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

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

Main Project Discussion - takes place here /GeneralForum

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.

WikiProject Novels

WikiProject Novels aims to define a standard of consistency for articles about novels. Aims to encourage and provide the structure for enhancing the writing of high qualilty articles on all manner of different novels. For the purpose of this project "Novels" are deemed to be Fiction books of any genre. (It does not include very short stories.) It also aims to encourage and promote the writing of articles on all types of Novels.

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

For Novel articles:

• /ArticleTemplate

which includes

anInfobox template for a book - /InfoboxCode

For Fictional character articles:

• /CharacterArticleTemplate

WikiProject Books

• WikiProject Fictional Series
• WikiProject Horror

The similar WikiProjects are the WikiProject Albums and WikiProject Songs

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

This user is a participantinWikiProject Novels.

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

Members

1. KF, joined 11 December 2005.
2. Kevinalewis, joined 19 January 2006. - Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk)
3. Sophy's Duckling, joined 24 January 2006.
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9. Eagle, joined 4 Febuary 2006. - Eagle 101's (talk) (desk)
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13. Webmaster961, joined 15 February 2006 - Webmaster961's (talk) (Desk)
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30. Hussy, joined 14 March 2006
31. FAE, joined 17 March 2006 : main focus is on scifi/fantasy, as well as some gothic novels
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62. False Prophet, joined May 7, 2006, I will add bits and pieces to some stuff, and should I come across a book I am very familiar with that needs work, Ill devote time to it
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Guestbook

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

• Temlakos (Talk) (No message left by user) 02:35, 5 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Candybars (No message left by user) 01:57, 7 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Acebrock Unfamiliar with discussed material. 21:28, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Birgitte§β I work mainly with Wikisource. 17:52, 17 February 2006 (UTC) - Birgitte§β's Talk[reply]
• Rimbaud, 13 April 2006
• *Exeunt* Ganymead | Dialogue? 20:00, 26 April 2006 (UTC) Greetings from WikiProject Theatre![reply]
• Monzonda I'll try to contribute if my work schedule permits me :) Monz 04:07, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• (Mingus ah um 20:52, 5 May 2006 (UTC)) When I stray from the non-fiction, I'll try to help this project out.[reply]
• JennyRad - tentatively signing up, 19th May, when I have time
• Tombseye-I'm down to help by helping with articles on books I read as I do a lot of that at work besides, ah, working. Tombseye 06:13, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Almighty Tallest 17:04, 7 June 2006 (UTC) Love to actually help out, but new baby on the way :)[reply]

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

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

Included:

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

• Genres of novels including

Not included:

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

References (can be made to):

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

Project notices

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

Internal project organization

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

Navigational templates

• See Templates for fiction series.

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

• /Worklist
• /ArticlesNeeded
• /InfoboxNeeded
• /InfoboxIncomplete
• Film/book articles to be split and Film/book stub articles to be split - Articles containing entries on both a film and a book, which should be split into separate articles

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