Wikipedia:WikiProject Middle-earth

Template:ME-taskbox Welcome to the home page of Middle-earth WikiProject. This Wikiproject was created on 23 November 2005 and activated and merged with Silmarillion WikiProject on 1 March 2006 in an effort to start bringing order to all Tolkien-related articles.

If you are interested in joining, please sign your name in the participants section below. The current participant count is 21.

Menu

Discussion

• Things to do - Compilation of all the tasks needed to do
• Standards - List of consensus standards for Middle-earth articles and lists
• Improvement - work toward making a featured article

Lists

• AfD- current and past Middle-earth articles for deletion
• Images - Middle-earth images on Wikipedia
• Templates - Middle-earth related templates on Wikipedia
• Watchlist (view) - a watchlist of Middle-earth articles

Scopes and goals

Mission statement

Our mission is to focus efforts and to promote interaction, cooperation, and communication in order to improve Wikipedia's encyclopedic coverage of Tolkien's legendarium.

Scopes

We cover articles that has anything to do with the following:

• Any articles concerning Tolkien's novels, the characters, the places, the plots, etc.
• Any articles concerning and affiliated with the films
• Any articles concerning other Tolkien-related books and resources

Goals

Our goals include:

1. To discuss/contribute/improve as a group of editors anything dealing with Things to Do page
2. To standardize and have any Tolkien-related articles/lists/categories/etc. to follow this WikiProject's style guidelines
3. To follow Wikipedia's notability guidelines, to reduce and monitor anything what should not be done.

And after this WikiProject makes some progress...

1. To bring any Tolkien-related articles to the high standards and quality as to a Good Article, Featured Article/or Featured List

Participants

If you are interested, feel free to join. Please sign your name below in alphabetical order. Look out for monthly role calls and watch for discussions and updates.

Alethiophile ASchmoo Barnikel Bryan Tong Minh Carcharoth CBDunkerson Christopher Hanson cubfanpgh Cuivienen Ellachor

Eluchil404 lordess of the ring Mirlen Ronald Bennett SorryGuy Sotakeit user:SPOV Ted87 Thisisbossi Thu User:Wikpedia Wootking

Past participants

Middle-earth WikiProject would like to thank our past participants for their contributions:

Alethiophile • Astrokey44 • Chamberlian • Guðsþegn • Kyriakos • Savidan • UrbaneLegend

General guide

What you should do

• As a participant, be active as you can!
• Take a look at the discussion links, including the things to do page and contribute what you can.
• Follow the Standards for this WikiProject, as well as the Wikipedia's Manual of Style page. Please cite your sources.
• Follow Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy. Avoid bias of any sort.
• As Wikipedia says, "Be bold in updating pages, but do not be reckless!" If there is anything in the articles you see that does not follow the style guidelines or if they have bias in them, please edit them.

What you should not do

• Anything that Wikipedia is not follows here as well. Which means...
  • No point-of-view, please!
  • No speculation, no assumptions, no fan theories, etc.
  • No original research and unsourced information/claims/statements/etc.
  • No vandalism, and no revert wars either!

Duties and tasks

	Pending tasks for Wikipedia:WikiProject Middle-earth:	edit - history - watch - refresh
	Add sources to articles that do not have references or sources Ensure that all Middle-earth articles are properly categorized and organized. Update all articles to follow the Alternate version of the legendarium format Add images and begin sorting. Develop a consistent Wikipedia method of referencing various Middle-earth books Expand stubs into complete articles Review and update List of Middle-earth articles

Accomplishments

Featured Articles/Lists

Articles that has been a Featured Article/Featured List and/or is a F.A. candidate

• Middle-earth
• J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Lord of the Rings

Good Articles

Articles with Good Article (G.A.) status

Voting

Selected Article of the Month

Every month, participants will vote for a Middle-earth/Undying Lands/Tolkien-related article they think is up to FA status. To nominate or vote candidates for the next month's article, or to see the criteria for a selected article, go to the /Selected page.

