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Hi welcome to wiki, Just reversed you addition to the Novels templateTemp page as Copyright_date is not a field in the "infobox book". That is not to say that it should not be but you would need to propose this on the Template talk:Infobox Book page. I was using the "Release date" field, which in my view should really be "Publication date" to fulfill this purpose. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)} 10:05, 3 February 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi seeing your interest in books and novels, I was wondering if you might like to get envolved with our as yet small (revitalised) WikiProject. Being a small group currently there is plenty of scope for influencing things and making your contribution count. We are about establishing standards for Novel based articles and writing articles that meet our own and others high standards, and to improve Wikipedia's diet of articles on Fiction books, otherwise called Novels. Please be very welcome. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)} 10:05, 3 February 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

just seen you had signed up - so I took the liberty of adding you a userbox on your main page.

Hi, Welcome to wikipedia and to the Novels project. Wander round the Project pages and get a feel for what we are about, then get stuck in with article improvement and writing. Dont forget to use the templates and categories provided. Any questions please ask. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)} 10:23, 3 February 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi saw you work on Hannibal's Children and see that you are having trouble. I'll have a go at sorting some of it. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)} 14:36, 3 February 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

This is the link Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/InfoboxNeeded. If you look at the lists in the navigation template on the right, the manual ones are together and the auto ones are together (two currently). :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 15:04, 12 June 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

As a long time supporter of this project I thought I would let you have a look over the first draft of a new newsletter initiative. Could you see if there is obviously anything wrong with the concept or text, thanks for you help. I will ask one or two other stalwart editors before formally publishing the first issue. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 13:48, 14 June 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The June 2006 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. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 13:57, 14 June 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Here is the new edition of our monthly newsletter.

The Novels WikiProject Newsletter Issue II - July 2006
Project news The project's automatically generated worklist Novels without Infobox has been worked through giving infoboxes to most of the ((mystery-novel-stub))s. This is about to get a regeneration probably with new genres. In addition to the raft of articles on the Simon Templar as The Saint novels added last month, then the Modesty Blaise series and now starting on Matt Helm series. All the inital work of one editor! One editor has been putting in sterling work coverting novel articles from "yyyy books" categorization over to "yyyy novels". Again notice that the ((Infobox Book)) now has a new field for "illustrator" for indicating the name of someone who has illustrated the majority of the novel (or book). Member News The project has currently 104 members, 16 joined since the last newsletter in mid June 2006.	From the Members Welcome to the second 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. Particularly as this is only the second issue; any comments and suggestions are quite welcome, and will help us improve the newsletter in the coming months. Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk), Initiating Editor
Auto list news Currently we have two lists that are up and running. Undergoing testing, the third list will contain articles that have incomplete infoboxes. The new list is at NovelsInCompleteInfobox and will be very active as both a new list and a new format are being tested out at the same time. (probably ready for use by 8th July 2006) Eagle talk
Current debates New book related notability proposals have been started and are to be seen at Wikipedia:Notability (books), please take a look at these and comment. These are NOT active yet, although at first sight they seem a good basis. Categorization of novels debate is currently ongoing. Further input would be very welcome.
Current proposals You may have seen proparations going on behind the scenes with a view to establishing a format "Assessment Department". The aim of this will be to aid our efforts in improving novel articles particularly in tune with WP:1.0 and WP:WVWP methdology. There has been a small amount of interest in a Collaboration of the Week/Fortnight/Month, but to be viable we would need support.

 :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 13:30, 6 July 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

