Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/19th century task force

Welcome to the 19th century task force of the Novels WikiProject!

Scope
This task force seeks to create, improve, maintain and provide a standard of consistency for articles about novels, novellas, novelettes & short stories written or published in the 19th century, as well as create a forum in which interested editors can work together to improve articles.

Participants
If you are interested in becoming a regular contributor to the efforts of this task force, please feel free to sign your name below with four tildes ( ~ ). Also, if you have not already done so, we would encourage you to join our parent project, WikiProject Novels.


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 * 2)  ✽ Juniper§ Liege   (TALK)  05:56, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
 * 3) Wannabemodel (talk) 04:51, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
 * 4) Macdust (talk) 04:42, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
 * 5) Bubka42 (talk) 04:13, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
 * 6) Ninquelosse (talk) March 2014
 * 7) PCFleming05 (talk) 20:38, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
 * 8) Smithab96 (talk) 15:52, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Guestbook
If you are sympathetic to the cause of this project, but for whatever reason choose not to commit yourself to becoming a regular member, please feel free to show your support by signing the list below!


 * 1) Henry Merrivale (talk) 23:35, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
 * 2) Deor (talk) 00:33, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
 * 3) Lilygnat (talk) 20:53, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 4) Arteum (talk) 23:38, 17 August 2008 (EST)
 * 5) El Staplador (talk) 11:33, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 6) Spratacus2002 (talk) 00:37, 6 August 2009 (EST)
 * 7) Cartport
 * 8) Harith VH(harith (talk) 06:55, 14 April 2014 (UTC))
 * 9) Jlb6z (talk) 17:02, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
 * 10) Kgocinsk (talk) 17:34, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
 * 11) Winniec306 (talk) 05:03, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Tagging articles
Any article related to this task force should be marked with "19thC-task-force=yes", as follows to the project banner at the top of its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax). This will automatically place it into Category:19th-century novels task force articles.

The resulting code is usually:

To-do

 * Tag articles! (see Category:19th-century novels and subcategories)
 * Recruit more members!
 * Collaborate and join the discussions. If you know things, teach! (If you don't know things, Ask.)
 * Create new articles! There are plenty of 19th-century novels and shorter prose items still unaccounted for on Wikipedia! (see Needed Articles)
 * Expand articles (or merge if appropriate). All of these stubs would welcome further care and attention.
 * Look through featured articles and lists while getting familiar with and helping with assessment of prose fiction articles, and add relevant articles to the "Articles" section below.

Featured articles

 * La Peau de chagrin
 * Le Père Goriot
 * Louis Lambert (novel)
 * Uncle Tom's Cabin
 * Z. Marcas

A-Class articles

 * Frankenstein

Good articles

 * Crime and Punishment
 * Les Chouans
 * Ramona
 * The Murders in the Rue Morgue
 * The Nemesis of Faith
 * Treasure Island

DYKs (Did You Know)s

 * Never Bet the Devil Your Head - 18 October 2007
 * The Business Man - 14 February 2008
 * Thou Art the Man - 30 October 2007

Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections

 * Frankenstein

Former featured articles

 * The Brothers Karamazov

Former good articles

 * The Picture of Dorian Gray

General

 * Category:19th-century novels (sorted into decade and year)
 * Category:19th-century books (sorted into decade and year)
 * Category:19th-century publications
 * Category:19th-century works (sorted into decade and year)

Literary eras and movements

 * Category:Romanticism
 * Category:Victorian novels
 * Category:Transcendentalism

Writers

 * Category:19th-century writers
 * Category:19th-century women writers

Stubs

 * Category:19th-century novel stubs

Templates

 * For main project templates, see the main project page.

Literature Portal
The Literature Portal requires regular input and is always seeking volunteers. Help us keep this portal at Featured portal status!

Resources

 * Victorianweb.org – Analysis of Victorian-era novels
 * 19thNovels.com – Online texts of 19th-century novels by notable authors.