Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Children's literature

Children and young adult literature articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 4 8 12 6 30 FL 2 7 1 10 GA 9 33 80 94 216 B 25 73 179 223 7 507 C 24 171 795 1,498 21 2,509 Start 18 272 1,997 5,464 49 7,800 Stub 1 83 677 4,927 25 5,713 List 3 8 86 173 3 273 Category 1 1 1,227 1,229 Disambig 1 4 71 76 File 1 2,721 2,722 Portal 41 41 Project 1 45 46 Template 2 349 351 NA 1 4 71 890 834 1,800 Other 1 2 15 18 Assessed 87 655 3,905 13,286 5,303 105 23,341 Unassessed 5 30 35 Total 87 655 3,905 13,291 5,303 135 23,376 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 85,281 Ω = 5.08

Dead project?

As far as I can glean from the few months I've been on WP, this project is dead. However, there seem to be a few people still working on various kids books. If you're out there, and would like to connect, maybe help each other out now and then or something, please let me know on my talk page. I sometimes wish I had someone to share ideas and info with. Happy editing. Tlqk56 (talk) 16:02, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

For the past 4 years WP:Children's Lit and WP:Novels have always been light participant projects with 3-5 people frequently active on various parts of the content from time to time. However, the project, more likely then not is not dead, but rather quite in the activities end of things. I know that their are several high school and college classes that have been working in the fiction topic area alot in the past couple years, so keep an eye on things, there will be space for you to be useful, Sadads (talk) 16:11, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

I am the most recent of seven people to join this year. I have met one other in Talk and User space, (JustPotteringAround).

Search "Active members" for 2012; just now I added dates from the edit history for those 2012's who did not provide one. (Some are alphabetized, some at the end.)

I have worked on awards, on many many author/book/series/etc articles where an award is the point of entry (and I often go little further, eg Journey to the River Sea last hour), on more than a few directed entirely by interest rather than awards.

FYI, WP:PRIZE is marked inactive; WP:CHAR seems inactive to me; WP:Harry Potter is marked inactive with current discussion of becoming a Novels task force (all eight listed Children's lit task forces are listed Novels task forces also). --P64 (talk) 18:30, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Other people that might be helpful in children's lit include User:Brambleclawx, User:PrincessofLlyr, and User:Awadewit. In relationship to novels, User:Truthkeeper88 and User:GrahamHardy are both frequently around and useful, and so am I, Sadads (talk) 19:22, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks to all who responded. It is nice to know there are others out there -- just hard to connect as the WP universe is so big, I guess. I've started several articles, and am preparing John R. Tunis for a GA nomination, though mostly I work on Newbery-related articles. If anyone wants some copy edit help, or a friendly ear, I'm available. Tlqk56 (talk) 17:53, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Picture book

Last hour I added the project banner to Talk: Picture book(!) and assigned importance=High. Now consulting the list of 62 so-called Top-importance articles, I say "oops" ;-)

I didn't assess its class. That and my understatement of its importance should motivate at least one person to visit at least its talk. --P64 (talk) 20:11, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Yes, it needs work. So does Children's literature, and don't get me started on Children's poetry which is awful. Too bad we can't have some sort of effort to improve these. But it's a lot to tackle by yourself. On the other hand, if someone wants help, I'm willing... Tlqk56 (talk) 01:18, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

little Bo Peep

My nan born circa 1915 in Suffolk, told me that Bo Peeps sheep were taken away to have their tails docked. that is why they were missing and then come home bringing their tails behind them. Wikipedia has a page on sheep tail docking.Julez120 (talk) 15:01, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

Second and Third Verse to Little Miss Muffet.

On my old Gramaphone record C3 Nursery Rhymes these are the next two verses. sang by two people quite fast.

Said the spider "My dear you've no reason to fear,

I only just came as I passed on my way,

to catch a few flies to be made into pies,

there's no need to hurry, please don't go away."

So little Miss Muffet she sat on her tuffet,

she hardly dared breathe lest the spider should stay,

she was frightened to sit on the tuffet with it,

but how glad she was, when it wished her good day.Julez120 (talk) 15:35, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

New sister project proposal

Hi, you may want to see this proposal for new project based on fiction. --213.155.255.148 (talk) 19:51, 2 November 2012 (UTC)