Wikipedia:WikiProject Circus

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Welcome to WikiProject Circus!

A group of Wikipedians have formed this collaborative group that is dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage and organization of circuses and circus related topics. This page along with the corresponding subpages contain suggestions and various resources to improve and organize these articles. It is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of Wikipedians interested in this topic. If you would like to help, please add your name to the list of participants, inquire on the talk page where help may be needed or see the to-do list below.

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Goals

To help create better articles on the aspects of the circus.

Scope

The scope of this project is all articles relating to circuses, circus performers, and related subjects. All of these articles should be included in the Category:Circuses or one of its subcategories.

Guidelines

Open tasks

Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, (using {{user|User name}}) and indicate areas of particular interest.

Afury24 (talk · contribs) - Aerialist/acrobat/contortionist adding and editing new articles
Hailey C. Shannon (talk · contribs) - I feel this needed to be started!
GUllman (talk · contribs) - I like circuses
Byshee (talk · contribs) - I'm in and am already adding new articles
Circusandmagicfan (talk · contribs) - I have particular interests in the impalement arts (knife throwing etc.) and also magic or illusion acts. I dislike animal acts so I will probably refrain from involvement in articles on that subject.
joeyness (talk · contribs) - I am a massive fan of circus and I make it my duty to see as many as I can in a year.
spookydel (talk · contribs) - Am a specialist on Sideshow performers (Freakshow) from 1880's to around the 1950s.
Shinerunner (talk · contribs)- general interest in circuses.
Spinner (talk · contribs) - I'm a contemporary circus performer and run the facebook discussion group Clown Power. Interested in the contemporary circus movement.
AtticusX (talk · contribs) - professional circus composer/musician and former theater student with a special fascination for the contemporary circus movement.
Brent.austin (talk · contribs) -Cirque du Soleil enthusiast.
EdwardLane (talk · contribs) - Unicycle Hockey player, hobby juggler, aerialist, friend of NoFit State Circus
Richlevine00 (talk · contribs) - I would like to participate. Enjoyed creating Johnny J. Jones and Johnny J. Jones Exposition. There were many wonderful traveling carnivals and circuses in the U.S. and Europe. Each had many acts and shows.
Kirananils (talk · contribs)
DENAMAX (talk · contribs)
Radixdiaboli (talk · contribs) - I'm a proficient object manipulator (toss juggling, poi, contact juggling, etc.), sometimes professional fire spinner, would be happy to help with prop related articles.
Dan Koehl (talk · contribs) - Im an elephant trainer, created the website http//www.elephant.se with most known individuals of captive elephants in the history, as well as their locations, including many historical circuses.
Mrphilip (talk · contribs) - I'm a seasoned fan and flag dancer and decided to participate since these props fall under this category.
Growingcultures (talk · contribs) - Arts writer with some expertise in circus arts
Jasper Deng (talk · contribs)

Articles

Article alerts

Articles to be split

15 Mar 2021 – Circus (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Robynthehode (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

07 May 2025 – Draft:Percilla Bejano (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by ApronSocial (t · c)

Featured content

After months of research and writing, Cassianto helped promote Joseph Grimaldi to WP:FA on the 15 December 2012. It is the projects first featured article.

Candidates

Cirque du Soleil

New articles

Please feel free to list your new Circus-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.

Venardos Circus

Royal Lichtenstein Quarter-Ring Sidewalk Circus

Barnum's Kaleidoscape

Circus Amok

Collaboration and review

Collaboration of the week

Peer review

Version 1.0 assessments

Index · Statistics · Log

For more information about Version 1.0 assessments, see WP:1.0 and WP:WVWP.

/Assessment
- Category:WikiProject Circus articles
  - Category:Circus articles by quality
  - Category:Circus articles by importance
- Category:NA-Class Circus articles

Featured content

Joseph Grimaldi

GA-content

Did you Know (DYK)

The following articles appeared on the Main page in the Did you know section:

Templates

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