Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels

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WikiProject Novels aims to define a standard of consistency for articles about Novels. Through implementation of standards such as these, Wikipedia can gain some structure to unify it as a reference, making content more easily and quickly located with common organization for novel articles.

However, do not forget the spirit behind these guidelines. If they make editing or reading more difficult for a particular novel or for novels in general, change them or ignore them, preferably with some explanation on talk or meta pages. Many novels don't yet have enough on Wikipedia to necessitate layouts such as this, or have special requirements that do not fit the template exactly. Feel free to adapt this WikiProject to specific situations and to discuss changing it.

Main Project Discussion - takes place here /GeneralForum

Contents 1 Scope 2 Article structure 2.1 Naming, style and notability 2.2 Article templates 3 Related WikiProjects 3.1 Parentage 3.2 Descendant Wikiprojects 3.3 Similar WikiProjects 4 Project organization 4.1 Participants 4.1.1 Members 4.1.1.1 Active members 4.1.2 Guestbook 4.2 Departments 4.2.1 Assessment Department 4.2.2 Automation Department 4.2.3 Collaboration Department 4.2.4 Outreach Department 4.2.5 Peer Review Department 4.3 Task forces 5 General discussion forum 6 Hierarchy Definition 7 Auxiliary templates 7.1 Article infoboxes 7.2 Project notices 7.3 Internal project organization 7.4 Navigational templates 8 Work to be done 8.1 Project management work needed 9 Check changes

[edit] Scope

WikiProject Novels aims to define a standard of consistency for articles about novels and literary genres associated with fictional narratives. It also aims to encourage and provide the structure for enhancing the writing of high qualilty articles on all manner of different novels. For the purpose of this project "Novels" are deemed to include all works of narrative fiction that exhibit novel like structure, regardless of length and genre. (This includes full novels, novellas, novelettes and short stories.) It also aims to encourage and promote the writing of articles on all types of such Novels. (see "#Hierarchy Definition" for more details of what is in or out of scope.)

[edit] Article structure

[edit] Naming, style and notability

• Wikipedia:Naming conventions (books) - books
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction) - fiction article style
• Wikipedia:Notability (books) - notability (very much under debate!)

[edit] Article templates

Articles should be written to an agreed basic style. We encourage all to make use of this template as a starting place for any new article and a guide to the amendment of any existing article that needs improvement.

For Novel articles:

• /ArticleTemplate

which includes

an Infobox template for a book - /InfoboxCode

For Fictional character articles:

• /CharacterArticleTemplate

[edit] Related WikiProjects

[edit] Parentage

• WikiProject Books - logically encapsulates the subject of Novels.

[edit] Descendant Wikiprojects

• The Dark Tower WikiProject
• WikiProject Fictional Series
• WikiProject Horror
• WikiProject Science Fiction

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

The similar WikiProjects are the WikiProject Albums and WikiProject Songs

[edit] Project organization

[edit] Participants

This is a list of Wikipedians who are committed to this WikiProject. If you're interested in helping with this project, please, feel free to join by clicking edit on the right, and signing your name at the bottom of the list with four tildes (~~~~), with an optional comment. Also add this template to your user page {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Outreach/User WPNOVELS}}. This adds you automatically to the WikiProject Novels participants category.

You might like to see what some of us read by looking at Wikipedia:What I am reading at the moment.

[edit] Members

This is a list of Wikipedians who are part of this project. The membership namelist is now so large it is normally "shrunk". Click the "[Show]" link (on the right hand side of the "Active Members" subheading) to expand the namelist.

[edit] Guestbook

This is a list of Wikipedians who are not committed to the WikiProject, but who are sympathetic to the cause. Feel free to express your support by signing the list below!:

• Temlakos (talk • contribs) - 5 February 2006 - (No message left by user)
• Candybars (talk • contribs) - 7 February 2006 - (No message left by user)
• Acebrock (talk • contribs) - 15 February 2006 - Unfamiliar with discussed material.
• BirgitteSB (talk • contribs) - 17 February 2006 - Birgitte§β's Talk - I work mainly with Wikisource.
• Rimbaud (talk • contribs) - 13 April 2006
• Ganymead (talk • contribs) - 26 April 2006 - Greetings from WikiProject Theatre!
• Monzonda (talk • contribs) - 30 April 2006 - I'll try to contribute if my work schedule permits me :) Monz
• Mingus ah um (talk • contribs) - 5 May 2006 - When I stray from the non-fiction, I'll try to help this project out.
• JennyRad (talk • contribs) - 19th May 2006 - tentatively signing up, when I have time
• Tombseye (talk • contribs) - 24 May 2006 - I'm down to help by helping with articles on books I read as I do a lot of that at work besides, ah, working. Tombseye
• Almighty Tallest (talk • contribs) - 7 June 2006 - Love to actually help out, but new baby on the way :)
• LadyPeter (talk • contribs) - 15 June 2006 - I would love to help out on this project after I clear some other projects off my desk. 'Till then, I'll provide moral support!
• SorryGuy (talk • contribs) - Guy - 4 July 2006 - may join eventually but already has several commitments he may not be living up to.
• Wizkid357 (talk • contribs) - 4 September 2006 - I'd help out but books aren't exactly my forte.
• Marco 1094 (talk • contribs) - 23 September 2006 - I'm a huge bookworm but my schedule and strict parental rules may result in only limited results.
• Hide&Reason (talk • contribs) - 23 September 2006
• riana_dzasta (talk • contribs) - 7 October 2006 - used to be a member, but my editing has branched out too much. I will help out when I can. — riana_dzasta _{wreak havoc-damage report}
• frijole (talk • contribs) - 27 October 2006 - I think The Big U is as much as I'll work on, but will do what I can to help out!
• Fleiger (talk • contribs) - 3 November 2006 - Will check out where I can help
• Alarob (talk • contribs) - 21 November 2006 - A good idea, especially when it comes to historically significant novels.
• Zachary crimsonwolf (talk • contribs) - 14 November 2006
• Destructo_087 (talk • contribs) - 29 November 2006 - I love my thick novels
• Sd31415 (talk • contribs • count) - 4 December 2006 - (User • Talk)
• The Modern Prometheus (talk • contribs) - 5 December 2006 - Say goodbye to the science fiction story stubs!
• Walter_Humala (talk • contribs) Heya guys, do we need tittle translation on spanish novels?
• Yossi (talk • contribs) - 30 December 2006 - I am willing to help with all English novel data, and to post summaries.
• AndonicO (talk • contribs) - 5 January 2007 - I'll probably be joining for good one of these days...
• Walters1 (talk • contribs) - 6 January 2007 - I read as much as I can and really hope I can help with this project as it sounds great!
• Manquer (talk • contribs) - 11 January 2007 - will love to wrok on this one... have been frustrated many a time by not finding a article on a novel..
• Loyola (talk • contribs) - 18 January 2007 - Time forces me to shift from active to guest. Delighted to help as and when I can. Wide variety from fantasy to serious novels.
• GROG (talk • contribs) - 20 January 2007 - I think this is a wonderful project, I'd like to work on it, though I may or may not find time.
• Gwinva (talk • contribs) - 6 February 2007 - My wikipedian efforts are mainly directed to developing the Nigel Tranter pages. I am a bit on my own at the moment, and as a editing newbie am figuring it all out as I go along. Could do with help, advice, support! Would like the pages to be consistent with your Wikiproject, but also to develop their own style as they overlap with other topics such as history. Come and have a look.
• haha169 (talk • contribs) - 17 February 2007 - This is an interesting project. I've been working on a couple of novels myself. Maybe I should join.

You would be most welcome! :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 14:55, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

• Logologist (talk • contribs) - 24 February 2007 - I know a little about Polish novels in particular.
• Rumiton (talk • contribs) - 2 March 2007 - I am interested in novels in translation, particularly from German to English, as I believe misunderstandings and prejudices caused by poor translation have created much of the misery of the modern world.
• Aleta (talk • contribs) - 3 March 2007 - I contribute to some articles in the purview of this project.  :)
• Davy1132 (talk • contribs) - 3 March 2007 - I have made some contributions to articles such as Skybreaker.
• Reloc (talk • contribs) - 19 March 2007
• Tachikoma (talk • contribs) - 22 March 2007 - Now that my editing has become more sporadic and spread throughout different areas, I no longer think it's fair to the project to consider myself an active member. I hope to contribute from time to time when I can. --Kyoko 12:16, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
• 9muses (talk • contribs) - 22 March 2007 - Due to lack of time, I'm switching from active to guest.
• Beatlesmaniac (talk • contribs) - 25 March 2007
• S II 087 (talk • contribs)- 27 March 2007 - I am not full fledged, but I am working on bring the Cat Who series up to a decent level. I hope to help more though!

Jim32990 17:01, 6 April 2007 (UTC)Jim32990: Nice idea!

