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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.

Open tasks for Wikipedia:WikiProject Literature.

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Urgent:
To Nominate at WP:FAC:
To Improve to Featured standard:
To Improve to GA standard: Literature
Collaboration:
To Expand: Texas literature, Scansion
To Clean up:
Up for Deletion:
To Review/Rate: Anagram
To Merge/Split:
To Destub: Stub-class articles
To Copyedit:
To Categorize:
To Create: Eric Nusbaum, Pete Beatty
To de-redlink:
Lists to complete: Rose Mary Crawshay Prize
Wanted Pics/Graphics:
Maintain: add {{WPLIT}} to the talk pages of Literature articles.

To do

Improve the bird's eye view

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.

Missing articles

Books originally in English with articles in other wikis

George Miles Cycle (can be translated from the Spanish: es)

Books translated into English with articles in other wikis

Elena Knows (can be translated from the Spanish: es)
Cockfight (book) (can be translated from the Spanish: es)
Human sacrifices (book) (can be translated from the Spanish: es)
Jawbone (novel) (can be translated from the Spanish: es)
Undiscovered (novel) (can be translated from the Spanish: es)
Brickmakers (can be translated from the Spanish: es)
Seeing Red (novel) (can be translated from the Spanish: es)
The Naked Woman (novel) (can be translated from the Spanish: es)
Natural Histories (novel) (can be translated from the Spanish: es)
Sleeping Dragons (can be translated from the Spanish: es)

Article alerts

Article alerts

Did you know

02 Feb 2025 – Deborah D. Rogers (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by LEvalyn (t · c); see discussion
30 Jan 2025 – Mpreg (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Rusalkii (t · c); see discussion
18 Jan 2025 – Series fiction (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

06 Feb 2025 – List of knitters in literature (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by An anonymous username, not my real name (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
02 Feb 2025 – The Elements of Java Style (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by HyperAccelerated (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
30 Jan 2025 – The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters, and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Orange sticker (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
29 Jan 2025 – Locations of Shakespeare's plays (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by TheLongTone (t · c); see discussion (11 participants; relisted)
24 Jan 2025 – Comprised of (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Riposte97 (t · c); see discussion (12 participants; relisted)
23 Jan 2025 – A Future in Chains (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Johannes Maximilian (t · c); see discussion (13 participants; relisted)
15 Jan 2025 – Heptalogy (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion (13 participants; relisted)
30 Jan 2025 – Tarun Bhartiya (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Greatindianeditor (t · c) was closed as keep by Reading Beans (t · c) on 01 Feb 2025; see discussion (5 participants)
28 Jan 2025 – Sorure Ahle Iman (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Eelipe (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 04 Feb 2025; see discussion (8 participants)
27 Jan 2025 – Tabaghat Aa'lam Al-Shia (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Eelipe (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 03 Feb 2025; see discussion (3 participants)

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Categories for discussion

05 Feb 2025 – Category:Wikipedia categories named after writers (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion
05 Feb 2025 – Category:Wikipedia categories named after texts (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion
05 Feb 2025 – Category:Wikipedia categories named after speculative fiction writers (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion
05 Feb 2025 – Category:Wikipedia categories named after literary texts (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion
05 Feb 2025 – Category:Wikipedia categories named after dramatists and playwrights (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion
05 Feb 2025 – Category:Wikipedia categories named after ancient Roman writers (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion
05 Feb 2025 – Category:Wikipedia categories named after ancient Greek writers (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion
05 Feb 2025 – Category:Wikipedia categories named after Welsh writers (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion
05 Feb 2025 – Category:Wikipedia categories named after Ukrainian writers (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion
05 Feb 2025 – Category:Wikipedia categories named after Swedish writers (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion

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Good article nominees

31 Jan 2025 – Letter to Yi Ŭngt'ae (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Seefooddiet (t · c); start discussion
07 Jan 2025 – Epic Pooh (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Chiswick Chap (t · c); start discussion

Requested moves

06 Feb 2025 – Monkey King (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Sun Wukong by Cold Season (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

