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Hello and welcome to WikiProject Children's Literature, a WikiProject to better organize information in articles related to children's and young-adult literature!

Brief messages relating to this WikiProject can be left at the talk page. Longer discussions should take place at Article Discussion or Project Discussion.

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[edit] Project scope

This project is dedicated to improving the quality of coverage of children's and young-adult literature on Wikipedia. The main aims of this WikiProject are to:

  • Improve the overall quality of articles relating to children's and young-adult literature, including books, authors, and scholarship
  • Identify those articles which need to be created, merged, or deleted
  • Improve the categorization of these articles
  • Define easily maintainable, usable, and well-documented templates and infoboxes related to this WikiProject
  • Improve source citation in all these articles
  • Propose criteria for (author, book, etc.) list creation and inclusion
  • Expand stub articles relating to children's literature
  • Perform cleanup on articles

The topics covered by this WikiProject include any articles about children's or young adult books, magazines, short stories, poetry or fictional elements; authors, illustrators and publishers of children's and young adult books; awards for children's and young adult books; and articles relating to the scholarship of children's and young adult literature. Notable exceptions to this scope include redirect pages, and articles about adaptations of children's literature in a non-literary medium, such as musicals and films.

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.

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Improve the project
  • Update the project pages, archive clutter, and make use of the latest automation available
  • Consult the WikiProject Guide for ideas
  • Come up with new ones
Use the project
  • Create a new article.

[edit] Project Discussion

Please visit the Project Discussion page to join the discussion of new ideas about project policy and organisation. Currently ongoing discussions are:

[edit] Article updates

[edit] Alerts

Articles for deletion
Proposed deletions
Categories for discussion
Good article nominees
Featured article reviews
Requested moves

[edit] Recognised content

This project has a Wall of Recognised Content which is regularly updated by JL-Bot. To see the most recent wall, please click below.

Recognised Content

[edit] Articles needing cleanup

A cleanup listing for this project is available, updated by WolterBot. More information...

Many articles on this project currently require cleanup for a number of issues:

[edit] Article Discussions

Please see the Article Discussion page to join the discussion of articles within the scope of this WikiProject, or to post comments about article issues such as deletion proposals and notability concerns. The following articles are currently under discussion:

[edit] Assessment

Welcome to the assessment department of the Children's Literature WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality and importance of Wikipedia's children's and young-adult literature related articles through the WP:1.0 program.

[edit] Assessing articles

Any user can add articles to this WikiProject by adding {{Children'sLiteratureWikiProject}} to the article's talk page. This should only be done if the article relates directly to the project scope, and if you find any articles which seem to be incorrectly tagged then they can be delisted by removing the project template from the talk page.

Articles are assessed through the |class= and |importance= parameters in their {{Children'sLiteratureWikiProject}} project template. Class is used to denote the quality of the article, and importance to denote its importance to WikiProject Children's Literature. The possible values for each of these can be found in Assessment Criteria below. Often when articles are first tagged they will not be assessed on these qualities, but they will automatically be added to the project and should be assessed shortly, allowing for delay due to backlog.

Any user can assess articles for this project, even if they are not a member. However, some users prefer an outsider's opinion on articles they are closely involved in, and you can request an assessment from project members by adding the article to the list of Assessment requests below. These will be dealt with by a number of editors; if you would prefer one particular individual for some reason, it may be better to contact them through their talk page.

Ratings are often subjective and will change over time as the article develops. If you have any problems with the ratings system, you may wish to leave a message at the project talk page or the article discussion page.

[edit] Department tasks

If you want to help the assessment department, please contribute to any of the following tasks:

[edit] Assessment Criteria

This project uses the WP:1.0 assessment criteria to assess articles. The criteria specific to this project are listed below.

Assessment criteria

[edit] Assessment requests

If you have made significant changes to an article on this project and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please feel free to list it below along with your signature and any comments you wish to leave. This is not required, and you may assess the article for yourself, but any articles here should soon receive attention from a project member, who may also leave comments on the article's talk page. If you assess an article on this list, please use <s> and </s> to strike it through so that other editors do not waste time going there. Assessed articles will be removed periodically.

Please do not place articles which you believe to be Good Article or Featured Article class on this list. These have their own nomination procedures, which can be found at Good Article nominations and Featured Article nominations.

Please do not place articles which have not yet received assessments on this list. Any unassessed article with the project tag will automatically be categorised as unassessed and will be dealt with as soon as possible. There may be a short delay due to backlog.

