Wikipedia:WikiProject Poetry
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The WikiProject | |
Project page | talk |
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Assessments | |
Poetry Portal | |
Article information | |
Article (pattern template) | talk |
Manual of Style | |
Lyrics and poetry guideline | |
On including primary text | |
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Main Article Template | talk |
Poem infobox | talk |
Infobox Book | talk |
Infobox Writer | talk |
Infobox character | talk |
Project userbox | talk |
Current discussions | |
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Welcome to WikiProject Poetry. To start exploring poetry on Wikipedia, visit the main poetry page. For information on creating poetry-related articles, please read on.
Scope
This WikiProject aims primarily to document information on national poetries, individual poets, poetry movements and groups and individual poets and on poetic forms, styles and techniques, and poetries example. All of these articles should be contained in the Category:Poetry or one of its subcategories.
See also:WikiProject Novels and WikiProject Songs.
Participants
Particpants are welcome to add the WikiProject userbox to their talkpages. Simply add {{WPPoetryMember}}. It is recommended that participants add this project page to their watch list.
- Daniel C. Boyer
- Smerdis of Tlön
- Kdammers
- user:sjc
- Wikipedius
- WayneRay
- Stumps
- Poetlister
- Sam
- hmwith
- Kyoko
- Midnightdreary
- Moonbug
- John Carter
- Wrad
- *Rianon Burnet
- William P. Coleman (talk) Modernism, Classical Chinese Poetry, Classical Greek Poetry
- User:Thehumuslayer
- User:ImperviusXR
- --Survivalism (talk) 16:04, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
- Kalindoscopy
- Zorba the Geek (talk) Russian poetry, especially Russian modernisms
- Vergency
- Erik the Red 2 (AVE·CAESAR) 17:05, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
- Ecoleetage
- Regret Tenenbaum
Structure
Templates
Please consider adding the following template at the top of article Talk pages. {{WPPoetry}}
National Poetries
Articles devoted to national poetries should be chronological in structure, beginning with the earliest known poetry from that country in question. The article should cover the principal periods and give brief information on the main poets, groups and movements in each period. Some attempt should be made to indicate factors that link and/or differentiate each period. Any important influences from other poetries should also be mentioned. Where possible, external links to online primary texts and/or critical or historical discussions should be appended at the end of the article. References and pictures are required to bring the article to featured status.
Some assistance may be available through WikiProject Historical Information.
Examples
Well-developed articles:
Other priorities:
Poetry Groups or Movements
Articles covering poetry groups or movements should cover the main members of the group, the stated aims or poetic and any important dates or key publications in the group's history. Other poets or groups/movements that the group being discussed were influenced by or reacting against should also be mentioned, as should the general cultural context. Where possible, external links to online primary texts and/or critical or historical discussions should be appended at the end of the article. References and pictures are required to bring the article to featured status.
Example
Individual Poets
Articles discussing individual poets should adhere to normal Wikipedia biography conventions. The poet's early influences, associations with any groups or movements, and main publications should be mentioned, along with any later poets, groups or movements they may have strongly influenced. Where possible, external links to online primary texts and/or critical or historical discussions should be appended at the end of the article. References and pictures are advised where the intention is to push the article to featured status.
Examples
Individual poems
If the poem in question is quite short, it should be added to the article, per WP:L&P. If it is a long poem, it should be linked, either from WikiSource, or from another website. The text of poems which are not copyrighted should in general be placed in WikiSource.
An article on an individual poem, besides the poem itself, should describe the publication history of the poem, and the critical response to the poem. Other matters that could be covered include: the circumstances in which the poem was written, the structure and style of the poem, and references made in the poem.
Examples
- The Waste Land
- Mr Bleaney
- In Memoriam A.H.H.
- The Cantos (and List of cultural references in The Cantos)
Styles/Forms/Techniques/Lists/General
Include definitions, history including dates, notable poets associated and examples where appropriate. Lists should be annotated and illustrated where appropriate. Where there are red links on a list, please consider writing stubs or longer entries. References and pictures are required to bring the article to featured status.
