Wikipedia:WikiProject Science Fiction

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This is a WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians.

Speculative fiction portal

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This is the page for the Science Fiction WikiProject (or if you prefer, "sf" or "speculative fiction"). If you would like to participate, add your name to list of participants below. Be sure to check out the discussion page as well.

[edit] Project overview

This project focuses on creating and improving content related to science fiction and coordinating the creation of guidelines and best practices related to science fiction, SF fandom, speculative fiction, science fiction studies, etc. While there are many specific WikiProjects oriented around film and television franchises, this project is intended to deal with Wikipedia's science fiction coverage in general, as well as coordinate work on science fiction literature, on science fiction history and criticism, and on science fiction fandom.

Closely related projects:

[edit] Assessment

Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Science Fiction/Assessment

This project will aim to improve the quality and breadth of articles in the science fiction category and its subcategories using an assessment process. Project members are urged to take an active role in reviewing and identifying articles about science fiction.

As of October, 2011, there were 4,503 articles tagged for inclusion in the project, of which the majority are unclassified as to quality (1,801), stubs (711), or start-class articles (964). (For a full break-out by project class category, see Category:Science_fiction_articles_by_quality). We have only 200 Good Articles and 3 A-Class articles, all 3 of which are on video games.

The main To Do item for the Assessment division of this project is to assess the articles that are currently unassessed. It is also important to regularly check that the assessments of assessed articles are still appropriate, and to attend to requests for re-assessment posted to the main WikiProject Science Fiction/Assessment page.

[edit] Using the metadata script to display article assessment

If you would like to participate in assessment activities, you may find it helpful to turn on a metadata script that displays an article's assessment when you are viewing any article. In order to do that, click on your "My preferences" link at the top of the page, then the Gadgets category, and check the box under Appearance for "Display an assessment of an article's quality as part of the page header for each article."

[edit] Project status

[edit] Milestones

Project created: 12 December 2006.
WikiProject is added to the "Articles by quality" Index: 16 January 2007.

[edit] To do

Develop this project
- Improve this page
- Review Wikipedia:WikiProject Science Fiction/Assessment assessment process.

Invite active editors who write for science fiction-related articles to join the project.

Rewrite the science fiction main page to make it a good article.
- Reorganization: done
- New sections: done
- Summarization (WP:SIZE): done
- Sources: done
- Peer review: to be done

Make sure all of the images used by articles in this project comply with the Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria policy.

Create requested articles.
Add sources to Unreferenced BLPs.

[edit] Article alerts

Attempted deletion
- An editor has tried to convert The Warlock in Spite of Himself to a redirect to the Stasheff article, using the poor sourcing as his reason. Could we get some help on this one? --Orange Mike | Talk 15:09, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Articles for deletion

03 Mar 2012 – Dream War (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Bazonka (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)

Featured list candidates

14 Feb 2012 – Nebula Award for Best Novel (talk · edit · hist) was FL nominated by PresN (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

19 Feb 2012 – Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Let Me Eat Cake (t · c); start discussion
19 Feb 2012 – 2001: A Space Odyssey (film) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by PJtP (t · c); start discussion
19 Feb 2012 – Joe's Garage (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Wisdomtenacityfocus (t · c); start discussion
11 Jan 2012 – Fringe (TV series) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Akihironihongo (t · c); start discussion
04 Jan 2012 – Night of the Blood Beast (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Hunter Kahn (t · c); start discussion
02 Mar 2012 – Subject 13 (talk · edit · hist) GA nominated by Ruby2010 (t · c) was promoted, see discussion
01 Mar 2012 – 6B (Fringe) (talk · edit · hist) GA nominated by Ruby2010 (t · c) was promoted, see discussion

Good topic candidates

23 Jan 2012 – The Erlenmeyer Flask (talk · edit · hist) was GT nominated by Grapple X (t · c); see discussion

Peer reviews

03 Mar 2012 – Ra.One (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Ankitbhatt (t · c); see discussion
25 Feb 2012 – Berge Meere und Giganten (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Sindinero (t · c); see discussion

[edit] Categories

Science fiction

Science fiction by franchise

Science fiction by medium

Science fiction by nationality

Science fiction awards

► Clarion Workshop

Science fiction culture

► Science fiction exhibitions

Science fiction genres

Science fiction lists

Science fiction literature

Science fiction organizations

Science fiction people

Science fiction studies

Science fiction themes

► Tomorrowland

Transhumanism

Science fiction stubs

Science fiction templates

WikiProject Science fiction

[edit] Templates

{{User WP SF}} -- WikiProject Science Fiction userbox; project members may include this on their user pages

	This user is a member of WikiProject Science Fiction.

{{SciFi Barnstar}} -- The Science Fiction barnstar; can be awarded for exceptional work

		The Science Fiction Barnstar
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{{WikiProject Science Fiction}} -- project template for talk pages of related articles, to use:

{{WikiProject Science Fiction
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WikiProject Science Fiction

Speculative fiction portal

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Science Fiction, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of science fiction on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.

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{{SF}} -- mini-sidebar for general articles
{{Infobox writer}} -- infobox for science fiction writers
- {{Biography}} -- sample layout for biographical articles
{{Science fiction}} -- navbox to be placed at bottom of most SF articles