  1. Paul Stewart (writer) There's more to do but I would like to have the progress assessed.--Plad2 (talk) 08:38, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
  2. Janni Howker Just found this languishing on the Unreferenced BLP's list. I've added our Project template, a reference and a reflist. Assume it's a stub. My guess Mid-Low importance.--Plad2 (talk) 11:27, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
  3. Ann Turner (writer)Ditto. Someone had added the Project template already but it needs assessment.--Plad2 (talk) 11:53, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
  4. Ian Wallace (illustrator) Ditto.
  5. Patricia Reilly Giff Found another one. Full of spam. Needs a thorough going over--Plad2 (talk) 19:02, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
  6. Robert Rigby Ditto. Not spam but needs a lot of work.--Plad2 (talk) 19:27, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
  7. William E. Bell Canadian prizewinning author. Retrieved from unfreferenced BLP list. Discussion going on last month about merging with another page but nothing has happened so far.--Plad2 (talk) 21:16, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
  8. Jim Burke (illustrator) US multi-award-winning illustrator. Retrieved from unfreferenced BLP list. Needs a lot of work.
  9. Lucy Hawking--Plad2 (talk) 13:56, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
  10. Roald Dahl Languishing as a C class but by the criteria above seems to me to be at GA or even A class. Could this be reassessed, please?--Plad2 (talk) 21:37, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
  11. The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel Some improvements. Might be considered for promotion to B class.
  12. Libby Hathorn Well-established prizewining Australian author. Retrieved from unfreferenced BLP list. Needs work.--Plad2 (talk) 22:14, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
  13. Maria Parr New page. Norwegian children's writer
  14. Stephen Cosgrove (writer) US author. Retrieved from unfreferenced BLP list. Tone of article a bit spammy. Needs a lot of work--Plad2 (talk) 20:51, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
  15. Koji Ishikawa (illustrator) Japanese illustrator. Retrieved from unfreferenced BLP list. Needs work.--Plad2 (talk) 21:11, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
  16. The Kane Chronicles I've just created it; there is still much work to be done. Rock drum (talk·contribs·guestbook) 17:52, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
  17. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle I had hoped to get this page closer to GA crition before requesting an assessment, but it's not there yet and I'm not sure what else to do to get it there so might as well get it reassessed. Barkeep49 (talk) 22:27, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
  18. The Killing (novel) Reassesment Rock drum (talk·contribs·guestbook)
  19. Divine Madness Reassesment Rock drum (talk·contribs·guestbook)
  20. Edmund Evans needs assessment. Engraver and printer who collaborated with Caldecott and Greenaway. Developed from stub class. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 02:42, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
  21. Edmund Evans Reassessment. Article has undergone additional expansion, but very little information exists about the topic. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 02:42, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
  22. Joel Chandler Harris This article has been significantly expanded since it was listed as Start Class. Will someone take a look at it please? J L Shakespeare (talk) 17:21, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
  23. The Borrowers I personally think that this is no longer stub , but I'm not sure if it's start or not. Rock drum (talk·contribs·guestbook) 16:34, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
  24. Clive King Following merger with text from The 22 Letters and the creation of additional text and addition of images, I think worth asking for a reassessment. When you have time. No rush.--Plad2 (talk) 09:49, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
  25. Summer of My German Soldier Added infobox and lots of information I very much doubt this is still a stub --Falco little (talk) 20:53, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
  26. Marilyn Kaye I would appreciate any feedback on how to improve this article further. strdst_grl (call me Stardust) 17:41, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
    Feedback left on article talk page. PrincessofLlyr royal court 22:48, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
  27. List of The 39 Clues characters: Hello! I am the main editor of this list, and in my own opinion, the list would classify into at least a Mid-class. I would really appreciate whatever grade you would give to the list, or if not, I would still accept it. --FDJoshua22 (talk) 10:58, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
    The classification on the list currently is for importance, not quality. I believe the low-importance rating is warranted. PrincessofLlyr royal court 13:37, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
    Oh, Ok. Thanks for the reminder. But since it is not qualified for the importance scale, can it be promoted in the quality scale?--FDJoshua22 13:51, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
    It appears that lists are classified only as "list" or "featured list". See WP:FL for more on featured lists. PrincessofLlyr royal court 17:03, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
  28. Paranormalcy Created about a month ago and expanded recently. I'd appreciate the assessment whenever anyone has the time. -- James26 (talk) 17:41, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
    (assessed to C-class by Derild4921)
  29. The Kane Chronicles - at least start-class for content and citations, in my opinion. But I'm involved, so I'd like someone else to assess. PrincessofLlyr royal court 13:37, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
    (completed by Sadads)
  30. Glen Downey (writer) - independent assessment of this article needed as it no longer seems to be stub class
    Upgraded to C. PrincessofLlyr royal court 04:18, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
  31. John Marsden (writer) - Independent assessment of this article requested - I've spent some time updating it. More to come but since I'm new here I'd like someone's assessment. Cheers. Also, would someone explain how the "Importance" criteria is assessed? Cheers. Teachingwedge (talk) 00:31, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
    Assessed at C-class. Good work. I'll leave some comments on the talk in the next day or two. Importance is normally decided by the subject's importance or notability in children's literature worldwide. PrincessofLlyr royal court 01:38, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
  32. Simone Elkeles: - I'd like it to get assessed to see what I can improve upon Tinytink (talk) 04:10, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
    Comments left on talk page. PrincessofLlyr royal court 17:07, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
  33. The Hunger Games trilogy - Currently Start-class; should be reassesed. Comments for improvement are welcome. --Glimmer721 talk 02:10, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
    C-class and comments left on talk. PrincessofLlyr royal court 02:40, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
  34. Goosebumps - May someone check this article against B-class criteria? Any suggestions are welcome. Fearstreetsaga (talk) 15:31, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
    updated to B. Strong article, especially the references. PrincessofLlyr royal court 15:24, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
  35. Chasing Vermeer - currently Start-class, I think it's a B. I'm working on getting this to GA (and then I can work on those terrible articles of the sequels) so suggestions are very welcome! Thanks, Glimmer721 talk 23:21, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
    B, although the prose needs some work. I understand that the plot is probably extremely complicated to summarize, but the current summary is almost too short to really be any good. PrincessofLlyr royal court 15:24, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
  36. Angelfire (novel series) -- I know this is C class or below, just wanted to reveal it in its current state. :) Thanks. -- James26 (talk) 22:18, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
  37. Unearthly -- Maybe not my best work, but felt I'd reveal the current state. No rush. Thanks. James26 (talk) 04:42, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
  38. Dead Beautiful -- Maybe not my best work, but felt I'd reveal the current state. No rush. Thanks. James26 (talk) 04:42, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
  39. Horrible Histories: This article has been worked on for a while. The info is there... I think... but the format is all over the show. I think an assessment is on order, so we know where to go from here.--Coin945 (talk) 16:14, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
  40. Roald Dahl Should be at least a B I think. sillybillypiggy¡SIGN NOW OR ELSE! 16:54, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
    upgraded to b. I suggest considering GAN. PrincessofLlyr royal court 18:22, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
  41. The Strange Case of Origami Yoda -- Would appreciate any feedback or help getting this out of orphaned status. Not sure if it meets the Children's Lit. category / criteria. --Possum4all (talk) 01:14, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
  42. Something Upstairs -- updated with detailed summary, character list, and list of awards AngusWOOF (talk) 04:20, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
  43. The Son of Neptune has had a complete rewrite and according to some outside sources, it has a fair chance of becoming a GA. --Kangaroopowah 05:18, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
    upgraded to C. The most pressing issue I saw: cut down the plot summary. It is way too long. PrincessofLlyr royal court 05:14, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Current article statistics

