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WikiProject Libraries

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Goals and scope

Goals

Coordinate maintenance of library-related content
Develop and discuss proposals for improvements to Wikimedia (especially literature-related sites) based on library experience
Assist at the Wikipedia Reference Desk
Assist with categorization

Scope

In scope

Library and information science
- Libraries, librarians, and librarianship in all its aspects (historical, fictional, ancient to contemporary and beyond!).
- Information science in all its aspects, including information organization, retrieval, search, access, and manipulation (sometimes overlapping with WikiProject Computer Science).
Archives, archivists, and archival science.
Preservation and conservation of recorded information (sometimes overlapping with WikiProject Arts, WikiProject Digital Preservation, and WikiProject Museums).

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To do

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Libraries: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2022-05-29

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests :
- Requested articles: Library science
Assess :

Note: for further information, please see the 'Assessment' tab for this WikiProject.
- Tagging: Tag library-related articles with the project banner {{WikiProject Libraries}}
- Assess: Provide assessment for unassessed articles for both quality and importance and articles of unknown importance
- New articles: Automatically generated list of new articles with Library keywords
Cleanup :
- Clean-up: see the the cleanup listing generated by CleanupWorklistBot
- Experts needed: Category:Libraries articles needing expert attention (2)
Infobox :
- Infoboxes needed: Category:Libraries articles needing infoboxes (130)
Maintain :

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- Outline of library science
- Automatic alerts: Libraries - Museums
- Manually listed AfD candidates: Museums and libraries
Photo :
- Images needed: Category:Wikipedia requested images of libraries (10)

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Library alerts

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Did you know

13 Oct 2025 – Agnes Inglis (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Grnrchst (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

18 Nov 2025 – Internet Archive's Children's Library (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)

Good article nominees

13 Nov 2025 – Eratosthenes (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by TouchedWithFire (t · c); start discussion

Articles to be merged

20 Nov 2025 – Forestry Information Centre (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to David Lubin Memorial Library by Bearian (t · c); see discussion
20 Nov 2025 – Grey literature (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to Guerrilla publishing by Bearian (t · c) was closed; see discussion
15 Nov 2025 – Melk Abbey Library (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to Melk Abbey by BobKilcoyne (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Articles to be split

15 Apr 2025 – Libraries in Honduras (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Easternsahara (t · c); see discussion
15 Apr 2025 – Libraries in Croatia (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Easternsahara (t · c); see discussion
15 Apr 2025 – Libraries in China (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Easternsahara (t · c); see discussion
21 Dec 2020 – Public libraries in North America (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by M2545 (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

17 Nov 2025 – Draft:Agnes E. Law (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Lucymarous (t · c)
25 Oct 2025 – Draft:Alexis Babine (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Sidtiller (t · c)
25 Oct 2025 – Draft:Lillian Griggs (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Blustory (t · c)
20 Oct 2025 – Draft:Berta Mexidor (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Perpetual Spinach (t · c)
15 Oct 2025 – Draft:Marian Frost (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Erschenck (t · c)
09 Oct 2025 – Draft:Sarah K. Vann (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Ashraer (t · c)
30 Sep 2025 – Draft:La Grange Public Library (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Augendandaddend (t · c)
undated – Draft:KMUTT Library (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC

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Did you know

02 Nov 2025 – Berlin Papyrus Collection (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by WatkynBassett (t · c); see discussion

Categories for discussion

18 Nov 2025 – Category:Museums in Grisons (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Kaffet i halsen (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

02 Oct 2025 – Sannai-Maruyama Site (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by MisawaSakura (t · c); start discussion
08 Sep 2025 – Hollywood Walk of Fame (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Gb321 (t · c); start discussion
09 May 2025 – 1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Daniel Case (t · c); start discussion

Requested moves

18 Nov 2025 – Glass House (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Glass House (New Canaan, Connecticut) by 162 etc. (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

25 Oct 2025 – Former Provincial Museum Building (Edmonton) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Royal Alberta Museum by 162 etc. (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

10 Nov 2025 – Draft:Zimmerman Family Collection (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by TZ150 (t · c)
31 Oct 2025 – Draft:Jean Hershner (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 2600:1700:5860:3AC0:68B2:64EE:4EF7:6770 (t · c)
18 Sep 2025 – Draft:Phantom Peak (attraction) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Jont98fns (t · c)
20 Nov 2025 – Draft:New Mexico Mineral Museum (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by JohnRakovan (t · c) was deleted
07 Oct 2025 – Draft:Photo Museum Ireland (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by 2A06:5900:456:F700:2433:D6BC:F9E1:EDBF (t · c) was declined by Pythoncoder (t · c) on 20 Nov 2025

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Metrics

Articles assessed for quality: 99.8% complete

100% of articles Start-Class or better: 68.2% complete

(6222/9120)

4.6% List-Class
27.1% Stub-Class
49.5% Start-Class
14.5% C-Class
3.4% B-Class
0.6% GA-Class
0.2% FA-Class
0.2% remaining

Libraries articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA			2	8			10
FL		1	2	6			9
FM					17		17
GA	1	3	10	41			55
B	6	16	61	220		4	307
C	12	38	161	1,065		44	1,320
Start	5	59	379	3,981		97	4,521
Stub		12	72	2,341		52	2,477
List	4	6	40	371			421
Category					2,699		2,699
Disambig					20		20
File					41		41
Project					25		25
Redirect		4	8	142	342		496
Template					105		105
NA					5		5
Other					27		27
Assessed	28	139	735	8,175	3,281	197	12,555
Unassessed						14	14
Total	28	139	735	8,175	3,281	211	12,569
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 43,757			Ω = 5.04

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