Wikipedia:WikiProject Science Fiction

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This is WikiProject Science Fiction, a collaboration area for Wikipedians interested in improving coverage of Science Fiction. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate!

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This is the page for the Science Fiction WikiProject (or if you prefer, "sf" or "speculative fiction"). If you would like to participate, add your name to list of participants below. Be sure to check out the discussion page as well.

Project overview

This project focuses on creating and improving content related to science fiction and coordinating the creation of guidelines and best practices related to science fiction, SF fandom, speculative fiction, science fiction studies, etc. While there are many specific WikiProjects oriented around film and television franchises, this project is intended to deal with Wikipedia's science fiction coverage in general, as well as coordinate work on science fiction literature, on science fiction history and criticism, and on science fiction fandom.

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Assessment

Science fiction articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	2	23	48	65		1	139
FL		4	29	22			55
A				2			2
GA	2	28	112	521		2	665
B	19	77	142	508		9	755
C	12	106	326	2,320		46	2,810
Start	9	62	375	3,747	1	78	4,272
Stub		46	41	1,441		37	1,565
List	5	21	57	380		5	468
Category					2,816		2,816
Disambig					38		38
File					810		810
Portal					2		2
Project					26		26
Redirect		1	32	390	2,461		2,884
Template					308		308
Other					95		95
Assessed	49	368	1,162	9,396	6,557	178	17,710
Unassessed				1		278	279
Total	49	368	1,162	9,397	6,557	456	17,989
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 45,582			Ω = 4.47

This project will aim to improve the quality and breadth of articles in the science fiction category and its subcategories using an assessment process. Project members are urged to take an active role in reviewing and identifying articles about science fiction.

The main To Do item for the Assessment division of this project is to assess the articles that are currently unassessed. It is also important to regularly check that the assessments of assessed articles are still appropriate, and to attend to requests for re-assessment posted to the main WikiProject Science Fiction/Assessment page.

Using the metadata script to display article assessment

If you would like to participate in assessment activities, you may find it helpful to turn on a metadata script that displays an article's assessment when you are viewing any article. In order to do that, click on your "My preferences" link at the top of the page, then the Gadgets category, and check the box under Appearance for "Display an assessment of an article's quality as part of the page header for each article."

Project status

Milestones

Project created: 12 December 2006.
WikiProject is added to the "Articles by quality" Index: 16 January 2007.

To do

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Develop this project
- Improve this page
- Review Wikipedia:WikiProject Science Fiction/Assessment assessment process.

Invite active editors who write for science fiction-related articles to join the project.

Rewrite the science fiction main page to make it a good article.
- Reorganization: done
- New sections: done
- Summarization (WP:SIZE): done
- Sources: done
- Peer review: to be done

Make sure all of the images used by articles in this project comply with the Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria policy.

Create requested articles.
Add sources to Unreferenced BLPs.

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Today's featured articles

07 Nov 2024 – Starship Troopers (film) (talk · edit · hist) will be Today's Featured Article; see blurb

Did you know

29 Oct 2024 – Timeless Voyage (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by PARAKANYAA (t · c); see discussion
20 Oct 2024 – Feelie (Brave New World) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Crisco 1492 (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

04 Nov 2024 – List of horror fiction writers (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Isaidnoway (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
04 Nov 2024 – List of Chaotic characters (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Conyo14 (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
29 Oct 2024 – List of Starship Excelsior episodes (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mika1h (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
23 Oct 2024 – Tralfamadore (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Jontesta (t · c); see discussion (8 participants; relisted)
20 Oct 2024 – Beauxbatons (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mousymouse (t · c); see discussion (6 participants; relisted)
28 Oct 2024 – Despoilers of the Golden Empire (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by JMWt (t · c) was closed as merge by Liz (t · c) on 04 Nov 2024; see discussion (5 participants)
26 Oct 2024 – Star Wars: Crosscurrent (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Mika1h (t · c) was closed as redirect by Explicit (t · c) on 02 Nov 2024; see discussion (3 participants)
25 Oct 2024 – Aoife Burke (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Tacyarg (t · c) was closed as delete by Liz (t · c) on 01 Nov 2024; see discussion (7 participants)
23 Oct 2024 – Psychohistory (fictional science) (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Jontesta (t · c) was closed as redirect by Asilvering (t · c) on 30 Oct 2024; see discussion (10 participants)
23 Oct 2024 – List of stars and planets in fiction (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by TompaDompa (t · c) was closed as delete by Liz (t · c) on 30 Oct 2024; see discussion (14 participants)

