Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Collaboration

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.

Improvement Drive

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)
2. Glimmer721 ^talk 23:06, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Participants who have removed 3 {{Fiction}}, {{In-universe}}, or {{plot}} tags

1. Killed long plot tags, Sadads (talk) 19:46, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
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)
2. 10+ De-orphans Sadads (talk) 10:46, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
3. Fixed 7 Ibid.'s Layona1 (talk) 06:08, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
4. 5+ clean up tags, Sadads (talk) 13:39, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

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

Article Collaboration

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)

Support

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

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)

History

	Date	Article	Votes	Edits	Improvement
1	July 17, 2006 – September 5, 2006	The Mystery of the Yellow Room	2	30	Before • After • Changes
2	September 5, 2006 – October 2, 2006	And Quiet Flows the Don	2	20	Before • After • Changes
3	October 2, 2006 – November 1, 2006	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	3	79	Before • After • Changes
4	November 1, 2006 – December 1, 2006	Doctor Zhivago (novel)	5	5	Before • After • Changes
5	December 1, 2006 – January 2, 2007	Waverley (novel)	5	30	Before • After • Changes
6	January 2, 2007 – February 1, 2007	The Scarlet Letter	5	50	Before • After • Changes
7	February 1, 2007 – March 2, 2007	Midnight's Children	3	16	Before • After • Changes
8	March 2, 2007 – April 4, 2007	Adam Bede	5	44	Before • After • Changes
9	April 4, 2007 – May 1, 2007	The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling	5	65	Before • After • Changes
10	May 1, 2007 – June 1, 2007	Moby-Dick	5	118	Before • After • Changes
11	June 1, 2007 – July 6, 2007	A Series of Unfortunate Events	6	45	Before • After • Changes
12	July 6, 2007 – August 2, 2007	Live and Let Die (novel)	5	50	Before • After • Changes
13	August 2, 2007 – September 4, 2007	The Plague	5	15	Before • After • Changes
14	September 4, 2007 – October 8, 2007	The Firm (novel)	5	12	Before • After • Changes
15	October 8, 2007 – October 31, 2007	The Handmaid's Tale	5	58	Before • After • Changes
16	November 1, 2007 – December 4, 2007	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	5	85	Before • After • Changes
17	December 4, 2007 – January 2, 2008	Sons and Lovers	4	1	Before • After • Changes
18	January 2, 2008 – February 1, 2008	Nausea (novel)	4	32	Before • After • Changes
19	February 1, 2008 – March 6, 2008	Rabbit, Run	5	7	Before • After • Changes
20	March 6, 2008 – April 4, 2008	The Betrothed	3	17	Before • After • Changes
21	April 4, 2008 – May 4, 2008	A Farewell to Arms	4	6	Before • After • Changes
22	May 4, 2008 – June 4, 2008	Pride and Prejudice	4	48	Before • After • Changes
23	June 4, 2008 – August 11, 2008	Cities in Flight	3	5	Before • After • Changes
24	August 14, 2008 – September 17, 2008	Look Homeward, Angel	3	79	Before • After • Changes
25	September 21, 2008 – October 21, 2008	Steppenwolf (novel)	4	77	Before • After • Changes
26	October 21, 2008 – November 30, 2008	Novel	4	93	Before • After • Changes
27	December 1, 2008 – January 1, 2009	The Counterfeiters (novel)	3	4	Before • After • Changes
28	1 January 2009 – 2 February 2009	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz	3	11	Before • After • Changes
29	2 February 2009 – 2 March 2009	Flowers for Algernon	3	15	Before • After • Changes
30	2 March 2009 – 20 June 2009	Shantaram (novel)	3	38	Before • After • Changes
31	21 June 2009 – 25 July 2009	The Tin Drum	2	20	Before • After • Changes
32	25 July 2009 – 21 August 2009	The Oregon Files	4	5	Before • After • Changes
33	22 August 2009 – 16 March 2010	The Sound and the Fury	4	72	Before • After • Changes

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.