Wikipedia:WikiProject Middle-earth

WikiProject Middle-earth
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Welcome to the Middle-earth WikiProject's main page. This Wikiproject was created on 23 November 2005 and activated and merged with the Silmarillion WikiProject on 1 March 2006. This project is an effort to bring order, class, and professionalism to all Tolkien-related articles and media. These include Tolkien's writings, film adaptations of his works, and other works inspired by Tolkien.

If you are interested in joining this collaborated wikiproject, please see the participants section to join.

Scope and goals

Mission statement

Our mission is to focus collaboratively on efforts to promote interaction, co-operation, and communication among members in order to improve Wikipedia's encyclopedic coverage of Tolkien's legendarium. For examples of articles that have reached an elited state of class see below.

Scope

Our members cover articles that have anything to do with a range of the following:

Goals

Our goals include:

  1. To standardize Tolkien-related articles to follow this WikiProject's style guidelines
  2. To follow Wikipedia's notability guidelines, to reduce what should not be done.
  3. To improve Tolkien-related articles up to Good Article, Featured Article/or Featured List

Participants

You may wish to identify yourself as a participant by adding {{User WikiProject Middle-earth}} on your own user page. This will add your username to the list of participants in Category:WikiProject Middle-earth participants (unless you use |nocat=true to prevent it).

General guide

Tolkien articles by quality statistics (worklist) :

What you should do

What you should not do

Differences between this WikiProject and a Tolkien fansite

How Wikipedia's coverage of Middle-earth differs from a fansite's
ItemFan websitesWikipedia
ApproachIn-universe, mass of plot detail, unsourced or with Primary (Tolkien) sources onlyExternal, for general readers, Reliably Sourced
AuthorityJ. R. R. TolkienReliable Sources – literary critics, scholars, news, critics of games and films
Principle for inclusionInterest to Tolkien fansNotability, substantial coverage by multiple reliable independent sources
Objects worth discussingInternal details: plot, character, place, relationship, clothing, ...External aspects: themes, influences, real-world events, style, poetry, literary traditions, ...
Coverage of TolkienEvery aspectBrief plot summary, avoiding being undue or copyright issues
Attitude to scholarshipIt's speculative and irrelevant, not in the canonNecessary component of literary articles
StyleTolkienesque, pseudo-medievalPlain, encyclopedic

Improve Outline of Middle-earth

The outline of Middle-earth is a centralized navigation hub for the subject of Middle-earth, arranged as a hierarchical topics list. It is part of Wikipedia's outline system which is one of Wikipedia's contents systems. It was built as a "reverse outline", a structural model of existing work, which in addition to being a summary of the work, can reveal the gaps and other weaknesses for revision purposes.

Please look it over and fill-in missing topics. If Wikipedia has an article or article section about those topics, please add links to them.

Accomplishments

Good articles

Over 200 articles, including:

The Lord of the Rings
Other writings
Characters
Places
Battles
Other things
Themes
Influences
Literary devices
Reception and study
Peter Jackson's films
Other moving pictures
Games

Award Scheme

Please award this star to whoever has contributed a great amount to Middle-earth related articles.

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Middle-earth WikiProject Award {{subst:Tolkien barnstar|message ~~~~}} The Middle-earth WikiProject Award is awarded to Wikipedians for their contributions to Wikipedia stuff related to J. R. R. Tolkien. This is part of WikiProject Middle-earth. Designed and introduced by Uthanc using graphics by Aranel.