Collaboration of the week

Every week, participants of this WikiProject focuses on to improve a Middle-earth/Undying Lands/Tolkien-related article by voting. To vote or see the candidates for the past or future, please go to the /Collaboration page.

Templates

Main article: /Templates

See also: Category:WikiProject Middle-earth templates

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Userpages

{{User WikiProject Middle-earth}}	This user is a participant in WikiProject Middle-earth.	Use this userbox to show your support for this WikiProject.
{{subst:TWwelcome}}	Hello, WikiProject Middle-earth! Thank you for your contributions to a Tolkien-related article. If you are interested, feel free to join WikiProject Middle-earth, a WikiProject focused on improving Tolkien-related articles in Wikipedia. We would be glad to have you join in the effort! Here're some good links and subpages related to the WikiProject. If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to ask on our talk page. Thank you for your contributions and have fun editing!	Put this on the talk page to recruit fellow Tolkien fans in joining our WikiProject.
{{subst:TWwelcome-2}}	Hello, WikiProject Middle-earth! Thank you for joining WikiProject Middle-earth and contributing to improve Tolkien-related articles. We are glad to have you join in the effort! Here're some good links and subpages related to our WikiProject. If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to ask on our talk page. Thank you for your contributions and have fun editing!	Put this on the talk page to welcome new members to our WikiProject who have not been recruited by the previous template above.
{{ME-project}}		Another way to advertise our WikiProject on articles' talk pages. This template should be placed on every Tolkien-related article.

Categories

{{ME-category}}

Put this on Middle-earth category pages to advertise the project

Articles

{{Mecanon}}	Template:Mecanon	Use this at the top of articles to include notice about Middle-earth canon issues.
{{ME-fact}}	Template:ME-fact	Use this when there are unsourced statements in articles. This will automatically place the article in Category:Tolkien articles with unsourced statements.
{{ME-ref}}	Improper reference format	Use this template in referencing sources.
{{ME-date}}	{{{1}}}	Use this template when inserting dates in articles.
{{ME-lang}}	({{{lang}}})	Use this template when inserting a translation in articles when relevant.
{{Infobox LOTR}}	Template:Infobox LOTR	Use these to help standardise Middle-earth article appearance for articles on characters.
{{Infobox Military Conflict}}	WikiProject Middle-earth Location {{{place}}}	Use these to help standardize Middle-earth article appearance for articles on military conflicts.
{{language}}		Use these to help standardise Middle-earth article appearance for articles on languages.
{{Infobox LOTR place}}	Template:Infobox LOTR place	Use these to help standardise Middle-earth article appearance for articles on places.
{{sequence}}	Preceded by — {{{list}}} Succeeded by —	Use these to help standardise Middle-earth article appearance for articles on sequences.
{{Infobox Film}}	WikiProject Middle-earth	Use these to help standardise Middle-earth article appearance for articles on films.
{{Middle-earth}}		Add these to Middle-earth articles to improve navigation on Middle-earth articles.
{{Silmarillion}}	Template:Silmarillion	Add these to Middle-earth articles to improve navigation on Silmarillion articles.
{{ainur}}		Add these to Middle-earth articles to improve navigation on Ainur articles.
{{dwarves}}	Template:Dwarves	Add these to Middle-earth articles to improve navigation on Dwarf articles.
{{History of Arda}}	Template:History of Arda	Add these to Middle-earth articles to improve navigation on History of Arda articles.
{{Meweapons}}	Template:Meweapons	Add these to Middle-earth articles to improve navigation on weapon articles.

Book references - Need to develop these. Will help standardize book references.

• {{ME#}}
• {{ME#ref}}

Open Tasks - Update this with tasks you think need doing and put it on your user page and/or article talk pages

• {{ME-tasks}}

Family Trees

• {{Elendil}}
• {{Fëanor}}
• {{Finarfin}}
• {{Fingolfin}}
• {{Half-elven}}
• {{Húrin}}
• {{Telcontar}} - Very similar to Half-elven
• {{Isildur}} - Very similar to Half-elven
• {{Valar}}
• {{Tookclan}}
• {{Tolkien}}