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WikiProject Libraries

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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

Article alerts

Library alerts

Article alerts

Articles for deletion

• 14 Jun 2025 – Desasevini Grameena Vayanasala (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Smallangryplanet (t · c) was closed as merge by Explicit (t · c) on 22 Jun 2025; see discussion (4 participants)
• 13 Jun 2025 – Tehran Monolingual Corpus (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Suriname0 (t · c) was closed as delete by Eddie891 (t · c) on 20 Jun 2025; see discussion (4 participants)

Proposed deletions

• 21 Jun 2025 – Alamo Area Library System (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Bearian (t · c): Tagged as Unreferenced and unimproved for 15 years. Apparently no longer exists.

Files for discussion

• 06 Jun 2025 – File:Google books screenshot.png (talk · edit · hist) (on Google Books) was FfDed by JayCubby (t · c); see discussion

Featured article candidates

• 10 Jun 2025 – John J. Beckley (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by Generalissima (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 26 May 2025 – Old National Library Building (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Actuall7 (t · c); start discussion
• 08 Feb 2025 – Augustina Gabel (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Venzz (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 08 Jun 2025 – Library of Congress Classification:Class D -- History, General and Old World (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Library of Congress Classification: Class D – World History and History of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Etc. by BarrelProof (t · c); see discussion
• 08 Jun 2025 – Library of Congress Classification:Class Q -- Science (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Library of Congress Classification: Class Q – Science by BarrelProof (t · c); see discussion
• 08 Jun 2025 – Library of Congress Classification:Class J -- Political science (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Library of Congress Classification: Class J – Political Science by BarrelProof (t · c); see discussion
• 08 Jun 2025 – Library of Congress Classification:Class L -- Education (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Library of Congress Classification: Class L – Education by BarrelProof (t · c); see discussion
• 08 Jun 2025 – Library of Congress Classification:Class H -- Social sciences (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Library of Congress Classification: Class H – Social Sciences by BarrelProof (t · c); see discussion
• 08 Jun 2025 – Library of Congress Classification:Class S -- Agriculture (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Library of Congress Classification: Class S – Agriculture by BarrelProof (t · c); see discussion
• 08 Jun 2025 – Library of Congress Classification:Class R -- Medicine (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Library of Congress Classification: Class R – Medicine by BarrelProof (t · c); see discussion
• 08 Jun 2025 – Library of Congress Classification:Class V -- Naval Science (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Library of Congress Classification: Class V – Naval Science by BarrelProof (t · c); see discussion
• 08 Jun 2025 – Library of Congress Classification:Class G -- Geography. Anthropology. Recreation (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Library of Congress Classification: Class G – Geography. Anthropology. Recreation by BarrelProof (t · c); see discussion
• 08 Jun 2025 – Library of Congress Classification:Class T -- Technology (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Library of Congress Classification: Class T – Technology by BarrelProof (t · c); see discussion

(10 more...)

Articles to be merged

• 20 Jun 2025 – National Science Library and Resource Centre (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka by Bearian (t · c); 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

• 17 Jun 2025 – Draft:Project Look Sharp (Ithaca College) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 192.190.167.44 (t · c)

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Museum alerts

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Did you know

• 19 Jun 2025 – Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Yakikaki (t · c); see discussion
• 14 Jun 2025 – Audrey Hawthorn (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by DaffodilOcean (t · c); see discussion
• 13 May 2025 – Big Stone County Museum (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Paul2520 (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

• 23 Jun 2025 – James Hastings (model ship maker) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Moritoriko (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
• 28 May 2025 – Randy Cooper (Model maker) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Theroadislong (t · c); see discussion (19 participants; relisted)
• 13 Jun 2025 – Discovery Museum (Netherlands) (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by GoldRomean (t · c) was closed as keep by Mojo Hand (t · c) on 20 Jun 2025; see discussion (5 participants)

Proposed deletions

• 21 Jun 2025 – Departmental Museum of archaeology Gilort (Jérôme) Carcopino (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Bearian (t · c): Tagged as Unreferenced and unimproved for over 15 years. Essay-like page needs to be re-written from scratch: see WP:TNT.

Good article nominees

• 09 May 2025 – 1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Daniel Case (t · c); start discussion
• 17 Apr 2025 – HMS Victory (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Ykraps (t · c); see discussion

Featured article reviews

• 14 May 2025 – West Wycombe Park (talk · edit · hist) was put up for FA review by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion

Good article reassessments

• 10 Jun 2025 – Madame Tussauds Hong Kong (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Dentsinhere43 (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 22 May 2025 – Dippy (London) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Dippy (statue) by The Morrison Man (t · c); see discussion
• 09 May 2025 – Jordan Archaeological Museum (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Amman Citadel by UnknownLifeform3 (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 28 Mar 2022 – Georgia Music Hall of Fame (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by AjaxSmack (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 22 Jun 2025 – Draft:Kucha Wei-Jin Tomb Museum (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Kerdipole (t · c)
• 18 Jun 2025 – Draft:Video Game Museum of CADPA (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 周也 (t · c)
• 16 Jun 2025 – Draft:St. Louis County Historical Society (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Ahaukebo (t · c)
• 05 Jun 2025 – Draft:Neon (organization) (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Np 7 13 (t · c) was accepted to Neon (organization) (talk · edit · hist) by Timtrent (t · c) on 21 Jun 2025

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Metrics

Articles assessed for quality: 99.7% complete

100% of articles Start-Class or better: 67.3% complete

(6065/9013)

• 4.9% List-Class
• 27.7% Stub-Class
• 49.4% Start-Class
• 13.7% C-Class
• 3.2% B-Class
• 0.6% GA-Class
• 0.2% FA-Class
• 0.3% remaining

Libraries articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA			1	8			9
FL		1	2	6			9
FM					17		17
GA	1	3	10	40			54
B	5	17	55	203		9	289
C	12	37	151	1,002		33	1,235
Start	6	58	383	3,953		69	4,469
Stub		12	73	2,380		43	2,508
List	4	5	57	367		7	440
Category					2,671		2,671
Disambig					17		17
File					42		42
Project					25		25
Redirect		4	62	126	332		524
Template					104		104
Other					23		23
Assessed	28	137	794	8,085	3,231	161	12,436
Unassessed				1		28	29
Total	28	137	794	8,086	3,231	189	12,465
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 43,308			Ω = 5.06

See also

See also all subpages of WikiProject Libraries.

Related WikiProjects

• WikiProject Bibliographies
• WikiProject Biography/Science and academia
• WikiProject History of Science
• WikiProject Academic Journals
• WikiProject Digital Preservation
• WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles
• List of missing journals
• WikiProject Reference works

Additional resources

• Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check
• Category:Wikipedia resources for researchers
• Category:Wikipedian librarians
• German Wikipedia: Library Reference Service
• COinS in Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:ISBN
• GLAM
• The Wikipedia Library
• {{Authority control}}

Projects of the Wikimedia Foundation

• b:Introduction to Library and Information Science
• m:Wikicat
• v:Learning Project

External links

• Libweb - Library WWW Servers
• LISWiki