Wikipedia:WikiProject Avatar: The Last Airbender

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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Avatar: The Last Airbender. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them on the talk page, and if you would like to join the project, just add your username to the list of members.

[edit] Scope and goals

WikiProject Avatar: The Last Airbender is a collective effort between Wikipedians to enhance and maintain the quality of all pages on Wikipedia that contain information on the animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender. Many of the pages that relate to the series are currently muddled with conjecture, trivial information, or poor grammar/spelling. For the sake of both the users and Wikipedia as a whole, this project strives to bring all pages relating to Avatar: The Last Airbender up to par with the rest of the encyclopedia. The project seeks to reach this goal by implementing a two-step process:

1. Establishing content guidelines and structural guidelines for Wikipedians to utilize when creating or updating articles
2. Utilizing said guidelines to improve all current and future articles

This project is a long-term effort, and all Wikipedians are welcome to contribute, regardless of how much or how little time or energy they can be contribute. Short of Wikipedia policies and (more than likely) Wikipedia guidelines, all aspects of this project are always open to discussion and debate on the talk page. Like the pages it seeks to improve, the project itself will continue to evolve as new and exciting ideas from its members are incorporated.

[edit] Guidelines

[edit] Content

Content guidelines encompass guidelines for what types of information to include, what types of information not to include, and the appropriate style for information in all articles within in the project. These guidelines are detailed below; feel free to discuss them on the talk page.

When working on Avatar: The Last Airbender articles, remember that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and should be treated as such (see What Wikipedia is not). While popular in the fan base, conjectural items such as unwarranted shipping, theories on events in a character's unrevealed past (i.e. how Fire Lord Azulon died), and possible future events in the series do not belong in any of the articles. Remember to keep in mind that there are differences between encyclopedic entries and fan webpages.

This means that when creating/editing articles, do not:

1. Add unverifiable information, original research, your point of view, or uncited claims. This encompasses all theories, assumptions, opinions, and unwarranted shipping fantasies that are not published in reliable sources.
2. Insert trivial information (see Notability (fiction), Fancruft, Importance).
3. Lose sight of the fact that the series' events and characters, as fictional creations, should not be included in Wikipedia as if they are factual events that occured in "our universe" (see Check your fiction, Manual of Style for writing about fiction).

It's also a good idea to have at least a working knowledge of the Manual of Style and the How to edit a page article to avoid others having to copy-edit, cleanup or wikify pages later.

Other than that, be bold in updating pages and have fun!

[edit] Structure

Structural guidelines encompass guidelines for how information relating to the show is broken up and distributed by categories, articles, sections, and templates, as well as the format for all articles within a category and the format for all templates. These guidelines are detailed below; feel free to discuss them on the talk page.

Format guidelines for the articles within the below categories are currenty under discussion:

• Category:Avatar: The Last Airbender characters
• Category:Avatar: The Last Airbender episodes
• Category:Avatar: The Last Airbender nations

[edit] To-do list

	To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Avatar: The Last Airbender:	edit  · history  · watch  · refresh
Discuss the direction, guidelines, and tasks of the WikiProject Expand the WikiProject by bringing in new members (i.e. advertise) Bring all other articles up to good article status Add reliable citations to pages where necessary Add information to pages that ties the show to reality (i.e. effects on popular culture, influences, etc.) Create new, appropriate articles Expand current articles, including adding images where appropriate Copy-edit/cleanup/wikify existing articles Add respective templates to all knowledge- and episode-based articles Identify articles appropriate to include in the open tasks box below Open tasks: Expand: Earthbender, Every article in Season 1. Copy-edit, Cleanup or Wikify: Water Tribe, Earth Kingdom, Fire Nation, Air Nomads, Pai Sho Cite sources: Toph Images wanted: Imprisoned, The Spirit World (Winter Solstice, Part 1) Comments Wanted: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Avatar: The Last Airbender (disambiguation) Pages Wanted:

[edit] Article maintenance

[edit] New articles

Please feel free to list your newly-created Avatar: The Last Airbender-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please).

