Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels

Scope
WikiProject Novels aims to define a standard of consistency for articles about novels and literary genres associated with fictional narratives. It also aims to encourage and provide the structure for enhancing the writing of high quality articles on all manner of different novels. For the purpose of this project, "Novels" are deemed to include all works of narrative fiction that exhibit novel-like structure, regardless of length and genre. (This includes full novels, novellas, novelettes and short stories.) It also aims to encourage and promote the writing of articles on all types of such Novels. (see "" for more details of what is in or out of scope.)

Naming, style and notability

 * Naming conventions (books): guideline for the naming of Wikipedia articles about books
 * Manual of Style/Novels: an MOS guideline to layout and other considerations about writing articles on narrative prose fiction
 * Manual of Style/Writing about fiction: an MOS guideline to writing about fiction
 * Notability (books): the notability guideline as it pertains to books

Article templates
Articles should be written to an agreed basic style for standardization purposes. We encourage all participants to use this template not only as a starting place for new articles, but also as a guide to amend any existing articles that need improvement. There are currently two supported templates:

For novel articles:
 * /ArticleTemplate (including /InfoboxCode)

For fictional character articles:
 * /CharacterArticleTemplate

Parentage

 * WikiProject Literature
 * WikiProject Books – logically encapsulates the subject of Novels.

Descendant Wikiprojects

 * Children's literature Project
 * Artemis Fowl Project
 * Horror Project
 * Science Fiction Project

Sister Wikiprojects

 * Romance - covers novels and author biographies

Project organization
There are currently four major elements to our project organization. Participants (or membership), a Job Centre, specialist Departments and special interest Task forces.

Members
The list of Wikipedians who are committed to the WikiProject can be found at WikiProject Novels/Members. If you are interested in participating, please feel free to join by visiting that page.

Once you join, you are welcome to add this template to your user page:. This userbox automatically adds you to the WikiProject Novels participants category and appears as such:

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:

Job Centre
If a member is interested in becoming involved with the work of the project, they are welcome to visit the "responsibility clearing house" or Job Centre. From here it is possible to join multiple areas of the project that need supervising and/or updating, including our five departments, which are listed below. Departments are specialised areas of the project for a targeted activity, serving the aims of the whole in a smaller way.

Assessment Department
The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's novel and novel related articles. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work, and are also expected to play a role in the WP:1.0 program. The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the NovelsWikiProject project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in a set of categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.

Automation Department
The automation department of the Novels WikiProject uses various automated and semi-automated methods to perform batch tasks that would be extremely tedious to do manually; it collects requests for tasks, discusses whether they are suitable for automation, and attempts to match them with bot operators or users of semi-automated tools for implementation. All project members are invited to request tasks and to comment on the suitability of outstanding requests.

Collaboration Department
The project's Collaboration of the Month seeks to identify particular articles that would benefit from a significant collaborative effort. Every month (currently), a single article is selected as the focus, and the project attempts to improve it, potentially to featured article standards. All articles dealing with some aspect of novel literature (except for current featured articles and featured article candidates) are eligible, and everyone is invited to nominate candidates. The current collaboration article is .

Outreach Department
The outreach department acts as the project's central point of coordination for recruiting new members and maintaining the interest of current participants. Its primary activity is the production of monthly project newsletters, it also contains a welcome message that can be sent to each new member as they join.

Peer Review Department
The peer review department conducts peer reviews of articles on request; this helps to obtain ideas for further improvement by having contributors who may not have previously worked on particular articles examine them. Project members are invited to submit articles to the department in lieu of using the generic peer review process.

Task forces

 * Please discuss any proposals for new task forces with other members or with the project as a whole before creating them.

Task forces are informal groups of editors gathered for collaborative work on a particular topic within the field of Novels (as defined in the "scope" above); all project members are encouraged to participate in any task forces that interest them.


 * General topics
 * Short stories


 * Genres
 * Crime
 * Fantasy
 * Military fiction
 * Science fiction


 * Areas or nationalities
 * Australian


 * Specific authors and series
 * Chronicles of Narnia task force
 * His Dark Materials task force
 * Lemony Snicket task force


 * Rick Riordan task force
 * Shannara task force
 * Sword of Truth task force
 * Twilight task force
 * The 39 Clues task force
 * Roald Dahl task force
 * Harry Potter task force


 * Periods


 * Napoleonic fiction – note: parent project is Wikiproject Military history
 * 19th Century


 * Proposed


 * Task force for the Malazan Universe created by Steven Erikson and Ian C. Esslemont.

Hierarchy definition
Since there are many types of novel, boundaries must be set so that other WikiProjects can guide articles that this one does not include. (Just like the discussion on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Novel categorization project page.) So far, the included titles are those that a common reader would call a "novel". Serial novels, such as "Twilight" and "Harry Potter" are included, with subcategories of Young adult fiction, and Children's fiction, as well as Adult fiction (for mature audience due to language, situations or sexuality).

