Welcome to the Holby task force of
Wikipedia:WikiProject Television. This
task force is a collaboration area and open group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to the three
BBC television series set in the fictional city of
Holby - encompassing Casualty, Holby City and HolbyBlue. We currently have 195 articles under the scope of this project, which generally includes articles where Casualty, Holby City and/or HolbyBlue are a relevant focus to the subject. This task force aims primarily to improve and organise these articles in an attempt to establish a standard. Such an effort endeavours to produce a reference that has value as an authority on material within the television series, is easy to read, and has a consistent style.
The main criteria for inclusion should be notability. That being said, to avoid clutter and confusion, we should note the following.
Characters
Most characters that appear in Casualty, Holby City and HolbyBlue do not pass the
notability guidelines on fiction. Each character that appears can be included in one of the lists of characters, such as
Characters of Holby City or
Characters of Casualty. Even characters with a separate article should be included in these lists. Articles can be de-merged if they grow very large, but please discuss them first.
Images
Illustrations for Holby-related articles are typically taken from screen captures, publicity materials, magazine articles and websites. As such they're nearly all non-free and must only be used in conformance with the
Non-free content criteria. Exceptions include pictures of people involved in the writing or production of Casualty, Holby City and HolbyBlue, which have been released under
free licenses: licenses that allow third parties to modify images and use images commercially. For a gallery of free Holby-related images, see
here. Some non-free images currently in Holby-related articles lack detailed or sufficient
fair use rationales justifying their use in the articles. Such images are in danger of deletion; you can remedy this by writing better rationales.
Articles
A complete list of Holby-related articles can be found
here and recent changes to these pages can be seen
here.
New articles
This is a list of the most recently created Holby-related articles on Wikipedia. If you create a new article, please list it here. Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the
Did you know? box on the
main Wikipedia page. DYK has a seven day time limit from the creation of the article.
... that a kiss between Dan Hamilton and Antoine Malick in the UK medical drama Holby City was criticised for "following the trend" of depicting gay relationships?
... that Holby City character Oliver Valentine has been described as "a doctor with the blue eyes of Fonda and the medical competence of fondue"?
... that
NHS Blood and Transplant stated several people had asked to be removed from the UK organ donor register as a result of a storyline involving Holby City character Mo Effanga?
... that David Ames auditioned for another Holby City character prior to winning the role of Dominic Copeland?
... that actress
Sarah-Jane Potts filmed her own audition for the role of Eddi McKee in Holby City, after she was approached by the show's casting director?
... that in order to accurately portray her character Kirsty Clements' domestic violence storyline, actress
Lucy Gaskell spoke to women affected by domestic abuse?
... that the actress
Claire Goose began research for her character Tina Seabrook's rape storyline, before the writers scripted it?
... that Radio Times critic Alison Graham called the character Jacob Masters "a cocky narcissist" following his debut in Casualty?
... that to create the fireball effect in episode 1094 of Casualty, the show's production team packed ten different explosions into one blast?
... that a storyline about domestic abuse from the eighteenth series of Holby City sparked 177 calls to the BBC's support line?
... that the Casualty production team wore medical scrubs on-set during the filming of the episode "One" so they could disguise themselves if they were caught on camera?
... that despite suffering from
vertigo, actor
Bob Barrett performed his own stunt on the hospital rooftop in the Holby City episode "Man Down"?
... Casualty struggled to portray the open-air scenes from Episode 1067 as winter because passers-by were wearing summer clothing?
... that a same-sex kiss, broadcast in January 2020, between the Casualty characters Marty Kirkby and Jack Ward received 111 complaints?
... that scenes of Honey Wright driving in Casualty had to be filmed carefully as actress Chelsee Healey could not drive?
... that due to her Casualty character Ruby Spark's near-photographic memory, actress
Maddy Hill had to learn all the intricate details of the medical terminology used by the character?