The WikiProject Novels Newsletter Issue 34 – June 2010

Archives  |  Tip Line  | Editors The Novels WikiProject Newsletter Issue 34 – June 2010 Member news The Novels Project now has 122 active members. There are also 49 inactive members. 13 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. Elections for the coordinators are about to begin. All members are encouraged to come and vote. 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 uphere. The role of Coordinator is vacant for the following task forces: Australian,Chronicles of Narnia, Crime,Lemony Snicket, Science Fiction, andShort Story. 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, Sector General, Petals of Blood, The God Beneath the Sea, The Tell-Tale Heart, Saturday, Freaky Green Eyes, The Bad Seed, 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! – PrincessofLlyr (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 elections 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. – 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 byAnthony 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 → 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. Compiled by Airplaneman,

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• Important discussions take place on the project's main discussion page; it is highly recommended that you watchlist it.
• Planning on starting some new articles? Our article structure guidelines / template outlines some things to include.

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