Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Napoleonic Fiction

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Hi Sharpe/Napoleon fans.

If you are interested in this project, my user page is User:Ethers and you can send me any comments or advice. You are also free to add what you wish to this page.

Thanks , Ethers ^[talk]

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Contents 1 Ground Rules! 2 A helping ad 3 Project Directory 4 Looking for all fiction set in Napoleanic Wars? 5 Wikipedia Day Awards

[edit] Ground Rules!

We need to come up with some basic rules:

All info. on this page or related pages are to be neutral in oppinion.

Possible subheadings:

Tactics: French/English

Formations: Internal/External

Ranks: as in Lieutenant

Weapons: Cavalry, Infantry, Artillery

If you have any more ideas, please let me know

Thanks Ethers ^[talk]

[edit] A helping ad

--Lilliputian 14:14, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project Directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council is currently in the process of developing a master directory of the existing WikiProjects to replace and update the existing Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. These WikiProjects are of vital importance in helping wikipedia achieve its goal of becoming truly encyclopedic. Please review the following pages:

• User:Badbilltucker/Culture Directory,
• User:Badbilltucker/Culture Directory 2,
• User:Badbilltucker/Philosophy and religion Directory,
• User:Badbilltucker/Sports Directory,
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• User:Badbilltucker/Geographical Directory/United States, (note: This page will be retitled to more accurately reflect its contents)
• User:Badbilltucker/History and society directory, and
• User:Badbilltucker/Science directory

and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope to have the existing directory replaced by the updated and corrected version of the directory above by November 1. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 22:27, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry if you tried to update it before, and the corrections were gone. I have now moved the new draft in the old directory pages, so the links should work better. My apologies for any confusion this may have caused you. B2T2 14:14, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Looking for all fiction set in Napoleanic Wars?

I'm not very clear on the parameters of this project. If you're just generally looking for fiction set during the napoleanic wars, may I suggest Patrick O'Brian's Aubreyad and some of the work of Frederick Marryat, both of which are set in the Nelson's Navy? --Badger151 01:37, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Also, for the fantasy-inclined, there is the Temeraire series, such as His Majesty's Dragon, which describes what the world during the Napoleonic Wars might have been like had dragons existed and been tamed by humans for (actually quite clever) use in aerial warfare, particularly between the British and Napoleon's followers. Pretty cool concept, methinks, and worthy of inclusion in this Project, as other than the fact that it's very obviously "Napoleonic", as it's gotten a bit of notice (mostly because, if I'm to judge by its first book, it's a very good little series) even though its author, Naomi Novik, is a previously unpublished writer as far I know. I think the whole trilogy's been out so far, but I could be mistaken; I've only read the first book because at the time, that was all my library had. Runa27 22:33, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

On the to do list one of the items is "Create article for Hornblower", however if you look up Horatio Hornblower that page and what I've seen so far of the pages on the books looks pretty fleshed out. Most of the Sharpe books also have their plots outlined if you look up Richard Sharpe. However all this doesn't mean that there isn't work that can be done, the appearance of the plot summmaries or styles could be made uniform, for example.

I've suggested filling in the article on Death to the French/Rifleman Dodd and The Gun, both of which are standalone stories by Forester. --BrokenSphere 20:39, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 17:36, 29 December 2006 (UTC)