Welcome to WikiProject Folklore, Wikipedia's WikiProject focused on folklore studies. Founded in 2018, the WikiProject's goal is simple: to improve Wikipedia's coverage of folklore-related topics by identifying and employing sources from folklore studies. Members build relevant articles that meet Wikipedia's reliable source criteria, develop categories and templates, and work to improve pre-existing problem articles that fall within the scope of the project.
WikiProject Folklore works to improve Wikipedia's coverage of all genres of folklore (which range from legends to jokes) alongside Wikipedia's coverage of the academic field of folklore studies. To meet its goal of improving folklore coverage quality on Wikipedia, WikiProject Folklore's three core activities are as follows:
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WikiProject Folklore was founded in April 2018, a rare new WikiProject during a time when many others grew inactive. While Wikipedia is often a fantastic tertiary source, the site's coverage of folklore-related topics remains generally poor. It appears that no folklorists were involved during the early stages of the project. In their place, Wikipedia editors often produced articles relevant to folklore studies from an emic perspective, frequently focusing on "sightings", turning to pseudosciences such as cryptozoology or ghost hunting for article source material, or linking to ad-supported internet sites, such as this one.
Many articles relevant to the academic study of folklore remain absent from Wikipedia. Some important articles relevant to folklore studies have only recently gained articles on the site (such as folk belief, written in 2016 and still little more than a stub). Folklore genres are sometimes treated as synonyms in article spaces.
Due to the unique history of folklore studies on Wikipedia, editors who aim to improve Wikipedia's coverage of folklore-related topics may encounter unexpected hostility from well-meaning editors unfamiliar with folklore studies or who hope to use the platform to promote pseudoscience. In these instances, useful policies and guidelines include the following:
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Typing "{{Folklore-stub}} on an article stub will produce the following:
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Typing "{{WikiProject Folklore|class=|importance=}}" on an article talk page will produce the following:
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Typing "{{tl|User WPFolklore-member}}" produces Template:User WPFolklore-member, an infobox notifying others of your participation in the WikiProject.
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