Examples
Poetry Prizes
Style
Scansion
Different systems of scansion are being documented in the article Systems of Scansion. The recommended style for marking scansion in Wikipedia articles in 'Ictus and x', that is with the symbols / for a stressed (accented) syllable, and x for an unstressed (unaccented) syllable. The advantages of this style is that the symbols are easily typed, cause no display problems in different browsers, and allow the older 'Macron and Breve' notation to still be used in referring to the quantity (length) of syllables, if so desired.
To ensure correct alignment of stress marks with syllables, the use of a table is recommended. Here is an example:
To | swell | | | the | gourd, | || | and | plump | | | the | ha- | | | zel | shells |
Example article:
Current activities
Please nominate current activities on the talk page.
Articles
Poetry articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
FA | 4 | 9 | 15 | 19 | 47 | ||
FL | 6 | 6 | |||||
A | 1 | 1 | |||||
GA | 4 | 14 | 59 | 117 | 13 | 207 | |
B | 20 | 89 | 194 | 322 | 316 | 941 | |
C | 12 | 95 | 343 | 1,424 | 957 | 2,831 | |
Start | 8 | 93 | 655 | 4,731 | 1 | 2,127 | 7,615 |
Stub | 5 | 208 | 3,607 | 1,227 | 5,047 | ||
List | 14 | 35 | 814 | 21 | 26 | 910 | |
NA | 3 | 18 | 150 | 4,291 | 4,462 | ||
Assessed | 48 | 322 | 1,527 | 11,191 | 4,313 | 4,666 | 22,067 |
Unassessed | 7 | 123 | 130 | ||||
Total | 48 | 322 | 1,527 | 11,198 | 4,313 | 4,789 | 22,197 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 82,924 | Ω = 4.97 |
Recognized content
Featured articles
Alliterative verse • Anna Laetitia Barbauld • Cædmon • The Cantos • H.D. • Emily Dickinson • Rufus Wilmot Griswold • Imagism • Irish poetry • Rudyard Kipling • Modernist poetry in English • Objectivist poets • Edgar Allan Poe • Poetry • "The Raven" • William Shakespeare • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight • "Ulysses" (poem) • William Butler Yeats
Good articles
The Absent-Minded Beggar • W. H. Auden • Matsuo Bashō • Jorge Luis Borges • The Botanic Garden • Thomas Holley Chivers • Elizabeth F. Ellet • Eureka: A Prose Poem • Green Knight • Kigo • Joyce Kilmer • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Mahābhārata • "Mounseer Nongtongpaw" • Dorothy Parker • Harold Pinter • "In Praise of Limestone" • Patti Smith • Sonnet 18 • Walt Whitman • Nathaniel Parker Willis • Y Gododdin
Did You Know (DYK)s
Thomas Holley Chivers (August 18, 2007) • "Darkness" (August 19, 2007) • Eureka: A Prose Poem (November 18, 2007) • "In Praise of Limestone" (August 27, 2007) • "A Description of a City Shower" (March 15, 2008) • William Henry Leonard Poe (May 18, 2008) • Edward Coote Pinkney (May 26, 2008)
Formerly recognized content
Former featured articles
Former good articles
Templates
What to type: | What it makes: | What it's for | ||||||||||||
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{{WPPoetry}} |
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The notice or template to indicate an article is part of the project. Place on talk pages. | ||||||||||||
{{WPPoetryMember}} |
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Userbox for members of the project, for display on user pages. | ||||||||||||
{{User:Scepia/poetry}} |
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Userbox for readers of poetry, not necessarily members of the project. | ||||||||||||
{{poetry-stub}} | The stub template for general poetry articles. | |||||||||||||
{{poem-stub}} | The stub template for articles on individual poems. | |||||||||||||
{{poet-stub}} | The stub template for articles on individual poets. |