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 | |
|---|---|
 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. |
- See also Template:Grading scheme, Good Articles go between B-Class and A-Class
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 |
Core articles
| Article | Need | Quality | Rationale | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Literature | Top | B | Wikipedia:CORE. Our top-level article | Usable |
| History of literature | Top | B | Wikipedia:CORE | |
| History of modern literature | Top | B | No references, missing content | |
| History of the book | Top | B | Wikipedia:CORE | |
| Literary genre | High | Stub | ||
| Fiction | Top | Start | Wikipedia:CORE | |
| Non-fiction | Top | Start | ||
| Romance (genre) | High | B | ||
| Poetry | Top | B | Wikipedia:CORE | |
| Drama | Top | Start | ||
| Novel | Top | B | Wikipedia:CORE | |
| Library | Top | B | Wikipedia:CORE | |
| Publishing | Top | B | ||
| Literacy | Top | B | ||
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.
Articles under review in other literary projects (min. B-Class)
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 | |
WikiProject Media franchises
Inactive/none.
WikiProject Holmes
Inactive/none.
WikiProject Discworld
No 1.0 assessments
| Article | Need | Quality | Rationale | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discworld | B | |||
| Terry Pratchett | B | |||
| Discworld (world) | B |
WikiProject Middle-earth
| Article | Need | Quality | Rationale | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Middle-earth | FA | |||
| J. R. R. Tolkien | FA |
Middle-earth
WikiProject The Wizard of Oz
| Article | Need | Quality | Rationale | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | FA |
WikiProject Shannara
???
WikiProject Star Wars
???
WikiProject Comics
WikiProject Poetry
???
WikiProject Children's literature
???
Books
| Article | Need | Quality | Rationale | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book of Kells | FA | |||
| The Cantos | FA | |||
| The Country Wife | FA | |||
| Hrafnkels saga | FA | |||
| Ormulum | FA | |||
| Peterborough Chronicle | FA | |||
| The Protocols of the Elders of Zion | FA | |||
| The Relapse | FA | |||
| A Tale of a Tub | FA | |||
| Voynich manuscript | FA | |||
| The Giver | FA | |||
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | FA | |||
| The Illuminatus! Trilogy | FA | |||
| The Old Man and the Sea | FA | |||
| Oroonoko | FA | |||
| Starship Troopers | FA | |||
| The Brothers Karamazov | FA | |||
| Ars moriendi | B | From Wikipedia:GA | ||
| Floris and Blancheflour | B | From Wikipedia:GA | ||
| Frankenstein | Top | A | Classic horror | From Wikipedia:GA |
| The CIA and September 11 (book) | A | From Wikipedia:GA | ||
| Treasure Island | High | A | Major adventure novel | From Wikipedia:GA |
| Animal Farm | High | B | Major novella | |
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 |  GA | |||
| - 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 | ||
Prose fiction
- get more from Category:Fiction
- see also Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Worklist
| 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 | |||
Techniques and conceits
| Article | Need | Quality | Rationale | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| False document | B | Images? | ||
| Frame tale | Start | |||
| anecdote | Start | |||
| point of view | Stub | Merge? |
Literary criticism
| Article | Need | Quality | Rationale | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Literary criticism | Start | |||
| Literary theory |
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 | Redirect | |||
Writing
| Article | Need | Quality | Rationale | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| composition | Needed | disambiguation |
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 | FA | |||
| Alliterative verse | FA | |||
| Augustan drama | FA | |||
| Augustan literature | FA | |||
| English poetry | FA | |||
| Imagism | FA | |||
| Irish poetry | FA | |||
| Irish theatre | FA | |||
| Modernist poetry in English | FA | |||
| Objectivist poets | FA | |||
| Restoration comedy | FA | |||
| Restoration literature | FA | |||
| Shigin | B | |||
Literary techniques
| Article | Need | Quality | Rationale | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
- from Literary technique
Literary figures
Authors
| Article | Need | Quality | Rationale | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Douglas Adams | FA | |||
| Mário de Andrade | FA | |||
| Isaac Asimov | Top | FA | ||
| Augusta, Lady Gregory | FA | |||
| Samuel Beckett | FA | |||
| Colley Cibber | FA | |||
| H.D. | FA | |||
| Robert A. Heinlein | FA | |||
| Henry James | FA | |||
| James Joyce | Top | FA | ||
| J. R. R. Tolkien | FA | |||
| Rudyard Kipling | Top | FA | ||
| H.P. Lovecraft | FA | |||
| George Moore | FA | |||
| Chuck Palahniuk | FA | |||
| Thomas Pynchon | FA | |||
| John Millington Synge | FA | |||
| Rabindranath Tagore | FA | |||
| Jorge Luis Borges | Top | B | From Wikipedia:GA | |
| E. E. Cummings | A | From Wikipedia:GA | ||
| Abraham Goldfaden | A | From Wikipedia:GA | ||
| Ernest Hemingway | Top | A | From Wikipedia:GA | |
| Victor Hugo | Top | A | From Wikipedia:GA | |
| Aleksandr Pushkin | Top | B | From Wikipedia:GA | |
| Ayn Rand | A | From Wikipedia:GA | ||
| William Shakespeare | Top | A | From Wikipedia:GA | |
| Arthur Upfield | A | From Wikipedia:GA | ||
| Oscar Wilde | Top | A | From Wikipedia:GA | |
Poets
| Article | Need | Quality | Rationale | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William Butler Yeats | Top | FA | ||
| Du Fu | FA | |||
| Cædmon | FA | |||
| Emily Dickinson | Top | A | From Wikipedia:GA | |
Others
| Article | Need | Quality | Rationale | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Day (printer) | FA | |||
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 | FA | |||
| Turkish literature | 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
Story elements
| Article | Need | Quality | Rationale | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dramatic structure | Start | |||
| Literal and figurative language | Start | |||
| Inclusio | Stub | |||
| Setting tone | Stub | |||
Themes in literature
| Article | Need | Quality | Rationale | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Other
| Article | Need | Quality | Rationale | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scientific literature | Start | |||
| Literature cycle | Stub | |||
| Rabbinic literature | Start | |||
| Vernacular literature | Stub | |||
| Postcolonial literature | Start |
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 | FA | |||
| Calvin and Hobbes | FA | |||
| Cyberpunk | FA | Not strictly a literary genre | ||
| Krazy Kat | FA | |||
| Three Laws of Robotics | FA | |||
| Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius | FA | |||
| Allegory in the Middle Ages | B | |||
| The Western Star | A | Journalism | ||
| Western canon | Start | |||
| List of literary terms | Start | |||
| journalism | Start | |||