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Hello and welcome to WikiProject Children's Literature, a WikiProject to better organize information in articles related to children's and young adult literature!

Project scope

This project is dedicated to improving the quality of coverage of children's and young adult literature on Knowledge. 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.

Things you can do

You can also help with any of the following project tasks:

Promote the project
  • Join this project! Add yourself to the list, and add the userbox to your page, to advertise the project to people who happen to pass by.
  • Invite people to the project – drop a note on the user talk page of editors working on Children's literature topics who aren't project members.
  • Consider promoting the project via the Knowledge Signpost WikiProject desk.
Improve the project
  • Update the project pages, archive clutter, and make use of the latest automation available
  • Consult the WikiProject Guide for ideas
  • Come up with new ones
Use the project
  • Create a new article.

Project Discussion

Please visit the Project Discussion page to join the discussion of new ideas about project policy and organisation. Currently ongoing discussions are:

Article updates

Alerts

Today's featured articles

Did you know

Articles for deletion

Redirects for discussion

Featured article candidates

Good article nominees

Articles to be merged

Articles to be split

Recognised content

This project has a Wall of Recognised Content which is regularly updated by JL-Bot. To see the most recent wall, please click below.

Recognised Content

Featured articles

Featured article candidates

Featured lists

Good articles

Good article nominees

Did you know? articles

Articles needing cleanup

Many articles on this project currently require cleanup for a number of issues:

Assessment

Welcome to the assessment department of the Children's Literature WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality and importance of Knowledge's children's and young-adult literature related articles through the WP:1.0 program.

Assessing articles

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.

Department tasks

If you want to help the assessment department, please contribute to any of the following tasks:

Assessment Criteria

This project uses the WP:1.0 assessment criteria to assess articles. The criteria specific to this project are listed below.


Quality scale

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.

WikiProject article quality grading scheme
Class Criteria Reader's experience Editing suggestions Example
 FA The article has attained featured article status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured article candidates.
More detailed criteria
The article meets the featured article criteria:

A featured article exemplifies Knowledge's very best work and is distinguished by professional standards of writing, presentation, and sourcing. In addition to meeting the policies regarding content for all Knowledge articles, it has the following attributes.

  1. It is:
    1. well-written: its prose is engaging and of a professional standard;
    2. comprehensive: it neglects no major facts or details and places the subject in context;
    3. 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;
    4. neutral: it presents views fairly and without bias;
    5. 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; and
    6. compliant with Knowledge's copyright policy and free of plagiarism or too-close paraphrasing.
  2. It follows the style guidelines, including the provision of:
    1. a lead: a concise lead section that summarizes the topic and prepares the reader for the detail in the subsequent sections;
    2. appropriate structure: a substantial but not overwhelming system of hierarchical section headings; and
    3. consistent citations: where required by criterion 1c, consistently formatted inline citations using footnotes—see citing sources for suggestions on formatting references. Citation templates are not required.
  3. Media. It has images and other media, where appropriate, with succinct captions and acceptable copyright status. Images follow the image use policy. Non-free images or media must satisfy the criteria for inclusion of non-free content and be labeled accordingly.
  4. Length. It stays focused on the main topic without going into unnecessary detail and uses summary style where appropriate.
 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. Cleopatra
(as of June 2018)
 FL The article has attained featured list status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured list candidates.
More detailed criteria
The article meets the featured list criteria:
  1. Prose. It features professional standards of writing.
  2. Lead. It has an engaging lead that introduces the subject and defines the scope and inclusion criteria.
  3. Comprehensiveness.
  4. Structure. It is easy to navigate and includes, where helpful, section headings and table sort facilities.
  5. Style. It complies with the Manual of Style and its supplementary pages.
  6. 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; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible. List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events
(as of May 2018)
 A The article is well organized and essentially complete, having been examined by impartial reviewers from a 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 Knowledge: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. WP:Peer review may help. Battle of Nam River
(as of June 2014)
 GA The article meets all of the good article criteria, and has been examined by one or more impartial reviewers from WP:Good article nominations.
More detailed criteria
A good article is:
  1. Well-written:
    1. the prose is clear, concise, and understandable to an appropriately broad audience; spelling and grammar are correct; and
    2. it complies with the Manual of Style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation.
  2. Verifiable with no original research:
    1. it contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline;
    2. reliable sources are cited inline. All content that could reasonably be challenged, except for plot summaries and that which summarizes cited content elsewhere in the article, must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph (or line if the content is not in prose);
    3. it contains no original research; and
    4. it contains no copyright violations or plagiarism.
  3. Broad in its coverage:
    1. it addresses the main aspects of the topic; and
    2. it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style).
  4. Neutral: it represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to each.
  5. Stable: it does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute.
  6. Illustrated, if possible, by media such as images, video, or audio:
    1. media are tagged with their copyright statuses, and valid non-free use rationales are provided for non-free content; and
    2. media are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions.
 Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (though not necessarily equalling) the quality of a professional publication. 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. Discovery of the neutron
(as of April 2019)
B The article meets all of the B-Class criteria. It is mostly complete and does not have major problems, but requires some further work to reach good article standards.
More detailed criteria
  1. The article is suitably referenced, with inline citations. It has reliable sources, and any important or controversial material which is likely to be challenged is cited. Any format of inline citation is acceptable: the use of <ref> tags and citation templates such as {{cite web}} is optional.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. The article is reasonably well-written. The prose contains no major grammatical errors and flows sensibly, but does not need to be of the standard of featured articles. The Manual of Style does not need to be followed rigorously.
  5. The article contains supporting materials where appropriate. Illustrations are encouraged, though not required. Diagrams, an infobox etc. should be included where they are relevant and useful to the content.
  6. The article presents its content in an appropriately understandable way. It is written with as broad an audience in mind as possible. The article should not assume unnecessary technical background and technical terms should be explained or avoided where possible.
 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 be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with the Manual of Style and related style guidelines. Psychology
(as of January 2024)
C The article is substantial but is still missing important content or contains 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, or need editing for clarity, balance, or flow.
 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. Wing
(as of June 2018)
Start An article that is developing but still quite incomplete. It may or may not cite adequate reliable sources.
More detailed criteria
The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas. The article has one or more of the following:
  • A useful picture or graphic
  • Multiple links that help explain or illustrate the topic
  • A subheading that fully treats an element of the topic
  • Multiple subheadings that indicate material that could be added to complete the article
 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. Ball
(as of September 2014)
Stub A very basic description of the topic. Meets none of the Start-Class criteria. 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. Lineage (anthropology)
(as of December 2014)
List Meets the criteria of a stand-alone list or set index article, 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 Knowledge articles, appropriately named and organized. List of literary movements

Importance scale

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.

Label Criteria Examples
Top Subject is a "core" topic for children's literature and is highly significant to a general audience. Dr. Seuss
Newbery Medal
High Subject is very notable or significant within the field of children's literature and has some significance to a general audience. Curious George
Judy Blume
Mid Subject is notable or significant within the field of children's literature (or to a historian), but not necessarily outside it. Walk Two Moons
Quentin Blake
Low 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. Absolutely Normal Chaos
Anthea Bell

Assessment requests

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 you believe to be Good Article or Featured Article class on this list. These have their own nomination procedures, which can be found at Good Article nominations and Featured Article nominations.

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.

Current article statistics

Children and young adult literature articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 4 8 12 6 30
FL 2 7 1 10
GA 9 33 80 95 217
B 25 73 180 224 10 512
C 24 175 802 1,533 25 2,559
Start 18 266 2,002 5,555 1 53 7,895
Stub 1 87 668 4,824 24 5,604
List 3 8 85 170 3 269
Category 1 1 1,291 1,293
Disambig 1 4 71 76
File 1 2,705 2,706
Portal 41 41
Project 1 45 46
Template 2 330 332
NA 1 3 71 908 874 1,857
Other 2 14 16
Assessed 87 655 3,908 13,326 5,372 115 23,463
Unassessed 1 1 4 6
Total 87 656 3,908 13,327 5,372 119 23,469
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 85,212 Ω = 5.07

Collaboration

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.