Children and young adult literature articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 3 10 10 3 26
FL 1 1
GA 6 17 31 15 69
B 10 52 89 31 182
C 15 41 168 106 3 333
Start 21 128 1,083 1,335 44 2,611
Stub 5 53 1,799 4,248 92 6,197
List 2 3 74 79 4 162
Book 10 10
Category 434 434
Disambig 74 74
File 1 1,610 1,611
Portal 22 22
Project 34 34
Template 1 162 163
NA 110 25 135
Assessed 62 305 3,256 5,927 2,371 143 12,064
Unassessed 5 7 10 675 697
Total 62 310 3,263 5,937 2,371 818 12,761


[edit] Collaboration

Welcome to the collaboration department of the Children's Literature WikiProject! This department is intended to bring attention to articles of high importance to the project which are currently of a low quality. The department will promote these articles, and will regularly choose one of them which all project members are asked to contribute to as much as they feel able.

The current Collaboration Article is Curious George (book). Please visit this article and contribute to it in any way you can.

At the beginning of the Collaboration, it was rated as High importance and Stub class. So far it has improved to Stub class.

If you wish to be updated about the collaboration articles for this WikiProject, please use {{WP:CHL COLLAB}}.

If you wish to nominate or discuss future Collaboration Articles, please visit the department page.

[edit] Outreach

If you are interested in promoting this project, please visit the Outreach department.

[edit] 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 the link below, and adding your name at the bottom of the list using {{User|Your User Name}}, with an optional comment.

If you join this project, please add this template to your user page: {{user WikiProject Children's literature}}

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You don't need to be actively writing articles to be a participant. Please click here to add your name to the list below. Please use {{User}} instead of four tildes ~~~~. You may add a comment if you wish.

