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 72 179 221 8 505 C 24 172 791 1,479 20 2,486 Start 18 272 2,000 5,439 46 7,775 Stub 1 83 680 4,939 24 5,727 List 3 8 86 174 3 274 Category 1 1,209 1,210 Disambig 1 4 71 76 File 1 2,726 2,727 Portal 41 41 Project 1 45 46 Template 2 346 348 NA 1 4 69 888 811 1,773 Other 1 2 17 20 Assessed 87 654 3,905 13,251 5,266 101 23,264 Unassessed 4 31 35 Total 87 654 3,905 13,255 5,266 132 23,299 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 85,128 Ω = 5.09

Request for comment on Biographies of living people

Hello Wikiproject! Currently there is a discussion which will decide whether wikipedia will delete 49,000 articles about a living person without references, here:

Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people

Since biographies of living people covers so many topics, nearly all wikiproject topics will be effected.

The two opposing positions which have the most support is:

1. supports the deletion of unreferenced articles about a living person, User:Jehochman
2. opposes the deletion of unreferenced articles about a living person, except in limited circumstances, User:Collect

Comments are welcome. Keep in mind that by default, editor's comments are hidden. Simply press edit next to the section to add your comment.

Please keep in mind that at this point, it seems that editors support deleting unreferenced article if they are not sourced, so your project may want to pursue the projects below.

Horrible Histories (plus spin-offs) help

There are a whole collection of articles found at Category:Horrible Histories. Created by me initially but unable to be upkept due to inexperience in advanced editing and unavailability to edit due to other commitments, this whole category has become a bit of a mess. Some of the larger articles (such as Horrible Histories, Horrible Science and Murderous Maths) are probably reliable enough to become more than just very long lists of books. Horrible Histories (TV series) has recently become like a fansite, and some book series which have become obsolete (such as Dead Famous which is being made obselete by the Horribly Famous series, and The Knowledge (book series) which is now being re-released as Totally (book series)) remain. A lot of the articles are heavily out of date - expecially the Titles in progress sections. I have found many notible sources for a video games based on the series, found at Horrible_Histories_(other_media) and Horrible Histories: Ruthless Romans but I am not quite sure the best way to extract the information out of them to create encyclopaedic material. Pretty much the whole category is in dire need of help. Please could some editors experienced in this type of project help? Thanks. The pages in question (for the moment) are: Horrible Histories, America's Funny But True History, Boring Bible, Dead Famous (series), Foul Football, Horrible Geography, Horrible Histories (TV series), Horrible Histories (other media), Horrible Histories: Ruthless Romans, Horrible Science, Horribly Famous, Killer Puzzles, The Knowledge (book series), Murderous Maths, The Spark Files, Terry Deary's Tales, Time Detectives, Top Ten (book series), Truly Terrible Tales, Twisted Tales (book series), and Wild Lives.--Coin945 (talk) 21:35, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

P.S. Upon recent experimentation with some articles and a translation program, I am very confused to what other language article have written about the series. For example the Portuguese version classifies the whole "collection" as The Horrible and appears to have books written especially for the Portuguese language, unreleased in English.--Coin945 (talk) 21:35, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

P.P.S I have compiled a variety of different sources on different aspects of the Horrible histories franchise. Hopefully i will be able to sift through them to locate the most reliable ones. I have done this so any editors interested in aiding the growth of these articles will have a variety of useful sites at their instant disposable. They are located at: Talk:Horrible_Histories#2009_interview.--Coin945 (talk) 21:35, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Carnegie and Greenaway Shortlists

The shortlists for the Carnegie Medal in Literature and the Kate Greenaway Medal were announced on the 23rd. I updated the respective pages, but I did not add wikilinks to authors or titles. Einbierbitte (talk) 19:40, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Project advert

I created an advert for the project, which can be displayed using {{wikipedia ads|ad=212}}. If anyone has any comments or feedback on the advert, please let me know. strdst_grl (call me Stardust) 15:15, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Looks good!--Plad2 (talk) 21:53, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Roald Dahl?

Shouldn't Roald Dahl have a task force.

--Sillybillypiggy (talk) 17:09, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

There's no reason why he shouldn't, if other users would join it. Would you like some help starting one? strdst_grl (call me Stardust) 09:19, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

How about creating it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Children's literature/Roald Dahl task force? Rock drum (talk·contribs·guestbook) 15:40, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Now I think of it, it might be better to try this at WikiProject Novels - Roald Dahl wrote plenty of adult books as well as children's. strdst_grl (call me Stardust) 15:50, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

New Article Update

After a couple of false starts, I've finally got a regular list of new Children's Literature articles going. Being a newbie at this sort of thing, the rules are fairly basic, so they might benefit from checking/improving by someone more experienced. The list updates every few days and the bottom of the list is archived on a similar cycle. It needs to be watched so that the articles can be checked, tagged for this Project and assessed before they are archived. If everyone approves, I suggest that it's added to the "Open Tasks" of the Project Main Page.--Plad2 (talk) 05:42, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs - 2 left

There are currently only two Children's Literature unreferenced BLPs left. For reasons I give on my talk page, I am no longer editing Children's Literature BLPs. If someone else would take a look at these last two and decide what to do with them, the backlog could reduce to zero. Since I'm no longer involved in this project's BLPs, it would be good if others could add the page to their watchlists so that the Project can stay on top of this area of work.--Plad2 (talk) 06:18, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

Buzz Books

Could we please have article about the children's book range Buzz Books? Buzz Books was very popular during the very late 80s and 90s and released numerous books based only different television shows at the time. Each book was approx 30 pages and the range was owned Reed Children's Books but the inside of the books say all publishing rights are owned by William Heinemann. The shows which books based on were released are TUGS, Joshua Jones, Fireman Sam, Babar, Rupert, Bugs Bunny, Biker Mice from Mars, James Bond Junior, The Animals of Farthing Wood, Gremlins, Micro Machines, The Wind in the Willows, Skeleton Warriors, Barney, In My Pocket, Police Academy and their most popular series based on the episodes of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends. So would be able to have an article about the range? --VitasV (talk) 03:16, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

I am well aware of this series of books - i used to read them as a child :). Howeve, I fear there is just not enough information out there to warrant an article. I hae located [1] and [2] which list many of the books in the series and show that they are on sale. The home page is at: [3], and the Thomas the Tank Engine Wikia page (which doesn't have any reliability on its own) at [4]. There are also a few other fleeting references at [5], [6], [7], [8], [9]. Personally I don't think it will be enough but there might be more out there (this is just after a quick check myself). Good luck.--Coin945 (talk) 09:02, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Few of these sources, wikipedia use the sites for ISBN searches so maybe just few of those links might be reliable enough. --VitasV (talk) 12:11, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

I'm a bit confused

Being new here, I'm confused about this. Can you just create a taskforce? How do you rank importantce, if you do? --CrabFreak (talk) 18:59, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

You can create a taskforce after you suggest it here and get agreement, although you should first make sure at least one other user would join. You rank importance according to the criteria at the assessment department - this has been hidden to declutter the page, so click "show" in the blue box. Hope this helped. strdst_grl (call me Stardust) 19:46, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Thank you. --CrabFreak (talk) 07:36, 26 May 2010 (UTC)