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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.

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To doEdit

Improve the bird's eye viewEdit

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.

Article alertsEdit

Did you know

Articles for deletion

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Proposed deletions

Categories for discussion

Templates for discussion

Redirects for discussion

Good article nominees

Peer reviews

Requested moves

Articles to be merged

Articles to be split

Articles for creation

(30 more...)

Scope and Related WikiProjectsEdit

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 organizationEdit

MembersEdit

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

DepartmentsEdit

AssessmentEdit

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.

CollaborationEdit

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 forcesEdit

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 contentEdit

Featured articlesEdit

Total pages in content type is 7

Former featured articlesEdit

Total pages in content type is 13

Featured listsEdit

Total pages in content type is 10

Former featured listsEdit

Total pages in content type is 1

Good articlesEdit

Total pages in content type is 30

Former good articlesEdit

Total pages in content type is 9

Did you know? articlesEdit

Total pages in content type is 389

Featured picturesEdit

  • Avril de Sainte-Croix - Restored, cropped

  • Charles Frohman presents William Gillette in his new four act drama, Sherlock Holmes (LOC var 1364) (edit)

  • Frederick Douglass (circa 1879)

  • George Sand by Nadar, 1864

  • Granville Stuart 1883 by L. A. Huffman

  • Italiaanse schrijver Umberto Eco, portret

  • Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - Comtesse d'Haussonville - Google Art Project

  • Leo Tolstoy 1897, black and white, 37767u

  • NPG 2010 112 Lucia Chamberlain by Zaida Ben-Yusuf

  • Nadar - Alexander Dumas père (1802-1870) - Google Art Project 2

  • Portrett av Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, 1909 - no-nb digifoto 20150129 00043 bldsa BB0791 - Restoration

  • RJ Palacio at BookCon (16102)

  • Rose O'Neill - When We All Believe (Santa Claus and children illustration from the 1903 December 2 issue of Puck)

  • Shakespeare

  • Stefan Heym (1982)

  • Sándor Vay - Restoration

  • Victor Hugo by Étienne Carjat 1876 - full

Total pages in content type is 17

Former featured picturesEdit

  • Villainc

Total pages in content type is 1

Featured portalsEdit

Total pages in content type is 2

Good article nomineesEdit

Total pages in content type is 5

In the News articlesEdit

Total pages in content type is 68

Main page featured articlesEdit

Total pages in content type is 20

Main page featured listsEdit

Total pages in content type is 3

Picture of the day picturesEdit

  • Charles Frohman presents William Gillette in his new four act drama, Sherlock Holmes (LOC var 1364) (edit)

  • Frederick Douglass (circa 1879)

  • George Sand by Nadar, 1864

  • Italiaanse schrijver Umberto Eco, portret

  • Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - Comtesse d'Haussonville - Google Art Project

  • Leo Tolstoy 1897, black and white, 37767u

  • Nadar - Alexander Dumas père (1802-1870) - Google Art Project 2

  • Portrett av Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, 1909 - no-nb digifoto 20150129 00043 bldsa BB0791 - Restoration

  • RJ Palacio at BookCon (16102)

  • Shakespeare

  • Stefan Heym (1982)

  • Victor Hugo by Étienne Carjat 1876 - full

  • Villainc

Total pages in content type is 13

Former featured topicsEdit

Total pages in content type is 1

Level 2 vital articlesEdit

Total pages in content type is 2

Level 3 vital articlesEdit

Total pages in content type is 11

Level 4 vital articlesEdit

Total pages in content type is 67

Level 5 vital articlesEdit

Total pages in content type is 269


TemplatesEdit

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{{WikiProject Literature}} Project banner for article talk pages.
WikiProject Literature (Rated Project-class)
 This article is within the scope of WikiProject Literature, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Literature on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.
  Project  This article has been rated as Project-Class on the project's quality scale.
 
{{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.
WikiProject Literature
{{Narrative}}
{{Literature}}
Literature
 
Major forms
Prose genres
Poetry genres
Dramatic genres
History and lists
Discussion
  Literature portal
{{Literary composition}}
{{Book publishing process}}
{{Lexicography}}

AwardsEdit

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.
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