Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Outreach

Project news

• The project Scope has been slightly expanded to include the shorter narrative prose fiction of Novelettes and Short stories.
• Due to the diligance of many editors we now have more than 5000 articles tagged as part of the project.
• Keeping the Novels announcements page up to date and fresh is in need of a volunteer who can keep an eye on it and keep it's content fresh and lively. Please let us know if you are able to help with this. It doesn't involve much, but it needs to be looked at regularly.

Member news

• The project has currently 178 members, 9 joined & 1 leavers since the last newsletter at the start of November 2006.

Other news

• Portal:Library and information science has been created and needs support and more input.

From the Members

Welcome to the seventh issue of the Novels WikiProject's newsletter! Use this newsletter as a mechanism to inform yourselves about progress at the project and please be inspired to take more active roles in what we do.

We would encourage all members to get more envolved and if you are wondering what with, please ask.

Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk), Initiating Editor

Auto list news

• Plenty of work has been done on articles included in the "auto lists" in the last couple of months. Particluarly so for the NovelsInCompleteInfobox list, which is constantly being worked on by a number of editors and most of those missing "genre" entries and quite a number with missing "ISBN" entires have been dealt with. A re-run of this list is due soon, courtesy of user Eagle.

Collaboration of the Month

• The Collaboration of the Month is generally going well, although the input for November's was less than inspiring, perhaps we can do better with the next one. This months Collaboration has been selected by popular vote and is Waverley (novel) the historical drama by Sir Walter Scott.

Current debates

• A new policy proposal has been started and the various points are to be seen at Wikipedia:Speedy deletion criterion for unsourced articles, please take a look at these and comment. This is a vital subject and all editors should consider the implications. These are NOT active yet, but could have wide reaching consequences. Please contribute your views.
• We have a project structure that allows for the formation of special interest task forces (al la "WP:MILHIST".) This was mentioned last month and a few have indicated interest. This is useful for identifying groups of Novels editors who have a common interest. (i.e. Science fiction novels, Crime Novels, Children's novels, Classic literature, Russian novels etc.) Would there be interest out there in setting one or more of these up? Comments please to the General Forum. Currently I am considering starting with "Crime Novels" and "Russian Novels" to see what can be achieved.

Newsletter challenge

Last month's Lawrence Durrell's novel Clea challenge was met by Hurrah (talk • contribs), who was "very" quick off the mark. As with the previous months it is now a very small stub in need of "loving care".

• The first person to start the article is mentioned in the next newsletter. This month's article is paranoid fiction.

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