You supported the idea of a Novels Collaboration so our first is The Mystery of the Yellow Room, 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) 10:44, 17 July 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Just about got this up and running. If you can please get envolved. thanks :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 10:44, 17 July 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The Novels WikiProject Newsletter Issue III - August 2006
Project news In the northern hemisphere this is traditionally the season for holiday's - if you are due for one - enjoy the rest. Quiet work is going on trying to improve the coverage of Infoboxes in Novel articles and adding vital information to those Infoboxes. Those that make the most contribution do get noticed! We now have a Collaboration of the Month (see below). Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction) should be looked at. It was adopted recently, but discussion is still going. Member News The project has currently 114 members, 10 joined since the last newsletter in early July 2006.	From the Members Welcome to the third 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 member to get more envolved and if you are wondering what with, please ask. Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk), Initiating Editor
Auto list news Currently we have four lists. The newest one is Missing YYYY category. Our largest is Novels with incomplete infoboxes. —— Eagle (ask me for help) 15:15, 31 July 2006 (UTC) to get updates to any of these lists.Reply[reply]
Collaboration of the Month Announcing our new Collaboration of the Month which for the month of August is The Mystery of the Yellow Room. This is our first and has already been worked on seeing substantial change (and hopefully improvement). Please get involved and submit other novel titles for future collaborations. If this is successful we can really improve these articles and we may increase the frequency of the title change.
Current debates New book related notability proposals are to be seen at Wikipedia:Notability (books), if you have not seen these do take a look. The debate and level of change has slowed so thi may mean that a concensus is near! Discussion about adding two new fields, Film adaptation and Based on film, to the ((Infobox_Book)) template is going on in the WP:BOOKS talk page.
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 :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 10:33, 1 August 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Your idea of moving the article to a better name was a good one. Please note, however, that you should never copy/paste articles like this (you will lose the edit history). Instead, use the "move" tab of the page to move the article to a new name. It's fixed now. Rl 20:43, 3 August 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello, I noticed that you edited an article related to, or expressed interest in The Chronicles of Narnia. I thought you may be interested in knowing that there is a WikiProject working to improve articles about Narnia, your help would be greatly appreciated. Please consider joining the WikiProject Narnia. Thank you! Bornagain4 18:11, 9 August 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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The Novels WikiProject Newsletter Issue IV - September 2006
Project news Personally just back from annual leave - looking forward to a productive autumn here at the Novels WikiProject. Check out the project departments "Collaboration of the Month" (see below), Assessment and Outreach. Member News The project has currently 126 members, 13 joined & 1 leaver since the last newsletter at the start of August 2006.	From the Members Welcome to the fourth 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 Currently Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/NovelsInCompleteInfobox is the largest of the 4 automatically generated worklists - it is crying out for more people to assist in clearing the backlog.
Collaboration of the Month The first Collaboration of the Month went quite well if a bit slow. The second collaboration for the month of September is And Quiet Flows the Don. Do get involved and submit other novel titles for future collaborations or support those already proposed.
Current debates Wikipedia:Notability (books) is still being debated, if you have not seen these do take a look.
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The Novels WikiProject Newsletter Issue V - October 2006
Project news Our project has been working on novel articles for sometime now and has just passed the 4000 articles tagged as part of the project. Already we are on 4441 as of today. The /Assessment department has been making progress with discussions on the top priority level of novels. These are those articles that should be present in any version of this encyclopedia. The "Members" list has been modified (preparatory to removing the inactive ones to an archive or "inactive" list). Member News The project has currently 142 members, 16 joined & 0 leavers since the last newsletter at the start of September 2006.	From the Members Welcome to the fifth 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 Those working on auto generated lists have been a bit quiet recently. However there have been some work done on the /NovelsInCompleteInfobox list, focusing on adding those missing "genre" entries - however after being rerun today after a 2 month gap the number of articles selected has gone up from 1049 to 1172. We need help to ensure the informatin gets added to the infoboxes.
Collaboration of the Month The Collaboration of the Month is going well. This month's Collaboration has been selected by popular vote and is Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Current debates Started in July, Wikipedia:Notability (books) is still being debated, if you have not seen these do take a look.
Newsletter challenge The first person to start the article is mentioned in the next newsletter. This months' article is Liponym.
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The Novels WikiProject Newsletter Issue VI - November 2006
Project news Due to the diligance of many editors we now have more than 5000 articles tagged as part of the project. The /Assessment department has been making progress with discussions on the top priority level of novels. These are those articles that should be present in any version of this encyclopedia. The "Members" list has been modified with a short archive or "inactive" list). Member News The project has currently 170 members, 28 joined & 0 leavers since the last newsletter at the start of October 2006. Of these 7 have been moved to a short "Inactive" list due to not contributing to Wikipedia for at least six months. They are free to reactivate themselves at any time, of course!	From the Members Welcome to the sixth 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 The NovelsInCompleteInfobox has been regenerated at the start of October and was shown to have grown rather than shrunk! So this month I have concentrated my efforts (with some help from Grey Shadow (talk · contribs)) on the novels missing "genre" tags. These "genre-less" have now "all" been dealt with. Hopefully we can break the back of this load of work, but it will need help. It would be nice to get these worklists to a state where they can monitor the newly created articles rather than cleaning the retrospective material.
Collaboration of the Month The Collaboration of the Month is going well. October's collaboration was slightly compromised by the removal of our notice early on; however there were still nearly 80 edits to improve the article. This months Collaboration has been selected by popular vote and is Doctor Zhivago (novel)
Current debates We have a project structure that allows for the formation of special interest task forces (al la "WP:MILHIST".) 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.
Newsletter challenge Last months Liponym challenge was met by Springeragh (talk · contribs), but the article is still a "very" small stub. The first person to start the article is mentioned in the next newsletter. This months' article is Lawrence Durrell's novel Clea.
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The Novels WikiProject Newsletter Issue VII - December 2006
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 months 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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The Novels WikiProject Newsletter Issue VIII - January 2007
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.
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The Novels WikiProject Newsletter Issue IX - February 2007
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.
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The Novels WikiProject Newsletter Issue X - March 2007
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.
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The Novels WikiProject Newsletter Issue XI - April 2007
Project news The project has now passed the 10,000 article tagged as in scope. It is hoped to see much more effort going into the improvement of these articles. Those of particular concern are those of "high" or even "top" importance/priority that are still only stubs. If any of these are about anything you know about or can quickly research please add what you can. Member news The project has currently 217 members, 5 joined & 2 leavers since the last newsletter at the start of March 2007 Other news A bot compiled list of new literature related pages is now available at Portal:Literature/New pages. The peer review department of the Novels WikiProject is always open for peer reviewing articles. Department & Task Force news We now have five administration Departments which now include an Automation Department which is the home for support and administration of automated update activity. Anyone with such experience and can get involved look in here for work ideas and to make suggestions. The three task forces are gradually growing but need support to succeed. Also if you have further such ideas for co-operation - also let us know. At the Short Story task force we have just started to consider what a standard short story article should ideally include and an article pattern template debate has started here. Auto list news Our Auto Generated lists appear to have lost the editor who created and supported them. If any other editors have the ability and are willing to have a stab at producing replacement updates, please let us know. Current debates On ((Infobox_Book)) template talk page there was a discussion on adding website links to the template. Later on more debates opened on adding WikiQuote, then Editors & foreword-contributors and further Serialized books and release date? Short story article debate has started here as mentioned above.	From the Members Welcome to the eleventh 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 month's Collaboration has been selected by popular vote and is The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. Someone has pointed out that the 22nd of April is the 300th birthday of Henry Fielding so it behoves us to honour his memory with a suitable effort here! Newsletter challenge Last month's On the Eve challenge was met by the user TAnthony (talk · contribs) (who is possibly from the planet Arrakis) with a nice stub .... The first person to start the article is mentioned in the next newsletter. This month's article is the genre Political thriller.