04 Sep 2024 – Political views of Samuel Johnson (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Samuel Johnson by Richard75 (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

29 Dec 2024 – Lesbian literature (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Lover of lgbt literature (t · c); see discussion
29 Dec 2024 – Gay literature (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Lover of lgbt literature (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

05 Feb 2025 – Draft:Lilly Dancyger (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 74.71.19.160 (t · c)
04 Feb 2025 – Draft:Vladislav Soyfer (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Iurii.s (t · c)
31 Jan 2025 – Draft:The Aalitra Review (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Eflac (t · c)
26 Jan 2025 – Draft:Fabian (Twelfth Night character) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Undercaker (t · c)
19 Jan 2025 – Draft:Wine Office Court (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by JFBB12345 (t · c)
18 Jan 2025 – Draft:Rut Plouda (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by GavinEyes (t · c)
16 Jan 2025 – Draft:It Rhymes With Truth (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by RichMillerPDX (t · c)
08 Jan 2025 – Draft:Love Grows Stronger in Death (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by OATY-LAYINKA (t · c)
31 Dec 2024 – Draft:Sayumi Kamakura (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Idy Lam (t · c)
24 Dec 2024 – Draft:Pandiyāt-i Jawānmardī (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by MunjoLohiPeeyeth (t · c)

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Scope and Related WikiProjects

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

Members

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:

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Departments

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.

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.

Task forces

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

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged (e.g. {{WikiProject Literature}}) or categorized correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

Featured articles

Total pages in content type is 16

Former featured articles

Total pages in content type is 15

Featured lists

Total pages in content type is 14

Former featured lists

Lists of Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year

Total pages in content type is 1

Good articles

Total pages in content type is 61

Former good articles

Total pages in content type is 12

Did you know? articles

Total pages in content type is 494

Featured pictures

Abigail Scott Duniway registering to vote
Ambigram of the word ambigram - rotation animation
Avril de Sainte-Croix - Restored, cropped
Blanche Roosevelt by Napoleon Sarony
Charles Frohman presents William Gillette in his new four act drama, Sherlock Holmes (LOC var 1364) (edit)
Erica Jong by Bernard Gotfryd edit
Frederick Douglass (circa 1879)
George Sand by Nadar, 1864
Granville Stuart 1883 by L. A. Huffman
Harold Bloom, literary critic, author, teacher at Yale
Italiaanse schrijver Umberto Eco, portret
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - Comtesse d'Haussonville - Google Art Project
Jorge Amado, gtfy.00010
Leo Tolstoy 1897, black and white, 37767u
Lord Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany by Morrall-Hoole Studios
NPG 2010 112 Lucia Chamberlain by Zaida Ben-Yusuf
Nadar - Alexander Dumas père (1802-1870) - Google Art Project 2
Phyllis Diller by Allan Warren
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)
Stefan Heym (1982)
Sándor Vay - Restoration
Tom Taylor by Lock and Whitfield
Victor Hugo by Étienne Carjat 1876 - full
William Shakespeare by John Taylor, edited

Total pages in content type is 26

Former featured pictures

Shakespeare
Villainc

Total pages in content type is 2

Featured portals

Total pages in content type is 2

Good article nominees

Total pages in content type is 3

In the News articles

Total pages in content type is 94

Main page featured articles

Total pages in content type is 30

Main page featured lists

Total pages in content type is 9

Picture of the day pictures

Ambigram of the word ambigram - rotation animation
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
Tom Taylor by Lock and Whitfield
Victor Hugo by Étienne Carjat 1876 - full
Villainc
William Shakespeare by John Taylor, edited

Total pages in content type is 21

Former featured topics

Naruto characters

Total pages in content type is 1

Good topics

Wikipedia:Good topics/Three Bards

Total pages in content type is 1

Level 2 vital articles

Total pages in content type is 2

Level 3 vital articles

Total pages in content type is 12

Level 4 vital articles

Total pages in content type is 80

Level 5 vital articles

Total pages in content type is 323

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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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