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Hey there! Just a comment about something I've noticed from your work on PJ Haarsma. Help:Minor edits says that "a check to the minor edit box signifies that only superficial differences exist between the current and previous version: typo corrections, formatting and presentational changes, rearranging of text without modifying content". A few of your edits probably shouldn't have been marked as minor; it's not a big deal, and I'm not really bothered, but you might want to mark fewer edits as minor in future.
Ahh ok thanks for pointing out the policy, Mr Absurd. I think I get click crazy sometimes. I'm always open to constructive criticism so if you notice anything else I'm not quite in the right one, feel free to let me know!--Kethra{talk}20:04, 6 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
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Hi Kethra, your article is progressing well. I thought that you might be interested in the Did you know? category which is featured each day on the main Wikipedia page. Let me know what you think? I am under the impression that all articles are open to the category whether or not they are rated b-class or higher. Hag2 (talk) 15:59, 10 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
That would be great, but I'm not sure if this article would qualify as it hasn't been "expanded at least fivefold with new text within the last five days".--Kethra{talk}17:24, 10 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
ETA - Well it might have been, I forgot about the expansions I made to the KNTR section. But I wonder what would be a good hook...--Kethra{talk}17:25, 10 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
Sure. Hopefully, all that I need to do is insert the hook. I grow weary quickly of long-winded instruction details. Have you looked? Do you know? Hag2 (talk) 18:11, 10 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
It looks like all you need to do is use the {{DYKsuggestion}} template on the Did you know? page, under the appropriate heading (ie when the article was created or expanded). I guess that would be the 6th for this one (where the most expansion was). Looks like there's a more details when you go to edit the suggestion page.--Kethra{talk}18:18, 10 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
I think I follow you so far. But that template said, ...It is not meant to be used by a human when nominating hooks; it is only used by the calling template. After reading through the DYK "nominating page" quickly, it looked as though all I needed to do was insert the hook at the expansion day (December 7, let's say). Then a bunch of administrators begin doing their thing. There's a suggestion somewhere about images, and I thought that a good 100x100 pixel cropping of the Game Image might look good. You know, use your Microsoft PictureIt editor, crop one of the figures faces (or something like that), upload it into Wikipedia, and then we can use that as the 100x100 image. Do you follow me? Hag2 (talk) 18:52, 10 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
Sorry, meant {{DYKsug}} (was just looking at the help info at the top of the page when you go to edit Did you know?. I'll see about getting an image, if not a game image, perhaps PJ's portrait, since the hook is about him.--Kethra{talk}18:54, 10 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
Okay [after edit conflict]. I think we could use Anne Teedham's December 5 day as the beginning of the expansion day. See the difference between the two days here:[1]
Okay. Look, I'll insert the stuff that you exampled a minute ago into the DYK nomination page. While I am doing that, why don't you cut this entire subsection from the talkpage, and let it go to the "wind", or paste it into your user's talkpage (if you want). I really see no need for any further discussion, do you? Hag2 (talk) 19:40, 10 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
Mission accomplished. I ran into two problems, but they were (are) insignificant. The first problem was: the link for the Rings of Orbis linked to the same link for PJ. So I quickly inserted the homepage URL for the Rings. The second problem is clearly visible in the nomination page when you find the December 5 nominations. Why it inserted the "[[PJ Haarsma" is beyond me but I figure that some smart fellow will come along and correct it for me. I hope you get selected. :) This has been another learning process. Thanks. Oh...send me a {{tb}} after you read this. Hag2 (talk) 20:02, 10 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
Kethra, we ran into a problem: [2] The only way I see to correct for this is to create two quick STUBS, one for each. A stub really does not need more than 2-3 sentences; however the concept behind a stub is that those sentences will then become an article. I believe both external links in the hook could evolve into separate articles of their own. What do you think? Also, there really is no hurry on this DYK thing. We can let the nomination evaporate, then try again later. I have a feeling that the 5x Rule means something like "...there only needs to be five edits", not 5 times the volume. So I will read through the rules for more clarity. Hag2 (talk) 13:12, 11 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
