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[edit] Welcome!

Hello, Victorianist! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Classicfilms 06:00, 9 November 2007 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

[edit] Welcome to Novels WikiProject

Hi, and welcome to the Novels WikiProject! As you may have guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to fiction books often referred to as "Novels".

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• Starting some new articles? Our article structure guidelines / template outlines some things to include.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask one of the members, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around! :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 09:32, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue XIX - December 2007

The December 2007 issue of the Novels WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

This is an automated delivery by KevinalewisBot -- 14:00, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Novels template

Hi, thanks for you message. It wasn't my idea to restructure the references and allusions section the way it is previously it had more focus on the more clear cut idea of "references". They are more definite and verifiable. A change to more emphasis references and minimising the importance of allusions would be welcome. I don't agree however that they are "trivia". Also the template should make plain that the emphasis of article content is not implied by "numbers of headings" suggested in the template or discussion of these in the template. The plot element of the template is as much a reaction to the practice of many to write wholly "plot" for novel articles. It aims to give some guidance in this area rather than just leave it alone and let editor's just write screeds. At least that was the aim. We need to talk up the "real world" elements, commercial success, authorial background, literary reception and criticism, and so on. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 09:19, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue XX - January 2008

The January 2008 issue of the Novels WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

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[edit] reply to your comment on my Edit on Slaughterhouse-Five

Thanks for your comment. I actually removed the two edits that user had made ( sorry I failed to make that clear in my justification). The second edit he did was to correct his first edit; BUT this first change was some nonsense about a hidden message contained in a previous users entry and it was this I removed. Brian R Hunter (talk) 22:38, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Daniel Deronda

Please see response to your questions on Discussion page for this article.Thanks! ThePeg (talk) 00:01, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 19th-century novels task force

Hi, Victorianist. I'm starting up a 19th-century novels task force for WP:NOVELS. This would cover the works of many well-known authors, including Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Victor Hugo and Leo Tolstoy. If you think you'd be interested in supporting or participating in the task force, please let me know. Cheers. – Liveste [talk • contrib] 10:45, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

The 19th century task force on WikiProject Novels is now up and running! Feel free to add your name to the list of participants and check out the list of tasks. Cheers. – Liveste (talk • edits) 04:27, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Novels Collaboration

[edit] Novels Collaboration of the Month

You supported Rabbit, Run, which has been selected as the Novels WikiProject's new Collaboration of the Month. Please help improve this article towards featured article standard. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 16:07, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue XXI - February 2008

The February 2008 issue of the Novels WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

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[edit] the Hobbit Peer review

Thank you for responding to the Hobbit Peer Review, which has now closed - as the only non-automated editor to add anything at all I thought it I should thank you for your valuable input. I'll continue to hunt down the works you listed and integrate them with the article. Davémon (talk) 09:26, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue XXII - March 2008

The March 2008 issue of the Novels WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. This is an automated delivery by KevinalewisBot --18:03, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Novels - 1st Coordinators Election

An election has been proposed and has been set up for this project. Description of the roles etc., can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Coordinators. If you wish to stand, enter your candidacy before the end of March and ask your questions of anyone already standing at Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Coordinators/May 2008. Voting will start on the 1st April and close at the end of April. The intention is for the appointments to last from May - November 2008. For other details check out the pages or ask. KevinalewisBot (talk) 14:17, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Middlemarch

Hi, Victorianist. Progress on the Middlemarch article has stalled somewhat, and I was wondering if you were interested in rewriting the plot summary again. User:Brianboulton seems interested in helping out, too. I'll come along as well once I get another copy of the book. Cheers. – Liveste (talk • edits) 23:26, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

No worries, Victorianist ... I wish I was that busy. Cheers again :) – Liveste (talk • edits) 04:24, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

For the benefit of recent Middlemarch editors I've left some ideas about the article's future development on the talkpage and would be interested, if you have time, to have your opinion. Brianboulton (talk) 15:50, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Re recent "original research" tag, the Middlemarch article is undergoing a slow transformation. Nothing below the plot outline belongs to the revised article, which is being developed along lines indicated on the discussion page. It is anticipated that eventually all the later sections will be revised or replaced, but this is likely to be a slow process, and the article will exist in hybrid form for some while yet. Brianboulton (talk) 18:56, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

See my comments on the discussion page (which just got posted now for some reason). I just checked in on it today and found that section with no citations. I understand that it's a work in progress, but a casual user checking in might take that information as part of a serious discussion of the novel, which it doesn't seem to be. I think we could safely move it to the discussion page, but I wanted to give the original writer a chance to link the comments to some scholarly work on the novel. Victorianist (talk) 20:50, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue XXIII - April 2008

The April 2008 issue of the Novels WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. John Carter (talk) 23:16, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue XXIV - May 2008

The May 2008 issue of the Novels WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. SteveCrossinBot (talk) 08:22, 10 May 2008 (UTC)