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
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
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.
{{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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.