Outreach

If you are interested in promoting this project, please visit the Outreach department.

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 the link below, and adding your name at the bottom of the list using {{User|Your User Name}}, with an optional comment.

If you join this project, please add this template to your user page: {{User WikiProject Children's literature}}


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 Knowledge at all in six months will be presumed retired. Editors can always join the list again when they return to Knowledge.

Member list

Active members

The following members are currently active on this WikiProject.

  1. antlersantlers (talk · contribs) - I like cleaning up tables and making awards pages work well.
  2. Erica Kecskemety (talk · contribs) - I edit exsisting childrens books and creating new articles about them.
  3. Barkeep49 (talk · contribs) – I work on assessment and creating new pages around ALA award winners.
  4. Ben79487 (talk · contribs) – I like to work on improving the quality of articles.
  5. BindiS (talk · contribs) - Former librarian, interested in Australian children's literature
  6. Cathyolibrarian (talk · contribs)
  7. CobaltSteel (talk · contribs) – I write articles on children's literature artists/illustrators.
  8. Coolabahapple (talk · contribs)
  9. Classicfilms (talk · contribs)
  10. Dougles.Green (talk · contribs)
  11. Fearstreetsaga (talk · contribs) - I'm mostly interested in editing horror and thriller novel articles.
  12. Gary D Robson (talk · contribs) - Interested mostly in children's nonfiction, especially science and nature
  13. Huey117 (talk · contribs) - I'm interested in expanding stubs and creating new articles
  14. Kejood (talk · contribs)
  15. LaurenElizabeth243 (talk · contribs) - I am planning to work in editing/publishing.
  16. Linguistical (talk · contribs)
  17. MariAdkins (talk · contribs) + professional copy editor and published author
  18. MarkZusab (talk · contribs)
  19. Merenby (talk · contribs) - Interested in expanding stub articles on children's and young adult fiction from the pre-Harry Potter era.
  20. Mvolz (talk · contribs)
  21. Rapunzel-bellflower (talk · contribs)
  22. ReaderofthePack (talk · contribs)
  23. Robina Fox (talk · contribs)
  24. Rtkat3 (talk · contribs)
  25. Rul Joules (talk · contribs)
  26. Sabiona (talk · contribs)
  27. Tacyarg (talk · contribs)
  28. Voceditenore (talk · contribs)
  29. Azbookchick (talk · contribs) - professional librarian, formerly in children's services now in teen services, I can cover whatever.
  30. p64 (talk · contribs)
  31. 2ReinreB2 (talk · contribs)
  32. LakesideMiners (talk · contribs)- I enjoy children’s literature.
  33. ThyHero (talk · contribs)- I enjoy making anchors and links to needing pages.
  34. Scrooge200 (talk · contribs) - I aim to fix up the Diary of a Wimpy Kid articles.
  35. Spacecat711 (talk · contribs)
  36. Nicolet1327 (talk · contribs)
  37. Quercusechinus (talk · contribs)
  38. Isabelle Belato (talk · contribs)
  39. Chribue (talk · contribs)
  40. Significa liberdade (talk · contribs) - I follow ALA awards/challenges to create book pages, as well as pages for authors/books representing systemically marginalized populations
  41. ScribblingTiresias (talk · contribs) - children's author, I specialize in British kids' lit and like to de-stub articles.
  42. Sro23 (talk · contribs) - I create stubs on authors
  43. JohnRussell (talk · contribs)
  44. DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk · contribs)
  45. Angelcake57 (talk · contribs)
  46. IcyTheApple (talk · contribs) - For the world's children!
  47. Chilitedit (talk · contribs) Children's Lit post grad here to help
  48. Jameela P. (talk · contribs)

Inactive members

The following users may still be active on this WikiProject but have not responded to recent roll calls.


