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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 do

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Improve the bird's eye view

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Wikipedia's coverage of the entire subject 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 alerts

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Did you know

Articles for deletion

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Proposed deletions

  • 13 Nov 2024 – Shari Kasman (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by 142.198.83.51 (t · c): Self authored vanity page by a non-notable person who has self-published a couple of short, unsuccessful and unremarkable books and has put up a few signs around Toronto purporting to name various things (eg: putting up a sign beside a puddle and cla ...
  • 09 Nov 2024 – Luke Romyn (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Dajasj (t · c): Does not meet the criteria for WP:AUTHOR

Good article nominees

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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 organization

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Members

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  • If this project interests you, you are encouraged to Join by adding yourself to the membership list.
  • If you are a member, you are welcome to post this userbox on your user page:
This user is a participant in
WikiProject Literature.
{{User WikiProject Literature}}

Departments

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Assessment

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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

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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

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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 content

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Total pages in content type is 16

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Total pages in content type is 15

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Total pages in content type is 14

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Total pages in content type is 1

Good articles

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Total pages in content type is 58

Former good articles

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Total pages in content type is 12

Did you know? articles

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Total pages in content type is 484

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  • Ambigram of the word ambigram - rotation animation
    Ambigram of the word ambigram - rotation animation
  • Avril de Sainte-Croix - Restored, cropped
    Avril de Sainte-Croix - Restored, cropped
  • Charles Frohman presents William Gillette in his new four act drama, Sherlock Holmes (LOC var 1364) (edit)
    Charles Frohman presents William Gillette in his new four act drama, Sherlock Holmes (LOC var 1364) (edit)
  • Erica Jong by Bernard Gotfryd edit
    Erica Jong by Bernard Gotfryd edit
  • Frederick Douglass (circa 1879)
    Frederick Douglass (circa 1879)
  • George Sand by Nadar, 1864
    George Sand by Nadar, 1864
  • Granville Stuart 1883 by L. A. Huffman
    Granville Stuart 1883 by L. A. Huffman
  • Italiaanse schrijver Umberto Eco, portret
    Italiaanse schrijver Umberto Eco, portret
  • Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - Comtesse d'Haussonville - Google Art Project
    Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - Comtesse d'Haussonville - Google Art Project
  • Leo Tolstoy 1897, black and white, 37767u
    Leo Tolstoy 1897, black and white, 37767u
  • NPG 2010 112 Lucia Chamberlain by Zaida Ben-Yusuf
    NPG 2010 112 Lucia Chamberlain by Zaida Ben-Yusuf
  • Nadar - Alexander Dumas père (1802-1870) - Google Art Project 2
    Nadar - Alexander Dumas père (1802-1870) - Google Art Project 2
  • Portrett av Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, 1909 - no-nb digifoto 20150129 00043 bldsa BB0791 - Restoration
    Portrett av Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, 1909 - no-nb digifoto 20150129 00043 bldsa BB0791 - Restoration
  • RJ Palacio at BookCon (16102)
    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)
    Rose O'Neill - When We All Believe (Santa Claus and children illustration from the 1903 December 2 issue of Puck)
  • Stefan Heym (1982)
    Stefan Heym (1982)
  • Sándor Vay - Restoration
    Sándor Vay - Restoration
  • Tom Taylor by Lock and Whitfield
    Tom Taylor by Lock and Whitfield
  • Victor Hugo by Étienne Carjat 1876 - full
    Victor Hugo by Étienne Carjat 1876 - full
  • William Shakespeare by John Taylor, edited
    William Shakespeare by John Taylor, edited

Total pages in content type is 20

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  • Shakespeare
    Shakespeare
  • Villainc
    Villainc

Total pages in content type is 2

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Total pages in content type is 2

Good article nominees

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Total pages in content type is 2

In the News articles

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Total pages in content type is 89

Main page featured articles

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Total pages in content type is 29

Main page featured lists

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Total pages in content type is 8

Picture of the day pictures

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  • Ambigram of the word ambigram - rotation animation
    Ambigram of the word ambigram - rotation animation
  • Avril de Sainte-Croix - Restored, cropped
    Avril de Sainte-Croix - Restored, cropped
  • Charles Frohman presents William Gillette in his new four act drama, Sherlock Holmes (LOC var 1364) (edit)
    Charles Frohman presents William Gillette in his new four act drama, Sherlock Holmes (LOC var 1364) (edit)
  • Frederick Douglass (circa 1879)
    Frederick Douglass (circa 1879)
  • George Sand by Nadar, 1864
    George Sand by Nadar, 1864
  • Granville Stuart 1883 by L. A. Huffman
    Granville Stuart 1883 by L. A. Huffman
  • Italiaanse schrijver Umberto Eco, portret
    Italiaanse schrijver Umberto Eco, portret
  • Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - Comtesse d'Haussonville - Google Art Project
    Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - Comtesse d'Haussonville - Google Art Project
  • Leo Tolstoy 1897, black and white, 37767u
    Leo Tolstoy 1897, black and white, 37767u
  • NPG 2010 112 Lucia Chamberlain by Zaida Ben-Yusuf
    NPG 2010 112 Lucia Chamberlain by Zaida Ben-Yusuf
  • Nadar - Alexander Dumas père (1802-1870) - Google Art Project 2
    Nadar - Alexander Dumas père (1802-1870) - Google Art Project 2
  • Portrett av Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, 1909 - no-nb digifoto 20150129 00043 bldsa BB0791 - Restoration
    Portrett av Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, 1909 - no-nb digifoto 20150129 00043 bldsa BB0791 - Restoration
  • RJ Palacio at BookCon (16102)
    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)
    Rose O'Neill - When We All Believe (Santa Claus and children illustration from the 1903 December 2 issue of Puck)
  • Shakespeare
    Shakespeare
  • Stefan Heym (1982)
    Stefan Heym (1982)
  • Sándor Vay - Restoration
    Sándor Vay - Restoration
  • Tom Taylor by Lock and Whitfield
    Tom Taylor by Lock and Whitfield
  • Victor Hugo by Étienne Carjat 1876 - full
    Victor Hugo by Étienne Carjat 1876 - full
  • Villainc
    Villainc
  • William Shakespeare by John Taylor, edited
    William Shakespeare by John Taylor, edited

Total pages in content type is 21

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Total pages in content type is 1

Good topics

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Total pages in content type is 1

Level 2 vital articles

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Total pages in content type is 2

Level 3 vital articles

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Total pages in content type is 12

Level 4 vital articles

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Total pages in content type is 79

Level 5 vital articles

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Total pages in content type is 319


Templates

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Awards

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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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