This project is dedicated to improving the quality of coverage of children's and young-adult literature on Wikipedia. The main aims of this WikiProject are to:
Improve the overall quality of articles relating to children's and young-adult literature, including books, authors, and scholarship
Identify those articles which need to be created, merged, or deleted
Improve the categorization of these articles
Define easily maintainable, usable, and well-documented templates and infoboxes related to this WikiProject
Improve source citation in all these articles
Propose criteria for (author, book, etc.) list creation and inclusion
Expand stub articles relating to children's literature
Perform cleanup on articles
The topics covered by this WikiProject include any articles about children's or young adult books, magazines, short stories, poetry or fictional elements; authors, illustrators and publishers of children's and young adult books; awards for children's and young adult books; and articles relating to the scholarship of children's and young adult literature. Notable exceptions to this scope include redirect pages, and articles about adaptations of children's literature in a non-literary medium, such as musicals and films.
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.
Add {{Portal|Children's literature}} to the See also section of related articles.
Please see the Article Discussion page to join the discussion of articles within the scope of this WikiProject, or to post comments about article issues such as deletion proposals and notability concerns. The following articles are currently under discussion:
Welcome to the assessment department of the Children's Literature WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality and importance of Wikipedia's children's and young-adult literature related articles through the WP:1.0 program.
Any user can add articles to this WikiProject by adding {{WikiProject Children's literature}} to the article's talk page. This should only be done if the article relates directly to the project scope, and if you find any articles which seem to be incorrectly tagged then they can be delisted by removing the project template from the talk page.
Articles are assessed through the |class= and |importance= parameters in their {{WikiProject Children's literature}} project template. Class is used to denote the quality of the article, and importance to denote its importance to WikiProject Children's Literature. The possible values for each of these can be found in Assessment Criteria below. Often when articles are first tagged they will not be assessed on these qualities, but they will automatically be added to the project and should be assessed shortly, allowing for delay due to backlog.
Any user can assess articles for this project, even if they are not a member. However, some users prefer an outsider's opinion on articles they are closely involved in, and you can request an assessment from project members by adding the article to the list of Assessment requests below. These will be dealt with by a number of editors; if you would prefer one particular individual for some reason, it may be better to contact them through their talk page.
Ratings are often subjective and will change over time as the article develops. If you have any problems with the ratings system, you may wish to leave a message at the project talk page or the article discussion page.
Double-checking existing assessments. Editors do not always remember to update an article's class after improving it, and the criteria for both importance and quality change over time. Ideally, articles should have their assessments checked at least once a year.
This WikiProject uses the WP:1.0 quality scale to assess its articles. If you feel any article is incorrectly assessed, you can either change it yourself, selecting the correct article class from the table below, or request an assessment from this department for a more objective viewpoint.
A featured article exemplifies our very best work and is distinguished by professional standards of writing, presentation, and sourcing. In addition to meeting the policies regarding content for all Wikipedia articles, it has the following attributes.
It is—
well-written: its prose is engaging, even brilliant, and of a professional standard;
comprehensive: it neglects no major facts or details and places the subject in context;
well-researched: it is a thorough and representative survey of the relevant literature. Claims are verifiable against high-quality reliable sources and are supported by inline citations where appropriate;
stable: it is not subject to ongoing edit wars and its content does not change significantly from day to day, except in response to the featured article process.
a lead: a concise lead section that summarizes the topic and prepares the reader for the detail in the subsequent sections;
appropriate structure: a system of hierarchical section headings and a substantial but not overwhelming table of contents; and
consistent citations: where required by criterion 1c, consistently formatted inline citations using either footnotes (<ref>Smith 2007, p. 1.</ref>) or Harvard referencing (Smith 2007, p. 1)—see citing sources for suggestions on formatting references. The use of citation templates is not required.
Length. It stays focused on the main topic without going into unnecessary detail and uses summary style.
Professional, outstanding, and thorough; a definitive source for encyclopedic information.
No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible.
The article is well organized and essentially complete, having been reviewed by impartial reviewers from this WikiProject or elsewhere. Good article status is not a requirement for A-Class.
More detailed criteria
The article meets the A-Class criteria:
Provides a well-written, clear and complete description of the topic, as described in Wikipedia:Article development. It should be of a length suitable for the subject, appropriately structured, and be well referenced by a broad array of reliable sources. It should be well illustrated, with no copyright problems. Only minor style issues and other details need to be addressed before submission as a featured article candidate. See the A-Class assessment departments of some of the larger WikiProjects (e.g. WikiProject Military history).
Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject would typically find nothing wanting.
