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WikiProject Comics
This project is about comics.
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Welcome to WikiProject Comics, a project formed by Wikipedians to increase, expand, improve, and better organize articles related to comics in Wikipedia, the largest encyclopedia in the world. We rely on comics enthusiasts worldwide to make this the best comics encyclopaedia on the web. If you are interested in participating, why not see how you can get involved.

If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

Scope

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The scope of WikiProject Comics is improve the vast expanse of knowledge that comics have become. This WikiProject will attempt to cover all comics-related information included on Wikipedia. We will do this through volunteer contributors and editors. If you are interested in joining the WikiProject, please feel free to add your name to the Participants list below, and find yourself an article to adopt.

Mission statement

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This WikiProject aims to provide a centralized home for work done on Wikipedia articles about comics and sequential art and to coordinate members' efforts to prevent redundancy and resolve disputes.

Goals

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The project aims primarily to:

  1. Provide a forum to discuss the editing and organization of comics-related articles.
  2. Promote collaboration toward the development of comics-related articles into authoritative, high-quality material.
  3. Create a standard for the interpretation of copyright and fair use as it applies to the comic book articles (see Wikipedia's comics-related view on copyright material for more information).
  4. Maintain the portal.

Participants

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WikiProject Comics now has over 600 participants! See Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/Participants for the full list.

How to join

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Add yourself to the list of members by going to the list here.

Once you've done that, you can also place Template:User WP Comics on your user page; this displays one of the following userboxes:

This templates will add your user page to Category:WikiProject Comics participants.

Finally, please add the project page to watchlist.

Talking to other participants

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You can use the project's talk page to talk to other members.

Members are welcome to join our project chat on the unofficial Wikimedia Discord server. Please see WP:Discord for more information.

WikiProject Comics userbox templates

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Wikitext userbox where used
{{User WP Comics}}
This user is a participant in
WikiProject Comics.
 linked pages
{{User WP Webcomics}}
This user is a participant in WikiProject Webcomics.
 linked pages
{{User Batman work group}}
This user is a member of the
Batman work group.
 linked pages
{{User British comics work group}}
This user is a member of the
British comics work group.
 linked pages
{{User Canadian comics work group}}
This user is a member of the
Canadian comics work group.
 linked pages
{{User Comic book films task force}}
This user participates in the
Comic book films task force.
 linked pages
{{User Comic strips work group}}
This user is a member of the
Comic strips work group.
 linked pages
{{User Comics creators work group}}
This user is a member of the
Comics creators work group.
 linked pages
{{User DC Comics work group}}
This user is a member of the
DC Comics work group.
 linked pages
{{User European comics work group}}
This user is a member of the
European comics work group.
 linked pages
{{User Marvel Comics work group}}
This user is a member of the
Marvel Comics work group.
 linked pages
{{User Spider-Man work group}}
This user is a member of the
Spider-Man work group.
 linked pages
{{User Superman work group}}
This user is a member of the
Superman work group.
 linked pages
{{User United States comics work group}}
This user is a member of the
United States comics work group.
 linked pages
{{User World comics work group}}
This user is a member of the
World comics work group.
 linked pages


Please see Wikipedia:Userboxes/Media/Comics for other comics userbox templates.

Hierarchy definition

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Workgroups

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See Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/Workgroups

Overview

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WikiProject Comics
Information
Archives
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, Contents
Threads older than 20 days may
be archived by MiszaBot II.
Departments
Project organization
Resources
Task forces
Comics Portal
  • Getting Involved – A good place to start. Learn more about how you can be a part of this WikiProject.
  • General discussion forum – Post your questions, comments, and concerns to this helpful and friendly talk page. This is the central page to visit for general discussion of the project. You can see what other editors are working on, ask questions, and keep track of the project's progress.
  • The Notice Board keeps editors apprised of comics articles whose talk pages are involved in ongoing debates; merge, move, and delete proposals involving WikiProject articles; and other discussions of interest. Editors of articles can also announce new articles and projects and request comment from uninvolved editors. Updating help is also always needed and appreciated.
  • Manual of Style (comics) explains proper grammar and formatting for comics articles.
  • Exemplars shows the standard format for comics-related articles, and gives some examples of accepted article structure.
  • Naming conventions describes the best ways to name new articles.
  • References – This page lists some comics-related references to aid in sourcing your edits of comics-related articles.
  • WikiProject Comics Templates make constructing and editing a comics article easier.
  • Copyright (important) informs editors which images are appropriate for uploading and use in comics articles and how best to use them. WikiProject Comics has policies on copyright for Wikipedia comics articles either based on our consensus interpretation of Wikipedia:Fair use or agreements made with individual publishers. Unless stated otherwise, these are based on the interpretation of United States copyright law.

