This is a temporary homepage for the proposed WikiProject Bibliography. The goal of the project is to dramatically expand Wikipedia's coverage of secondary source material on article subjects. The benefits of having this particular resource available are many, but include the possibility to reducing criticism that Wikipedia is "unsourced" and "unreliable", because if people don't want to trust the written online content, the site will also provide many suggestions for further reading. If editors can be persuaded to think of other published sources as just another kind of information to be included in articles, bibliographic coverage should improve fairly quickly.
Scope edit
This project will affect every article in Wikipedia, and will benefit from the contributions of every editor. In a perfect universe, the project will spawn a sister project that will be as well-integrated as Commons, allowing users to post bibliographic information to a central database and easily find and add the information to articles on Wikipedia.
Goals edit
- Create a "bibliography" section on all articles
- Populate this section with information on all published works on the subject of the article
- Establish guidelines for standardizing quality of sources listed
- Promote awareness of the project by placing project templates on high-profile articles
- Get everyone involved!
Guidelines edit
- Remember that a list of further reading is not the same as the references section that most pages already have. References are works that were specifically used in the writing of the article: these books can be listed again in the general bibliography, but they should always be listed as references. The bibliography or further reading section can and should include works that were not cited in the article, but that would be of interest to people who want to learn more about the subject.
- For a good example of an extensive bibliography, see Meister Eckhart.
- List only works that you are familiar with. If you can, provide a short description of the book's content.
- For example: Tobin, Frank. Meister Eckhart: Thought and Language, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1986. an in-depth study of Eckhart's use of language
Tasks edit
List pages that would be good places to start this project off. Good candidates are articles that have a lot of material published about them, and that many people are interested in. There is a template that you can use to alert others to the project: {{subst:BiblioProject}}
- The Beatles (added by Cantara 00:09, 2 April 2006 (UTC))