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Project news The peer review department of the Novels WikiProject is running well after the start in February, having 2 new articles under review: So You Want to Be a Wizard and To Kill a Mockingbird. Our article count has leapt again rising to over 11500. Do get stuck in and assist in improving this rising tide of narrative prose related material. A statistical count of articles can be found here. We have a new project page for Article Style Guidelines which has had a few editors work on it. Currently based on our existing article template it needs some extra eyes to hone any rough edges. (n.b. also see debates below!) Also to accommodate this page the main navigation template has been slightly reorganised. Member news The project has currently 229 members, 12 joined & 0 leavers since the last newsletter at the start of April 2007 Other news The Brothers Karamazov has been nominated for a featured article review. Uncle Tom's Cabin and Original Stories from Real Life were nominated for Featured Article. Auto list news Our Auto Generated lists appear to have lost the editor who created and supported them. If any other editors have the ability and are willing to have a stab at producing replacement updates, please let us know. Current debates Of crucial importance to our progress and the way we edit is a debate on the Main Article Template which is strongly recommended for every editor who can, getting involved with. We have worked with the existing template for well over a year now and this debate proposes making radical changes. (n.b. also see the "Article Style Guidelines" mentioned in "Project News" above) On the project's general discussion page there is a thread on sourcing novel articles.	From the Members Welcome to the twelfth 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 Newsletter tip line has been created for members to link, doodle, shortly write news ideas, discussions they think are possibly interesting/important for the Newsletter. feydey, Co-editor Collaboration of the Month This month's Collaboration has been selected by popular vote and is Moby-Dick. Newsletter challenge Last month's Political thriller challenge was met by the user Loom91 (talk · contribs) with a nice stub. The first person to start the article is mentioned in the next newsletter. This month's article is Louisa May Alcott's Work: A Story of Experience.
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Archives  |  Tip Line  |  Editors The Novels WikiProject Newsletter Issue XIII - June 2007
Project news This newsletter was unfortunately delayed till now - my apologes for that - I needed to respond to a whole host of image challenges that appears on my personal talk pages. So, if you have uploaded non-free book covers that are being used under fair use terms, please add your own "Fair Use Rationale" to the images. Member news The project has currently 236 members, 7 joined & 0 leavers since the last newsletter at the start of May 2007 Other news The Brothers Karamazov (nom.) was demoted from Featured Article status for concerns over sources, structure, and coverage/focus. The 2007 Wikipedia Selection for schools, targeted around the UK National Curriculum, included 39 novels. Volunteers at Wikipedia had suggested articles considered valuable and relevant for inclusion. See here and the WP Signpost news. Novel related news Shantaram to marry Princess Gregory David Roberts, author of Shantaram, a reformed Australian convicted armed robber has just announced his engagement to Princess Francoise Sturdza of Switzerland, who he plans to marry soon. His life has changed dramatically for the best after the release of his first novel four years ago, which depicted his life in India after escaping from prison. A movie based on his novel is planned for production later this year, starring Johnny Depp in the lead role. [1] Shannara series purchased by Warner Bros The film rights to The Shannara Series by Terry Brooks have been picked up by Warner Bros. They plan to first develop The Elfstones of Shannara, the second book in the series as the opening movie and writers are now being sought for the adaptation. The first book The Sword of Shannara, was published in 1977 and was the first fantasy book to reach, and then top, the New York Times Best Seller list. [2] both items courtesy of Boylo (talk · contribs) Special: Year in review, first Newsletter in June 2006 The Newsletter was started on 14 June 2006 by Kevinalewis. Issue I in June 2006 informed us that the project had 88 members with 30 of them having joined after 1 May 2006. A year later the project had 236 members. The Collaboration of the Month was not yet running in 2006. New articles by 23skidoo on the Simon Templar as The Saint novels were mentioned in project news. Current debates The ((Infobox_Book)) was protected so only administrators can edit it and there is a discussion going on over the release field in the template as the ((Infobox short story)) has already had this changed. Spoiler warnings debate affects also novel articles.	From the Members Welcome to the thirteenth 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 month's Collaboration has been selected by popular vote and is A Series of Unfortunate Events. Newsletter challenge Last month's Work: A Story of Experience challenge was met by our new member Baby ifritah (talk · contribs) with a stub. The first person to start the article is mentioned in the next newsletter. This month's article is Pity is Not Enough by Josephine Herbst.
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Archives  |  Tip Line  |  Editors The Novels WikiProject Newsletter Issue XIV - July 2007
Project news The demand for fair use rationales for book covers has generated a discussion among wikipedians and also WP:NOVELS members. See the discussion here it has some potentially very important ideas to consider and possibly contribute to. Member news The project has currently 247 members, 11 joined & 0 leavers since the last newsletter at the start of June 2007 Other news The French and Francophone literature portal was created in June. Novel related news The Novel - (author notes by kind permission of Gregory David Roberts) What is a novel? What are the elements that must be found in any piece of writing for it to be considered a novel? I think it fair to say that traditional definitions of the word “novel” work along these lines: A novel is a fictitious prose story of book length. In my view, a novel has six basic elements: 1) It must have a society of characters; 2) They must be undergoing transformations; 3) And those must be in the course of a sustained prose narrative; 4) The sustained prose narrative must be impelled by a plot; 5) And it must be unified by clearly discernible central themes; 6) And to the extent possible, it must be universalised by a complex architecture of allegorical and symbolical sub-strata. If I write those six basic elements into a single definition, I come up with this: A novel is a society of characters, undergoing transformations, in the course of a sustained prose narrative, which is impelled by a plot, unified by clearly discernible central themes, and universalised by a complex architecture of allegorical and symbolical sub-strata. item courtesy of Boylo (talk · contribs) Current debates After lengthy discussions about the ((Infobox_Book)) it has settled down at a possibly permanent layout. Any suggestions are still of course welcome. Also the important book cover debate mentioned first above.	From the Members Welcome to the fourteenth 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 month's Collaboration has been selected by popular vote and is Live and Let Die (novel). Newsletter challenge Last month's Pity is Not Enough challenge was quickly written by our two eager Novel's WP members Imasleepviking (talk · contribs) and Yllosubmarine (talk · contribs) from the US. The first person to start the article is mentioned in the next newsletter. This month's article is Sinclair Ross' As For Me and My House.
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Archives  |  Tip Line  |  Editors The Novels WikiProject Newsletter Issue XV - August 2007
Project news During July we passed the 13,000 mark for articles tagged as within the scope of the WikiProject. Member news The project has currently 248 members, 8 joined & 0 leavers since the last newsletter at the start of July 2007 Other news Book cover images are discussed at large on WikiProject_Novels/GeneralForum. Novel related news Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling, is released worldwide in July. Current debates On ((Infobox_Book)) we have new debates on ISBN format and coding ideas. Also we have the possibility of making or asserting COinS usage, for those who know more about this please get involved.	From the Members Welcome to the fifteenth 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 month's Collaboration has been selected by popular vote and is The Plague. Newsletter challenge Last month's As For Me and My House challenge was getting left so I Kevinalewis (talk · contribs) had a pop at it. Please add anything you can find about this important work of Canadian literature. . The first person to start the article is mentioned in the next newsletter. This month's article is Jules Verne's 1897 novel The Sphinx of the Ice Fields.
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Archives  |  Tip Line  |  Editors The Novels WikiProject Newsletter Issue XVI - September 2007
Project news During August we signed up to the WikiProject advertising facility ((wikipedia ads)) initiative. Our tagged articles now number over 14,000 and more are being added every day. In reality the article count for our project scope is likely to be much higher so the more who can get involved and assist the process of improving the quality of the articles the better. Member news The project has currently 261 members, 7 joined & 0 leavers since the last newsletter at the start of August 2007. A number of editors have signed up to our "task forces" without signing to the main project so the figure could be slightly higher. Other news Although many editors are doing sterling work actually working on writing and maintaining articles we could always do with more volunteers to assist with the project wide tasks. Our Collaboration of the Month is in need of more suggested articles for our attention and more votes for those already proposed. Novel related news The eagerly awaited Fatal Revenant by Stephen Donaldson is ever closer now, due for release October 9, 2007 in the U.S., October 18 in the UK. As the second part of the The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever#The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant it should seal the character of this trilogy as the closing set from this classic sequence of fantasy novels. Current debates One experienced editor has requested feedback on guidelines such as WP:FICT and WP:WAF. Check out his comments first and get your views felt.	From the Members Welcome to the sixteenth 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 month's Collaboration has been selected by popular vote and is The Firm (novel). Newsletter challenge Last month's The Sphinx of the Ice Fields challenge had quickly a short line about it by New Babylon 2 (talk · contribs). The first person to start the article is mentioned in the next newsletter. This month's article is Susan Cooper's Over Sea, Under Stone, which currently is only a redirect.