[edit] Departments

Departments are specialised areas of the project for a targetted activity, serving in a smaller way the aims of the whole. We have just the three currently.

[edit] Assessment Department

The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's novel and novel related articles. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work, and are also expected to play a role in the WP:1.0 program. The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{NovelsWikiProject}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in a set of categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.

[edit] Automation Department

The automation department of the Novels WikiProject uses various automated and semi-automated methods to perform batch tasks that would be extremely tedious to do manually; it collects requests for tasks, discusses whether they are suitable for automation, and attempts to match them with bot operators or users of semi-automated tools for implementation. All project members are invited to request tasks and to comment on the suitability of outstanding requests.

[edit] Collaboration Department

The project's Collaboration of the Month seeks to identify particular articles that would benefit from a significant collaborative effort. Every month (currently), a single article is selected as the focus, and the project attempts to improve it, potentially to featured article standards. All articles dealing with some aspect of novel literature (except for current featured articles and featured article candidates) are eligible, and everyone is invited to nominate candidates. The current collaboration article is The_History_of_Tom_Jones,_a_Foundling.

[edit] Outreach Department

The outreach department acts as the project's central point of coordination for recruiting new members and maintaining the interest of current participants. Its primary activity is the production of monthly project newsletters, it also contains a welcome message that can be sent to each new member as they join.

[edit] Peer Review Department

The peer review department conducts peer reviews of articles on request; this helps to obtain ideas for further improvement by having contributors who may not have previously worked on particular articles examine them. Project members are invited to submit articles to the department in lieu of using the generic peer review process.

[edit] Task forces

Please discuss any proposals for new task forces with other members or with the project as a whole before creating them.

Task forces are informal groups of editors gathered for collaborative work on a particular topic within the field of Novels (as defined in the "scope" above); all project members are encouraged to participate in any that interest them.

General topics

• Short stories

Genres

• Crime
• Science fiction

Age groups

• still to be established (Children's novels maybe the first)

Periods

• still to be established (19th century novels maybe a possibility)

Areas or Nationalities

• still to be established (Russian novels maybe the first)

[edit] General discussion forum

• /GeneralForum - Main Project discussions (only use the page talk for page related discussion)

[edit] Hierarchy Definition

Since there are many types of Novel, boundaries must be set so that other WikiProjects can guide articles that this one doesn't. (Just like the discussion on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Novel categorization project page.) So far, the titles that have been included are those that the 'man in the street', would call it a 'novel'.

Included:

• Novels and Novellas, Novelettes and Short Stories
• Fictional books that are commonly considered to be Novels
  • Fictional characters used therein.

Overall	genre	description	category	stub template
	"can be used in the text and infobox to describe the article"		"Use to categorise the article"	"Use to mark short and incomplete articles as stubs"
Fictional Characters	[[Fictional character]]	Characters from Novels	[[Category:Fictional characters]]	{{fict-char-stub}}

• • Fictional locations used therein.

Overall	genre	description	category	stub template
	"can be used in the text and infobox to describe the article"		"Use to categorise the article"	"Use to mark short and incomplete articles as stubs"
Fictional Locations	[[Fictional locations|Fictional location]]	Locations from Novels	[[Category:Fictional locations]]	{{fict-location-stub}}

Category hierarchy Novel articles are sorted under many categories, look in Category:Novels for a list. There are three "main" categories that most books are sorted to:

• Category:Novels by year (for example [[Category:1893 novels]] )
• Category:Novels by genre (for example [[Category:Science fiction novels]] )
• Category:Novels by country (for example [[Category:Spanish novels]] )
• Category:Novels by author (for example [[Category:Novels by Bernard Cornwell]] )
• Novels by age-group (not a category) (see table below)