Expert knowledge may be needed to tweak the article, and style problems may need solving. Peer review may help.
Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (but not equalling) the quality of a professional encyclopedia.
Some editing by subject and style experts is helpful; comparison with an existing featured article on a similar topic may highlight areas where content is weak or missing.
The article reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain obvious omissions or inaccuracies. It contains a large proportion of the material necessary for an A-Class article, although some sections may need expansion, and some less important topics may be missing.
The article has a defined structure. Content should be organized into groups of related material, including a lead section and all the sections that can reasonably be included in an article of its kind.
The article is reasonably well-written. The prose contains no major grammatical errors and flows sensibly, but it does not need to be "brilliant". The Manual of Style does not need to be followed rigorously.
The article contains supporting materials where appropriate. Illustrations are encouraged, though not required. Diagrams and an infobox etc. should be included where they are relevant and useful to the content.
Readers are not left wanting, although the content may not be complete enough to satisfy a serious student or researcher.
A few aspects of content and style need to be addressed. Expert knowledge may be needed. The inclusion of supporting materials should also be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with the Manual of Style and related style guidelines.
The article is substantial, but is still missing important content or contains much irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant problems or require substantial cleanup.
More detailed criteria
The article cites more than one reliable source and is better developed in style, structure, and quality than Start-Class, but it fails one or more of the criteria for B-Class. It may have some gaps or missing elements; need editing for clarity, balance, or flow; or contain policy violations, such as bias or original research. Articles on fictional topics are likely to be marked as C-Class if they are written from an in-universe perspective. It is most likely that C-Class articles have a reasonable encyclopedic style.
Useful to a casual reader, but would not provide a complete picture for even a moderately detailed study.
Considerable editing is needed to close gaps in content and solve cleanup problems.
An article that is developing, but which is quite incomplete. It might or might not cite adequate reliable sources.
More detailed criteria
The article has a usable amount of good content but is weak in many areas. Quality of the prose may be distinctly unencyclopedic, and MoS compliance non-existent. The article should satisfy fundamental content policies, such as BLP. Frequently, the referencing is inadequate, although enough sources are usually provided to establish verifiability. No Start-Class article should be in any danger of being speedily deleted.
Provides some meaningful content, but most readers will need more.
Providing references to reliable sources should come first; the article also needs substantial improvement in content and organisation. Also improve the grammar, spelling, writing style and improve the jargon use.
A very basic description of the topic. However, all very-bad-quality articles will fall into this category.
More detailed criteria
The article is either a very short article or a rough collection of information that will need much work to become a meaningful article. It is usually very short; but, if the material is irrelevant or incomprehensible, an article of any length falls into this category. Although Stub-class articles are the lowest class of the normal classes, they are adequate enough to be an accepted article, though they do have risks of being dropped from being an article all together.
Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition. Readers probably see insufficiently developed features of the topic and may not see how the features of the topic are significant.
Any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of meaningful content should be a priority. The best solution for a Stub-class Article to step up to a Start-class Article is to add in referenced reasons of why the topic is significant.
Prose. It features professional standards of writing.
Lead. It has an engaging lead that introduces the subject and defines the scope and inclusion criteria.
Comprehensiveness.
(a) It comprehensively covers the defined scope, providing at least all of the major items and, where practical, a complete set of items; where appropriate, it has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about the items.
(b) In length and/or topic, it meets all of the requirements for stand-alone lists; does not violate the content-forking guideline, does not largely duplicate material from another article, and could not reasonably be included as part of a related article.
Structure. It is easy to navigate and includes, where helpful, section headings and table sort facilities.
Style. It complies with the Manual of Style and its supplementary pages.
(a) Visual appeal. It makes suitable use of text layout, formatting, tables, and colour; and a minimal proportion of items are redlinked.
Stability. It is not the subject of ongoing edit wars and its content does not change significantly from day to day, except in response to the featured list process.
Professional standard; it comprehensively covers the defined scope, usually providing a complete set of items, and has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about those items.
No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available.
Meets the criteria of a stand-alone list, which is an article that contains primarily a list, usually consisting of links to articles in a particular subject area.
There is no set format for a list, but its organization should be logical and useful to the reader.
Lists should be lists of live links to Wikipedia articles, appropriately named and organized.
The criteria for rating importance are intended to give a probable indication of the relevance of each article to this particular project and the likelihood of the topic's inclusion in a traditional encyclopedia. Importance is intended to be a neutral, international value which is not affected by editor demographics or regional biases, but some subjectivity is always present. If you do not agree with an article's importance rating, you may wish to contact the user who assessed the article, or begin a discussion of that article at the Article Discussion page.
