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&mdash;including novels and novel series, novel characters, novellas and many others&mdash;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.


 * 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:


 * Ambox wikify.svg 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)


 * Crystal Clear app kedit.svg 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)  (see accounting)


 * Question book-new.svg Participants who have removed 3 reference/citation-related tags


 * Wiki letter w.svg 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.

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  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 Comments
 * 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)
 * 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

 * Archives
 * 2009 archive
 * 2008 archive
 * 2007 archive
 * 2006 archive

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.
 * Stalled nominations

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   from the top of the current collaboration article.
 * 2) Change the date details on the article talk page   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   to the top of the new article.
 * 2) Move the new article's nomination text to the "Current collaboration" section.
 * 3) Update WikiProject Novels/Collaboration/Current to point to the new article.
 * 4) Update WikiProject Novels/Collaboration/NextDate to use the next vote date.
 * 5) Replace   with   in the NovelsWikiProject banner at the top of the new article's talk page. The "" element should read "open" to start with.


 * Notify other members of the WikiProject:
 * 1) Add   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.