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Welcome to the Novels WikiProject Collaboration of the Month! This effort seeks to identify articles within the field of literature and novels—including novels and novel series, novel characters, novellas and many others—that require improvement.

The Novels Improvement Drive seeks to engage editors and steadily improve articles within the project scope.

February 2011

Goal

Support the Great Backlog Drive and the Wikification Backlog Elimination Drive.

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Objective

Using articles within the project scope, participants will

• Remove ((wikify)) or ((Dead end)) tags.
• Remove ((Fiction)), ((In-universe)), or ((plot)) tags.
• Remove ((notability)), ((unreferenced)), ((Refimprove)), or other reference/citation-related tags.
• Help resolve any other backlogs listed here using novel-related articles.

To find WikiProject Novels articles in one of the backlogs, use the Category Intersection Tool or see the cleanup listing

Tracking

List your name here once you achieve the following:

Participants who have removed 5 ((wikify)) or ((Dead end)) tags

1. maclean (talk) 22:38, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
2. Glimmer721 ^talk 23:06, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Participants who have removed 3 ((Fiction)), ((In-universe)), or ((plot)) tags

1. Killed long plot tags, Sadads (talk) 19:46, 11 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
2. Mukkakukaku (talk · contribs) (see accounting)

Participants who have removed 3 reference/citation-related tags

Participants who have helped resolve other backlogs.

1. Layona1 (talk) 18:41, 11 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
2. 10+ De-orphans Sadads (talk) 10:46, 15 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
3. Fixed 7 Ibid.'s Layona1 (talk) 06:08, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
4. 5+ clean up tags, Sadads (talk) 13:39, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Past Drive: January 2011

Objective

Using articles within the project scope, as a group we sought to accomplish

• Five new article creations
• Five stub kills, taking a stub article till at least a start-class
• Five article clean-ups. Find a article with clean up tags and bring it up to standards.

	Article creations	Stub kills	Article clean-up
1.	Player One created by maclean (talk) 03:37, 8 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]	The Bishop's Man [1] stub → C-class by maclean (talk) 19:12, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]	Catch Me When I Fall [2] unreferenced-tag removed by maclean (talk) 03:38, 8 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
2.	Lionel Lincoln created by Sadads (talk) 18:38, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]	First Light (novel) [3] stub → C-class by Derild4921Review Me! 22:16, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]	The Grim Grotto [4] plot tag removed by Glimmer721 talk 16:41, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
3.	Charlie Johnson in the Flames created by maclean (talk) 21:29, 22 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]	The Ash Garden [5] stub → C-class by maclean (talk) 04:44, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]	The Wright 3 [6] trivia tag removed by Glimmer721 talk 23:51, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
4.	Enemies & Allies created by maclean (talk) 04:31, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]		The Fey Series- deorphaned and general clean up, Sadads (talk) 15:14, 14 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
5.	The Red Rover created by Sadads (talk) 13:27, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]		The Wright 3 [7] unreferenced tag removed by Glimmer721 talk 22:05, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nominate an article

To nominate an article, add

===[[Name of article]]===

Nomination text. ~~~~

'''Support'''

# ~~~~

'''Comments'''

at the bottom of the list of candidates, filling in the name of the article and the nomination text (which should indicate why the article would benefit from a collaboration and what needs to be improved). It is recommended that specific goals be given for new collaborations, such as "promoting to GA status", to help direct the efforts of contributors.

Please remember to add collaboration-candidate=yes to the ((NovelsWikiProject)) project banner at the top of the article's talk page (see the Project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax).

Candidates

Nominate an article here

The Westing Game

A Newbery-medal winning book, it deserves a better article than the unsourced, no plot one it has now. It is in desperate need of cleanup. There are very few members who are working on the article. Glimmer721 ^talk 16:53, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support

• We could bring in Children's literature too, Sadads (talk) 19:13, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Great idea. There should be plenty of info out there for the subject. PrincessofLlyr ^{royal court} 19:34, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• I can provide references if someone is willing to do the synthesizing and writing. maclean (talk) 04:41, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• A book worthy of our attention. Airplaneman ✈ 03:39, 24 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

• I own the book and have read it twice (my last time a little over a year ago), so I could help out. Glimmer721 ^talk 23:47, 14 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

History

Archives

• 2009 archive
• 2008 archive
• 2007 archive
• 2006 archive

Stalled nominations

Nominations which have "stalled" through lack of support are listed at: Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Collaboration/Stalled. Stalled nominations are those which have received no more than two votes of support (including the original nomination) during their first six months on the candidates list. Should a stalled nomination receive a third vote of support, its listing should return to the list of active candidates below as it may have sufficient community interest to be selected.

Maintenance

At the beginning of every month, a new collaboration article should be selected. This should generally be the candidate with the most support (and the oldest candidate in case of a tie).

To archive the current collaboration

1. Remove ((NovelsWikiProject Collaboration)) from the top of the current collaboration article.
2. Change the date details on the article talk page past-collaboration=<start date>–<end date> in the ((NovelsWikiProject)) project banner to include the end date.
3. Add the current article to the bottom of the history section.
4. Move the current article's nomination text to the archive.

To select the new collaboration

1. Add ((NovelsWikiProject Collaboration)) to the top of the new article.
2. Move the new article's nomination text to the "Current collaboration" section.
3. Update Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Collaboration/Current to point to the new article.
4. Update Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Collaboration/NextDate to use the next vote date.
5. Replace collaboration-candidate=yes with past-collaboration=<start date>–<end date> in the ((NovelsWikiProject)) banner at the top of the new article's talk page. The "<end-date>" element should read "open" to start with.

Notify other members of the WikiProject

1. Add ((subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Collaboration/Notice|Name of article)) ~~~~ to the talk pages of users who supported the new article.
2. Add a post on the GeneralForum advertising the new collaboration to project members.
3. Notify any relevant task forces of the current collaboration.
4. Notify regular contributors of the new collaboration of the month.