Talk:The Sarah Jane Adventures

Sarah Jane's Alien Files was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 27 November 2023 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into The Sarah Jane Adventures. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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Airdate for final episodes[edit]

Someone inserted October into the introduction as the airdate for the final episodes. So far only one source - Doctor Who Magazine - has speculated this date. The BBC has yet to announce when it will air and bear in mind this year Doctor Who is airing in the fall, so that may result in the SJA episodes airing later than usual (perhaps even around Christmas). Also, once the change was made the sentence no longer reflected the information in the cited source at the end of the sentence; when changing such info you need to make sure the source still matches - or is replaced by an updated source. 68.146.78.43 (talk) 13:01, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Images Missing from Sarah Jane Adventures Episode Pages[edit]

I have noticed there are a number of SJA episode pages that do not have images the list is below i will tick them off as and when they are completed.

Invasion of the Bane Y
Eye of the Gorgon
From Raxacoricofallapatorius with Love
Prisoner of the Judoon
The Mad Woman in the Attic
The Eternity Trap
Mona Lisa's Revenge
The Gift

Thanks Kelvin 101 (talk) 17:24, 18 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Audio Adventures page[edit]

I have started of the first audio adventures page as requested above The Glittering Storm Thanks Kelvin 101 (talk) 18:33, 13 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Good Article?[edit]

I'm hestitant as I say this but is this article a Good Article? And if it is not what needs to be done to improve it? Regards Rafmarham (talk) 17:01, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review[edit]

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Reviewer: Grandiose (talk · contribs) 12:17, 18 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I will conduct a full review once certain things have been addressed, which need to be done within 7 days:

Please address all citation needed and original research tags.

Article on hold. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 12:17, 18 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The article needs a thorough copyedit. For example, there should be no space between consecutive references; the standard of English is poor in much of the article. Consider the audiobooks section alone:

"Series star" - not encyclopedic wording;
"Minute" should not be capitalised, and, preferably, with a non-breaking space before it;
"called "The Monster Hunt" written by Trevor Baxendale, read by Anjli Mohindra this episode" - grammar.
"Both parts can only be downloaded by finding aliens" really? surely this gimmick is not notable. The fact they can be found on the website is sufficient;
"Sarah Jane Adventures" - self redirect;
"Website" - should be "website"
"It is unclear if these will be the last stories, ending with the series, or if they will carry on after series 5 has ended." - poorly worded for an encyclopedia.

See if you can apply these ideas to the whole article. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 15:49, 18 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Amazon is not a reliable source and these should be replaced. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 17:41, 26 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Who would you recomend to be a reliable source? Thanks Kelvin 101 (talk) 14:53, 28 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Any independent media source that mentions the existence of such a DVD, preferably. I'd be prepared to accept one from the BBC or its affiliates in these locations, though. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 18:10, 28 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The references for the existence of DVDs and Blu-ray have been changed to BBC Shop and 2 Entertain links which are official BBC websites. thanks Kelvin 101 (talk) 18:38, 28 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There are some others in the "audiobooks" section. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 19:36, 28 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Audiobook section is references have been amended, I think the Novelisations has a lot of Amazon references so i will find other official references for them. Thanks Kelvin 101 (talk) 15:24, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Novelisations section references has now been amended is there anything else that needs to be done. Thanks Kelvin 101 (talk) 16:18, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to do it it drabs, but #18 isn't broken and #73 and #74 need more details (date, page, ISSN(?)). Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 21:21, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The above items you described have no been resolved thanks Kelvin 101 (talk) 16:25, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The citation needed tags need filling with citations. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 17:20, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

All Citations have now been resolved. Thanks Kelvin 101 (talk) 18:02, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please expand the section that I have now marked as requiring expansion. I think that may be all. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 19:57, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have expanded on the Critical response section. Tsange ☯ Talk 18:30, 1 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Although I would have liked some more "reputable" critics, there's enough there to satisfy the criteria. Passing. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 19:22, 1 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Who exactly counts as starring[edit]

Unlike its sister shows Doctor Who and Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures has just one actor mentioned in its title sequence throughout, Elisabeth Sladen, which is why I felt that additional actors being put under starring would require a source mentioning intent from the BBC and/or producers (unlike, say, Eve Myles in Torchwood). On my talk page I was given the reasoning that if the end credits characters have an "obvious cast order", then that should be sufficient and no references are needed.

However, a) this excludes John Leeson and Alexander Armstrong from the main cast regardless as they are consistently behind Joseph Millson and Juliet Cowan in the credits order (and also Mina Anwar and Ace Bhatti later on) and no one for one second thinks Alan and Chrissie are uncontroversially main cast, and b) Tommy Knight's reduced number of appearances as Luke in series 4 and 5 would still make him one of the main characters based on his position in the credits, ahead of Daniel Anthony and Anjli Mohindra. I mean, this page has a promotional image with both Tommy Knight and Sinead Michael, who debuted in series 5. TardisTybort (talk) 21:25, 25 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"Doctor Who characters"[edit]

Separately, but also related to my edit yesterday: For what purpose is there for the eight overlapping Doctor Who cast in a table, three of hose eight being from news broadcast exposition scenes, and why are non-appearances and brief mentions of characters (including a couple whose actors died in the 80s and 90s) mentioned like that on the primary page of the series? How is that passage anything to do with cast and crew, never mind a subheader? Surely the appearances of the Doctor and Jo can just be placed in sentence form in the cast section immediately above, where Nicholas Courtney as Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart is already mentioned. TardisTybort (talk) 21:40, 25 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]