Wikipedia:WikiProject The Dark Tower

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Welcome to The Dark Tower WikiProject, a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to The Dark Tower series of novels by Stephen King. If you would like to help, please see the open tasks below, or inquire on the talk page.

Our goals

• Improve Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to The Dark Tower by creating, expanding, and maintaining articles.
• Provide guidelines and recommendations for articles about The Dark Tower.
• Serve as the central point of The Dark Tower article discussion.

Our scope

The project focuses on articles about subject related to The Dark Tower series, including but not limited to: the novels, characters, places, and important concepts.

What can you do?

Add your name to the list of Participants and get started on anything below!

[edit] Project Organization

[edit] Participants

Please feel free to add your name to this list if you would like to join the project.

1. 6hunter9 (talk · contribs) -- copy editing, cleanup, general contributions.
2. Chzimmerman (talk · contribs) -- general cleanup and expansion
3. CyberGhostface (talk · contribs) -- I'm usually editing the Randall Flagg article.
4. DrGaellon (talk · contribs) -- mostly copyediting and general cleanup
5. Guitarmankev1 (talk · contribs) -- Want to try and boost the articles from B's, starts, and stubs to something better.
6. Gunmetal2k4 (talk · contribs) -- I'm hoping to help. I recently created the Eddie-Jake-Susannah and Oy articles.
7. JCSeer (talk · contribs)
8. Mus Musculus (talk · contribs)
9. Pomte (talk · contribs) -- templates, copyediting
10. RevRagnarok (talk • contribs • email) -- member at large, interested in DT and helping in passing, usually reverting RF back to CyberGhostface's versions
11. Ruthfulbarbarity (talk · contribs)
12. Shootwithyourmind (talk · contribs) -- I'm going to enter a picture gallery of anything Dark Tower related, including amateur art.
13. SnaX (talk · contribs) -- hoping to help in all areas needed when I can scrounge up some time!
14. Tonyfuchs1019 (talk · contribs)
15. Artemisstrong (talk · contribs) -- Just finished this great series and want to help make sure the related wikis are absolutley complete. (Like making sure "Bango Skank" is noted somewhere. :))
16. Donco (talk · contribs) General editing and help
17. Ank329 14:24, 31 August 2007 (UTC) This is a great series and would love to help out with it.
18. Leafschik1967 (talk · contribs) - obsessive Stephen King fan, looking to start with some housekeeping, and move onto some bigger things as well.
19. Blackngold29 (talk · contribs) -- General cleanup / Grammar check, would be glad to do anything specific, let me know if needed. I'm the 19th member, I just got chills.
20. li5up5 (talk · contribs) -- Want to make sure this wikiproject is accurate and lives upto the books.
21. lanxord (talk · contribs) -- Ka dictates that I must protect the beams, do you kennit? Mainly in the form of submitting ideas ont the talk pages, and general asssessment.
22. MwNNrules (talk · contribs) -- At some point, I'd like to get to doing The Gunslinger, as well as The Drawing of the Three.
23.  Ishmayl  talk  contribs  -- Read the series three time, one of my favorite series, would love to help.

[edit] Departments

[edit] Assessment

The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of project-supported articles. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work, and are also expected to play a role in the WP:1.0 program. The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WPTOWER}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in a set of categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.

[edit] Article of Focus

The Article of Focus is a part of the Project which is designed to concentrate the collaboration of the project. Articles are nominated, and then voted on to become the Article of Focus. Once an Article of Focus is determined, all members are encouraged to contribute to the article. The Article will remain in Focus until the article's quality has been improved adaquately.

[edit] Guidelines

The guidelines presented in this section are intended to be guidelines only; while they are well-suited for the vast majority of The Dark Tower articles, there exist a number of peculiar cases where, for lack of a better solution, alternate approaches can been taken. Please discuss individual cases on the Project talk page when deviating from guidelines.

[edit] Article naming conventions

• Use the topic name as the article name when it is unique. For example, Roland Deschain or Eddie Dean.
• If you must disambiguate, use something logical and generic, such as (fictional character) or (fictional location).

See also: Wikipedia:Naming conventions

[edit] Article structure

The guidelines in this section are intended to serve as a starting point for writing a good article; they are not meant to enforce a single structure on all articles, nor to limit the topics an article will discuss. Remember to cite your sources!

[edit] Opening paragraph

The opening paragraph, or lead section, should provide a concise summary of the important points in the article. For characters, the lead may include a summary of their major role in the stories. For places, the lead may include a summary of major events that happened at them. For articles about entire books or other media, briefly summarize the plot.

[edit] Article body

You primarily should use the Wikipedia Manual of Style for writing about fiction to govern article text. It is essential, in writing about fictional characters, places, and so on, to write in an encyclopedic fashion from an "out-of-universe perspective" as detailed in that Style Guide. Make sure your writing is clear and understandable to someone who has never read the books; for example, do not refer to other Dark Tower-specific things without providing context and/or wikilinks.

[edit] Citations

Remember to cite your sources per WP:CITE! The novels themselves are considered primary sources and are not acceptable citations for statements made in articles. This violates the Wikipedia policy of no original research. Facts in your article must be verifiable with reliable sources, such as books or magazine articles about The Dark Tower series.

An excellent example of an acceptable secondary source for Dark Tower articles is Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance by Robin Furth.

[edit] Categories

Articles should be placed in the most specific applicable categories, and should not be placed directly in a "parent" category if they are already present in one of its sub-categories. In other words, if an article is placed in Category:The Dark Tower characters, there is no need to place it in Category:The Dark Tower as well.

List of categories

• Category:The Dark Tower - main category
  • Category:The Dark Tower characters - category for characters in the novels and related media
  • Category:The Dark Tower comics - category for comics based on the series
  • Category:The Dark Tower novels - category for the novels of the series
  • Category:The Dark Tower places - category for places in the novels and related media
  • Category:The Dark Tower beings - category for races and creatures in the series
  • Category:The Dark Tower organizations - category for the corporations in the series

[edit] Stubs

You can use different stub templates for short articles depending on the context. For example:

• {{Fict-location-stub}} pertains to articles about places in The Dark Tower series.
• {{Lit-char-stub}} pertains to articles about characters in The Dark Tower series.
• {{Fictional-stub}} pertains to miscellaneous objects, technologies, and so on in The Dark Tower series.
• {{Fantasy-book-stub}} pertains to articles about novels in The Dark Tower series, although this should not be necessary since none of the book articles are stubs.

[edit] WikiProject templates

[edit] Article footer template

The {{DarkTower}} template should be added (not subst:ed) to the bottom of every article within the scope of the project.

[edit] Project banner

The {{WPTOWER}} project banner template should be added (not subst:ed) to the talk page of every article within the scope of the project. While the template does not require any additional parameters, you can add an assessment parameter according to the guidlines at Wikipedia:WikiProject The Dark Tower/Assessment. The full syntax is as follows:

{{WPTOWER | class=???}}

General parameters:

• class – a rating of the article's quality; see the assessment department for more details.

[edit] Member userbox

You can add this userbox to your user page, signifying your participation in the project. Adding this to your user page automatically adds your username to Category:WikiProject The Dark Tower members.

Code	Result	Usage
{{User WPTOWER}}	This user is a member of the Dark Tower WikiProject.	Userbox to denote your participation in the project.