Subject is not particularly notable or significant even within the field of children's literature, and may have been included primarily to achieve comprehensive coverage of a notable author or other notable subject.
If you have made significant changes to an article on this project and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please feel free to list it below along with your signature and any comments you wish to leave. This is not required, and you may assess the article for yourself, but any articles here should soon receive attention from a project member, who may also leave comments on the article's talk page. If you assess an article on this list, please use <s> and </s> to strike it through so that other editors do not waste time going there. Assessed articles will be removed periodically.
Please do not place articles which have not yet received assessments on this list. Any unassessed article with the project tag will automatically be categorised as unassessed and will be dealt with as soon as possible. There may be a short delay due to backlog.
Stargirl (novel): I recently did quite a bit of editing and clean-up on this article. It could probably still use some work, but it could stand to move up a class or two.--Redfive27 (talk) 17:37, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
I moved it up to C-class. It still needs some good work in anumber of departments. First of all the plot section need some major trimming, what with a prologue, a really big main plot and an epilogue. Apart from that it lack an important section - Reception. Since it is written in the lead that it was generally praised by critics and the fact that it had won some awards and has been a betseller I guess it might not be really tough to make a reception section. Just include this info with a little more detail from the site. Apart from that another important secton - Themes, is also not there, try adding it if you could.King Of The Wise (talk) 08:57, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
Kissing Shakespeare. I need help of assessing the article of Pamela Mingle's debut novel. Thanks--NeoBatfreak (talk) 20:35, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
No this is still defintely a Start class. Needs a lot of work, just try to do what the tags ask.King Of The Wise (talk) 08:57, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
Fitcher's Bird Came across this article while fixing CS1 errors. Moved it from stub to start class as it seems to tick all the boxes:) As a wikinewbie can someone please check that this is okay (or could it go even higher)? thanks:) Coolabahapple (talk) 00:55, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
Welcome to the collaboration department of the Children's Literature WikiProject! This department is intended to bring attention to articles of high importance to the project which are currently of a low quality. The department will promote these articles, and will regularly choose one of them which all project members are asked to contribute to as much as they feel able.
The current Collaboration Article is Curious George (book). Please visit this article and contribute to it in any way you can.
At the beginning of the Collaboration, it was rated as High importance and Stub class. So far it has improved to Stub class.
If you wish to be updated about the collaboration articles for this WikiProject, please use {{WP:CHL COLLAB}}.
If you wish to nominate or discuss future Collaboration Articles, please visit the department page.
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 the link below, and adding your name at the bottom of the list using {{User|Your User Name}}, with an optional comment.
This user is a member of the Children and Young Adult Literature WikiProject.
You don't need to be actively writing articles to be a participant. Please click here to add your name to the list below. Please use {{User}} instead of four tildes ~~~~. You may add a comment if you wish.
Editors who make no edits to Wikipedia at all in six months will be presumed retired. Editors can always join the list again when they return to Wikipedia.
JustPotteringAround (talk·contribs) - 16 April 2012, working on articles related to Jackie French, as well as CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award-related stuff, as the awards are way under-rated here
Kejood (talk·contribs) – Working on updating dates, awards, and other tiny details that slip by.
P64 (talk·contribs) – P64 (talk) 19:05, 7 June 2012 (UTC) – having worked on many awards, books/series, and writers this year, and multiply inquired in project talk
Pmlineditor (talk·contribs) – Not too active, but I /will/ edit the PJ articles starting from the next few weeks. 13:59, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
Robina Fox (talk·contribs) – 7 July 2008 – Particularly interested in children's historical novels. Also plan to continue improving coverage of Carnegie Medal winners.
Roseclearfield (talk·contribs) I am working with my high school students to improve Young Adult novel pages and reduce vandalism. I guide students through making strong contributions and do a great deal of copyediting.
Sabiona (talk·contribs) – I'm a middle-school teacher/librarian with a specific interest in anything that appeals to reluctant readers.
Tea with toast (talk·contribs) – 27 December 2009 – Copyediting is my main task. I take a particular interest in children's classics and the authors of such books.
Pferrete (talk·contribs) - 3 March 2012 - Mostly a copyeditor, but I adore children's literature and want to represent it in a way that future generations will continue to value it.
James26 (talk·contribs) - 25 May 2012, Created a bunch of YA-related articles. Planning one more.
Schizocarp (talk·contribs) - 5 November 2012. Have read loads of children's literature a bit too recently, especially fantasy
Chicopac (talk·contribs) – interning at the Children's Literature Comprehensive Database. Fan of some kid's books.
