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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
Featured article 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.


Contents

[edit] Importance legend

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

[edit] Core articles

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

[edit] Articles to include

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.


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

[edit] WikiProject:Novels

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

[edit] WikiProject Fictional series

Inactive/none.

[edit] WikiProject Holmes

Inactive/none.

[edit] WikiProject Discworld

No 1.0 assessments

Article Need Quality Rationale Comments
Discworld B
Terry Pratchett B
Discworld (world) B

[edit] WikiProject Middle-earth

Article Need Quality Rationale Comments
Middle-earth Featured article FA
J. R. R. Tolkien Featured article FA

Middle-earth

[edit] WikiProject The Wizard of Oz

Article Need Quality Rationale Comments
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Featured article FA

[edit] WikiProject Shannara

???

[edit] WikiProject Star Wars

???

[edit] WikiProject Comics

[edit] WikiProject Poetry

???

[edit] WikiProject Children's literature

???

[edit] Books

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

[edit] Forms of literature

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 Stub
- 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

[edit] Prose fiction

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

[edit] Techniques and conceits

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

[edit] Literary criticism

Article Need Quality Rationale Comments
Literary criticism Start
Literary theory

[edit] Varieties of literary criticism

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 Stub

[edit] Writing

Article Need Quality Rationale Comments
composition Needed disambiguation

[edit] Genres of literature

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 Featured article FA
Alliterative verse Featured article FA
Augustan drama Featured article FA
Augustan literature Featured article FA
English poetry Featured article FA
Imagism Featured article FA
Irish poetry Featured article FA
Irish theatre Featured article FA
Modernist poetry in English Featured article FA
Objectivist poets Featured article FA
Restoration comedy Featured article FA
Restoration literature Featured article FA
Shigin B

[edit] Literary techniques

Article Need Quality Rationale Comments

[edit] Literary figures

Authors
Critics
Dramatists
Essayists
Journalist
Novelists
Poets
Short story authors
Writers

[edit] Authors

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

[edit] Poets

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

[edit] Others

Article Need Quality Rationale Comments
John Day (printer) Featured article FA

[edit] Literature by country, language, or cultural group

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

Article Need Quality Rationale Comments
Poetry of the United States Featured article FA
Turkish literature Featured article 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

[edit] Story elements

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

[edit] Themes in literature

Article Need Quality Rationale Comments

[edit] Other

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

[edit] Misc

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 Featured article FA
Calvin and Hobbes Featured article FA
Cyberpunk Featured article FA Not strictly a literary genre
Krazy Kat Featured article FA
Three Laws of Robotics Featured article FA
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius Featured article FA
Allegory in the Middle Ages B
The Western Star A Journalism
Western canon Start
List of literary terms Start
journalism Start