English Wikipedia @ Freddythechick:WikiProject Animation/Outreach/Newsletter/October 2012

Archives The WikiProject Animation Newsletter October 2012
Scope and Mission of WikiProject Animation WikiProject Animation aims to improves all articles about animation, including animation studios, animators, animation directors, animated television series, animated films, animated characters and so on. However, we acknowledge and are grateful for the work of other projects in the field, and will reserve the majority of our attention to that content which does not fall within the scope of other active projects. Currently, it has 23 work groups, 26 members, and it has over 22,900 articles and pages within the scope.	Current statistics
Project news SpongeBob SquarePants (character) was currently undergoing a good article review and the result was delisted due to lack of response. After long discussion with WP 1.0 Editorial Team Assessment by Fortdj33, the use of the No-importance for redirects and disambiguation pages is determined that has been opposed in favor of NA importance following the deprecation and is currently no longer in use for the banner with work groups, and 3 other projects including WikiProject Comics and WikiProject Nickelodeon. The article Red vs. Blue was undergoing a featured article review back in August and has been delisted due to referencing, coverage and prose. A highly active project WikiProject Anime and manga has formed Studio Ghibli task force with WikiProject Film to improve all articles related to the Japanese anime studio Studio Ghibli.
Article of the month Dan Castellaneta, voice of Homer Simpson Homer Simpson is a fictional main character that appears in the animated television series The Simpsons as the patriarch of the eponymous family. He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta and first appeared on television, along with the rest of his family, in The Tracey Ullman Show short "Good Night" on April 19, 1987. Homer was created and designed by cartoonist Matt Groening while he was waiting in the lobby of James L. Brooks' office. Groening had been called to pitch a series of shorts based on his comic strip Life in Hell but instead decided to create a new set of characters. He named the character after his father, Homer Groening. After appearing for three seasons on The Tracey Ullman Show, the Simpson family got their own series on Fox that debuted December 17, 1989. Read more about Homer Simpson...
Animation portal Our Animation portal is now a featured portal! It has 100 selected articles, 60 selected pictures, 26 selected biographies and 15 selected lists.	Things you can help with Ideas for next months newsletter Help with the Anniversaries in the portal Help with the assessments Help improve Animation-related articles getting into FA status.
Open tasks for WikiProject Animation {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Animation/to do}} edit - history - watch - purge	Member news There are currently no new members in the project.
	Peer reviews Blue's Clues
	New articles 1973 in animation 1977 in animation 1979 in animation 1983 in animation 1986 in animation Sabrina: Secrets of a Teenage Witch Creature animation
	Featured article candidates Hoodwinked! Dream of the Rarebit Fiend
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