D3t3ctiv3 (talk·contribs) – I probably won't write any new articles,but try to improve existing ones.I am an avid reader,and hopefully can help make a featured article.
Hurricanewest (talk·contribs) – 2 March 2009 – right now concentrating on bring the Percy Jackson series up to snuff, but am more than willing to help where ever I can
Kethra (talk·contribs) – 5 November 2008 – many interests, including young adult fantasy and sci-fi
melopoeia (talk·contribs) – I would like to focus on expanding/editing the History and Scholarship articles (specifically literary theory), as these are my areas of expertise. My other articles primarily would be on nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century British and American texts. I can start with The Wind in the Willows.
Mjquinn_id (talk·contribs) – June 2008 = Not very active; when people need help with Templates, Categories or Portals; I watch a handful of authors and All of Dr. Seuss.
Tem2 (talk·contribs) – 02 March 2006 – Available for grunt work on request and will check in as time permits. Interests include fantasy/sci-fi middle grade novels, New England authors, and debut authors.
Abbeybufo (talk·contribs) – I fear that at the moment I have insufficient time to do more than visit Wikipedia occasionally – will check back in when I can.
Melody Kay Wiswell (talk·contribs) – working on editing existing articles and adding new content where holes remain. – No edits since Mar 2011 – presumed retired.
Missydoggy555132 (talk·contribs) - Will work on what needs to be done – No edits since Dec 2010 – presumed retired.
Mistsrider (talk·contribs) – 7 February 2008 – Back after a hiatus. Particularly interested in Ursula Le Guin'sEarthsea and other female authors I believe are underappreciated (Susan Cooper, Patricia C. Wrede), as well as literature with odd stories and/or female protagonists, but will help out wherever I can (usually copy-editing, NPOV, verifying citations). – No edits since Feb 2012 – presumed retired.
plad2 (talk·contribs) Joined 20 February 2008. I'm a publisher at Random House Children's Books UK. Currently focused on rescuing unreferenced BLPs in this project and trying to introduce improvements along the way. Also interested in general articles on or related to current children's publishing. Plus some other non-publishing related articles. - no edits.
RainbowWerewolf (talk·contribs) 08:40, 28 November 2009 – I plan to concentrate on articles about books for younger readers ... everything from board books to chapter books to novels ... rather than those written with teenagers and adults in mind. – No edits since May 2010 – presumed retired.
Ricky916 (talk·contribs)--Author of children's nonfiction – No edits since Dec 2012 – presumed retired.
Rising*From*Ashes (talk·contribs) – Working on improving existing articles mainly – No edits since Aug 2013 – presumed retired.
Schizocarp (talk·contribs) - 5 November 2012. Have read loads of children's literature a bit too recently, especially fantasy – No edits since Oct 2013 – presumed retired.
Strdst grl (talk·contribs) – Working mostly on assessing articles. – No edits since Dec 2011 – presumed retired.
sudhirn (talk·contribs) - Sudhir Neerattupuram is a well known writer from Neerattupuram, Kerala, India. He born on 28th May 1968. After his graduation (BA Economics from N.S.S. Hindu College, CHanganacherry on 1990, he becomes the full time Hindutva Social Worker ie. Pracharak of the world famous organization Rashtreeya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). He becomes the in-charge of Vrittantham Fortnightly, Cochin from 1992 to 1997. His various books are published by the leading publishers in Kerala like Kairali Children Book Trust (DC Books), Kurushetra Prakashan, Bala Sahity Prakashan etc. His books are Iswarante Chiri, Swami Vivekanandan Paranja Kadakal, Subhashita Saram, Amritavachanagal, Ramayana Prasnotiri, etc. – No edits since Aug 2010 – presumed retired.
TayyabSaeed (talk·contribs) - I can do anything, as long as it is related to children's literature. And that's the topic here, isn't it?......– No edits since Aug 2013 – presumed retired.
TCO (talk·contribs) – 01 November 2008 – Just getting to know the project now. Will try to contribute articles for classic books that should be here and aren't. – Blocked indefinitely.
Tlqk56 (talk·contribs) – 16 April 2012, I'm an elementary teacher and long time lover of children's lit, especially the older books. I hope I can use my writing and editing skills as well as my love of books to help strengthen some articles. Anything that might encourage kids to read!– No edits since Nov 2013 – presumed retired.
Tinytink (talk·contribs) I am currently writing an article on Simone Elkeles – No edits since July 2012 – presumed retired.
{{US-child-writer-stub}} for stub articles about children's authors from the United States.
{{UK-child-writer-stub}} for stub articles about children's authors from the United Kingdom.
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