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Archives  |  Tip Line  |  Editors The Novels WikiProject Newsletter Issue XVII - October 2007
Project news The Articles-Images in danger of deletion noticeboard page was created for the project. The page can be used by project editors to alert each other where articles or images are under challenge in some way in Wikipedia. Project members are still more than welcome to make use or comment on the Novels WikiProject peer review department. Member news The project has currently 274 members, 13 joined & 0 leavers since the last newsletter at the start of September 2007 Other news Reminder: the ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned after 1 January 2007, and 10 digits long if assigned before 2007. ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 can both be used in the book template, see related discussion here. In either case just prefix the number with the string "ISBN". Enthusiastic Novel's WP members are welcome to edit the list of missing works available in The Literary Encyclopedia — a part of WikiProject Missing articles, an effort to use outside sources to determine what articles are missing from Wikipedia. Novel related news Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea is undergoing FA review. Current debates The genre "Plausible fiction" is discussed here. The revival of the so-called automated lists is suggested.	From the Members Welcome to the seventeenth 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 month's Collaboration has been selected by popular vote and is The Handmaid's Tale. Newsletter challenge Last month's Over Sea, Under Stone challenge had quickly a short stub about it by Applejuicefool (talk · contribs). It did need some rapid work to expand it, but there you go. The first person to start the article is mentioned in the next newsletter. This month's article is Angus Wilson's The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot.
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Archives  |  Tip Line  |  Editors The Novels WikiProject Newsletter Issue XIX - December 2007
Project news A fairly quiet month in November. However we had a fairly successful COTM with the Alice's Adventures in Wonderland article with 85 modifications made. The success of which I will leave to your assessment. Member news The project has currently 290 members, 8 joined & 0 leavers since the start of November 2007 Task force news The Fantasy task force has got off to a really good start with now 13 members. Do cooperate one with another and make it really work for us. If any group of editors sees a need for a new "task force" then let us know. Also we can link a WikiProject in as a task force (as Australian task force), this has the benefit of reducing the level of effort dissipation and also advertising interest areas in more than one location. Novel related news The slightly controversial novel series in the fantasy genre, the The Sword of Truth series by American writer Terry Goodkind reaches its conclusion with the publication of the final novel Confessor. It is controversial for its espousal of the writer's objectivist philosophy. Slightly old news now but Madeleine L'Engle (born November 29, 1918), the American writer best known for her children's books, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet and Many Waters, has died of natural causes on September 6, 2007 taken from the Portal:Literature - news section Current debates Some discussion is going on about the "Activation of Members". To which end a "clearing house" of jobs and volunteers is being trialled at Novels Job Centre. Have a look and see what you think.	From the Members Welcome to the nineteenth 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 month's Collaboration has been selected by popular vote and is Sons and Lovers. New suggestions always welcome! Newsletter challenge Last month's challenge (The Barracks) was completed by WikiProject Novels participant Blathnaid. The first person to start the article is mentioned in the next newsletter. This month's article is Maria Edgeworth's Belinda (hint).
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Archives  |  Tip Line  |  Editors The Novels WikiProject Newsletter Issue XX - January 2008
Project news Welcome to a new calendar year (for most of us!) During 2007 we have seen membership grow from just below 200 to just below 300. Also our tagged article count now runs at about 16,000 considerably up on this time last year. It highlights the message given from last year that there is much work to do improving and caring for this corner of our "wikiworld". Sadly our Auto-list editor moved on and we sorely need an able replacement. On a more positive note we have seen the establishment of task forces, style guidelines and peer review. Our latest outreach initiative is the Novels Job Centre. Member news The project has currently 299 members, 9 joined & 0 leavers since the start of November 2007 n.b. this graph copy has been included as a "one off" example just for this newsletter to let you see the addition to our membership page. Novels WikiProject Members v t e Other news A look back to the year 2007 in the FA department shows the promotions of 4 novels articles: Mary: A Fiction, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman, The Well of Loneliness and Uncle Tom's Cabin. Task force news The Australian task force (i.e. WikiProject Australian literature) is always welcoming new participants interested in Australian fiction. Novel related news The 2007 Costa Books Awards were announced on the 3rd January by Joanna Trollope. The two novel awards were the "2007 Costa Novel Award" A. L. Kennedy - Day and "2007 Costa First Novel Award" Catherine O'Flynn - What Was Lost Current debates Infobox Book has an inquiry about the Country field.	From the Members Welcome to the Twentieth 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 month's Collaboration has been selected by popular vote and is Nausea (novel). Newsletter challenge Last month's challenge (Belinda) was completed by new member User:Nick mallory. The first person to start the article is mentioned in the next newsletter. This month's article is Beryl Bainbridge's award-winning Master Georgie. All 2007 challenges were met, congratulations to all writers. Click show for the complete list. 2007 challenges Jan. - Dec. Fictional location A Taste for Death On the Eve Political thriller Work: A Story of Experience Pity is Not Enough As for Me and My House The Sphinx of the Ice Fields Over Sea, Under Stone The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot The Barracks Belinda
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Archives  |  Tip Line  |  Editors The Novels WikiProject Newsletter Issue XXI - February 2008
Project news We have had a solid month with an increase of project tagging work. We now have a bit of a backlog of assessments needed. Member news The project has currently 305 members, 6 joined & 0 leavers since the start of January 2008. The member page has been reorganized with it being noted that many member are largely inactive. However this is not unusual for WikiProjects and we have a very loyal core of editors who work diligently away often without recognition. Other news Many book cover images were tagged for deletion because of missing or incorrect fair use rationales in January. Several notes on this subject were placed on the General Forum. Task force news There is a new 19th century task force. if this is an area of interest for you join in and help out. Novel related news 23 January, 2008 - The Nestlé Smarties Book Prize is discontinued as of 2008 Guardian The Jaipur Literature Festival, was held on the 23 - 27 January 2008, and is India's biggest festival of literature. British Council news site Margaret Truman Daniel, president’s daughter and popular author of mysteries, Dies at 83 on the 29 January 2008 NYTimes "Margaret Truman Daniel" obituary Current debates The short story taskforce talk page has a discussion relating to the (non)inclusion of articles on stories by well known authors. Find the debate here.	From the Members Welcome to the Twenty First 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 month's Collaboration has been selected by popular vote and is Rabbit, Run. Newsletter challenge Last month's challenge (Master Georgie) was completed by member User:Nick mallory again. Although is worth mentioning that much of the current content is the work of User:Yllosubmarine. The first person to start the article is mentioned in the next newsletter. This month's article is Wright Morris' award-winning The Field of Vision.
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Archives  |  Tip Line  |  Editors The Novels WikiProject Newsletter Issue XXII - March 2008
Project news An election has been proposed to elect a council that will govern the whole project for a month or more, if you would like to debate this, go to the general discussion forum here Member news The project has currently 312 members, 7 joined & 0 leavers since the start of February 2008. Other news Last months collaboration brought few improvements it would be nice if more got involved with the one for this month. Task force news "Featured short stories?" discussion on the Short story task force talk page. Novel related news Penguin is planning to offer audiobooks that are free of digital copyright protection technology. (Guardian) Double Booker prize nominee, novelist Julian Rathbone dies on 28 February, aged 73. (Guardian) Mystery writer and romantic novelist Phyllis A. Whitney died on 8 February, aged 104. (Wikinews) Current debates The debate on "studying literature" is now taking place here. Please have a look and add to the debate.	From the Members Welcome to the Twenty Second 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 month's Collaboration has been selected by popular vote and is The Betrothed. Newsletter challenge Last month's challenge (The Field of Vision) was completed by member User:Elizabennet as a fairly basic "stub" if anyone knows more to enhance it, please do. The first person to start the article is mentioned in the next newsletter. This month's article is Norman Douglas' perhaps most famous work South Wind (LE).
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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) 13:40, 12 March 2008 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I am surprised you haven't fallen over this problem before. Some are insisting that all "Fair use" justified images also use a template to structure the information added in support of the copyright images used for cover illustration. Some of us have been highly miffed by this practice, although it may have plenty of merit, is has the effect of upsetting all who have added images via the rules in force at the time of upload. Anyway if you are willing to try and keep these people happy, which I have tried to do myself. the template with a sample verbage uis below

