Wikipedia:WikiProject Sherlock Holmes

Welcome to WikiProject Sherlock Holmes. Some Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Sherlock Holmes and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

Goals

• This project is dedicated to creating, improving, and maintaining articles related to Sherlock Holmes, including articles on the characters, stories, other media adaptations, and related subjects.

Scope

• The scope of this project is all articles related to Sherlock Holmes. These articles should all be placed in the Category:Sherlock Holmes or one of its subcategories.

Open tasks

• Sherlock fandom needs to be expanded.

Participants

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1. Prajaktawalimbe (talk · contribs)
2. John Carter (talk · contribs)
3. Police,Mad,Jack (talk · contribs) 21:35, 12 February 2008 (UTC) Mainly interested in Profiling and the police aspect etc.
4. Autarch
5. Jmeisen (talk · contribs) (Extremely familiar with stories and Sherlockian interpretation/speculation. I have lots of ref works.)--Jmeisen (talk) 21:42, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
6. Marguerite de Navarre (talk · contribs)
7. ThaddeusSholto (talk · contribs)
8. Morphovariant (talk · contribs) (I am interested in working on adaptations and derivative works related to the original stories) Morphovariant (talk) 01:25, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
9. WARNER one (talk · contribs)
10. Maxim Stoyalov
11. Akuchling (talk · contribs)
12. Allthegoodnamesaretaken2 (talk) 15:08, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
13. Doromiant314 (talk · contribs)
14. EdGl (talk · contribs) 15:04, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
15. Miles26 (talk · contribs) 19:46, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
16. Dreadlock Holmes (talk · contribs) (I am interested in working on all things related to Sherlock Holmes)
17. Jack234567 (talk · contribs)

Articles

Recognized content

Sherlock Holmes articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA			1	1			2
FL		1					1
GA		1	3			2	6
B	3	1	3	3		1	11
C	1	6	5	10		5	27
Start		62	38	82		31	213
Stub			12	36		15	63
List			2	2		8	12
NA				5	55		60
Assessed	4	71	64	139	55	62	395
Total	4	71	64	139	55	62	395
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 1,596			Ω = 4.96

Featured content

• Sherlock Holmes Baffled
• Sherlock Holmes (1939 film series)

Good articles

• Robert Downey Jr.
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
• Benedict Cumberbatch
• Sherlock (TV series)
• "His Last Vow"
• "The Hounds of Baskerville"

Did You Knows (DYKs)

• Did you know... that The Baker Street Journal has been called "the leading publication" in the study of Sherlock Holmes? - on the Main Page on December 23, 2018
• Did you know...that in the 1937 program The Three Garridebs, Louis Hector became the first actor to portray Sherlock Holmes on television? - on the Main Page on January 28, 2018
• Did you know...that only Reginald Owen, Carleton Hobbs, and Jeremy Brett, and Patrick Macnee have portrayed both Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson professionally, with Macnee portraying Holmes in The Hound of London? - on the Main Page on March 2, 2012.
• Did you know... that as a boy Charlie Chaplin appeared on stage in Sherlock Holmes? — on the Main Page on January 22, 2012.
• Did you know... that Undershaw (pictured), which is currently proposed for redevelopment, was built as the family residence of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes? — on the Main Page on August 30, 2010.
• Did you know... that the 1900 Mutoscope film Sherlock Holmes Baffled (pictured) was the first film appearance of Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes? — on the Main Page on February 10, 2010.
• Did you know... that in 1887, D. H. Friston became the first illustrator to depict Sherlock Holmes? — on the Main Page on December 10, 2008.
• Did you know... that the upcoming film Sherlock Holmes revolves around Holmes and Watson, played by Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law, stopping a conspiracy to destroy Britain? — on the Main Page on October 10, 2008.
• Did you know... that French anarchist Theodule Meunier, responsible for several bombings in Paris in 1902, was featured as a Sherlock Holmes antagonist in René Réouven's L'Assassin du Boulevard? — on the Main Page on January 3, 2008.
• Did you know... that the controversy over the portrayals of Mormons in popular media includes Arthur Conan Doyle's very first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet? — on the Main Page on August 13, 2006.

Formerly recognized content

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Categories

• Category:Sherlock Holmes

Resources