Wikipedia:WikiProject Libraries
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WikiProject Libraries
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Table of contents
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).
To do
icon To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Libraries: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2022年05月29日
Here are some tasks awaiting attention:
- Article requests :
- Assess :
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- 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 (131)
- 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)
Article alerts
Library alerts
Articles for deletion
- 03 Dec 2025 – Refbase (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Silver seren (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 18 Nov 2025 – Internet Archive's Children's Library (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Piotrus (t · c) was closed as merge by Left guide (t · c) on 29 Nov 2025; see discussion (3 participants; relisted)
Good article nominees
- 13 Nov 2025 – Eratosthenes (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by TouchedWithFire (t · c); see 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
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
- 25 Oct 2025 – Draft:Alexis Babine (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Sidtiller (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)
- undated – Draft:KMUTT Library (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC
- 17 Nov 2025 – Draft:Agnes E. Law (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Lucymarous (t · c) was declined by SafariScribe (t · c) on 27 Nov 2025
- 25 Oct 2025 – Draft:Lillian Griggs (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Blustory (t · c) was accepted to Lillian Griggs (talk · edit · hist) by MCE89 (t · c) on 01 Dec 2025
- 09 Oct 2025 – Draft:Sarah K. Vann (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Ashraer (t · c) was declined by BenTanXiaoMing (t · c) on 02 Dec 2025
- 30 Sep 2025 – Draft:La Grange Public Library (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Augendandaddend (t · c) was accepted to La Grange Public Library (talk · edit · hist) by Monkeysmashingkeyboards (t · c) on 02 Dec 2025
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Museum alerts
Did you know
- 02 Nov 2025 – Berlin Papyrus Collection (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by WatkynBassett (t · c); see discussion
Proposed deletions
- 28 Nov 2025 – Discovery Village (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by RevelationDirect (t · c): I came to the article because it's categorized as a museum but appears to be a local child care center. I can update the categories of course but I'm not sure it meets WP:GNG or WP:NCORP. The current article only cites the company website and ...
Redirects for discussion
- 03 Dec 2025 – Ely+Educational+Museum (talk · edit · hist) →Ely Educational Museum was RfDed by Steel1943 (t · c); see discussion
- 03 Dec 2025 – Reading+Museum+and+Art+Gallery (talk · edit · hist) →Reading Museum was RfDed by Steel1943 (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
- 28 Nov 2025 – The Children's Museum (Pennsylvania) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Bloomsburg Children's Museum by RevelationDirect (t · c); see discussion
- 24 Nov 2025 – List of museums in Tyrol (federal state) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to List of museums in Tyrol (state) by OpalYosutebito (t · c); see discussion
- 24 Nov 2025 – List of museums in Salzburg (federal state) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to List of museums in Salzburg (state) by OpalYosutebito (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)
- 27 Nov 2025 – Draft:Lost Atlantis Experience (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by MuseumAdventurer (t · c) was declined by Pythoncoder (t · c) on 01 Dec 2025
- 26 Nov 2025 – Draft:Child museum (Chile) (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by STBan73 (t · c) was declined by Johannes Maximilian (t · c) on 27 Nov 2025
- 25 Nov 2025 – Draft:List of art galleries in New Zealand (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by RFKTNG (t · c) was moved to List of art galleries in New Zealand (talk · edit · hist) by Molems (t · c) on 27 Nov 2025
- 24 Nov 2025 – Draft:Edwin Thomas Hughes (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Avansardar (t · c) was declined by Pythoncoder (t · c) on 01 Dec 2025
- 20 Nov 2025 – Draft:New Mexico Mineral Museum (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by JohnRakovan (t · c) was deleted
- 31 Oct 2025 – Draft:Jean Hershner (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by 2600:1700:5860:3AC0:68B2:64EE:4EF7:6770 (t · c) was declined by Ultraodan (t · c) on 02 Dec 2025
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Metrics
Articles assessed for quality: 99.8% complete
100% of articles Start-Class or better: 68.2% complete
(6229/9128)
- 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 | ||||||
| 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 | 46 | 1,322 | |
| Start | 5 | 59 | 379 | 3,983 | 100 | 4,526 | |
| Stub | 12 | 72 | 2,342 | 52 | 2,478 | ||
| List | 4 | 6 | 40 | 371 | 421 | ||
| Category | 2,699 | 2,699 | |||||
| Disambig | 20 | 20 | |||||
| File | 42 | 42 | |||||
| Project | 25 | 25 | |||||
| Redirect | 4 | 8 | 141 | 342 | 495 | ||
| Template | 105 | 105 | |||||
| NA | 4 | 4 | |||||
| Other | 27 | 27 | |||||
| Assessed | 28 | 139 | 735 | 8,177 | 3,281 | 202 | 12,562 |
| Unassessed | 17 | 17 | |||||
| Total | 28 | 139 | 735 | 8,177 | 3,281 | 219 | 12,579 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 43,757 | Ω = 5.04 | |||||
See also
- See also all subpages of WikiProject Libraries.
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