((Non-free media rationale
|Article="""add the article link in here"""
|Use=Infobox
|Artist=
|Item=Front cover
|Description=Cover for the book """any other description like is it first edition etc"""
|Source=Derived from a scan of the book cover (creator of this digital version is irrelevant as the copyright in all equivalent images is still held by the same party). Copyright held by the publisher or the artist. Claimed as fair use regardless.
|Portion=Entire front cover, but does not include back or insides of original artwork
|Resolution=Is only as much resolution as necessary to identify and show the style of artwork used for the article, not enough to be used for piracy.
|Purpose=Illustrates the appearance of the book and identifies it by recognized features.
|Replaceability=No free equivalent can equal this image (any would be a derivative of this artwork)
|other_information= Image in this form is already widely distributed to identify the book as part of catalogs and reviews, so we degrade no market value by providing it ourselves.
))

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Archives  |  Tip Line  |  Editors The Novels WikiProject Newsletter Issue XXIII - April 2008
Project news Elections are now taking place for coordinators of the project for the next three months. Any editors interested in seeking a coordinator position, or who want a say in who is selected, should indicate as much here. Member news The project has currently 381 members, 69 joined & 0 leavers since the start of March 2008. Other news The project's long-time lead coordinator, Kevinalewis, has announced he is not standing as a candidate for another term in that capacity. We would like to take this opportunity to express our gratitude to him for the extraordinary work he has done for this project. To Kill a Mockingbird was promoted to Featured Article status on April 3. This brings our FA count to 13! It has been suggested that WikiProject Sword of Truth be merged into WP:NOVELS, perhaps as a task force. Task force news Two inactive projects were converted into task forces, so Chronicles of Narnia task force and Lemony Snicket task force have been created. People interested in the aforementioned subjects are encouraged to support the new task forces. (Thank to Wassupwestcoast for the tip) Novel related news The science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke died on 19 March aged 90. Current debates There is a discussion regarding further task forces for other genres of fiction now taking place here.	From the Members Welcome to the Twenty Third 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 month's Collaboration has been selected by popular vote and is A Farewell to Arms. Newsletter challenge Last month's challenge (South Wind) was completed by member User:Blathnaid with a nice starting stub. The first person to start the article is mentioned in the next newsletter. This month's article is Kate Christensen's 2008 PEN/Faulkner award winner The Great Man.
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Archives  |  Tip Line  |  Editors The Novels WikiProject Newsletter Issue XXIV - May 2008
Project news The project coordinators' election has concluded. User Yllosubmarine was strongly supported and has promised to be "willing to get some things in motion". Best wishes from the newsletter. Member news The project has currently 380 members, 1 joined & 2 leavers since the start of April 2008. Other news Nero Wolfe is up in peer review. Grey Griffins has been nominated for GA status. Want to see what wikipedians are reading or want the Wikipedia community to know what you are currently reading? Then check out Wikipedia:What I am reading at the moment. Task force news WikiProject Sword of Truth has been proposed to be merged with WP:NOVELS. The project has currently 9 task forces. Novel related news The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie will be released on June 3. On March 26th, 2008, Brandon Sanderson commenced work on the completion of A Memory of Light, the twelfth and final novel in The Wheel of Time series by the late Robert Jordan. Current debates Discussion on assessing novel articles.	From the Members Welcome to the Twenty Fourth 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. feydey (talk), Temporary Editor Collaboration of the Month This month's Collaboration has been selected by popular vote and is Pride and Prejudice. Newsletter challenge Last month's challenge (The Great Man) was completed by our member User:MeegsC . The first person to start the article is mentioned in the next newsletter. This month's article is Amy Tan's novel The Hundred Secret Senses.
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Archives  |  Tip Line  |  Editors The Novels WikiProject Newsletter Issue XXIV - May 2008
Project news The project coordinators' election has concluded. User Yllosubmarine was strongly supported and has promised to be "willing to get some things in motion". Best wishes from the newsletter. Member news The project has currently 380 members, 1 joined & 2 leavers since the start of April 2008. Other news Nero Wolfe is up in peer review. Grey Griffins has been nominated for GA status. Want to see what wikipedians are reading or want the Wikipedia community to know what you are currently reading? Then check out Wikipedia:What I am reading at the moment. Task force news WikiProject Sword of Truth has been proposed to be merged with WP:NOVELS. The project has currently 9 task forces. Novel related news The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie will be released on June 3. On March 26th, 2008, Brandon Sanderson commenced work on the completion of A Memory of Light, the twelfth and final novel in The Wheel of Time series by the late Robert Jordan. Current debates Discussion on assessing novel articles.	From the Members Welcome to the Twenty Fourth 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. feydey (talk), Temporary Editor Collaboration of the Month This month's Collaboration has been selected by popular vote and is Pride and Prejudice. Newsletter challenge Last month's challenge (The Great Man) was completed by our member User:MeegsC . The first person to start the article is mentioned in the next newsletter. This month's article is Amy Tan's novel The Hundred Secret Senses.
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WikiProject Novels Roll Call

