Wikipedia:WikiProject Children's literature

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WikiProject on Children's Literature
Portal:Children and Young Adult Literature
 Children and Young Adult Literature Portal

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!

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[edit] Scope

  1. To improve the overall quality of articles relating to children's and young adult literature, books, authors, and theory.
  2. To identify those articles which need to be created, merged, or deleted.
  3. To improve the categorization of these articles.
  4. 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).
  5. To improve source citation in all these articles.
  6. To propose criteria for (author, book, etc) list creation and inclusion.
  7. To expand stub articles relating to Children's literature
  8. To do some cleanup on certain articles
WikiProject Children's Literature Open Tasks
Here are some open tasks for WikiProject Children's literature, an attempt to create and standardize articles related to Children's literature. Feel free to help with any of the following tasks.
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Update: Author Biography articles and write about new books written for children

Expand: Subsections of articles relating to Children's Literature

Create new articles relating to Children's Literature

Add this template ( {{Children'sLiteratureWikiProject}} ) to the talk pages of articles relating to Children's Literature.

Expand and Edit Portal:Children and Young Adult Literature

Cooperate with Wikipedians belonged to similar WikiProjects

Discuss matters involving Children's literature on this wikiproject's talk page

Cleanup the Philip Ardagh article.


[edit] Parentage

[edit] Sister Projects

[edit] Relevant articles on Children's Literature

[edit] Participants

This is a list of Wikipedians who are committed to this WikiProject. If you're interested in helping with this project, please, feel free to join by clicking edit on the right, and signing your name at the bottom of the list with four tildes (~~~~), with an optional comment. Also add this template to your user page {{user WikiProject Children's literature}}

This user is a member of the Children's literature WikiProject.


[edit] Members

  1. Aidoflight (talk • contribs • count)
  2. KGV (talk • contribs • count)
  3. Deborah-jl (talk • contribs • count)
  4. Tomandlu (talk • contribs • count)
  5. Joy_Stovall (talk • contribs • count)
  6. Woggly (talk • contribs • count)
  7. Tem2 (talk • contribs • count)
  8. BengalRenaissanceEccentrica (talk • contribs • count)
  9. Bibliomaniac15 (talk • contribs)--moved to guest book
  10. Tennessee_Wood (talk • contribs • count)
  11. Anonymous_anonymous (talk • contribs • count)
  12. Wootking (talk • contribs • count)
  13. Elizabeth_Lund (talk • contribs • count)
  14. FinFangFoom (talk • contribs • count)
  15. Lbr123 (talk • contribs • count)
  16. VMAAXT (talk • contribs • count)
  17. Starry.dreams (talk • contribs • count)
  18. Karen | Talk | contribs 02:03, 28 July 2006 (UTC), concentrating on L'Engle for now
  19. Kitia (talk • contribs) I've been working on this for a while now, but have never okkicially joined!
  20. Sanjay Tiwari (talk • contribs) I'm very interested in Victorian and Edwardian (British) children's literature, especially the out-of-prints authors. I've created templates for 18th Century British Children's Literature, 19th Century British Children's Literature, and Early 20th Century British Children's Literature. Sanjay Tiwari 18:34, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
  21. Awadewit (talk • contribs • count) - Most of my articles will be on eighteenth-century British children's authors and texts since that is my area of scholarly expertise.
  22. Abbeybufo (talk • contribs) I am a published writer on the history of Children's Literature, mainly on the history of Children's Book Awards (Newbery Medal, Caldecott Medal and their equivalents all over the English-Speaking world), am an Elsie J. Oxenham expert and have some knowledge of other girls' story writers. Abbeybufo 15:28, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Also check out the Category:WikiProject Children's literature participants - this is automatically populated by adding the Userbox to your talk page.

[edit] 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!:


  • Raecell 20:54, 7 June 2006 (UTC) GO FOLKIES!!!
  • Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 11:31, 12 September 2006 (UTC) - Welcome to your project - from Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels
  • ♥ Her Pegship♥ I'll stop in whenever I can. Cheers!
  • GentlemanGhost 07:47, 4 November 2006 (UTC) I'm not sure if this project is still active, but I've been adding links to it from the various Hardy Boys articles.
  • bibliomaniac15 00:10, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
  • I've written several articles on Elsie J. Oxenham and her books, and added to the Abbey Girls one that was already started. My main area of expertise otherwise is Award-winning children's books in the English-speaking world, so I'll try and help that way, too, but time is pressing... --Abbeybufo 14:51, 23 February 2007 (UTC) bitten the bullet and moved name to main list --Abbeybufo 15:30, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
  • LyraLight 10:52, 25 March 2007 (UTC) Great idea! Keep it up

[edit] Projects

[edit] Meta-projects

  • We need to tag articles as members 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

[edit] 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.

[edit] Categories

Main article: Wikipedia:WikiProject Children's literature/categories

[edit] Criteria for inclusion

[edit] Genres

  • Books
    • Do we distinguish
    • Easy Readers
    • Middle grade books
    • Novels
    • Short story collections
    • Chapter books
    • Etc
  • Poetry Collections
  • Individual Poems?
  • Graphic novels
  • Theorists?

[edit] Books

What books get their own articles?

  • Award-winners
  • Best sellers
  • Cult classics
  • Classics
  • Frequently taught books
  • Controverisal books
  • pop culture books

[edit] 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

[edit] 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.

[edit] Templates

Portal:Children and Young Adult Literature
 Children and Young Adult Literature Portal
This article is part of WikiProject Children's literature, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to children's and young adult literature on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit one of the articles mentioned below, or visit the project page, where you can join the project.
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Tasks you can do:


Add this template {{Children'sLiteratureWikiProject}} onto article's talk page relating to Children's literature (Don't subst: this template)

Hello, WikiProject Children's literature, and Welcome to WikiProject Children's literature. Go to the To-Do list of this WikiProject to see the list of open tasks. I hope that you enjoy being part of this project. Again welcome!

Place this template onto New Participant's Talk Pages. (subst: this template) {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Children's literature/Welcome}}

[edit] 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?

[edit] Authors

Any reason not just to encourage use of {{Biography}}?

[edit] Young Adult vs Children's

Main article: Wikipedia:WikiProject Children's literature/youngadult

[edit] Stub completion

There are hundreds of Children's literature stubs, Children's book stubs, and Children's novel stubs. As pure encyclopedia writing goes, these suckers need filling out. Deborah-jl Talk 03:38, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
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