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Welcome to the Middle-earth WikiProject's main page. This Wikiproject was created on 23 November 2005 and activated and merged with the Silmarillion WikiProject on 1 March 2006. This project is an effort to bring order, class, and professionalism to all Tolkien-related articles and media. These include Tolkien's writings, film adaptations of his works, and other works inspired by Tolkien.

If you are interested in joining this collaborated wikiproject, please see the participants section to join.

Scope and goals

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Mission statement

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Our mission is to focus collaboratively on efforts to promote interaction, co-operation, and communication among members in order to improve Wikipedia's encyclopedic coverage of Tolkien's legendarium. For examples of articles that have reached an elited state of class see below.

Scope

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Our members cover articles that have anything to do with a range of the following:

  • Tolkien's novels, characters, places, events, poetry, etc.
  • analysis, themes, influences, scholars and their books.
  • adaptations in film and games, film scholarship.
  • Tolkien-related books, events, and fandom.

Goals

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Our goals include:

  1. To standardize Tolkien-related articles to follow this WikiProject's style guidelines
  2. To follow Wikipedia's notability guidelines, to reduce what should not be done.
  3. To improve Tolkien-related articles up to Good Article, Featured Article/or Featured List

Participants

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You may wish to identify yourself as a participant by adding {{User WikiProject Middle-earth}} on your own user page. This will add your username to the list of participants in Category:WikiProject Middle-earth participants (unless you use |nocat=true to prevent it).

General guide

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Tolkien articles by quality statistics (worklist) :
Tolkien articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
  FA 1 1 2 4
  FL 1 1
  GA 9 50 108 66 233
B 9 45 59 113
C 29 75 1 105
Start 129 129
Stub 2 2
List 2 6 11 1 20
Category 171 171
Disambig 34 34
File 23 82 105
Project 3 3
Redirect 2 6 568 576
Template 43 43
NA 2 2
Other 1 4 5
Assessed 10 61 194 374 907 1,546
Unassessed 1 1
Total 10 61 194 374 907 1 1,547
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 1,882 Ω = 3.21

What you should do

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What you should not do

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  • Anything that Wikipedia is not follows here as well.
    • No point-of-view, please!
    • No editorial speculation, no editorial assumptions, no fan theories.
    • No Original Research, no unsourced claims.
    • No vandalism, and no revert wars either, see the discussion page for details to sort out any quarrels you may have with others peacefully.

Differences between this WikiProject and a Tolkien fansite

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How Wikipedia's coverage of Middle-earth differs from a fansite's
Item Fan websites Wikipedia
Approach In-universe, mass of plot detail, unsourced or with Primary (Tolkien) sources only External, for general readers, Reliably Sourced
Authority J. R. R. Tolkien Reliable Sources – literary critics, scholars, news, critics of games and films
Principle for inclusion Interest to Tolkien fans Notability, substantial coverage by multiple reliable independent sources
Objects worth discussing Internal details: plot, character, place, relationship, clothing, ... External aspects: themes, influences, real-world events, style, poetry, literary traditions, ...
Coverage of Tolkien Every aspect Brief plot summary, avoiding being undue or copyright issues
Attitude to scholarship It's speculative and irrelevant, not in the canon Necessary component of literary articles
Style Tolkienesque, pseudo-medieval Plain, encyclopedic

Improve Outline of Middle-earth

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The outline of Middle-earth is a centralized navigation hub for the subject of Middle-earth, arranged as a hierarchical topics list. It is part of Wikipedia's outline system which is one of Wikipedia's contents systems. It was built as a "reverse outline", a structural model of existing work, which in addition to being a summary of the work, can reveal the gaps and other weaknesses for revision purposes.

Please look it over and fill-in missing topics. If Wikipedia has an article or article section about those topics, please add links to them.

Accomplishments

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Good articles

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Over 200 articles, including:

The Lord of the Rings
Other writings
Characters
Places
Battles
Other things
Themes
Influences
Literary devices
Reception and study
Peter Jackson's films
Other moving pictures
Games
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Award Scheme

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Please award this star to whoever has contributed a great amount to Middle-earth related articles.

Image What to type Description
  {{subst:Tolkien barnstar|message ~~~~}} The Middle-earth WikiProject Award is awarded to Wikipedians for their contributions to Wikipedia stuff related to J. R. R. Tolkien. This is part of WikiProject Middle-earth. Designed and introduced by Uthanc using graphics by Aranel.
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