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The WikiProject Novels Newsletter Issue XXVI - September 2008

Archives  |  Tip Line  |  Editors The Novels WikiProject Newsletter Issue XXVI - September 2008 Project news The Margaret Atwood novel The Penelopiad reached Featured Article status on June 29 and then appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on August 26. It is the first article created through Wikipedia:Articles for creation to become Featured. To Kill a Mockingbird appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on July 11. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings reached Good Article status on July 1. Member news The members list is currently under review so we have moved all past active member's name to a Incumbent List and are doing a Project Roll Call. If you still consider yourself an active WP:NOVELS editor, please add your name back to the Active Members List. You may also wish to add your name to any of our many Project Task Forces. Task force news A Fantasy Literature task force has been proposed. Comments are welcomed on that proposal since we already have our own WikiProject Novels/Fantasy task force which is covered under our Novels WikiProject. Novel-related news Devil May Care, written by Sebastian Faulks ("writing as Ian Fleming"), has become Penguin Books fastest selling hardcover fiction title. It is the latest installment in the book series about British secret agent James Bond and was released to coincide with the 100th anniversary of late Bond creator Ian Fleming's birthday on May 28, 1908. Me Cheeta: the Autobiography, written by a ghostwriter, is the autobiography of Cheeta the Chimp who is listed in the Guinness World Records as the oldest recorded non-human primate at the age of 76. He has appeared in various movie roles which included twelve Tarzan movies and even battled addiction to alcohol and cigars. The book is not published until October 1, but judges for the 2008 Guardian First Book Award were sent a early version and were so impressed that they have included it on the 10-strong longlist. Stephenie Meyer, who is listed by Time magazine as one of its 100 most influential people of 2008, has decided not to continue with writing her draft for Midnight Sun after 12 chapters of the unfinished manuscript were leaked on the internet. Current debates Categories for Discussion has a series of discussions about whether to categorize certain specific types of fictional characters: double agents, dictators, characters with eidetic memory, etc. Advice from any Novels project members would be valuable in assisting them. WikiProject Media franchises aims to help editors with the coordination of articles within the thousands of media franchises which exist and has requested input from our members. They are currently discussing a naming convention for franchise articles. Since this may affect one or more articles in our Novel project, they would like to get opinions before implimenting any changes. From the Members With the Newsletter being almost three months overdue, I have decided to take on the position of Editor to make sure it reaches you regularly on time each month. The Newsletter is meant to inspire and encourage our team of Editors and so my goal shall be to make it informative and interesting each issue. We now have many positions vacant in our Project Team, so we are looking for members who have the time and interest to take on the various roles, details of which can be found at the Job Centre. Shortly a Coordinator nominations notice shall also be sent out to all members, which will commence the annual Coordinator selection process. Next month's Newsletter will include a message from our Coordinator Maria, who will introduce herself and speak on our forthcoming elections for extra Coordinators. Boylo (talk), Editor Collaboration of the Month This month's Collaboration has been selected by popular vote and is Look Homeward, Angel. The next collaboration is due for selection on 14 September, 2008 so cast your vote. Newsletter challenge Our last newsletter's challenge The Pure Land was completed by our member Maclean25, who also provided us with tipline news for this newsletter. The first person to start the article is mentioned in the next newsletter. This month's article is Leslie Ann Moore's first book in her fantasy 'Griffin's Daughter' trilogy, which was named by the Independent Book Publishers Association as the 2008 Ben Franklin Award winner for Best First Fiction, Griffin's Daughter. Note: This article was previously deleted due to lack of notability, but that now can be established since winning this award. To unsubscribe from further issues of this newsletter please remove your name from here.