Assessment

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See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/Assessment
  • 5.7% List-Class
  • 20.9% Stub-Class
  • 50.8% Start-Class
  • 16% C-Class
  • 2.6% B-Class
  • 1.9% GA-Class
  • 0.4% FA-Class
  • 1.7% remaining
Comics articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low Bottom NA ??? Total
FA 2 9 17 27 55
FL 1 3 19 1 24
GA 2 18 90 240 71 3 424
B 15 69 132 305 46 21 588
C 32 180 668 2,384 253 1 72 3,590
Start 5 123 966 9,233 842 3 234 11,406
Stub 1 5 171 3,847 540 128 4,692
List 10 171 700 102 290 17 1,290
Draft 183 183
Category 6,406 6,406
Disambig 121 121
File 13,777 13,777
Portal 550 550
Project 167 167
Redirect 1 39 2,089 362 11,614 14,105
Template 830 830
NA 3 26 29
Assessed 57 416 2,257 18,847 2,217 33,971 472 58,237
Unassessed 13 2 1 364 380
Total 57 416 2,257 18,860 2,219 33,972 836 58,617
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 102,154 Ω = 4.92

Index · Statistics · Log

Outstanding content

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/Outstanding content for more information, including current and former candidates.

Articles categorised by assessment

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See Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/Assessment for more information.

Quality: FA-Class | FL-Class | A-Class | GA-Class | B-Class | C-Class | Start-Class | Stub-Class | List-Class | Unassessed

Importance: Top | High | Mid | Low | Bottom | NA | Unknown

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There are currently 60 comics-related articles which are featured articles, meaning they belong to the best articles of the entire Wikipedia. The articles can be found at Category:FA-Class Comics articles and are listed below. Dates refer to the date when the article was the Wikipedia Main Page article.

Alien vs. Predator (film) — July 23, 2009
Anarky — March 8, 2007
Animaniacs —
Aquaman (TV pilot) — April 7, 2016
Archie vs. Predator — November 12, 2018
Ashcan comic — February 20, 2020
Batman: Arkham Asylum — May 12, 2015
Batman: Arkham City — January 27, 2015
Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards — March 21, 2008
A Contract with God — December 6, 2015
Homer Davenport — May 20, 2019
Walt Disney — December 5, 2016
Dream of the Rarebit Fiend —
Dredd — July 11, 2017
Drowning Girl — June 13, 2015
Eagle — July 27, 2010
The Fade Out — August 25, 2017
Fun Home — September 3, 2007
Gods' Man — September 28, 2017
Goodman Beaver — April 9, 2014
Halo Graphic Novel — February 17, 2008
Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book — May 30, 2017
George Herriman — October 28, 2013
I Never Liked You — April 7, 2015
Interactions (The Spectacular Spider-Man) —
Killer7 — July 7, 2012
Osbert Lancaster — July 27, 2020
Lat (cartoonist) — March 5, 2011
Lazarus (comics) —
Look Mickey — February 21, 2013
Louis Riel — October 27, 2012
Madman's Drum — January 1, 2017
Maus —
Naruto — March 23, 2020
Pilot (Smallville) — September 27, 2007
The Playboy —
Revival (comics) — January 3, 2021
Roy of the Rovers — August 13, 2006
Sinestro Corps War — January 27, 2008
Smallville (season 1) — February 28, 2010
Sonic X — April 6, 2014
Southern Cross (wordless novel) — April 1, 2014
Spider-Man (2018 video game) — February 16, 2020
Stucky (fandom) — December 8, 2019
Tank Girl (film) — March 31, 2016
The Heart of Thomas — May 5, 2021
Tintin in the Congo — February 16, 2015
Tintin in the Land of the Soviets — August 4, 2013
Tintin in Tibet — October 16, 2014
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter — April 13, 2012
Watchmen — August 23, 2006
Whaam! — September 27, 2013
Wordless novel — February 10, 2015