Genres of novels including

Overall	genre	description	category	stub template
	"can be used in the text and infobox to describe the novel"		"Use to categorise the article"	"Use to mark short and incomplete articles as stubs"
General Novels	[[Novel]]	Those that cannot be described by categories below	[[Category:Novels]]	{{novel-stub}}
Specific Genres	[[Adventure]]	High adventure, action based narrative often with travel	[[Category:Adventure novels]]	{{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
	[[Alternate history]]	"What If, history had developed differently?"	[[Category:Alternate history novels]]	{{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
	[[Autobiographical]] or [[Biographical]]	Autobiographical - gives some of the author's life story	[[Category:Autobiographical novels]]	{{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
	[[Comedy]]	Comedy or comic - with humorous content	[[Category:Comedy novels]]	{{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
	[[Crime]]	Crime novel - without the whodunit	[[Category:Crime novels]]	{{crime-novel-stub}}
	[[Dystopian]]	Dystopian - of hopeless or pessimistic character	[[Category:Dystopian novels]]	{{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
	[[Epistolary]]	Epistle like - written as a series of documents	[[Category:Epistolary novels]]	{{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
	[[Erotic]]	Erotic literature of novel length	[[Category:Erotic fiction]]	{{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
	[[Family saga]]	Family saga literature of novel length	[[Category:Family saga novels]]	{{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
	[[Fantasy]]	Based on magic, ancient myths and legends	[[Category:Fantasy novels]]	{{fantasy-novel-stub}}
	[[Feminist]]	Feminist literature of novel length	[[Category:Feminist novels]]	{{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
	[[Gothic]]	The dark and horrific (see genre)	[[Category:Gothic novels]]	{{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
	[[Historical]]	Set among historical events, prior to author	[[Category:Historical novels]]	{{hist-novel-stub}}
	[[Horror]]	with Horrific, scary subject matter	[[Category:Horror novels]]	{{horror-novel-stub}}
	[[Legal thriller]]	Subgenre of the thriller novel is the Legal thriller	[[Category:Legal thriller novels]]	{{thriller-novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
	[[Mystery fiction]]	Subgenre of the crime or detective novel is the whodunit	[[Category:Mystery novels]]	{{mystery-novel-stub}}
	[[Philosophical]]	Novels where philosophical ideas form the main crux of the narrative.	[[Category:Philosophical novels]]	{{philos-novel-stub}}
	[[Political]]	set in the political environment or politically themed	[[Category:Political novels]]	{{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
	[[Psychological]]	Novels where psychological issues are prominent factors in the story or characterisation.	[[Category:Psychological novels]]	{{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
	[[Romance novel]]	Romance themed, or based novels	[[Category:Romance novels]]	{{romance-novel-stub}}
	[[Satirical]]	Satire based novels	[[Category:Satirical novels]]	{{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
	[[Science fiction]]	Science advancement, or contact scientifically advanced civilizations	[[Category:Science fiction novels]]	{{sf-novel-stub}}
	[[Speculative fiction]]	Speculation about worlds - alternatives to the normal Sci-Fi,Alt-Hist,Fantasy, Horror have their own sub-genre (categories and stubs)	[[Category:Speculative fiction novels]]	{{novel-stub}} (no specific notice) or individual spec fiction genre
	[[Sports]]	Sports themed novels	[[Category:Sports novels]]	{{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
	[[Spy]]	Spying and espionage	[[Category:Spy novels]]	{{spy-novel-stub}}
	[[Techno-thriller]]	Thrillers with a technical or modern science element	[[Category:Techno-thriller novels]]	{{thriller-novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
	[[Thriller]]	Fast paced, action packed suspense	[[Category:Thriller novels]]	{{thriller-novel-stub}}
	[[Utopian]]	Utopian - of hopeful, optimistic or idealistic character	[[Category:Utopian novels]]	{{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
	[[War]]	Warfare (mainly modern)	[[Category:War novels]]	{{war-novel-stub}}
	::[[First World War]]	Warfare (World War One)	[[Category:World War I novels]]	{{war-novel-stub}}
	::[[Second World War]]	Warfare (World War Two)	[[Category:World War II novels]]	{{war-novel-stub}}
	[[Western]]	American west, with cowboys, gunslingers, settlers and 'native Americans'	[[Category:Western novels]]	{{western-novel-stub}}
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Novels by age-group including

Overall	genre	description	category	stub template
	"can be used in the text and infobox to describe the article"		"Use to categorise the article"	"Use to mark short and incomplete articles as stubs"
	[[Adult]] (i.e. intended for mature readers)	Audience mature readers	no specific category	no specific stub notice
	[[Children's]]	Audience typically Children	[[Category:Children's novels]]	{{Child-novel-stub}}
	[[Young adult]]	Audience typically Young Adults	[[Category:Young adult novels]]	{{YA-novel-stub}}

Novel articles are sorted under many categories, look in Category:Novels for a list. There are three "main" categories that most books are sorted to:

• Category:Short stories by year (for example [[Category:1893 short stories]] )
• Category:Short stories by genre (for example [[Category:Science fiction short stories]] )
• Category:Short stories by nationality (for example [[Category:American short stories]] )
• Category:Short stories by author (for example [[Category:Short stories by Isaac Asimov]] )
• Category:Short story collections by genre (for example [[Category:Fantasy short story collections]] )

