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Category:WikiProject Books

This is the project's main work list as we move towards Wikipedia 1.0 and also to be considered in a Wikipedia:WikiReader project. The articles are being evaluated according to the following criteria:

Article progress grading scheme
FA
{{FA-Class}}
Reserved exclusively for articles that have received "Featured article" status after peer review, and meet the current criteria for featured articles. Example: Medal of Honor
A
{{A-Class}}
The article provides a well-written, reasonably clear and complete description of the topic, as described in How to write a Great Article. It includes a well-written introduction to the topic, and an appropriate series of headings to break up the article. It should have sufficient external literature references, preferably from the "hard" (peer-reviewed where appropriate) literature rather than websites. It should be well illustrated, with no copyright problems. It should be at the stage where it could at least be considered for featured article status, and corresponds to the "Wikipedia 1.0" standard. Example: Ammonia (as of Oct 2005).
B
{{B-Class}}
The article is "almost there" but it may be missing one of the following: references, balance of content, NPOV or an important section. Alternatively, the English may need a comprehensive rewrite to make it flow, or it may need to be edited to follow standard English spelling and conventions. With NPOV a well written B-class may correspond to the "Wikipedia 0.5" or "usable" standard. Example: Antarctica (as of Oct 2005) is a good start but contains too many lists, and it needs more prose content & references.
Start
{{Start-Class}}
The article has a good amount of content, but it is still weak in certain areas, and may lack a table. For example an article on Africa might cover the geography well, but be weak on history and culture. Example: Arithmetic (as of Oct 2005).
Stub
{{Stub-Class}}
The article is either a very short article or a stub that will need a lot of work to bring it to A-Class level, although there may be a significant amount of material in the article.
Needed
{{Needed-Class}}
The article does not exist and needs to be created.

Importance legend

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Need: The article's importance, regardless of its quality

Top Subject is a must-have for a print encyclopaedia
High Subject contributes a depth of knowledge
Mid Subject fills in more minor details
Low Subject is peripheral knowledge, possibly trivial

Core articles

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Article Need Quality Rationale Comments
Literature Top B Wikipedia:CORE. Our top-level article Usable
History of literature Top B Wikipedia:CORE
History of modern literature Top B No references, missing content
History of the book Top B Wikipedia:CORE
Literary genre High Stub
Fiction Top Start Wikipedia:CORE
Non-fiction Top Start
Romance (genre) High B
Poetry Top B Wikipedia:CORE
Drama Top Start
Novel Top B Wikipedia:CORE
Library Top B Wikipedia:CORE
Publishing Top B
Literacy Top B

Articles to include

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The following list is not meant to be exhaustive or definitivie. Feel free to add/(remove) articles, or move between minor and major, or split a list into Top/High/Mid/Low as per above. Move to Core articles when needed.


Articles under review in other literary projects (min. B-Class)

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Article Need Quality Rationale Comments
The Pickwick Papers B
Oliver Twist B
Barnaby Rudge B
A Christmas Carol B
Bleak House B
Hard Times A
A Tale of Two Cities B
The Mauritius Command B
Prince of Foxes B
Mansfield Park (novel) B
Pride and Prejudice B
The Eagle Has Landed B
War and Peace Top B Important literature

Inactive/none.

Inactive/none.

No 1.0 assessments

Article Need Quality Rationale Comments
Discworld B
Terry Pratchett B
Discworld (world) B
Article Need Quality Rationale Comments
Middle-earth FA
J. R. R. Tolkien FA

Middle-earth

Article Need Quality Rationale Comments
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz FA

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Books

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Article Need Quality Rationale Comments
Book of Kells FA
The Cantos FA
The Country Wife FA
Hrafnkels saga FA
Ormulum FA
Peterborough Chronicle FA
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion FA
The Relapse FA
A Tale of a Tub FA
Voynich manuscript FA
The Giver FA
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy FA
The Illuminatus! Trilogy FA
The Old Man and the Sea FA
Oroonoko FA
Starship Troopers FA
The Brothers Karamazov FA
Ars moriendi B From Wikipedia:GA
Floris and Blancheflour B From Wikipedia:GA
Frankenstein Top A Classic horror From Wikipedia:GA
The CIA and September 11 (book) A From Wikipedia:GA
Treasure Island High A Major adventure novel From Wikipedia:GA
Animal Farm High B Major novella

Forms of literature

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Article Need Quality Rationale Comments
Poetry Top B Is in Core articles
- Prosody/ Meter/Scansion B
- Constrained writing Stub
Poetics Start
- villanelle Stub
- sonnet Start
- sestina GA
- ghazal B
- ballad Start
- blank verse Stub
- free verse Stub
- epic poetry Start
theater Start
- History of theatre B
rhetoric B Maybe even GA-Class
- metaphor Start Perhaps better
- metonymy Start
- allegory Start No references

