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This WikiProject aims to improve and organise Wikipedia's series of articles related to Terry Pratchett's Discworld. This page and its subpages contain discussions and pages useful for co-ordinating this effort; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please place your name in the participants list below and take a look (here and at the talk page) at what you can do.

Activities

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There is a huge amount of work to do to get Wikipedia's coverage of Discworld up to scratch. Pick a task from the todo list above, and get to work! Or, if you're up for a larger challenge, pick one of the bigger tasks below.

Development

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We have a number of articles that could easily be developed to GA or FA status with just a bit more work.

Potential Featured articles

Terry Pratchett The Colour of Magic (TV film)

Potential Good articles

Death (Discworld)

Participants

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  • Wouldnt miss it. Count me in. Jordan Timothy James Busson
  • Another excuse to read Terry Pratchett?? Like I need one... I'm in!! Mayalekhni
  • violet/riga (t)
  • Sign me up! hfool/Wazzup? 02:17, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • I'll be watching, too; the Diskworld coverage could use some cleanup. Wyvern 03:01, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • I'll do what I can. I'm going to college though, so don't expect too much. Auric The Rad 22:26, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)* Litefantastic 19:45, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • I can do some cleaning up at least. - Jeltz talk 19:11, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • You're asking if I'm in? Does a Morporkian Assasssin inhume people? Jack Sparra
  • Sorry it took me so long to respond. I'm happy to help - Daibhid C 21:37 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Will help out. Terry Pratchett has always been one of my favourite writers. Inter\Echo 01:32, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • I'm in! --CAnderson 01:46, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)
  • I only just found out this existed... like, wow -- Francs2000 | Talk 17:53, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • I just went on a Discworld binge, so I've covered about 75% of the books . . . drop me a line (after July 2005) if anything needs doing.

Escheffel 3 July 2005 05:59 (UTC)

Structure

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Parentage

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This project is a daughter project of WikiProject Novels

Goals

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  1. To detail the novels and fictional world of Terry Pratchett's Discworld
  2. To ensure the detail is structured as well as possible

Stylistic conventions

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There are a growing number of stylistic conventions that WikiProject Discworld seeks to enforce; some are derived from the Manual of Style, others are of our own making. If you see an error in a Discworld article, fix it now!!

  1. When talking about the books use italics: ''[[Discworld]]''Discworld
  2. When talking about the Discworld world itself, use regular font and link to the correct article: the [[Discworld (world)|Discworld]]Discworld
  3. All articles should link to both of the above articles where sensible, but avoid overlinking!
  4. All book titles should be italicised and linked on their first appearance.


Templates

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WikiProject Discworld maintains the following templates which should be added as appropriate to articles within our scope.

Infoboxes

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These should be used at the top of the relevant articles.

{{Infobox book}} to be placed on all novel articles Has been placed on all novel articles.

{{Infobox short story}} to be placed on all short story articles

{{Infobox character}} to be placed on all character articles

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These navbars should be placed at the bottom of the articles. All the articles listed on a template should have that template on them.

{{Discworld books}} to be placed on all novel articles

Other

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Talk page banner

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Our talk-page WikiProject banner is {{WikiProject Discworld}}:

WikiProject iconDiscworld (defunct)
WikiProject iconThis article is within the scope of WikiProject Discworld, a project which is currently considered to be defunct.

This banner should be added to the talk page of any article that could be within our scope. There are various parameters that can be defined to mark the article for cleanup in various ways: see the template documentation for details.

Userbox

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To show the world that you are working on this WikiProject, you can add the following userbox to your profile using {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Discworld/userbox}}.

DWThis user is a member of WikiProject Discworld.


Category:WikiProject Discworld Discworld