WP:WikiProject Fictional characters
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===WikiProject Fictional characters===
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Welcome to WikiProject Fictional characters on Wikipedia! We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of fictional characters.
For more information on WikiProjects, see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.
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|The project covers all articles relating to fictional characters of all media. This includes supervision of individual character articles, lists of characters and general articles about characters.
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|WikiProject Fictional character's main goals are to:
- Improve Wikipedia's coverage of fictional characters.
- Create guidelines for articles about fictional characters.
- Attempt to provide sources indicating notability for characters.
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|If you want to get involved with the project, please add your name to the list of members. There is a userbox available for members of this project. Please feel free to put this on your userpage by adding {{tl|User WPCHAR}}.
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=Tasks=
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=Guidelines and Essays=
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- Manual of Style: Writing about fiction
- Wikipedia:Source your plot summaries
- Notability (fiction)
- General notability guideline
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|The resources below may contain scholarly, critical analysis on fictional topics, which can help to establish notability, provide real world context, and move articles beyond simple plot descriptions.
- [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291540-5931 The Journal of Popular Culture] (subscription required)
- [http://mpcaaca.org/the-popular-culture-studies-journal/ The Popular Culture Studies Journal]
- [http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/ Science Fiction Studies]