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The WikiProject Novels Newsletter Issue 32 - August 2009

Archives  |  Tip Line  |  Editors The Novels WikiProject Newsletter Issue 32 - August 2009 Member news The Novels Project now has 133 active members. 17 positions remain unfilled at the Job Centre. Members who are active project contributors are encouraged to apply even if they can only do a position for a short time. Project news ON July 26, a fact about F. Springer's novel Bougainville appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the DYK section. On July 27, a fact about Arnon Grunberg's award-winning 2003 novel The Asylum Seeker appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? section. On July 28, a fact about Austrian writer Felix Salten appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the DYK section. On August 1, a fact about Scottish novelist Walter Scott appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? section. On August 4, a fact about Mark Twain's novel The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know? section. On August 12, a fact about American author Jeffrey McClanahan appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? section. - Contributors were Alan16 and Sabiona (who searched the archives). Task force and related news The members of the Chronicles of Narnia task force have created a new ad encouraging people to join. You can display it on your user page or talk page using the following code: ((Wikipedia ads|ad=190)). The role of Coordinator for the Sword of Truth task force was undertaken by SADADS. The role of Coordinator is vacant for the following task forces: Australian, Chronicles of Narnia, Crime, Lemony Snicket, Science Fiction, and Short Story. – The position of Task Force Coordinator is still available at the Job Centre. Peer review and assessment news Peer Reviews are still open for eight articles – The Lightning Thief, The Last of the Masters, The Kindly Ones, Flowers for Algernon, World War Z, Sector General, Petals of Blood, and Scenes of Clerical Life. Feel free to submit any novel-related article that you are working on for review, and please consider stopping by and reviewing an article, as we need more reviewers for our articles! – Alan16(talk) Members in Focus Hello, I am a school librarian in my ‘real life’ and so I use Wikipedia a lot with students ageing from twelve to eighteen. While helping students research various topics I’ve run across many holes in Wikipedia that need to be filled so I created an account and began editing pieces. I’m taking a break from teaching for a few years while I raise two boys of my own, so I created a personal account a couple months ago and am focusing on editing articles on literature as well as the upper Midwest area of the United States and theatre. I enjoy all forms of literature but most often read fantasy and mystery. I am an occasional editor with no intent to run for any post; instead, I look at one or two articles a month that need help and do what I can. My public library system allows home access to a number of academic and professional databases, which is where I find most of my sources. Finally, I am currently working on filling in some of the red links on the Newbery Medal page and then hope to turn the stubs into full articles. Anyone want to help? I'd be interested in starting a Award Winners workgroup. I am also active in the WikiProject Biography and in the Children and Young Adult Literature WikiProject. They all have areas of focus that compliment each other and my interests. – Sabiona(talk) Current debates There is a debate ongoing about the use of YouTube sources on novel-related articles at the Steven Erikson Talk page. Novel related news Author Rachel Kushner's début novel, Telex From Cuba, is one of six novels nominated for a Dayton Literary Peace Prize. From the Outreach Department I was approached after the last newsletter by somebody who wanted to reach out to some of the readers, so here we are – Alan16(talk). Hi all, the Sword of Truth Task Force is restarting to clean up the articles related to Terry Goodkind's books and there adaptations. With the new TV series, The Legend of the Seeker, the books and the TV show are getting more critical attention, which means more real world material to document this great series of book. I would love to have other's help, as I have only just recently joined to find no other active members. The other members, as listed, have mostly left Wikipedia or removed themselves from the task force. If you are interested I would love to talk at the forum: Wikipedia:WikiProject Sword of Truth/General Forum, or send me a message. Hope to talk to some of you soon, SADADS (talk). Collaboration of the Month This month's Collaboration has been selected by popular vote and is : The Sound and the Fury. All members are asked to assist where they can. The next months collaboration will be selected on 21 September 2009. Newsletter challenge Last months newsletter challenge, The Cater Street Hangman was completed by Sabiona. Members are encouraged to help improve this article. The first person to start the article is mentioned in the next newsletter. This months newsletter challenge is Oberon Past and Present by Anthony Burgess. Announcements and open tasks WikiProject Novels • (inc. novellas, novelettes & short stories) Announcements and open tasks (watch • edit • discuss • changes) → Please help with tagging articles! Critique (Featured article): 33 achieved Novels WikiProject Peer reviews: • Sector General • Petals of Blood • Flowers for Algernon Improve: Oberon Old and New • The Age of Reason • Furies of Calderon • Wolf Brother • The Monk • The English Patient • Bones of the Moon Create: To the Vanishing Point • Spoilt City Recently a new worklist had been created and quietly arrived, the Cleanup listing which gives a fairly comprehensive hit list of "novels" related articles that have been tagged for something or other. Since then a new Article alerts listing has also been added of more topic and "urgent" items worthy of our attention.