• Avatar Season three chap 1 read info box directly above
• Avatar Season three chap 2 read info box directly above
• Avatar Season three chap 3 read info box directly above
• Avatar Season three chap 4 read info box directly above
• Avatar Season three chap 4 read info box directly above
• Appa
• The Crossroads of Destiny
• Ba Sing Se
• List of Avatar: The Last Airbender creatures I forgot to add this a while back.
• Avatar: The Legend of Aang (really just a redirect to the show's article for the UK name, but technically a new article.)
• Avatar: The Last Airbender media information (okay it's not really new, but more can be done with it now)
• Princess Azula

[edit] Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced. Feel free to list any articles you've adopted below (the most-recently adopted articles at top, please)

• Spirit World (Avatar: The Last Airbender) - H2P. I need comments in the talk section before I begin building though.
• List of minor Earth Kingdom locations - --Fyre2387 ^{(talk • contribs)} - Needs major work, turns out a big chunk of the info on the page was plagiarized. I'll be working on putting together new content.
• [[ List of Air Temples (E,N,S,W)] --AVATAR_KYOSHI 17:10, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Membership

[edit] List of members

If you would like to join the project, contribute and then add your username below: This list had a Role-Call on January 25, 2007.

• Aang-kai (talk • contribs)
• Azraen (talk • contribs)
• Bagpipeturtle (talk • contribs)
• BDA (talk • contribs)
• Dylan0513 (talk • contribs)
• GeneralIroh (talk • contribs)
• Geolly (talk • contribs)
• HeirToPendragon (talk • contribs)
• Herald Alberich (talk • contribs)
• Lokon40 (talk • contribs)
• Patricknoddy (talk • contribs)
• Piemanmoo (talk • contribs)
• Probatio Pennae (talk • contribs)
• Randalllin (talk • contribs)
• Richardkselby (talk • contribs)
• Sage of Ice (talk • contribs)
• Spinto tenor (talk • contribs)
• Sgt. Hydra (talk • contribs)
• The Placebo Effect (talk • contribs)
• WikiSpaceboy (talk • contribs)
• Xavcam (talk • contribs)
• Y BCZ (talk • contribs)

[edit] Userboxes

Members are welcome and encouraged to place the following userbox on their user pages to identify their involvement in the project and to spread the word about the project.

Code	Result
{{User WikiProject Avatar: The Last Airbender}} Placed on the user pages of project members	This user is a member of WikiProject Avatar: The Last Airbender
{{User:DarknessLord/Userboxes/AvatarFan}} To show your fandom	This user watches Avatar: The Last Airbender religiously.
{{User:DarknessLord/Userboxes/Airbender}} Find your element	This user is an Airbender.
{{User:DarknessLord/Userboxes/Earthbender}} Find your element	This user is an Earthbender.
{{User:DarknessLord/Userboxes/Firebender}} Find your element	This user is a Firebender.
{{User:DarknessLord/Userboxes/Waterbender}} Find your element	This user is a Waterbender.
{{User:Tryforceful/Userboxes/Avatar}} You know you do too	This user wishes he or she were the Avatar.

[edit] Tagging articles

Avatar: The Last Airbender articles		Importance
		None	Total
Quality
	FA	2	2
	A
	GA
	B	47	47
	Start	23	23
	Stub	4	4
	Assessed	76	76
	Unassessed	0	0
	Total	76	76

All articles related to the project should have the {{WPAVATAR}} template added to their talk pages.

The template has a class= parameter that provides an article assessment rating and a importance= parameter that provides an article's rating on the importance scale:

{{WPAVATAR| class=??? | importance=???}}

The following values may be used for the class parameter:

• FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class Avatar: The Last Airbender articles)
• A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Avatar: The Last Airbender articles)
• GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class Avatar: The Last Airbender articles)
• B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Avatar: The Last Airbender articles)
• Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Avatar: The Last Airbender articles)
• Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Avatar: The Last Airbender articles)
• NA (for pages where assessment is unnecessary, such as templates; adds items to Category:Non-article Avatar: The Last Airbender pages)

The following values may be used for the importance parameter:

• Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance Avatar articles)
• High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Avatar articles)
• Mid or Medium (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Avatar articles)
• Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Avatar articles)

If a rating is not assigned, the article will be filed in Category:Unassessed Avatar: The Last Airbender articles. The class should be assigned according to the grading scheme.

The article ratings are used to generate a project worklist.

[edit] Categories

• Category:Avatar: The Last Airbender
  • Category:Avatar: The Last Airbender characters
  • Category:Avatar: The Last Airbender episodes
  • Category:Avatar: The Last Airbender nations

[edit] Templates

[edit] Navigational

[edit] Infoboxes

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{{Infobox Avatar: The Last Airbender bender|
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[edit] Resources

• Official website
• Official website (Australia)
• Nick TV schedule