Yeah, I was thinking about that last night that they might not like the external links. I had a plan to develop both of those articles. I think we can let this one go for now, and when the KNTR or The Softwire articles are developed, we can use one or both of those as the Did you know? nomination. Or something along those lines. I had some more ideas to develop the school visit and game sections of PJ's article as well. So there's always the future. Thank you for bringing this category to my attention. I think it's a great system, the timing is just a bit off now. I'm going to be rather busy and away from Wikipedia over the holidays, but I'll try to do what I can offline and come back with great material for the new articles.--Kethra{talk}14:41, 11 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
Cool. I detailed a "plea for understanding with Art LaPella" (at the nomination) but expect to let everything expire. I, too, am new at Wikipedia but I am learning a few details as time goes by. One detail which I believe may be valuable in this DYK concept is the expansion rule. If you keep your work within your Userspace, it does not interfere with the rule. That is, the day that you move your article into Articlespace becomes the day of creation. Consequently, if you had written PJ Haarsma in Userspace (which I am sure you did) and not moved it until December 5,...etcetera. The disadvantage to keeping one's work in Userspace is that it remains virtually unseen by other editors. However, I believe a work-around from that disadvantage is the REDIRECT. For example, if you use the REDIRECT for the name of the article (e.g. PJ Haarsma), but then redirect any interested parties to Userspace, you should be able to acquire people as you have done so far. Thus, my notion at the moment is for you to secure the Articlespace names The Softwire Series and The Kids Need to Read Foundation by researching the rules regarding REDIRECTS, and by creating the redirects in Articlespace as soon as possible. Does this make any sense? Hag2 (talk) 15:03, 11 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
That's something to consider, and does make a little sense. However, my reason for having those in my userspace was so that the majority of people won't see them yet, as they're definitely not ready for criticism! And I didn't create PJ's article, it's been there for a while. I just did major expansions to it. When I got a hold of it, it was a stub. Once I have more time to devote, I'll be doing major expansions on the two developing articles, because I've learned a lot from the process of getting PJ's article to a B-class rating. My intentions were to start with The Softwire article, but I gravitated to PJ's first. It's all a learning process! I think I'm going to work on paper or in my trusty Notepad to develop those. Seems my thoughts are more coherent and less disjointed when I write elsewhere.--Kethra{talk}15:09, 11 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
There is a problem with the "trusty Notepad" or Word: word wrap. I have run across that in another user's article. It is very annoying in the edit-box to begin making line-breaks more compatible with the Wikipedia text editor. The work-around goes like this: create your work in a Sandbox but do not SAVE. Save it into Notepad after you have created, then save Notepad locally. The following day paste back to SANDBOX, create again, but SAVE into NOTEPAD. I think the work-around may not hold true for WORD; I have not bothered to find out. Hag2 (talk) 16:08, 11 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
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Kethra, I don't like the spacing of the final two quote boxes. On a 800x600 screen, the righthand box is lost and greatly out of proportion to the main body of the article. I would suggest moving one of the boxes directly before the introductory material for the School visits (centered), and then placing the second box at the very end (also centered). Or: I would reccommend finding the exact, correct "em" (perhaps in a percentage?) so the quote boxes would float equidistant below the main body of the article, and thus there would be no mandatory "scrolling". Hag2 (talk) 21:25, 10 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
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Honine: Great addition! Let me know when you want to be nominated for the WP:GA. I think PJ Haarsma is ready. It seems to take a month from Nomination Day to review. Big backlog. Incidentally, I do not think a Good Article rating is really much to strive for unless you find a good reviewer, i.e. a person who is prepared to aid you in the direction of an A-Rating. But the GA nomination means that your WPBiography talkpage banner gets altered from B-Class to GA candidate (I think). Hag2 (talk) 19:20, 11 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
Oops, missed this. Thanks, Hag2. I just posted on PJ Haarsma's talk page about wanting to expand the game and visit sections just a wee bit more before pursuing a GA rating. I probably won't be able to get to that until after the holidays/New Year because I'm going to be traveling quite a bit and my poor computer will miss me.--Kethra{talk}14:30, 13 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
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Thanks for uploading Image:RingsofOrbis-ss.jpg. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
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Hi, Kethra. I saw this BJBot notice. I think you need to remove the template {{di-orphaned fair use|date=14 December 2008}} from the top of the File-page edit-page, and then somewhere provide a "reason". I am not very good regarding all these Wikipedia technical notices (as a matter of fact I find them as...ine.) I ran into something similar myself on the Danny Casolaro article. When I removed the template, I inserted a reason in the Edit-box Summary line. But some Dogooder disputed my reason a few minutes later, and eventually my image was deleted altogether.