Categories

The following category tree shows categories of articles within the scope of this WikiProject.

Stub completion

The following category shows stub-class articles within the scope of this WikiProject.

Related projects

Task forces

This Project currently has one task force:

The following Children's Literature task forces are currently run by WikiProject Novels:

Other WikiProjects

This WikiProject is a child project of WikiProjects Literature, Books, and Novels, and a sister project of WikiProjects Artemis Fowl, Fablehaven, Harry Potter, Redwall, and Warriors.

Templates

Many templates are used by articles in this project. Some of the most common are listed below, but a more complete list can be found in Category:Template-Class children and young adult literature articles.

Project templates

This project maintains several templates for use in a variety of tasks:

Common article templates

Stub sorting templates are used on Stub-class articles to specify the topic they are based on. Stub sorting templates are maintained by WikiProject Stub Sorting and a full list can be found at WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types. Some of the most common stub types on this project are:

Infoboxes are used to give a summary of the main features article's topic. They generally consist of a list of features which the article might have, and as many of these features as possible should be specified, although many can be left out if they are not known. Infoboxes are maintained by WikiProject Infoboxes, and help using them can be found on the Manual of Style and help page about them, in addition to on each template's documentation page. A variety of infoboxes are available depending upon the subject of the article in question. A full list is available in Category:Infobox templates, but some commonly used infoboxes on this project are:

Navigation boxes are used to ease navigation between a group of articles on the same topic. There are many navigation boxes used by this project, which generally group articles by some shared characteristic, for example {{Harry Potter}}, grouping by series, or {{American Library Association}}, grouping by organisation.

Resources

This is a list of useful pages which are outside of this project, but may still be useful to project participants.

Notability

All articles in this project should meet the notability guidelines relevant to their subject. Please read these guidelines carefully before creating any new articles. All articles should also meet general Knowledge guidelines such as a neutral point of view, verifiability and no original research before being created. Any articles about living persons must also meet the criteria listed at Biography of Living Persons.

Authors should meet the notability criteria for creative professionals. Authors are generally notable if:

  • The person has received a notable award or honor, or has been often nominated for one.
  • The person has made a widely recognized contribution that is part of the enduring historical record in their specific field.
  • The person is regarded as an important figure or is widely cited by their peers or successors.
  • The person is known for originating a significant new concept, theory or technique.
  • The person has created, or played a major role in co-creating, a significant or well-known work, or collective body of work, that has been the subject of an independent book or feature-length film, or of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews.
  • The person's work either (a) has become a significant monument, (b) has been a substantial part of a significant exhibition, (c) has won significant critical attention, or (d) is represented within the permanent collections of several notable galleries or museums, or had works in many significant libraries.

Books should meet the criteria for book notability. Books are generally notable if:

  • The book has been the subject of multiple published works, including books, films and newspaper articles, whose sources are independent of the book and its self-interested parties. Some of these works should contain sufficient critical commentary to allow the article to grow past a simple plot summary.
  • The book has won a major literary award.
  • The book has been considered by reliable sources to have made a significant contribution to any other notable subject, such as a motion picture, art form, event or political or religious movement.
  • The book is frequently taught at a large number of educational institutions.
  • The book's author is so historically significant that any of their written works may be considered notable.

Individual articles on characters, locations, and other elements of a work of fiction are subject to Knowledge's fictional elements notability guidelines — be aware of these guidelines before creating articles. Generally, these elements should be part of a significant work of fiction, and should have received significant coverage outside of this work of fiction.

Article improvement

Some helpful guides about writing articles in general may be:

One of the most difficult parts of article writing to achieve is the citation of reliable sources:

For nominating articles to good article status:

For nominating articles to featured article status:

Style

All articles should conform to the relevant Knowledge style guides. Some helpful resources include:


Sources

 WikiProject guides
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 Culture and the arts
 Geographical
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and engineering
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