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The WikiProject Novels Newsletter Issue 33 - December 2009

Archives  |  Tip Line  |  Editors The Novels WikiProject Newsletter Issue 33 - December 2009 Member news The Novels Project now has 144 active members. 17 positions remain unfilled at the Job Centre. Members who are active project contributors are encouraged to apply even if they can only do a position for a short time. Project news On November 1, a fact about the novel Madol Doova appeared in the DYK? section on Wikipedia's main page. On November 22, a fact about the book Acquainted with the Night appeared on Wikipedia's main page in the Did You Know? section. On December 1, a fact about the book Blown for Good appeared on Wikipedia's main page in the DYK? section. On December 8, a fact about the book The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter appeared in the Did You Know? section. On December 9, a fact about Alistair Campbell's novel All in the Mind appeared in the Did You Know? section on the main page. On December 11, a fact about the novel Kajsa Kavat by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren appeared on Wikipedia's main page in the Did You Know? section. - Contributor was Alan16 (who searched the archives). Task force and related news A new Military fiction task force has been recently created by SADADS. The group focuses on military fiction that is not primarily associated with fantasy and science-fiction, and is calling for users to help support the integration of the Military fiction task force, including template development, tagging, and assesment. Anyone interested in joining can sign up here. The role of Coordinator is vacant for the following task forces: Australian, Chronicles of Narnia, Crime, Lemony Snicket, Science Fiction, and Short Story. – The position of Task Force Coordinator is still available at the Job Centre. Peer review and assessment news Peer Reviews are still open for twelve articles – The Lightning Thief, The Last of the Masters, The Kindly Ones, Flowers for Algernon, World War Z, Sector General, Petals of Blood, The God Beneath the Sea, Time After Time, The Tell-Tale Heart, Snow Crash, and Scenes of Clerical Life. Feel free to submit any novel-related article that you are working on for review, and please consider stopping by and reviewing an article, as we need more reviewers for our articles! – Alan16(talk) From the Outreach Department Hello all. As you're probably aware this is the first newsletter since August. I had hoped that although I was unable to write one for the ensuing months, somebody would have picked it up, but that was sadly not to be. However I am back, and that should hopefully mean a new newsletter every month, like it used to be. There has been a lot of work done on novel related articles in my absence, however the project does not appeared to have progressed very much, which I'm sure you would all agree, is a shame as it holds such promise for Wikipedia. But with the new year approaching I am hoping that things will turn around, so I urge you all to get involved with the project in whatever way you can, and help it achieve its full potential. All that's left for me now is to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. – Alan16(talk) Current debates There is an ongoing debate about whether A Death In The Family by James Agee qualifies as a great American novel. Novel related news Début novelist 29 year old Evie Wyld won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for her novel After The Fire, A Small Still Voice. Collaboration of the Month There have been no novels nominated at the Collaboration department for the past few months, so this months collaboration will remain: The Sound and the Fury. All members are asked to assist where they can. If you think there is an article which requires the projects collaboration, you can nominate it here. The next months collaboration will be selected on 17 January 2010. Newsletter challenge In the last newsletter, the challange was to create an article on Oberon Past and Present by Anthony Burgess. This challenge was completed by Xanthoxyl. Members are encourage to help improve this article. This months newsletter challenge is to create an article for The Spoilt City by Olivia Manning. The first person to start the article will be mentioned in the next newsletter. Announcements and open tasks WikiProject Novels • (inc. novellas, novelettes & short stories) Announcements and open tasks (watch • edit • discuss • changes) → Please help with tagging articles! Critique (Featured article): 33 achieved Novels WikiProject Peer reviews: • Sector General • Petals of Blood • Flowers for Algernon Improve: Oberon Old and New • The Age of Reason • Furies of Calderon • Wolf Brother • The Monk • The English Patient • Bones of the Moon Create: To the Vanishing Point • Spoilt City Recently a new worklist had been created and quietly arrived, the Cleanup listing which gives a fairly comprehensive hit list of "novels" related articles that have been tagged for something or other. Since then a new Article alerts listing has also been added of more topic and "urgent" items worthy of our attention.

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The article Face of the Enemy (novel) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Fails book notability guidelines. Source searches reveal no reviews in major, independent, reliable sources that confer significant coverage. Mainly just fan fiction.

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