Prose fiction

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Article Need Quality Rationale Comments
prose Stub
fiction Top Stub in Core articles
non-fiction Top Stub in Core articles
biography High B
essay Start
play Start
drama Top Start
novel Top B
novella Start
saga Needed disambiguation page, needs an article
Story/tale Needed disambiguation page, needs an article
short story Start
journal Stub
creative nonfiction Start
graphic novel B
comic book B
Science fiction B
Crime fiction A
Detective fiction B
Mystery fiction Stub

Techniques and conceits

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Article Need Quality Rationale Comments
False document B Images?
Frame tale Start
anecdote Start
point of view Stub Merge?

Literary criticism

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Article Need Quality Rationale Comments
Literary criticism Start
Literary theory

Varieties of literary criticism

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Article Need Quality Rationale Comments
Marxist literary criticism Stub
Semiotic literary criticism Start
Psychoanalytic literary criticism Start
Feminist literary criticism Stub
New Historicism B
Queer literary interpretation Redirect

Writing

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Article Need Quality Rationale Comments
composition Needed disambiguation

Genres of literature

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A literary genre refers to the traditional divisions of literature of various kinds according to a particular criteria of writing. See the list of literary genres.

Article Need Quality Rationale Comments
African American literature FA
Alliterative verse FA
Augustan drama FA
Augustan literature FA
English poetry FA
Imagism FA
Irish poetry FA
Irish theatre FA
Modernist poetry in English FA
Objectivist poets FA
Restoration comedy FA
Restoration literature FA
Shigin B

Literary techniques

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Article Need Quality Rationale Comments

Literary figures

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Authors
Critics
Dramatists
Essayists
Journalist
Novelists
Poets
Short story authors
Writers

Authors

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Article Need Quality Rationale Comments
Douglas Adams FA
Mário de Andrade FA
Isaac Asimov Top FA
Augusta, Lady Gregory FA
Samuel Beckett FA
Colley Cibber FA
H.D. FA
Robert A. Heinlein FA
Henry James FA
James Joyce Top FA
J. R. R. Tolkien FA
Rudyard Kipling Top FA
H.P. Lovecraft FA
George Moore FA
Chuck Palahniuk FA
Thomas Pynchon FA
John Millington Synge FA
Rabindranath Tagore FA
Jorge Luis Borges Top B From Wikipedia:GA
E. E. Cummings A From Wikipedia:GA
Abraham Goldfaden A From Wikipedia:GA
Ernest Hemingway Top A From Wikipedia:GA
Victor Hugo Top A From Wikipedia:GA
Aleksandr Pushkin Top B From Wikipedia:GA
Ayn Rand A From Wikipedia:GA
William Shakespeare Top A From Wikipedia:GA
Arthur Upfield A From Wikipedia:GA
Oscar Wilde Top A From Wikipedia:GA

Poets

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Article Need Quality Rationale Comments
William Butler Yeats Top FA
Du Fu FA
Cædmon FA
Emily Dickinson Top A From Wikipedia:GA

Others

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Article Need Quality Rationale Comments
John Day (printer) FA

Literature by country, language, or cultural group

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see Literature by country, language, or cultural group and the category literature by nationality.

Article Need Quality Rationale Comments
Poetry of the United States FA
Turkish literature FA
Anglo-Saxon literature A
Persian literature A
  • Ancient and Classical Literature
  • Folklore and Mythology
  • Multicultural and Dissident Literature
  • 15th Century Literature
  • 16th Century Literature
  • 17th Century Literature
  • 18th Century Literature
  • 19th Century Literature
  • 20th Century Literature

Story elements

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Article Need Quality Rationale Comments
Dramatic structure Start
Literal and figurative language Start
Inclusio Stub
Setting tone Stub

Themes in literature

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Article Need Quality Rationale Comments

Other

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Article Need Quality Rationale Comments
Scientific literature Start
Literature cycle Stub
Rabbinic literature Start
Vernacular literature Stub
Postcolonial literature Start

Misc

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Move under other headings if possible.

Article Need Quality Rationale Comments
Literary award Stub
List of prizes, medals, and awards Start not only literature is included, fork?
translation B Looks nice
review Stub
List of lists of books
Lists of writers
Cultural movement Start
Literary magazine Start
Oral literature Stub
Ergodic literature Stub
Hinman Collator Stub image needed
World literature Stub
Children's literature B
ebook B
The Adventures of Tintin FA
Calvin and Hobbes FA
Cyberpunk FA Not strictly a literary genre
Krazy Kat FA
Three Laws of Robotics FA
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius FA
Allegory in the Middle Ages B
The Western Star A Journalism
Western canon Start
List of literary terms Start
journalism Start