According to the lead paragraph of CAT:ORFU, you can use your userspace "working article" (and I think you have already notified the BJBot of this reasoning. But I still think you need to remove the template notice because no one has removed the notice yet. I would suggest "cutting" the {{di-orphaned fair use|date=14 December 2008}} from the "edit", and then "paraphrasing" the following into the edit-box summary line: "Note that some of these images were automatically marked as orphaned because there was no reference from a main space article, and there may be good reasons why these should not be deleted anyway. For instance, if an editor is actively working on an article in a user-space subpage, it would be unhelpful to delete the images before the article is finished. Also check for possible vandalism - it is not unknown for vandals to have blanked pages with image references." Probably something simple, such as: "reason: editor is actively working on an article in a user-space subpage, it would be unhelpful to delete the images before the article is finished." I would insert the KNTR image into a subpage also, and do the same for it. Wikipedia provides very little insightful assistance when it comes to accepting and deleting fairuse images. Unfortunately, there are too many-trigger happy bots and dogooders for the rest of us to figure out what is going on?Hag2 (talk) 17:18, 15 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
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Hi Kethra, I had to stop after the second paragraph of Synopsis. SYNOPSIS begins as a deeply envolved, analytical evaluation of thematic content, and I am slightly mind-blown, luv, after reading through the first two paragraphs. I'll return later if you feel that my copyediting is worthy. If not, feel free to revert as soon as you read it. There is nothing wrong with anything from the beginning of The Softwire through to and including the first two paragraphs of Synopsis; it is just that it is very difficult to concentrate when so much is expressed by the kind of ethereal writing which I encountered in Synopsis. Toby Ornott (talk) 15:50, 10 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
I plan on rewriting the majority of that content. They turned out more of an exposition instead of a summary, and looking back on it, they need a bit of work. I rushed a bit into getting the article in the main namespace, but I was enthusiastic about getting a Did you know? entry. Your copyediting is fine; just know the article will be changing dramatically once I get my copies of the book out of storage again.--Kethra{talk}17:16, 10 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
Hi ho, me again. Left you a note on the Talk, but then discovered my own answer by rereading the beginning.... I am right; you are wrong. zippidity do da GRIN. But...Another question: You wrote: "Orbis seems wondrous, except the children are shocked to learn they will be expected to fulfill their parents' work rule commitment." Is it possible that you mean this: Orbis seems wondrous, except the children are shocked to learn they will be expected to fulfill their parents' indentured contract for their passage." Or contract of indenture, or something like that. You see, the problem here is that a reader of this article is questioning previous remarks such as Orbisian law, who wrote the law, why did the children get stuck with indentured slavery, and so on and so forth. Yet, rather than write a lengthy epistle on the subject, the writer of the article needs to find a quick, coherent expression which summarizes all those questions into one precise phrase. Eh? Do you follow me, K? What say you? I will continue with rewriting freely whatever I want (such as my addition of the xyz for a more specific name of the wormhole). This should give you an idea how a reader interprets your language. I should be finished in several days. I hope that I am not annoying you. Forgive me if I am. I find everything fascinating, and well-written so far. (add on: oh, and I do not think that you need to rewrite anything. The Softwire reads well as it is. :o) Toby Ornott (talk) 17:47, 12 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
You don't annoy me at all! I'm glad you've taken an interest in the subject and in helping me better present the material. Life has just thrown me a few curves the last few days and I've had trouble finding time to come here to devote to the article! Thanks for all that you're doing. Oh... I nominated it for a Did You Know? to perhaps bring more traffic to it, since that's for new articles. If you have a moment, and are so inclined, could you take a look at the hooks and perhaps see if they're able to be verified? Thanks!--Kethra{talk}18:27, 12 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
Verified? I'm not sure that I know what all that DYK stuff is all about. I took a peek, digested the above commentary by you and Hag, read through the comments by you and Mgm, and then tried reading through the rules of DYK. I quickly gave up: it hurts my mind. :( I think a good hook would be something like: Did you know that The Softwire is PJ Haarsma's young adultscience fiction series about a thirteen-year-old Johnny T, and his stuggles with the Kudniks, the Nagools, and indentured slavery...? (and I would throw in that picture of the Honine just for fun...to top it all off, and maybe even Haarsma too...if you can do that. And I said that over there. Is that what you meant by verified Oooo all this wickiwack stuff blows my mind! :?)--Toby Ornott (talk) 19:52, 12 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
