User talk:9muses

Project news

• Welcome to a new calendar year (for most of us!)
• During this year we have seen huge a growth in the number of editors contributing to the project and a massive increase in the number of articles linked to the project. We have managed to raise the quality of significant numbers of articles. But with this ever changing beast that is wikipedia there is no room of complacency and there is a mountain of editing work still to do. The member project space has developed and the latest developments are more Outreach options for your use and the establishment of the first "Task Force" for special interest areas within the overall purview of the project.
• There are now well over 7000 articles taged as part of the project!

Member news

• The project has currently 192 members, 15 joined & 1 leavers since the last newsletter at the start of November 2006.

Other news

• The Literature Portal reached featured status!

Auto list news

• These are constantly being worked on. Particularly Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/NovelsInCompleteInfobox which is due for a refresh, but this is a bit delayed. However there is still plenty of work to do.

Current debates

• A new policy proposal has been started and this is 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.
• Another interesting debate is the naming of novel related categories. debate to found at The Return of Works by Artist...

From the Members

Welcome to the eighth 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

Collaboration of the Month

• The Collaboration of the Month for December was Waverley (novel) by Sir Walter Scott this has been much improved due to your efforts. This months Collaboration has been selected by popular vote and is The Scarlet Letter.

Newsletter challenge

Last months paranoid fiction challenge was met by the surreal chess playing, manga reading user Breed Zona (talk • contribs) with an accurate stub.

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

Project news

• The month has been a quiet one for the project with little obvious interaction, although editors have been very busy working on article improvement, recategorisation, and assessments. The Short story task force have been slowly adding staff and working mostly in the early stages to tag existing "short story" and "short story collection" articles.

Member news

• The project has currently 204 members, 13 joined & 1 leavers since the last newsletter at the start of January 2007

Other news

• The Short story task force now has 6 participants, do join in if you have an interest. Also do let us know if other Task Forces could be established.

Auto list news

• NovelsInCompleteInfobox worklist has been worked through, mainly due to the efforts of Jask99; it has now only the most difficult to complete. Please give it a look and if you can complete an infobox, please do. We should soon get a rerun with the latest article additions generated courtesy of user Eagle.

Current debates

• East of Eden copyright infringements? is the latest debate that could do with input.

Worklist "Projectified"

• List of literary works with eponymous heroes
• List of literary works with eponymous heroines

These two lists have been culled from the main Wikipedia but others thought they would serve as a good worklist for the project to use as article hitlist, so they are here for your pleasure.

From the Members

Welcome to the ninth 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

Collaboration of the Month

• The Collaboration of the Month is . This months Collaboration has been selected by popular vote and is Midnight's Children. Don't forget to place you votes and nominations for this process.

Newsletter challenge

Last months Fictional locations challenge was met by the user Loom91 (talk • contribs) with a modest start that rapidly got expanded a short stub that survived tagging for deletion and then expanding by a number of editors to something quite useful. Along the way it got (correctly!) renamed to Fictional location.

• The first person to start the article is mentioned in the next newsletter. This month's article is P.D. James - A Taste for Death.

Project news

• We are on the cusp of having 9000 novel and other narrative prose articles tagged as part of the project. With this volume of articles, we need all the editorial help we can get.
• Now there are three Task Forces ("Short story", "Science Fiction" & "Crime") - see below

Member news

• The project has currently 214 members, 8 joined & 1 leavers since the last newsletter at the start of February 2007

Other news

• The Assessment department has managed to assess (in some form) nearly all the main articles. The emphasis will now change to identifying needed article improvement, however keeping a watch on newly tagged articles with a view to properly assess those.
• A new Peer review department has kicked off with one of my early articles as a starting point. Please do give it a look, start reviewing and suggest other articles that you believe could benefit from another pair of eyes.
• The Children and Young Adult Literature portal was created by User:KGV, go take a look.

Auto list news

• Currently stalled - if anyone has the means to help out here with re-generation of these list - please do!

Current debates

• The End of Fair Use? is notification of a serious debate going on across WikiPedia.
• Another possible problem hasn't really got going as a debate but maybe should have. It highlights a need to put in content to articles that asserts "notability" and gives proper referencing to articles.

Task Forces

• Short story task force is about short stories and short story collections.
• Crime task force is about Crime, Detective & Mystery novels, novellas, novelettes & short stories.
• Science fiction task force is about Science fiction novels, novellas, novelettes & short stories.

Project volunteers

• Volunteers needed - if any members feel able to take on project tasks such as leading Task Forces, editing this Newsletter, monitoring and maintaining the Announcements template, heading up Outreach activity, managing Collaboration or Assessment activity or anything else you believe needs special attention, please let us know.

From the Members

Welcome to the tenth 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 involved and if you are wondering what with, please ask.

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

Collaboration of the Month

• This months Collaboration has been selected by popular vote and it is Adam Bede.

Newsletter challenge

Last months A Taste for Death challenge was met by the user Barbara Osgood (talk • contribs) with a brief stub .... again this could still handle some development.

• The first person to start the article is mentioned in the next newsletter. This month's article is Ivan Turgenev's - On the Eve.