Genres of short stories including

Overall	genre	description	category	stub template
	"can be used in the text and infobox to describe the short story"		"Use to categorise the article"	"Use to mark short and incomplete articles as stubs"
General Short Stories	[[Short story]]	Those that cannot be described by categories below	[[Category:Short stories]]	{{story-stub}}
Specific Genres	[[Comedy]]	Based on comedy and humour	[[Category:Comic short stories]]	{{comedy-story-stub}}
	[[Detective fiction]]	Based on detective type crime stories	[[Category:Detective fiction short stories]]	{{detective-story-stub}}
	[[Fables]]	Based on stories that are fables	[[Category:Fables]]	{{fable-stub}}
	[[Fantasy]]	Based on magic, ancient myths and legends	[[Category:Fantasy short stories]]	{{fantasy-story-stub}}
	[[Horror]]	with Horrific, scary subject matter	[[Category:Horror short stories]]	{{horror-story-stub}}
	[[Mystery fiction]]	Subgenre of the crime or detective novel is the whodunit	[[Category:Mystery short stories]]	{{mystery-story-stub}}
	[[Parables]]	Based on stories that are parables	[[Category:Parables]]	{{parable-stub}}
	[[Science fiction]]	Science advancement, or contact scientifically advanced civilizations	[[Category:Science fiction short stories]]	{{sf-story-stub}}
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Literary genres

description	category	stub template
	"Use to categorise the article"	"Use to mark short and incomplete articles as stubs"
encyclopedic article about the literary genre	[[Category:Literary genres]]	{{literature-stub}}

Not included:

• graphic novels.
• Nonfiction books on any subject.
• plays, poetry and comics that were published as books.

References (can be made to):

• Nonfiction books that discuss the novel in question
• Audio CD and Audio Tapes - that are readings or dramatisations of the novel in question.
• plays, poetry, short stories and comics that are the basis of the novel.
• plays, poetry, short stories and comics based on the novel.
• films, television adaptations and radio adaptations based on the novel being discussed.

[edit] Auxiliary templates

[edit] Article infoboxes

• {{Infobox Book}} - The basic book infobox (every book article should have one! - and other articles should not!) - Please place this template into top of "Novel" article's main page
• {{Infobox short story}} - The short story infobox (every short story or novelette article should have one! - and other articles should not!) - Please place this template into top of a relevant article's main page

[edit] Project notices

• {{NovelsWikiProject}} - Please place this template into top of "Novel" and "Fictional Character" article's talk, relevant template talk, category, and category talk pages so that people can find this WikiProject easily:
• {{Novelinfoboxneeded}} - Also if you find a Novel related article in need of an Infobox add this to the top of the talk page:
• {{Novelinfoboxincomp}} - Also if you find a Novel related article in need of Infobox completion add this to the top of the talk page:

n.b. title, image, author, country, language, genre, publisher, release_date, isbn (are considered core to being "complete")

• {{User WikiProject Novels}} - Userbox

[edit] Internal project organization

• {{WPNOVELS}} - the main navigation box
• {{WikiProject_Novels_announcements}} - Project announcements and top work tasks - put on your user page to provide information on current state of project.

[edit] Navigational templates

• See Templates for fiction series general list
• Category:Book templates - Overall category for book related templates
• also Category:Novel navigational boxes - Template for a single novel (sometimes plus other media)

  Category:Novel series navigational boxes - Template for a single novel series (sometimes plus other media)

• and Category:Author navigational boxes - Templates for a complete author's output

[edit] Work to be done

This is where you can really start to contribute. please look at these articles and see if you are able to help by adding or removing as appropriate Novels from the each of the lists and if you feel able please help by writing or revising articles to meet the needs listed.

• Category:Uncategorised books
• /Worklist
• /ArticlesNeeded
• /InfoboxNeeded
• /InfoboxIncomplete
• Film/book articles to be split and Film/book stub articles to be split - Articles containing entries on both a film and a book, which should be split into separate articles
• New hitlists added to the main worklist.

List of literary works with eponymous heroes

List of literary works with eponymous heroines

[edit] Project management work needed

• Supervise the announcements template.
• Assist with the production of the monthly newsletter
• Promote the work of the WikiProject
• Tag articles (particularly the newly added "short stories")
• Scan for new articles being written on Wikipedia and "bring them into the fold" by encouraging good style and tagging the talk page.
• Developing the "Task Forces"

[edit] Check changes

• This Main page : changes
• Project Watch List : edit · changes