Wikipedia:WikiProject Romance

What do we do?

Our scope is to create a high-quality body of major articles that cover the most important aspects of Romance in an encyclopedic way. The primary scope encompasses any article directly regarding fictional romance. This includes the following types of articles:

• Novels, short stories if notable
• Other types of romantic fiction: comics, film, television, video games, etc.
• Fictional aspects of fictional romance narratives, such as characters/people if notable
• non-fiction material directly associated to fictional romance, including but not limited to:
  • documentaries
  • literature (books, collections, journals, essays)
• biographical articles that are directly associated to fictional romance (authors)
• publishers, e.g. Harlequin
• Bibliographies, e.g. Nora Roberts bibliography

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How can you help?

Promote the project

• Join this project! Add yourself to the list, and add the userbox to your page, to advertise the project to people who happen to pass by.
• Invite people to the project – drop a note using our handy template on the user talk page of editors working on Romance topics who aren't project members.

Improve the project

• Update the project pages, archive clutter, and make use of the latest automation available
• Consult the WikiProject Guide for ideas, or come up with new ones

Use the project

• Create a new article. Or check out Wikipedia:WikiProject Romance/Maintenance#New articles and see if these new articles need work such as project tagging or categorizing.
• If creating articles from scratch isn't your cuppa, there's plenty of other tasks that can help the project. Head on over to Maintenance for other things you can do to help!
• If you have any general Wikipedia questions, please feel free to ask at the Teahouse (a friendly place for new editors), Help desk (questions about how to use or edit Wikipedia), or if it's project-specific, on our Notice board (other questions related to the project). We also have a Help page with some common info gathered together.
• Scroll down this page to see our Current Focus, and an overview of our different 'departments'

Members

If you wish to join this project, please feel free to add your name to our Participants page!

In addition, participants and other Wikipedians who wish to show support for this project should feel free to add {{User WikiProject Romance}} to their user pages.

Outreach

We also have an Outreach department. If you'd like to invite an editor to the project, you'll find a handy template to add to their talk page!

Notice Board

Our Notice Board is the place to stop by if you have project questions, or wish to alert us about a project-related issue. If it's about something related to a specific department, like Assessment, please use that department's talk page.

Maintenance and improvement

We have a lot of things you can do to help maintain the articles in our project. Please visit this section for ideas and tasks!

Automation and templates

ROMANCE makes use of various templates. See the Automation page for details of these, including banners, talk page messages, and us.

Showcase

Our Showcase page is an automatically updated page that displays articles that have reached a certain status level on Wikipedia.

Guidelines

There is a lot of information involved in writing and maintaining quality articles. The following pages should help focus your search for creating and maintaining our project's articles

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Romance/Creating a new article - Notability guidelines are strict. Not every published author or book needs to be on Wikipedia. Learn what constitutes notability and how to create your page.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Romance/References - Articles must be cited with reliable sources. Learn what constitutes a reliable source, as well as a helpful list of romance industry sources. Includes a how-to cite guide.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Romance/Style guides - Articles have a better chance of ranking higher in assessment if it conforms to known style guides.

Article assessment

This project will aim to improve the quality and breadth of articles in the romance category and its subcategories using an assessment process. Project members are urged to take an active role in reviewing and identifying articles about romance.

The main To Do item for the Assessment division of this project is to assess the articles that are currently unassessed. It is also important to regularly check that the assessments of assessed articles are still appropriate, and to attend to requests for re-assessment posted to the main WikiProject Romance/Assessment page.

Most Popular

Our Most Popular page is an automatically updated page that displays articles ranked by how many people are viewing it. Updated monthly.