing, there are fictional characters within the simpsons universe, as well as fictional characters from within our universe... maybe just some cleanup... animals list looks fine, but then we need to merge any animals or pets from the other lists to this list...

G:) Episode listing... I really haven't checked this out yet... I use TV.com for my episode to episode info... if someone knows of any cleanup or work needed, please feel free to comment... also, what is the 'list of episodes by theme'? isn't that slightly redundant sitting next to 'list of simpsons episodes'?

OK... so I started to rant, sorry...

Let's work together to make Wikipedia THE Simpsons database online... if anyone else has any ideas, or comments, please contribute... that's the point of the WikiProject... also, who is the leader of the WikiProject? I apologize if I stepped on any toes, just adding my cheap 2 cents... - Adolphus79 04:36, 22 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Can someone add citations to this at the points indicated? Thanks. --Quentin Smith 07:47, 22 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

there are several episodes cited in the article... but feel free to search the episode database to add those citations if you want... - Adolphus79 08:05, 22 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Looking back at the history of this project, it seems to have been somewhat orphaned... I am willing to hijack it, and start working on the project, adding tasks, getting it all cleaned up, and hopefully getting some action in here... if anyone minds, reply to this within the next couple days... - Adolphus79 10:44, 22 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hijack away. I signed myself up as a participant. I became interested in working with Simpson articles, because there were quite simply too much crap out there. This is why we need a WikiProject. There needs to be guidelines to character and episode articles. All the quotes should be transwikied to Wikiquote. Stubs should be merged into bigger articles. Some of the lists should be checked for copyvio, since I suspect a lot of copying from the Simpsons Archieve.

The first step is to make the project page more organised and then we can take it from there.

I mainly work on getting the main article The Simpsons up to FA standards - well, first I guess it has to be GA standards. There is a long road ahead of that project, so I will not be very active on the characters and episodes, but I will give my input whenever possible. This week I will be gone for vacation from tomorrow, so I will not answer any messages. --Maitch 13:18, 22 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]