Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Novels

Novel articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release

Version 0.8 is a collection of Wikipedia articles selected by the Wikipedia 1.0 team for offline release on USB key, DVD and mobile phone. Articles were selected based on their assessed importance and quality, then article versions (revisionIDs) were chosen for trustworthiness (freedom from vandalism) using an adaptation of the WikiTrust algorithm.

We would like to ask you to review the Novel articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (♦) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Sunday, November 14th.

We have greatly streamlined the process since the Version 0.7 release, so we aim to have the collection ready for distribution by the end of November, 2010. As a result, we are planning to distribute the collection much more widely, while continuing to work with groups such as One Laptop per Child and Wikipedia for Schools to extend the reach of Wikipedia worldwide. Please help us, with your WikiProject's feedback!

If you have already provided feedback, we deeply appreciate it. For the Wikipedia 1.0 editorial team, SelectionBot 16:35, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject cleanup listing

I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick (talk) 20:48, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Collaboration anyone?

I found Purge (novel) as a really well referenced stub and figured that it would make a good GA at least. It's an award winning Finnish novel about Estonia that was widely praised by European critics. Would anyone be interested in helping expand it? The Reception section is in pretty good shape and I started developing the Themes and Style, but support and feedback would be great especially if anyone has read it and can give me a good plot summary. Sadads (talk) 02:04, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Also, if anyone knows French there has been an awful lot of French languge newspapers related to her and the book on Google News. My French is really rudimentary, so I can only get a little from the text. Sadads (talk) 02:19, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Invitation to participate!

Hello! As you may be aware, the Wikimedia Foundation is gearing up for our annual fundraiser. We want to hit our goal, and hit it as soon as possible, so that we can focus on Wikipedia's tenth anniversary (January 15) and on our new project, the Contribution Team.

I'm posting across WikiProjects to engage you, the community, in working to build Wikipedia not only through financial donations, but also through collaboration in building content. You can find more information in Philippe Beaudette's memo to the communities here.

Please visit the Contribution Team page and the Fundraising page to find out how you can help us support and spread free knowledge. Rock drum _Ba-dum^Crash _{(Driving well?)} 19:48, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Back to Before (Megamorphs)

Hello, my friends: A group of us are working on clearing the backlog at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_lacking_sources_from_October_2006. The article in the above header has been without sources for the past four years and might be removed if none are added. I wonder if you can help find one or two good references. Sincerely, and all the best to you, GeorgeLouis (talk) 06:00, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Badge of Evil

Yes, it's me again. Badge of Evil is another novel that needs some sourcing. I wonder if anybody here is interested in helping out? You guys know more than I about where to find the references. Yours sincerely, GeorgeLouis (talk) 06:37, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

• References added [1] [2] [3] --maclean (talk) 01:24, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Translation In The Eighteenth Century Gothic Novel

Does Translation In The Eighteenth Century Gothic Novel fall within the purview of this project? Whatever it's actually supposed to be about, it needs some help to explain it better! - BilCat (talk) 07:36, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Find out what it is actually about, then we can answer that. :-) (looks like an essay...on what, I don't know) Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 08:54, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Immediate help required

Hi, Sorry to trouble you.
I have recently translated 2 pages from Dutch Wikipedia which I found useful, and I thought that other English speakers might feel the same way.
One is a list of the best German novels; the other is a list of the best Dutch novels. The German list was chosen by authors, critics and scholars; the Dutch list by readers.

An admin who evidently does not read novels (??) has marked them both for deletion because, apparently, when German scholars pick the best German novels that is "not notable". Go figure.

The discussions are here:

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Best German Novels of the Twentieth Century
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NRC's Best Dutch novels

Thanks for any favourable word you might bring to the discussion, Varlaam (talk) 05:38, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Per WP:CANVAS, any unfavorable word is welcome too! - BilCat (talk) 08:58, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Dark romanticism

FYI, Dark romanticism has been nominated for deletion. 65.94.47.218 (talk) 07:55, 6 December 2010 (UTC)