Tasks

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Announcements and open tasks

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WikiProject Comics announcements and open tasks [
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Notice board • Articles needing attention • Assessment • Cleanup listing • Deletion sorting • Popular pages • Peer reviews


Current activity →

Articles for deletion

(5 more...)

Proposed deletions

Categories for discussion

Redirects for discussion

Featured list candidates

Good article nominees

Good article reassessments

Requests for comments

Peer reviews

Articles to be merged

(2 more...)

Articles to be split

(4 more...)

Articles for creation

New articles →
This list was generated from these rules. Questions and feedback are always welcome! The search is being run daily with the most recent ~14 days of results. Note: Some articles may not be relevant to this project.

Rules | Match log | Results page (for watching) | Last updated: 2024-11-26 20:01 (UTC)

Note: The list display can now be customized by each user. See List display personalization for details.

  • Cleanup: A cleanup listing for this project is available. See also the list by category, the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
  • Request Constructive Feedback: Lee Harris Artist for DC Comics 1940's, Cultural impact of Wonder Woman, Paper Girls
  • General: Remove OHOTMU/Who's Who material from character pages, provide fair use rationales for images.
  • Biographies: Check recent edits to biographies of living comics creators for changes contrary to policy. Click here for recent changes. Add citations to Unreferenced BLPs.
  • Article requests: Fenwick (comics), Khimaera (comics), Mutant Underground Support Engine, Bruce J. Hawker, Marc Dacier, Hultrasson, Frankenstein Comics, Dead of Night (comics) (redirects to MAX the Marvel imprint), Paco Medina, Mars et Avril (comics), Heart of Hush (now it is redirecting to Batman R.I.P.), Catwoman: Her Sister's Keeper, Masters of American Comics, Robbi Rodriguez. more
  • Image requests: Andrea Di Vito, more
  • Expand: Arzach, Caspar Milquetoast, Clay Mann, Claypool Comics, Comics Britannia, Instant Piano, John Ney Reiber, Juan Jose Ryp, Mile High Comics, Natacha, No-Name, Ric Hochet, Richard Piers Rayner, Robert Loren Fleming, Ruins (comics), Scrooge's Quest, Sonic Disruptors, The Crusades (comics), Weird Western Tales, WonderCon, Super-Villain Team-Up, Tom Peyer, Kelley Puckett, X-Men Forever, Clan Chosen, Canardo, Kirby: King of Comics, Girl Comics, Le Vieux Nick et Barbe-Noire, M. Rex, Guillotine (comics), Renée Witterstaetter, Hal Jordan , more
  • Condense: Magneto (comics), Super-Soldier, Witchblade, Captain Britain, Mar-Vell, Tabitha Smith, W.I.T.C.H., Storm (Marvel Comics), Captain America, Deadpool, Man-Thing, Jamie Madrox (FCB section), Dial H
  • Update: Linear Men, Cable & Deadpool, Civil War: Front Line, Black Tarantula, Batman: Streets of Gotham
  • Clean Up: Comic Book, Darkseid, Iron Fist, Joker (character), Kingdom Come (comics), Raven (comics), Xavier's Security Enforcers, Spaceknights, Cerebro, more
  • Notability: Articles with notability concerns, listed at WikiProject Notability
    • For proposed deletions and mergers, disputes, and recently created articles, check the WikiProject Comics Notice board.
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    See also

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    A monthly popular pages report for this project is available, updated by Community Tech bot.

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

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