Wikipedia:WikiProject Children's literature
WikiProject on Children's Literature
This WikiProject is a project to better organise information in articles related to Children's and Young Adult Literature. If you would like to help, add your name to the list below, and/or improve this proposal!
Scope
- To improve the overall quality of articles relating to children's and young adult literature, books, authors, and theory.
- To identify those articles which need to be created, merged, or deleted.
- To improve the categorization of these articles.
- To define easily maintainable, useable, and well-documented templates and infoboxes for those articles which are likely to have a disproportionate number of child editors (such as articles about authors and books).
- To improve source citation in all these articles.
- To propose criteria for (author, book, etc) list creation and inclusion.
Parentage
Relevant articles on Children's Literature
- Children's Literature
- Young adult literature
- Contents of Category:Children's literature and all children.
Participants
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Members
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Guestbook
This is a list of Wikipedians who are not committed to the WikiProject, but who are sympathetic to the cause. Feel free to express your support by signing the list below!:
Projects
Meta-projects
- We need to tag articles as memebers of this wikiproject
- We need a list of articles that need cleanup
- We need a list of articles that need work
- We need to tidy up this wikiproject page and make it more readable
Systemic Bias
Right now the children's literature pages are overwhelmingly United States-centric. Even the usage of Category:British children's literature sets up American children's literature as normative, as the categories are currently used.
Categories
Criteria for inclusion
Genres
- Books
- Do we distinguish
- Easy Readers
- Middle grade books
- Novels
- Short story collections
- Chapter books
- Etc
- Poetry Collections
- Individual Poems?
- Graphic novels
- Theorists?
Books
What books get their own articles?
- Award-winners
- Best sellers
- Cult classics
- Classics
- Frequently taught books
- Controverisal books
- pop culture books
Authors
What authors get their own articles? Probably almost all non-self-published authors, per bio guidelines that specify Published authors, editors, and photographers who have written books with an audience of 5,000 or more or in periodicals with a circulation of 5,000 or more
Fictional characters and place names
Our articles are violating Wikipedia's fictional character notability guidelines all over the place (eg. Daja, Sunset Towers). I think we should do some massive merges of character and place, and then, if the articles get too long, break them out again.
Templates
Books
We should use infoboxes. No reason to specialize beyond Template:Infobox Book, I think.
We should make a substitution template, or some easy way for non-knowledgable editors to create good book stubs. Should they be broken out in types such as those in genre, above?
Authors
Any reason not just to encourage use of {{subst:Biography}}?
Young Adult vs Children's
Stub completion
There are hundreds of Children's literature stubs, Children's books stubs, and Dr. Seuss book stubs. As pure encyclopedia writing goes, these suckers need filling out. Deborah-jl Talk 03:38, 3 March 2006 (UTC)