Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Science fiction task force

Welcome to the Science fiction & Novels task force of the Novels WikiProject! & Science Fiction WikiProject!

Scope
This task force seeks to create, improve, maintain, and provide a standard of consistency for articles about Science fiction novels, novellas, novelettes & short stories 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 projects, WikiProject Novels and WikiProject Science Fiction. but with 26 works (in 7.5 years, and counting) time is at a premium! // Fra nkB
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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!:


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Tagging articles
Any article related to this task force should be marked with "sf-task-force=yes" to the WikiProject Novels 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:Science fiction novels task force articles.

The resulting code is usually:

To-do

 * Tag articles!
 * Recruit more members!
 * Collaborate and join the discussions. If you know things, teach! (If you don't know things, Ask.)
 * Add new articles! There are plenty of science fiction novels and shorter prose items still unaccounted for! Needed Articles
 * Expand articles (or merge if appropriate). All of these  these stubs would welcome further care and attention.
 * Start looking for featured articles and lists while getting familiar with and helping with assessment of prose fiction articles. Then add an "Articles" section to this project page.
 * Add articles for books in The Year%27s Best Science Fiction series.
 * Add info for Mike Ashley (writer).
 * Flesh out Winston Science Fiction parent article, and corresponding articles on the individual novels in the set.
 * Add things here!
 * Split the Past Imperfect page. Past Imperfect was first a London play and second a science fiction book.
 * Populate the Category:Space exploration novels

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

Featured articles

 * Halo: Contact Harvest
 * The Illuminatus! Trilogy
 * The Time Traveler's Wife
 * Starship Troopers

Good articles

 * A Canticle for Leibowitz
 * Ender's Game
 * The Last of the Masters
 * The Left Hand of Darkness
 * ''The Myst Reader
 * Sector General
 * Skinner's Room
 * World War Z

DYKs (Did You Know)s

 * A fact from The Masks of Time appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on September 19, 2008

Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections

 * The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
 * Nineteen Eighty-Four

Categories and lists

 * see WikiProject Novels/Science fiction task force/Categories

Templates

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