Wiki143:WikiProject Literature

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"Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me
From mine own library with volumes that
I prize above my dukedom."

– Prospero to Miranda in The Tempest, Act 1 Scene 2, by William Shakespeare

Welcome to the Literature Wikiproject main page. This project is devoted to increasing the quality of articles dealing with general literature subjects, literary criticism, and literary terms or genres which encompass several different types of writing. Anyone is invited to join in the effort by adding their name to the members list. A list of current jobs needing to be done can be found in the to do section. We call special attention to our current effort to gather new members and determine project scope and status.

For information on assessments of articles within the scope of the project, please go to /Assessment. For deletion discussions related to literature, see: Deletion sorting/Literature. For the project's most popular pages, see: /Popular pages.

To do

Improve the bird's eye view

Wikipedia's coverage of the entire subject is intended to be summarized in the Outline of literature. It in turn is part of Wikipedia's outline system which is one of Wikipedia's main contents systems. Please look it over and fill-in missing topics. If Wikipedia has an article or article section about those topics, please add links to them.

Missing articles

Books originally in English with articles in other wikis

• George Miles Cycle (can be translated from the Spanish: es)

Books translated into English with articles in other wikis

• Elena Knows (can be translated from the Spanish: es)
• Cockfight (book) (can be translated from the Spanish: es)
• Human sacrifices (book) (can be translated from the Spanish: es)
• Jawbone (novel) (can be translated from the Spanish: es)
• Undiscovered (novel) (can be translated from the Spanish: es)
• Brickmakers (can be translated from the Spanish: es)
• Seeing Red (novel) (can be translated from the Spanish: es)
• The Naked Woman (novel) (can be translated from the Spanish: es)
• Natural Histories (novel) (can be translated from the Spanish: es)
• Sleeping Dragons (can be translated from the Spanish: es)

Scope and Related WikiProjects

WikiProject Literature was assembled to organize and promote quality coverage of literary concepts and other general pages on literature on Wikipedia.

Articles concerning people, such as authors, can be directed to WikiProject Biography.

Articles concerning books and book publishers can be directed to WikiProject Books.

Articles concerning fiction can be directed to WikiProject Novels, WikiProject Children's literature and WikiProject Fictional characters.

Articles on poems can be directed to WikiProject Poetry.

Articles on films can be directed to WikiProject Films.

Articles on theatre and drama can be directed to WikiProject Theatre.

Articles on comics can be directed to WikiProject Comics.

Articles on magazines and journals can be directed to WikiProject Magazines and WikiProject Academic Journals.

Project organization

Members

• If this project interests you, you are encouraged to Join by adding yourself to the membership list.

• If you are a member, you are welcome to post this userbox on your user page:

{{User WikiProject Literature}}

Departments

Assessment

The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Literature articles. The article ratings are used within the project to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in a set of categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.

Collaboration

The project's Collaboration department seeks to identify particular articles that would benefit from a significant collaborative effort. A single article is selected as the focus, and the project attempts to improve it, potentially to featured article standards. The current collaboration article is Literature.

Any Literature article is eligible, and everyone is invited to nominate articles.

Task forces

Task forces are informal groups of editors gathered for collaborative work on a particular topic within the field of Literature (as defined in the "scope" above); all project members are encouraged to participate in any task forces that interest them.

Recognized content

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Literature/Recognized content}}

Templates

Copy or type this:	What it's for:	What it creates:
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Awards

Writing good literature articles can be hard work! Why not reward someone you've seen do some good work in the area; decorate their userpage with one of these:

File:Book barnstar2.png	The Literary barnstar	Template:Tlsp	For commendable contributions to articles about literature. Designed by User:Scartol in September 2007.
File:Writer's barnstar.png	The Writer's barnstar	Template:Tlsp	In regards to this wikiproject, for Wikipedians writing articles about writers and books. Introduced by User:Kubek15 on April 2, 2008 and designed by User:Penubag
File:RWP Barnstar.png	The Real-world perspective Barnstar	Template:Tlsp	The Real-world perspective Barnstar may be awarded to Wikipedians who improve an article on a book or other piece of literature by adding material on criticism or reception, or other relevance to the real world. Created and designed by User:Dorftrottel on 6th April 2008.