Heh well, sorta! I noticed both yours and Hag2's comments. Verified means to just verify that the length is enough (it is!), that the hook has referenced facts (I know at least the New York Times one does - I'm still working on references). Then use one of the symbols to note that it's ready for the DYK entry. I understand about it all hurting your mind! There's so many regulations on criteria for things like that. --Kethra{talk}22:05, 12 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
Coolio. I'm having fun messing with the hookies. I altered Dixie's internal wikis to "role playing games" and "kids need to know" and I guess I haven't any idea whether or not I am complying with rules, other than "everything has to be from inside Wik". Is all this DYK worthwhile? Seems a tad over-ruled. On The Softwire though....I am going to stop copyediting until you address this: By the time I got to reading the fourth paragraph of Virius on Orbis, I determined two things: (a) the plot needs to be confined to minimal verbage, with little or no expository writing; and (b) will The Softwire conform to the Wikipedia encyclopedia standards here WP:NOT and here WP:CRYSTAL? I cite these two guidelines only because someone somewhere threw them at me on some sort of debate about advertising a school program (I think) that someone else had written. All this means, I think that I want you to follow your own advice about rewriting, and to ignore my previous remark about everything being ok. I think the plot(s) is too long.--Toby Ornott (talk) 15:43, 13 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
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K-- I just began reading the first paragraph. I can see a need for continued copyediting. Shall I continue? Or would you prefer someone else? It will take me probably a day or two. booToby Ornott (talk) 17:06, 15 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
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I think you made it into the DYK thingy!! See Queue 5. What happens now? The notice says that it will happen within three hours!! QUOTE: ( AT: Friday, 16 January 2009 16:01) ENDQUOTE {edit: woowee, i give up. i clicked through a bunch of purges and clears and this 'n that. and have no idea what in the duce to expect from whatever is about to happen, whenever.... what nonsense!! p.s. this EDIT is written at 13:22:37} Toby Ornott (talk) 13:08, 16 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
Coolio. I've already begun Betrayal on Orbis 2, am into the third paragraph, and am intrigued by the series. You are doing a stellar job of summarizing a rather complex and interesing storyline. Toby Ornott (talk) 16:04, 16 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
okay dokey. I have finished messing up your composition with my copyediting. I took several outlandish liberties which you may wish to address immediately: first, I named the wormhole xyz because readers like that kind of specificity (I am assuming that Haarsma named the darned thing too. If he didn't, he should have); secondly, I did a similar thing for your use of the expression "underground railroad" (In order to sustain the element of verisimilitude readers of science fiction do not like to see "human conditions and vocabulary" in strange galactic creations...or, in other words, it is ok to keep the link to the "underground railroad" but call it something else, something more Obisian. I hope you follow me. I hope Haarsma did too. I made a similar verisimilitude change to your word inhumane for the same reason); thirdly, I altered your final paragraph to return to The Softwire Series just because it seemed appropriate. As time goes by, I imagine you will be able to alter something like that back and forth a zillion times. The next bump on the silly DYK queue is scheduled for sometime 24:00 (UTC). When that happens, nothing spectacular occurs. It has been several hours since the last bump, but I have not seen your DYK move from queue 5 into queue 4 yet. Toby Ornott (talk) 20:38, 16 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
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On January 17, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article The Softwire, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
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I've reread PJ Haarsma several times over the past month or so and I feel that it is ready for a GA nomination. The process usually takes a month--so if you would like, I would be happy to nominate the article. I strongly feel that it safely meets GA criteria and I doubt that it would fail. Dixie Hag2 (talk) 19:19, 22 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
