Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/World comics work group

Welcome to the World comics work group of the Comics WikiProject!

Scope

The scope of this work group is all articles contained in the Category:African comics, Category:Asian comics, Category:Canadian comics, Category:Mexican comics, Category:South American comics, and Category:Oceanian comics. Please note that Japanese comics (manga) are handled by Wikiproject Anime & Manga.

We are currently undergoing development and expansion, especially with regard to East Asian comics. Please give us your valuable input on the talk page or tackle a project on our to-do list!

Participants

Please remember to also add your name to the main list of project members if you are not yet listed there.

• Emperor, Largely working on the categories but I do try and keep an eye on the manhwa and manhua.
• Eruhildo, manwha and some manhua
• Hamuhamu, Korean and Chinese comics (manhwa and manhua, respectively)
• Kaguya-chan, original English-language and German-language manga
• Murgh, Argentine comics of particular interest
• WhiteArcticWolf, manhwa and manhua, but I may improve others, too
• Cloveapple, I'll do some work on earlier Mexican comics
• Dan_arndt - Interested in Australian comics and Australian comic artists - have created and improved a number of Australian comic related articles.

Guestbook

If you are sympathetic to the cause of this project, but for whatever reason choose not to commit yourself to becoming a regular member, please feel free to show your support by signing the list below!:

• Dinoguy1000 - I've been working on the manhwa and manhua infoboxes, and offer my assistance where needed for navboxes and other templates, as well as categories

Tagging and assessment

World comics work group assessment statistics World comics pages by quality Quality Total pages FA 1 GA 1 B 7 C 32 Start 385 Stub 323 List 17 Book 3 Category 58 File 92 Redirect 8 Template 13 NA 1 Assessed 941 Total 941 worklist • log • category

• Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding |World-work-group=yes to the {{Comicsproj}} project banner at the top of its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax). This will automatically place it into Category:World comics work group articles.

• World comics writers and artists should also be tagged in accordance the Comic Creators work group's guidelines.

Templates

• For main project templates, see the project's main template page.

• Infoboxes
  • {{Infobox manhwa}}
  • {{Infobox manhua}}
  • {{Infobox binational animation}}

• Stubs
  • {{Manhwa-stub}}
  • {{Manhua-stub}}

	This user is a member of the World comics work group of the Comics WikiProject.

• Userbox: {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/Outreach/User COMICS World comics work group}}
• Talk page header (adjust to suit):

{{Comicsproj
|class=stub
|importance=low
|image=yes
|infobox=yes
|World-work-group=yes
}}

• Languages - for tagging external links if the sites aren't in English:
  • {{zh_icon}}
  • {{ko_icon}}
  • {{pt_icon}}
  • more >>

Categories

Category:Comics

• Category:African comics
• Category:Asian comics (except Japan)
• Category:Canadian comics
• Category:Oceanian comics
• Category:Mexican comics
• Category:Puerto Rican comics
• Category:South American comics

To-do

View the World Comics detailed to-do list for articles in need of creation.

• Tag articles with the project template and relevant stub templates.
• Recruit interested editors.
• Find and categorize existing uncategorized articles relevant to the project.
• Interwiki-link and/or translate original-language Wikipedia articles for existing articles (i.e. articles in Korean or Chinese-language wikis).
• Find English- and original-language publication information for existing articles. Even simple links to those pages will help.
• Add or verify name and title romanizations, Korean hangul, and Chinese hanzi in existing articles.
• Clean up "See also" and "External links" sections of articles.
• Visit the talk page to share your ideas, suggestions, and inquiries.

Resources

General resources

• Anime News Network, Anime on DVD -- independent general information sites in English for "manga-style" comics including manhwa, manhua, and OEL comics.
• Category:Comics by source
• Category:Works based on comics

Korean comics

• Korean naming conventions for Wikipedia. In a nutshell, "Lastname First-name".
• Wikipedia's Manual of Style for Korean-related articles
• Korean name, List of Korean family names -- articles for more naming help.
• WikiProject Korea -- including the Pop Culture working group.

Chinese-language comics

• Wikipedia naming conventions for Chinese words
• Wikipedia Manual of Style for Chinese-related articles
• WikiProject China, WikiProject Hong Kong, WikiProject Taiwan.
• WikiProject Chinese-language entertainment - actors, singers, and music.
• WikiProject Films, Chinese Cinema task force -- including Chinese films based on comics.

Other East Asian comics

• WikiProject Southeast Asia and its country-specific working groups.

Comics Portal

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