Editors who make no edits to Wikipedia at all in six months will be presumed retired. Editors can always join the list again when they return to Wikipedia.

Member list

[edit] Categories

The following category tree shows categories of articles within the scope of this WikiProject.

Children's literature
Children's literary awards
► Children's literature bibliographies
Children's books
Child characters in literature
Characters in children's literature
Children's literature by nationality
► Children's literature criticism
Children's book illustrators
► Lists of children's books
Children's magazines
Children's poetry
► Pony books
► Children's book publishers
Children's short stories
Children's writers
Young adult literature
Children's literature stubs
WikiProject Children's literature

[edit] Stub completion

The following category shows stub-class articles within the scope of this WikiProject.

Children's literature stubs
Children's book stubs
► British children's writer stubs
Fictional creation stubs
► Children's magazine stubs

[edit] Related Projects

[edit] Task Forces

This Project currently has one task force:

The following Children's Literature task forces are currently run by WikiProject Novels:

[edit] Other WikiProjects

This WikiProject is a child project of WikiProjects Literature, Books, and Novels, and a sister project of WikiProjects Artemis Fowl, Fablehaven, Harry Potter, Redwall, and Warriors.

[edit] Templates

Many templates are used by articles in this project. Some of the most common are listed below, but a more complete list can be found in Category:Template-Class children and young adult literature articles.

[edit] Project templates

This project maintains several templates for use in a variety of tasks:

[edit] Common article templates

Stub sorting templates are used on Stub-class articles to specify the topic they are based on. Stub sorting templates are maintained by WikiProject Stub Sorting and a full list can be found at WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types. Some of the most common stub types on this project are:

Infoboxes are used to give a summary of the main features article's topic. They generally consist of a list of features which the article might have, and as many of these features as possible should be specified, although many can be left out if they are not known. Infoboxes are maintained by WikiProject Infoboxes, and help using them can be found on the Manual of Style and help page about them, in addition to on each template's documentation page. A variety of infoboxes are available depending upon the subject of the article in question. A full list is available in Category:Infobox templates, but some commonly used infoboxes on this project are:

Navigation boxes are used to ease navigation between a group of articles on the same topic. There are many navigtion boxes used by this project, which generally group articles by some shared characteristic, for example {{Harry Potter}}, grouping by series, or {{American Library Association}}, grouping by organisation.

[edit] Resources

This is a list of useful pages which are outside of this project, but may still be useful to project participants.

[edit] Notability

All articles in this project should meet the notability guidelines relevant to their subject. Please read these guidelines carefully before creating any new articles. All articles should also meet general Wikipedia guidelines such as a neutral point of view, verifiability and no original research before being created. Any articles about living persons must also meet the criteria listed at Biography of Living Persons.

Authors should meet the notability criteria for creative professionals. Authors are generally notable if:

  • The person has received a notable award or honor, or has been often nominated for one.
  • The person has made a widely recognized contribution that is part of the enduring historical record in his or her specific field.
  • The person is regarded as an important figure or is widely cited by their peers or successors.
  • The person is known for originating a significant new concept, theory or technique.
  • The person has created, or played a major role in co-creating, a significant or well-known work, or collective body of work, that has been the subject of an independent book or feature-length film, or of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews.
  • The person's work either (a) has become a significant monument, (b) has been a substantial part of a significant exhibition, (c) has won significant critical attention, or (d) is represented within the permanent collections of several notable galleries or museums, or had works in many significant libraries.

Books should meet the criteria for book notability. Books are generally notable if:

  • The book has been the subject of multiple published works, including books, films and newspaper articles, whose sources are independent of the book and its self-interested parties. Some of these works should contain sufficient critical commentary to allow the article to grow past a simple plot summary.
  • The book has won a major literary award.
  • The book has been considered by reliable sources to have made a significant contribution to any other notable subject, such as a motion picture, art form, event or political or religious movement.
  • The book is frequently taught at a large number of educational institutions.
  • The book's author is so historically significant that any of his or her written works may be considered notable.

Individual articles on characters, locations, and other elements of a work of fiction are subject to Wikipedia's fictional elements notability guidelines — be aware of these guidelines before creating articles. Generally, these elements should be part of a significant work of fiction, and should have received significant coverage outside of this work of fiction.

[edit] Article improvement

Some helpful guides about writing articles in general may be:

One of the most difficult parts of article writing to achieve is the citation of reliable sources:

For nominating articles to good article status:

For nominating articles to featured article status:

[edit] Style

All articles should conform to the relevant Wikipedia style guides. Some helpful resources include:


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