Okay. Here is what I would like you to do. This link [3] will take you to the nomination page. Once there, the instructions ask for a nominator to list the article in a particular subsection (see the list on the right). My current thinking is that I want to list your article in the EVERDAY LIFE category rather than the LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE because past experience has shown that more reviewers follow the EVERYDAY category. Let me know which of the two you would prefer. (LITERATURE may produce a more thoughtful and better reviewer. EVERYDAY could produce a blitzkrieging character who merely wants to say that he has reviewed a Good Article. I have seen some fairly pathetic reviews which do little more than fill-in-the-blanks of the "How to Review a Good Article".) You will notice that there is a backlog of articles. **Additional remarks five minutes later. On second thought after looking through the long EVERYDAY list, I believe we should list it in the LIT. DixieHag2 (talk) 21:30, 22 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
PJ Haarsma is now a GA candidate. In the interim, take a look at this [4]. I think you will find the subject interesting. I ran across it while surfing through Peer Review requests—specifically the Talk:Benjamin Harrison page. There, you will see the box for a tag {{tl|WPCD-People|small=yes}}. As soon as we can figure out how to get both PJ Haarsma and The Softwire listed into the next CD selection (2010?), I think we should attempt gaining access for that. (All of your planned articles on the Haarsma material would be further input too.) Hag2 (talk) 13:44, 23 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
As you can see, this is about as bare-bones of a newsletter as you can get. The reason for this is that the newsletter has and will be inactive, but we wanted to get a last one out detailing the current state of our project. The truth is that WP:NOVELS is in bad shape. Only a few editors are active in editing inside of our project. Our Peer Review section, this newsletter, our task forces, and our collaboration center are all dead; although a collab is picked each month, not a lot of work seems to occur.
Out of these ashes, we are proposing that the project start an A-class review system. This will hopefully bring people together for reviewing, and will perhaps get the project some sorely-needed attention from others who can come in and help rehabilitate it. Final plans have not been established, but we will see about getting a mass message out to all of the project members if/when it is set up; discussion of this can be conducted on the General Forum.
This newsletter will probably be the last we will have for a long time, as neither Ed nor Kevinalewis have the time to create these every month. However, if any editor is willing to step up and create one, we would be glad to assist you in making it up.
If you don't want to create a newsletter, but would still like to help, there are plenty of things that can be done. As detailed on the right, the Novels Peer Review section has four articles needing attention, but only one review has been done; one from May, one from November, and one from December have not had any comments left on them. Please consider helping out there; even a 15-minute review would help.
Talk between Kevinalewis and the_ed17, the two project coordinators, has led to us deciding to suspend elections for coordinators indefinitely. With the exceedingly low amount of participation in the last elections (five total votes), we do not feel that it is worth it to try to set up another election.
20 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.
Collaboration of the Month
This month's Collaboration has been selected by popular vote and is : Shantaram (novel). The next collaboration is due for selection in April, so cast your vote.
Peer review and assessment news
Peer Reviews are still open for four articles – Sector General, Petals of Blood, Scenes of Clerical Life, and Flowers for Algernon. Feel free to submit any novel-related article that you are working on for review, but please consider stopping by and reviewing an article; we need more reviewers for our articles (there is a PR that has been open since May)!
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.
Coordinators election. An election has been long overdue, and therefore one will begin shortly. If you wish to stand, please put your name in by June 28, when voting will start. Members are encouraged to vote for the candidate they wish to support by July 21 at the Coordinator Elections. The Ed17 has decided not to stand for re-election. His work as Assistant Coordinator, along with Kevinalewis, since the last elections in October is highly appreciated by all members of the project.
17 positions remain unfilled at the Job Centre. Members who are active project contributors are encouraged to apply even if they can only fill a position for a short time.
On April 23, a fact about the protagonist Cousin Betty in Honoré de Balzac's La Cousine Bette appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column.
On April 25, a fact from the article Blanca Olmedo written by Lucila Gamero appeared on the main page in the DYK section.
On June 15, a fact from The Road to Yuba City by Tracy Kidder appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column.
- Contributors are Alan16, (who searched the archives).
Task force and related news
His Dark Materials task force has begun. This task force is dedicated to improving all articles in the scope of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. The main purpose of this taskforce is to expand, cite, and promote all articles in scope of the series. They welcome any advice or help that members of WikiProject Novels may be able to offer. If interested, drop a note on their talk page.
– Position of editor for the task force has been undertaken by Pmlinediter.
