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

– William Shakespeare, The Tempest

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.

[edit] 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

[edit] Related Wikiprojects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Authors (no longer active)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Critical theory
• Philosophical literature task force
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Poetry
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Theatre
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Elizabethan theatre
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Timon of Athens (ceased)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Children's literature
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Books
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Television
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Film
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Science Fiction

[edit] Project organization

[edit] Members

To join this project, add your user name to the list below:

[edit] Departments

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Templates

Copy or type this:	What it's for:	What it creates:
{{WPLIT}}	Project banner for article talk pages.	WikiProject Literature   LiteratureWikipedia:WikiProject LiteratureTemplate:WikiProject LiteratureLiterature articles Literature portal v • d • e 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.  ???  This article has not yet received a rating on the project's quality scale.  ???  This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.
{{Literature Project member}}	For member's user pages.	This user is a member of WikiProject Literature.
{{Literature Portal}}	Navigation link to portal for article pages.	Literature portal

[edit] 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.

[edit] Proposed Items

[edit] Research help

[edit] Portals

Portal:Literature

[edit] Recognized content

[edit] Featured Articles

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

[edit] Good Articles

Allegory in the Middle Ages · Anglo-Saxon literature · Kigo · Persian literature · Shared universe · Swedish literature · Textual criticism

[edit] Good Article nominees

[edit] 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.