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Categories for discussion

30 Oct 2024 – Category:Ice planets in fiction (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Zxcvbnm (t · c); see discussion
30 Oct 2024 – Category:Marvel Comics planets (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Zxcvbnm (t · c); see discussion
30 Oct 2024 – Category:Ecumenopolises (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Zxcvbnm (t · c); see discussion
22 Oct 2024 – Category:Counter-Earths (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Zxcvbnm (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Files for discussion

31 Oct 2024 – File:Barsoom map.jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on Barsoom) was FfDed by Zxcvbnm (t · c); see discussion

Recognized content

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged (e.g. {{WikiProject Science Fiction}}) or categorized correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

Featured articles

Former featured articles

Featured article candidates

Overdrawn at the Memory Bank

Featured lists

Former featured lists

A-Class articles

Good articles

Former good articles

Good article nominees

Featured topics

Gaylactic Spectrum Awards

Good topics

Former featured topics

Featured portals

Portal:Speculative fiction

Featured pictures

In the News articles

Avatar (2009 film) (2010-01-26)
Ray Bradbury (2012-06-06)
Jack Vance (2013-05-30)
Iain Banks (2013-06-09)
Doctor Who (2013-08-05)
Twelfth Doctor (2013-08-05)
Frederik Pohl (2013-09-03)
Human cloning (2014-04-19)
Daniel Keyes (2014-06-18)
George Clayton Johnson (2015-12-30)
The Obelisk Gate (2017-08-13)
Ursula K. Le Guin (2018-01-24)
Peter Nicholls (writer) (2018-03-07)
Harlan Ellison (2018-07-01)
Hugo Award for Best Novel (2018-08-21)
N. K. Jemisin (2018-08-21)
The Stone Sky (2018-08-21)
The Testaments (2019-10-20)
Alasdair Gray (2020-01-01)
Syd Mead (2020-01-02)
Mike Resnick (2020-01-12)
Gudrun Pausewang (2020-01-27)
Grant Imahara (2020-07-14)
Ben Bova (2020-12-01)
Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff (2022-01-04)
Annette McCarthy (2023-01-19)
Vernor Vinge (2024-03-27)

Picture of the day pictures

File:Edgar Allan Poe 2.jpg (2007-06-01)
File:Félix Nadar 1820-1910 portraits Jules Verne (restoration).jpg (2016-02-08)
File:Edgar Allan Poe, circa 1849, restored, squared off.jpg (2019-10-07)
File:Utah Desert Monolith.jpg (2021-11-18)
File:Le Voyage dans la lune (black and white, 1902).webm (2022-09-01)
File:Orson Welles War of the Worlds 1938.jpg (2025-05-06)
File:Jules Verne by Étienne Carjat.jpg (2028-02-02)

B-Class articles

C-Class articles

Concourse

Check Wikipedia:WikiProject Science Fiction/Concourse for more information.

Templates

{{User WP SF}} -- WikiProject Science Fiction userbox; project members may include this on their user pages

This user is a member of WikiProject Science Fiction.

{{SciFi Barnstar}} -- The Science Fiction barnstar; can be awarded for exceptional work

		The Science Fiction Barnstar

There is also an alternate version, {{SciFi Barnstar|alt}}

		The Science Fiction Barnstar

{{WikiProject Science Fiction}} -- project banner for talk pages of related articles, categories and templates. Adding this template informs readers about this project and allows us to receive alerts.

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Science Fiction Unassessed

	Speculative fiction portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Science Fiction, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of science fiction on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Science FictionWikipedia:WikiProject Science FictionTemplate:WikiProject Science Fictionscience fiction articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

{{Infobox writer}} -- infobox for science fiction writers
- {{Biography}} -- sample layout for biographical articles
{{Science fiction}} -- navbox to be placed at bottom of most SF articles

Key policies and guidelines

References

Main : Wikipedia:WikiProject Science Fiction/References

This is a list of sites which contain useful information and references which can be used. Feel free to add more.

The Catalog of Copyright Entries - useful for determining if a work has gone out of copyright (good for covers of books, magazines, etc.)

Key articles

Related WikiProjects

Film and television

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