Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics
- Note: WP:COMIC now redirects here. The webcomic guidelines have been merged into WP:WEBCOMIC
Welcome to WikiProject Comics (WP:CMC), a project formed by Wikipedians to better organize information in articles related to comics. If you are interested in participating, why not see how you can get involved?
Hierarchy definition
- Literature: Comics
- Visual and Performing Arts: Visual arts: Comics
Mission Statement
This WikiProject aims to provide a centralized home for work done on Wikipedia articles about comics and sequential art and to coordinate members' efforts to prevent redundancy and resolve disputes.
Participants
WikiProject Comics now has over 100 participants! See Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/Participants for the full list Add yourself!
Userbox
| A userbox has been created for the purposes of identifying as a member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics. To insert it onto your user page, type {{User WPComics}}. The user box was created by User:Jamdav86 on 21 December 2005. |
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Goals
- Come to a consensus about the organization of comics-related articles
- Coordinate the editing of comics-related articles
- Develop comics-related articles into authoritative, high-quality reference material, making Wikipedia's comics coverage better than any existing reference book!
- Create a standard for the interpretation of copyright and fair use as it applies to the comic book articles. (See #Copyright for more information.)
Resources
- Getting Involved — A good place to start. Learn more about how you can be a part of this WikiProject.
- General strategy and discussion forum — Post your questions, comments, and concerns to this helpful and friendly talk page.
- Editorial Guidance — WikiProject Comics has a few guidelines that will help you improve your edits.
- Article format examples — This is where you will find the standard format for comics-related articles.
- WikiProject Comics Templates — These templates will aid you greatly in your editing.
- Copyright policies (Important) — WikiProject Comics has policies on copyright for Wikipedia comics articles either based on our consensus interpretation of Wikipedia:Fair use or agreements made with individual publishers. Unless stated otherwise, these are based on the interpretation of US copyright law.
- Other useful pages — This page will direct you to Wikipedia pages that will explain Wikipedia information relevent to your editing of comics-related articles.
Pages to patrol
Looking for something to do? These pages always have articles that could use your attention:
- Task List — Add or address article creation or cleanup requests,
- Category:Comics needing cleanup — These articles need cleanup work done, usually grammar, spelling, punctuation, proper tense (present, when describing fictional events), and plot summary reduction.
- Category:Wikipedia comics articles needing their fiction made clear - rewrite these articles from a real world perspective, per manual of style guidelines, or trim expansive in-universe sections.
- Category:Comics stubs — Expand these articles.
- Category:Wikipedia requested images-comics — These articles need images.
- WikiProject Comics Notice Board — Keep up-to-date on current creation, merge, and delete actions involving WikiProject articles, templates, and categories. Updating help is also always needed and appreciated.
- Category:Comics articles needing character boxes — Apply the {{superherobox}} teplate to the articles that need it.
- Category:Comics articles needing issue citations — Find reliable sources to support articles.
- Category:Discussion of future comics — The articles have time-sensitive information that will need to be updated to reflect when the event has happened. Articles should use dates rather than words like "current", "recent", or "soon".
Collaborations
- Comics Collaboration of the Month aims to improve an article to Featured Article-quality every month. Please see
- WikiProject Comics Cleanup pools resources to generally cleanup articles in need of major improvement.
Related WikiProjects
Related WikiProjects are: