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Welcome to the Literature Wikiproject main page. This project is devoted to increasing the quality of articles dealing with general literature subjects, literary criticism, and literary terms or genres which encompass several different types of writing. Anyone is invited to join in the effort by adding their name to the members list. A list of current jobs needing to be done can be found in the to do section. We call special attention to our current effort to gather new members and determine project scope and status.

For information on assessments of articles within the scope of the project, please go to /Assessment. For deletion discussions related to literature, see: Deletion sorting/Literature. For the project's most popular pages, see: /Popular pages.

Open tasks for Wikipedia:WikiProject Literature. Edit or discuss these tasks. Shortcuts: Recent changes | Categories | History

• Urgent:
• To Nominate at WP:FAC:
• To Improve to Featured standard:
• To Improve to GA standard: Literature
• Collaboration:
• To Expand: Texas literature, Scansion
• To Clean up:
• Up for Deletion:
• To Review/Rate: Anagram
• To Merge/Split:
• To Destub: Stub-class articles
• To Copyedit:
• To Categorize:
• To Create: Eric Nusbaum, Pete Beatty
• To de-redlink:
• Lists to complete: Rose Mary Crawshay Prize
• Wanted Pics/Graphics:
• Maintain: add ((WPLIT)) to the talk pages of Literature articles.

Improve the bird's eye view

Wikipedia's coverage of the entire subject is intended to be summarized in the Outline of literature. It in turn is part of Wikipedia's outline system which is one of Wikipedia's main contents systems. Please look it over and fill-in missing topics. If Wikipedia has an article or article section about those topics, please add links to them.

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WikiProject Literature was assembled to organize and promote quality coverage of literary concepts and other general pages on literature on Wikipedia.

Articles concerning people, such as authors, can be directed to WikiProject Biography.

Articles concerning books and book publishers can be directed to WikiProject Books.

Articles concerning fiction can be directed to WikiProject Novels, WikiProject Children's literature and WikiProject Fictional characters.

Articles on poems can be directed to WikiProject Poetry.

Articles on films can be directed to WikiProject Films.

Articles on theatre and drama can be directed to WikiProject Theatre.

Articles on comics can be directed to WikiProject Comics.

Articles on magazines and journals can be directed to WikiProject Magazines and WikiProject Academic Journals.

Members

• If this project interests you, you are encouraged to Join by adding yourself to the membership list.

• If you are a member, you are welcome to post this userbox on your user page:

This user is a member of WikiProject Literature.

((User WikiProject Literature))

Departments

Assessment

The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Literature articles. The article ratings are used within the project to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in a set of categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.

Collaboration

The project's Collaboration department seeks to identify particular articles that would benefit from a significant collaborative effort. A single article is selected as the focus, and the project attempts to improve it, potentially to featured article standards. The current collaboration article is Literature.

Any Literature article is eligible, and everyone is invited to nominate articles.

Task forces

Task forces are informal groups of editors gathered for collaborative work on a particular topic within the field of Literature (as defined in the "scope" above); all project members are encouraged to participate in any task forces that interest them.

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged (e.g. ((WikiProject Literature))) or categorized correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

Featured articles

Total pages in content type is 13

Former featured articles

Total pages in content type is 14

Featured lists

Total pages in content type is 13

Former featured lists

Total pages in content type is 1

Good articles

Total pages in content type is 50

Former good articles

Total pages in content type is 9

Did you know? articles

Total pages in content type is 451

Featured pictures

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  Ambigram of the word ambigram - rotation animation
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  Avril de Sainte-Croix - Restored, cropped
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  Charles Frohman presents William Gillette in his new four act drama, Sherlock Holmes (LOC var 1364) (edit)
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  Erica Jong by Bernard Gotfryd edit
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  Frederick Douglass (circa 1879)
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  George Sand by Nadar, 1864
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  Granville Stuart 1883 by L. A. Huffman
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  Italiaanse schrijver Umberto Eco, portret
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  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - Comtesse d'Haussonville - Google Art Project
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  Leo Tolstoy 1897, black and white, 37767u
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  NPG 2010 112 Lucia Chamberlain by Zaida Ben-Yusuf
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  Nadar - Alexander Dumas père (1802-1870) - Google Art Project 2
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  Portrett av Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, 1909 - no-nb digifoto 20150129 00043 bldsa BB0791 - Restoration
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  RJ Palacio at BookCon (16102)
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  Rose O'Neill - When We All Believe (Santa Claus and children illustration from the 1903 December 2 issue of Puck)
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  Shakespeare
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  Stefan Heym (1982)
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  Sándor Vay - Restoration
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  Tom Taylor by Lock and Whitfield
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  Victor Hugo by Étienne Carjat 1876 - full

Total pages in content type is 20

Former featured pictures

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  Villainc

Total pages in content type is 1

Featured portals

Total pages in content type is 2

Featured article candidates

Total pages in content type is 1

Good article nominees

Total pages in content type is 2

In the News articles

Total pages in content type is 80

Main page featured articles

Total pages in content type is 27

Main page featured lists

Total pages in content type is 4

Picture of the day pictures

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  Ambigram of the word ambigram - rotation animation
• 
  Avril de Sainte-Croix - Restored, cropped
• 
  Charles Frohman presents William Gillette in his new four act drama, Sherlock Holmes (LOC var 1364) (edit)
• 
  Frederick Douglass (circa 1879)
• 
  George Sand by Nadar, 1864
• 
  Granville Stuart 1883 by L. A. Huffman
• 
  Italiaanse schrijver Umberto Eco, portret
• 
  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - Comtesse d'Haussonville - Google Art Project
• 
  Leo Tolstoy 1897, black and white, 37767u
• 
  Nadar - Alexander Dumas père (1802-1870) - Google Art Project 2
• 
  Portrett av Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, 1909 - no-nb digifoto 20150129 00043 bldsa BB0791 - Restoration
• 
  RJ Palacio at BookCon (16102)
• 
  Rose O'Neill - When We All Believe (Santa Claus and children illustration from the 1903 December 2 issue of Puck)
• 
  Shakespeare
• 
  Stefan Heym (1982)
• 
  Sándor Vay - Restoration
• 
  Victor Hugo by Étienne Carjat 1876 - full
• 
  Villainc

Total pages in content type is 18

Former featured topics

Total pages in content type is 1

Good topics

Total pages in content type is 1

Level 2 vital articles

Total pages in content type is 2

Level 3 vital articles

Total pages in content type is 11

Level 4 vital articles

Total pages in content type is 73

Level 5 vital articles

Total pages in content type is 293

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Writing good literature articles can be hard work! Why not reward someone you've seen do some good work in the area; decorate their userpage with one of these:

	The Literary barnstar	((subst:The Literary Barnstar|message ~~~~))	For commendable contributions to articles about literature. Designed by User:Scartol in September 2007.
	The Writer's barnstar	((subst:The Writer's Barnstar|message ~~~~))	In regards to this wikiproject, for Wikipedians writing articles about writers and books. Introduced by User:Kubek15 on April 2, 2008 and designed by User:Penubag
	The Real-world perspective Barnstar	((subst:Real-world perspective Barnstar|message ~~~~))	The Real-world perspective Barnstar may be awarded to Wikipedians who improve an article on a book or other piece of literature by adding material on criticism or reception, or other relevance to the real world. Created and designed by User:Dorftrottel on 6th April 2008.