Included

 * Novels and novellas, novelettes and short stories
 * Fictional books that are commonly considered to be novels
 * Fictional characters used therein.


 * Fictional locations used therein.

Category hierarchy
Novel articles are sorted under many categories; look in Category:Novels for a list. There are three "main" categories that most books are sorted to: then also by the following, as applicable.
 * Category:Novels by year (for example [[:Category:1893 novels]] )
 * Category:Novels by genre (for example [[:Category:Science fiction novels]] ) (see table below)
 * Category:Novels by country (for example [[:Category:Spanish novels]] )
 * Category:Novels by age-group (for example [[:Category:Young adult novels]] )
 * Category:Novels by writer (for example [[:Category:Novels by Bernard Cornwell]] )
 * Category:Novels by award (for example [[:Category:John W. Campbell Award for Best Science Fiction Novel-winning works]] )
 * Category:Novel series by featured character (for example [[:Category:Miss Marple novels]] )
 * Category:Novels by language (for example [[:Category:Spanish-language novels]])
 * Category:Novels by series (for example [[:Category:Shannara novels]]) (for categories on each series) (sub-divided by Genre)
 * Category:Novel series (for example [[Cat Who series]]) (for articles about the series themselves) (sub-divided by Genre)
 * Category:Novels based on works (for example [[:Category:Novels based on films]] )
 * Category:Novels by topic (for example [[:Category:Novels about slavery]] )

Novels by age-group
Here is a list of categories that short stories are often sorted to:
 * Category:Short stories by year (for example [[:Category:1893 short stories]] )
 * Category:Short stories by genre (for example [[:Category:Science fiction short stories]] ) (see table below)
 * Category:Short stories by country (for example [[:Category:American short stories]] )
 * Category:Short stories by writer (for example [[:Category:Short stories by Isaac Asimov]] )
 * Category:Short stories by series (for example [[:Category:Ender's Game series short stories]]) (for categories on each series) (sub-divided by Genre)
 * Category:Short story series (for example [[Robot series (Asimov)]]) (for articles about the series themselves) (sub-divided by Genre)
 * Category:Short story collections by genre (for example [[:Category:Fantasy short story collections]] )
 * Category:Short story collections by nationality (for example [[:Category:British short story collections]] )
 * Category:Short story collections by writer (for example [[:Category:Short story collections by Arthur Conan Doyle]] )
 * Category:Fiction anthologies (for example [[:Category:Horror anthologies]]) (anthologies defined here as collections of multiple author's work)
 * Short stories by age-group (not a category) (see table below)

Literary genres
These genres are not included within the project's scope:
 * Graphic novels
 * Manga
 * Anime
 * Nonfiction books on any subject
 * Plays, poetry and comics that were published as books.

References (can be made to)

 * Nonfiction books that discuss the novel in question
 * Audio CDs, mp3s, and audio tapes – that are readings or dramatisations of 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

Article infoboxes
Infoboxes belong at the top of an article. Each article should only have one infobox depending on what the article is about. Instructions for completion are included on each page.
 * infobox book
 * infobox short story
 * infobox character
 * infobox book series

Project template
Project templates belong at the top of an article's talk page. Articles may belong to one or more projects. They may also be added to relevant template and category talk pages.
 * WikiProject Novels

Internal project organization

 * Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Navigation: the main navigation box
 * WikiProject Novels announcements: project announcements and top work tasks; place this on your userpage to provide information on the current state of project

Navigational templates

 * See Templates for fiction series general list
 * Category:Book templates: overall category for book related templates
 * Category:Novel (book) navigational boxes: template for a single novel
 * Category:Novel series navigational boxes: template for a single novel series
 * Category:Writer navigational boxes: templates for a complete author's output

List of articles that need work

 * Category:Novels articles needing expert attention – category of articles tagged as needing Novels project expert attention.
 * /Worklist
 * /ArticlesNeeded
 * /InfoboxNeeded
 * /InfoboxIncomplete
 * Film/book articles to be split
 * New hitlists added to the main worklist.
 * List of literary works with eponymous heroes
 * List of literary works with eponymous heroines

Incoming articles
Sorting articles out from the main "dumping categories"

! Main cat !! Stub cat
 * Category:Books || Category:Book stubs
 * Category:Novels || Category:Novel stubs
 * Category:Short stories || Category:Story stubs
 * }
 * Category:Short stories || Category:Story stubs
 * }
 * }

Articles being challenged

 * WikiProject_Novels/Articles-Images_in_danger_of_deletion
 * WikiProject Novels/Disputed novel articles
 * WikiProject_Novels/Disputed book cover images

Project management work needed

 * Supervise the announcements template
 * Assist with the production of the monthly newsletter
 * Promote the work of the WikiProject
 * Tag articles on their talk pages
 * Scan for new articles and "bring them into the fold" by encouraging good style and tagging the talk page.
 * Developing the "Task Forces"

Watchlist

 * This Main page: changes
 * Project Watch List: [ view] · [ edit] · changes