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.
- Gather more members
Create an assessment template
- Improve this page
- Start adding the new template to talk pages, rating articles, and determining exact scope of project
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To join this project, add your user name to the list below:
- Moloch09 Talk 21st March - critical theory, drama and poetry
- Jordan Timothy James Busson 11:24, 17 March 2008
- Wrad 20:31, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
- DionysosProteus 23:54, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
- Tea and Crumpets (Talk - contribs) 00:42, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
- Bardofcornish 01:11, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
- Awadewit | talk 22:33, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
- – Scartol · Talk 00:07, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
- Peter cohen 10:44, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
- --Moni3 03:45, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
- Lquilter (talk) 16:40, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
- --Tricia Ares 09:53, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
- --DrMulholland (talk) 23:39, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
- --Gwynand (talk) 17:56, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
- Sutherland4l (talk) 01:42, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
- --Survivalism (talk) 15:54, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
- Volpeculus sagacis (talk) 20:14, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
- Aristophanes68 (talk · contribs) 04:56 (UTC), 29 February 2008 -- esp. interested in ethnic U.S. literature, world literature, short stories and drama
- Cowardly Lion (talk) 18:02, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
- DiamondElusive (talk)
- Intellectual Soup (talk) 14:24, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
- Junius49 (talk) 00:55, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
- Jomunro (talk) 23:03 (BST), 22 May 2008
- magicman9194 - 19:02 May 30th 2008 - (know a bit on shakespeare)
- golden bells, pomegranates, prunes & prisms (talk) 13:55, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
- User:Lithoderm
- Gunnar Hendrich (talk) 22:08, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
- Tyciol (talk) 07:02, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
- Merpin (talk) 10:11, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
- Midnightdreary (talk) 18:59, 22 September 2008 (UTC) 19th century American literary, almost exclusively.
- Hannu-san (talk) 17:38, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
- Hadrian89 (talk) 17 November 2008
- Leszek Jańczuk (talk) 01:42, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
- Themis-Athena (talk)
- Skyler13 (talk)
- Opfallon (talk)
- BSTemple (talk · contribs) - Here to help improve the Wiki.
- Lord_Shivan (talk)
- Mathewferguson, worked in book publishing number of years
- Ernstblumberg (talk · contribs)
- DAFMM
- spanglej
[edit] Departments
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.
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This project encompasses some or all of the articles in the following categories:
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
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[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: