Wikipedia:WikiProject Literature

"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 Wikipedia:WikiProject Literature/Assessment. For deletion discussions related to literature, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Literature.

To do

Open tasks for Wikipedia:WikiProject Literature. Edit or discuss these tasks. Shortcuts: Recent changes | Categories | History

• Urgent:
• To Nominate at WP:FAC:
• To Improve to Featured standard: Literature
• To Improve to GA standard:
• Collaboration:
• To Expand: Realism (arts), Texas literature
• To Clean up:Protagonist
• Up for Deletion: List of autobiographies, Clavis aurea
• To Review/Rate:
• To Merge/Split:
• To Destub: Slice of life story
• To Copyedit:
• To Categorize:
• To Create:
• To de-redlink:
• Lists to complete: Rose Mary Crawshay Prize
• Wanted Pics/Graphics:
• Maintain: add {{WPLIT}} to the talk pages of Literature articles.

1. Gather more members
2. Create an assessment template
3. Improve this page
4. Start adding the new template to talk pages, rating articles, and determining exact scope of project

Improve the bird's eye view

The entire subject and Wikipedia's coverage of it 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.

While analyzing the outline, please answer the following questions (and fix the outline as needed):

1. What's missing?
2. Is the structure of the outline (sections and indents) representative of the subject?
3. Does the outline help understand the relationships between the topics presented in the best way possible?

The overall purpose of the outline is to help readers comprehend the subject by showing what belongs to it, and within the subject what belongs to what.

The outline is a taxonomy of the subject, and also serves as a table of contents and navigation aid to browse Wikipedia's articles (and article sections) about the subject.

It is also a useful tool for the WikiProject to analyze, plan, develop, and revise literature-related material. It is a hub from which to organize related topics.

It was built as a "reverse outline", a structural model of an existing work, which in addition to being a summary of the work, can reveal the gaps and other weaknesses for revision purposes.

Please help improve it.

It's our bird's eye view.

Thank you.

Related WikiProjects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Arts and entertainment#Writers and critics
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Authors (ceased, redirects to above)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Women writers
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Books
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Children's literature
• Continental Philosophy Task Force
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Film
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Short Story
• Philosophical Literature Task Force
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Poetry
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Science Fiction
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Shakespeare
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Timon of Athens (ceased, redirects to above)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Television
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Theatre
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Elizabethan theatre (no longer active)

Project organization

Members

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

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.

General topics

• South African literature

Templates

Copy or type this:	What it's for:	What it creates:
{{WikiProject Literature}}	Project banner for article talk pages.
{{User Literature Project member}}	For member's user pages.	This user is a member of WikiProject Literature.
{{Portal|Literature}}	Navigation link to portal for article pages.
{{Infobox literary genre}}	Put it on the page of pages included in Category:Literary genres and its subcategories. Note that the example in the box to the right doesn't look good; see e.g. Spiritual autobiography for a better example.
{{Narrative}}
{{Literature}}		Literature Major forms Novel Poem Drama Short story Novella Genres Comedy Drama Epic Erotic Nonsense Lyric Mythopoeia Romance Satire Tragedy Tragicomedy Media Performance play Book Techniques Prose Poetry History and lists Outline Glossary of terms History modern Books Writers Literary / Poetry awards Discussion Criticism Theory Sociology Magazines Literature portal
{{Literary composition}}
{{Book publishing process}}
{{Lexicography}}

Scope

This project encompasses some or all of the articles in the following categories:

• Category:Literature

  • Category:Fiction

    Category:Non-fiction

However, the project currently does not devote much attention to individual authors and works. Authors are covered by the Biography project, and books are covered by several other projects, including Books and Novels.

Research help

Hello, I am thinking of starting a list of recent articles about literary works written since about 1860. Anyone interested in joining hands? example run on deWP --Jackentasche (talk) 14:57, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

Portals

Portal:Literature

Recognized content

Featured Articles

See also: Wikipedia:Featured Articles § Literature and theatre

African American literature · Alliterative verse · Augustan drama · Augustan literature · Imagism · Irish poetry · Objectivist poets · Poetry · Restoration comedy · Restoration literature · Restoration spectacular · Turkish literature

Good Articles

See also: Wikipedia:Good articles/Language and literature

Allegory in the Middle Ages · Anglo-Saxon literature · Kigo · Nature fakers controversy · Persian literature · Shared universe · Swedish literature · Textual criticism · True at First Light · Parable of the Sunfish

Good Article nominees

Further information: Wikipedia:Good article nominations § Language and literature

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:

	The Literary barnstar	{{subst:The Literary Barnstar|message ~~~~}}	For commendable contributions to articles about literature. Designed by User:Scartol in September 2007.
	The Writer's barnstar	{{subst:The Writer's Barnstar|message ~~~~}}	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
	The Real-world perspective Barnstar	{{subst:Real-world perspective Barnstar|message ~~~~}}	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.