Wikipedia:WikiProject Oz
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| Category | Oz (franchise) |
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This project is designed to organize and create better articles about the Oz franchise through the initial run of books by Baum, Thompson, et al., and adaptations of the series including the 1939 film, The Wiz, Return to Oz, and Wicked. The project also seeks to better organize and gather information about plots, characters (created by Baum and post-Baum), and artwork related to the properties by illustrators like Denslow and Neill.
Goals
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- To detail the Oz books, its stage and screen adaptations and the fictional world of the Land of Oz.
- To ensure the detail is structured as well as possible.
- To make Wikipedia one of the most detailed definitive guide to all things Oz on the internet.
Relations to other WikiProjects
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[edit]Related WikiProjects
[edit]- WikiProject Novels
- WikiProject Terry Pratchett's Discworld
- WikiProject Harry Potter
- WikiProject Shannara
Participants
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- I have been getting much more into the Oz series since my PD love became more apparent in 2023! Happy to help here--SDudley (talk) 20:47, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
Templates
[edit]{{Oz}} will create:
{{Oz-project}} will create:
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For User Pages
[edit]{{User:Scottandrewhutchins/Userboxes/user L. Frank Baum}} will create:
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and include the user in Category:Wikipedians_who_read_L._Frank_Baum
Stub templates
[edit]Use {{Oz-stub}} to create:
 | This article relating to "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" or one of its derivative works is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
and place the article in Category:Oz stubs
Categories and articles
[edit]Please keep this list updated! If you create a new Oz article or category, or add an existing Oz article to a category, please list it below:
As of June 2015, evidently since July 2011, Category:Oz (franchise) is the top cat. Most subcategory names differ from those listed here.
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To do
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Articles to work on
[edit]- List of characters in the Oz books
- Let's work on adding articles for the redlinks. --Scottandrewhutchins 19:02, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
New Wikipedia articles related to Oz
[edit]Please feel free to list your new Oz-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article. Also, please add one of the above categories to any new articles, and add them to the above lists.
I have created The Wizard of Oz (pinball). Feel free to expand the article. --Fluffystar (talk) 19:12, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
I have created a page for the first of Shanower's Oz non-canonical graphic novels, The Enchanted Apples of Oz. I haven't put it under any of the categories other than Oz, because it doesn't really fit into them.
I added The Sword of Oz into the Oz listing as it fits into the series as a prequel and is supposed to accompany the "cannon" series
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Requests
[edit]Pre-39 films
[edit]Has anyone done any work on articles about the various silent Oz films prior to MGM's? I'm thinking primarily of 1925's Wizard of Oz and the sequel His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz, both of which co-starred Oliver Hardy and have been available on DVD for a number of years (and were most recently added to the 1939 film as a bonus DVD feature. 23skidoo 04:41, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
1933's Wizard of Oz animated short starts in black and white and goes to color. Storyline is almost cheesy, but informative on a historic level. One of L. Frank Baum's son was involved in the production. This is included on the Wizard of OZ 3 disc DVD set. Updated Saturday, July 1, 2006
1930s Radio Show
[edit]Does anyone know anything about the 1930s radio broadcasts starring Nancy Kelly as Dorothy that were sponsored by Jell-O? I've got the info somewhere, but I'd have to find it. Scottandrewhutchins 19:27, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
Hollow Earth Theories
[edit]Has anyone here read any scholarship (or entertaining speculation) linking Baum's weird maps to his experience in the Theosophical Society and possible exposure to Hollow Earth theories?
Because the East-West inversion (and the various ways of getting to Oz - through cracks in the Earth past the Vegetable Kingdom, the tunnel that the dragon flies through from China and so forth) make sense from the perspective of Oz being inside a hollow sphere, the way Cyrus Teed thought we were all living. The Nomes simply travel through a layer of crust several miles thick.... grant (talk) 18:51, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
Resources
[edit]HIS MAJESTY THE SCARECROW OF OZ was the third of the Oz Film Manufacturing Co.'s Oz films. Oliver Hardy was not in this film.
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