Wikipedia:WikiProject Children's literature

WikiProject on Children's Literature This WikiProject is a project to better organise information in articles related to Children's and Young Adult Literature. If you would like to help, add your name to the list below, and/or improve this proposal! Scope To improve the overall quality of articles relating to children's and young adult literature, books, authors, and theory. To identify those articles which need to be created, merged, or deleted. To improve the categorization of these articles. To define easily maintainable, useable, and well-documented templates and infoboxes for those articles which are likely to have a disproportionate number of child editors (such as articles about authors and books). To improve source citation in all these articles. To propose criteria for (author, book, etc) list creation and inclusion. To expand stub articles relating to Children's literature To do some cleanup on certain articles Here are some open tasks for WikiProject Children's literature, an attempt to create and standardize articles related to children's literature. Feel free to help with any of the following tasks. Add {{Portal|Children's literature}} to the See also section of related articles. Tag the talk pages of related articles with {{WikiProject Children's literature}} Join WikiProject Children's literature and list yourself as a Participant in the project. Cleanup: A cleanup listing for this project is available. See also the list by category, the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects. Deletion discussions: listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Literature Notability: Articles with notability concerns, listed at WikiProject Notability Rate the Unassessed articles in the Children's literature WikiProject. References: Add references to Unreferenced BLPs. Requested articles: Create a requested article on literature Stubs: Improve a stub-class article Parentage WikiProject Books Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels WikiProject Critical Theory Sister Projects Wikipedia:WikiProject A Series of Unfortunate Events Wikipedia:WikiProject Harry Potter Wikipedia:WikiProject Narnia Relevant articles on Children's Literature Children's Literature Young adult literature Contents of Category:Children's literature and all children. Participants This is a list of Wikipedians who are committed to this WikiProject. If you're interested in helping with this project, please, feel free to join by clicking edit on the right, and signing your name at the bottom of the list with four tildes (~~~~), with an optional comment. Also add this template to your user page {{user WikiProject Children's literature}} This user participates in WikiProject Children's literature. Members Aidoflight (talk · contribs · count) KGV (talk · contribs · count) Deborah-jl (talk · contribs · count) Tomandlu (talk · contribs · count) Joy_Stovall (talk · contribs · count) Woggly (talk · contribs · count) Tem2 (talk · contribs · count) BengalRenaissanceEccentrica (talk · contribs · count) Bibliomaniac15 (talk · contribs)--moved to guest book Tennessee_Wood (talk · contribs · count) Anonymous_anonymous (talk · contribs · count) Wootking (talk · contribs · count) Elizabeth_Lund (talk · contribs · count) FinFangFoom (talk · contribs · count) Lbr123 (talk · contribs · count) VMAAXT (talk · contribs · count) Starry.dreams (talk · contribs · count) Karen | Talk | contribs 02:03, 28 July 2006 (UTC), concentrating on L'Engle for now Kitia (talk · contribs) I've been working on this for a while now, but have never okkicially joined! Sanjay Tiwari (talk · contribs) I'm very interested in Victorian and Edwardian (British) children's literature, especially the out-of-prints authors. I've created templates for 18th Century British Children's Literature, 19th Century British Children's Literature, and Early 20th Century British Children's Literature. Sanjay Tiwari 18:34, 18 September 2006 (UTC) Also check out the Category:WikiProject Children's literature participants - this is automatically populated by adding the Userbox to your talk page. Guestbook This is a list of Wikipedians who are not committed to the WikiProject, but who are sympathetic to the cause. Feel free to express your support by signing the list below!: Raecell 20:54, 7 June 2006 (UTC) GO FOLKIES!!! Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 11:31, 12 September 2006 (UTC) - Welcome to your project - from Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels ♥ Her Pegship♥ I'll stop in whenever I can. Cheers! GentlemanGhost 07:47, 4 November 2006 (UTC) I'm not sure if this project is still active, but I've been adding links to it from the various Hardy Boys articles. bibliomaniac15 00:10, 19 November 2006 (UTC) Projects Meta-projects We need to tag articles as members of this wikiproject We need a list of articles that need cleanup We need a list of articles that need work We need to tidy up this wikiproject page and make it more readable Systemic Bias Right now the children's literature pages are overwhelmingly United States-centric. Even the usage of Category:British children's literature sets up American children's literature as normative, as the categories are currently used. Categories Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Children's literature/categories Criteria for inclusion Genres Books Do we distinguish Easy Readers Middle grade books Novels Short story collections Chapter books Etc Poetry Collections Individual Poems? Graphic novels Theorists? Books What books get their own articles? Award-winners Best sellers Cult classics Classics Frequently taught books Controverisal books pop culture books Authors What authors get their own articles? Probably almost all non-self-published authors, per bio guidelines that specify Published authors, editors, and photographers who have written books with an audience of 5,000 or more or in periodicals with a circulation of 5,000 or more Fictional characters and place names Our articles are violating Wikipedia's fictional character notability guidelines all over the place (eg. Daja, Sunset Towers). I think we should do some massive merges of character and place, and then, if the articles get too long, break them out again. Templates Template:Childrens-literature-WP Add this template {{childrens-literature-WP}} onto article's talk page relating to Children's literature (Don't subst: this template) Hello, WikiProject Children's literature, and Welcome to WikiProject Children's literature. Go to the To-Do list of this WikiProject to see the list of open tasks. I hope that you enjoy being part of this project. Again welcome! Place this template onto New Participant's Talk Pages. (subst: this template) {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Children's literature/Welcome}} Books We should use infoboxes. No reason to specialize beyond Template:Infobox Book, I think. We should make a substitution template, or some easy way for non-knowledgable editors to create good book stubs. Should they be broken out in types such as those in genre, above? Authors Any reason not just to encourage use of {{subst:Biography}}? Young Adult vs Children's Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Children's literature/youngadult Stub completion There are hundreds of Children's literature stubs, Children's book stubs, and Children's novel stubs. As pure encyclopedia writing goes, these suckers need filling out. Deborah-jl Talk 03:38, 3 March 2006 (UTC)