Hi, I have been a member of this project for a few months now, and after finally gotten to grips with Wikipedia I have decided to take on the role of writing this newsletter (currently by myself, but any help would be appreciated) with some helpful tips from The Ed17. After undertaking this I realise why it was so difficult to keep it going. I will, however, persevere. From the members, I would encourage you to vote in the Coordinator elections, and take up roles at the Job Centre. The project has struggled recently, and I am hoping to try and revive it. If, with the publication of this newsletter, there are a couple of things that aren't quite up-to-date (like the Collaboration part), you can be certain I am working on it. I will be trying to get a newsletter out on around the 21st of every month. Finally, thanks for the help Ed. Regards, Alan16 (talk) 23:41, 20 June 2009 (UTC)Reply
Current debates
A Kenneth Oppel task force has been proposed. You can comment here. Oppel is a Canadian author who specialises in Young adult fiction.
Novel related news
American writer Michael Hemp wins the 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Award in the Action/Adventure category for his novel, The Nadjik Pheromone.
This is my first attempt at the newsletter, and I hope it at least gets close to the previous high standards set by Kevinalewis and The Ed17. I will once again encourage you to vote in the Coordinator elections, as I hope it could be the springboard to revitalise the project. I'll keep working on the newsletter, partially because I like the stress, and partially because we need it to get members and would-be members interested. Hopefully the start of great things. Regards, Alan.
Collaboration of the Month
Because there has been little activity on our Collaboration page for a long time, I have made an executive decision, and chosen The Tin Drum as our Collaboration of the month. All members are asked to assist where they can. The next collaboration is due for selection on 21 July, 2009 so nominate and vote.
Newsletter challenge
This month's article is Mindplayers by science fiction author Pat Cadigan. It is a previous, uncompleted challenge.
Announcements and open tasks
WikiProject Novels • (inc. novellas, novelettes & short stories) Announcements and open tasks
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.
Hello. To begin, every member of WikiProject Novels will be getting this message (the joy of macros) so if you wish to get in touch with me, please post a message on my talk page. I would encourage anyone who so wishes, to stand in the Coordinator Elections. If you wish to stand, please do so by 23:59pm, June 27. Voting will the continue to 23:59pm, July 21. Can everyone please check-out the Coordinator Elections page. Also, the collaboration of the month is The Tin Drum, so if you have any spare time, please check it out. And I apologise to the seven of you for whom this will be a repeat message. Regards, Alan16 (talk).
Latest comment: 15 years ago1 person in discussion
Hello. The Coordiantor Election has begun. All members are encouraged to vote by the deadline, July 28. To vote simply add support to the comments and questions for.. section of the member of your choice.
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A proposed deletion template has been added to the article The Seventh Sun, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process because of the following concern:
This game has not received any significant coverage from reliable, third-party sources - and therefore is not notable enough for inclusion (WP:N)
All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.
Understandable. At this point in production, those reviews (not my fault the reviews were in forum format!) are all that's available from a verification standpoint, besides the game's official website.--Kethra{talk}20:35, 4 July 2009 (UTC)Reply
The July 2009 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. Alan16(talk)
Latest comment: 15 years ago1 person in discussion
Hi! You would be glad to know that a new wikipedia ad has been created by Srinivas to encourage users to join Chronicles of Narnia Task Force. You can display that ad on your user/talk page too using the following code: {{Wikipedia ads|ad=190}}
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The August 2009 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. Alan16 (talk) 17:31, 22 August 2009 (UTC)Reply
WikiProject Children's and Young Adult Literature Roll Call
Hello Kethra! WikiProject Children's literature is currently holding our second annual roll call. Your username is listed on the members list, but we are unsure which editors are still interested in the project. If you still consider yourself to be an active member of the project, please move your name to the Active Members list. If you no longer are interested in this project, please move your name to the Former Members list, and you will no longer receive messages regarding this project.
Latest comment: 11 years ago1 person in discussion
Excuse me, my name is Liberalufp and I will be the new coordinator of the task force. With me as coordinator things will be very different, for one the task force at the moment is run down and only has 10 members. In effort to make this task force a major success and living up to its goals, I will be taking the reins and will be requesting for each one of you to do your assignment I will be assigning you and message me on my talk page when it is done. If you wish not to do the assignment let me know. I am sorry if this is harsh and tyrannical but we have over 4,000 articles that need taking care of. Everything is optional and do not feel pressured. If you have any objections or Questions please message me on my talk page.--Liberalufp (talk) 02:02, 18 March 2013 (UTC)Reply
