Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Napoleonic Fiction

Hi Sharpe/Napoleon fans.

If you are interested in this project, my user page is User:Ethers and you can send me any comments or advice. You are also free to add what you wish to this page.

Thanks ,

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Basic Format
I think that a good starting point is to have the basic details of each subject of this WikiProject displayed in an infobox on the main page. An example of this can be seen at: Sharpe, and I suggest this format:

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--Lilliputian 14:14, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Project Directory
Hello. The WikiProject Council is currently in the process of developing a master directory of the existing WikiProjects to replace and update the existing WikiProject Council/Directory. These WikiProjects are of vital importance in helping wikipedia achieve its goal of becoming truly encyclopedic. Please review the following pages:

and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope to have the existing directory replaced by the updated and corrected version of the directory above by November 1. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 22:27, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry if you tried to update it before, and the corrections were gone. I have now moved the new draft in the old directory pages, so the links should work better. My apologies for any confusion this may have caused you. B2T2 14:14, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Looking for all fiction set in Napoleanic Wars?
I'm not very clear on the parameters of this project. If you're just generally looking for fiction set during the napoleanic wars, may I suggest Patrick O'Brian's Aubreyad and some of the work of Frederick Marryat, both of which are set in the Nelson's Navy? --Badger151 01:37, 24 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Also, for the fantasy-inclined, there is the Temeraire series, such as His Majesty's Dragon, which describes what the world during the Napoleonic Wars might have been like had dragons existed and been tamed by humans for (actually quite clever) use in aerial warfare, particularly between the British and Napoleon's followers. Pretty cool concept, methinks, and worthy of inclusion in this Project, as other than the fact that it's very obviously "Napoleonic", as it's gotten a bit of notice (mostly because, if I'm to judge by its first book, it's a very good little series) even though its author, Naomi Novik, is a previously unpublished writer as far I know. I think the whole trilogy's been out so far, but I could be mistaken; I've only read the first book because at the time, that was all my library had. Runa27 22:33, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

On the to do list one of the items is "Create article for Hornblower", however if you look up Horatio Hornblower that page and what I've seen so far of the pages on the books looks pretty fleshed out. Most of the Sharpe books also have their plots outlined if you look up Richard Sharpe. However all this doesn't mean that there isn't work that can be done, the appearance of the plot summmaries or styles could be made uniform, for example.

I've suggested filling in the article on Death to the French/Rifleman Dodd and The Gun, both of which are standalone stories by Forester. --BrokenSphere 20:39, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 17:36, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Napoleonic?
Does this WikiProject cover just the wars and intrigues and planning surrounding it, or anything set in this time period in Europe and its colonies, or anything at all from 1775 - 1825 (or thereabouts) ? Does it cover the Second Empire? 76.66.196.229 (talk) 08:52, 4 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Is this project involved with WikiProject Military history/Napoleonic era task force ? 76.66.196.229 (talk) 00:36, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

WP template
Have you thought about standardizing the WikiProject talk page template to look like other ones? (centered, standardized parameters for "small", "nested", standard size - though keeping it blue probably would be easy.) 76.66.196.229 (talk) 08:54, 4 February 2009 (UTC)


 * see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Napoleonic Fiction/Template:projectbanner 76.66.196.229 (talk) 09:17, 4 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I've upgraded your template to use template:WPBannerMeta 70.29.213.241 (talk) 06:22, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Merge this WikiProject to WP:WikiProject Military history/Napoleonic era task force
There is a discussion going on, see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Military_history/Napoleonic_era_task_force

76.66.193.90 (talk) 06:20, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Request for comment on Biographies of living people
Hello Wikiproject! Currently there is a discussion which will decide whether wikipedia will delete 49,000 articles about a living person without references, here:

Requests for comment/Biographies of living people

Since biographies of living people covers so many topics, nearly all wikiproject topics will be effected.

The two opposing positions which have the most support is:
 * 1) supports the deletion of unreferenced articles about a living person, User:Jehochman
 * 2) opposes the deletion of unreferenced articles about a living person, except in limited circumstances, User:Collect

Comments are welcome. Keep in mind that by default, editor's comments are hidden. Simply press edit next to the section to add your comment.

Please keep in mind that at this point, it seems that editors support deleting unreferenced BLP articles if they are not sourced, so your project may want to source these articles as soon as possible. See the next, message, which may help.

Tools to help your project with unreferenced Biographies of living people
If you don't already have this and are interested in creating a list of articles which need cleanup for your wikiproject see: Cleanup listings A list of examples is here
 * List of cleanup articles for your project

If you are interested in moving unreferenced blp articles to a special "incubation page", contact me, User talk:Ikip
 * Moving unreferenced blp articles to a special "incubation pages"

If you are interested in watchlisting all of the unreferenced articles once you install Cleanup_listings, contact me, User talk:Ikip
 * Watchlisting all unreferenced articles

Ikip 02:22, 26 January 2010 (UTC)