Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Outreach/Newsletter February 2007

Image:Book collection.jpg The Novels WikiProject Newsletter
Issue IX - February 2007

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; Project news

• The month has been a quiet one for the project with little obvious interaction, although editors have been very busy working on article improvement, recategorisation, and assessments. The Short story task force have been slowly adding staff and working mostly in the early stages to tag existing "short story" and "short story collection" articles.

; Member news

• The project has currently 204 members, 13 joined & 1 leavers since the last newsletter at the start of January 2007

; Other news

• The Short story task force now has 6 participants, do join in if you have an interest. Also do let us know if other Task Forces could be established.

; Auto list news

• NovelsInCompleteInfobox worklist has been worked through, mainly due to the efforts of Jask99; it has now only the most difficult to complete. Please give it a look and if you can complete an infobox, please do. We should soon get a rerun with the latest article additions generated courtesy of user Eagle.

; Current debates

• East of Eden copyright infringements? is the latest debate that could do with input.

; Worklist "Projectified"

• List of literary works with eponymous heroes
• List of literary works with eponymous heroines

These two lists have been culled from the main Wikipedia but others thought they would serve as a good worklist for the project to use as article hitlist, so they are here for your pleasure.

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; From the Members

Welcome to the ninth issue of the Novels WikiProject's newsletter! Use this newsletter as a mechanism to inform yourselves about progress at the project and please be inspired to take more active roles in what we do.

We would encourage all members to get more envolved and if you are wondering what with, please ask.

Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk), Initiating Editor

; Collaboration of the Month

• The Collaboration of the Month is . This months Collaboration has been selected by popular vote and is Midnight's Children. Don't forget to place your votes and nominations for this process.

; Newsletter challenge

Last month's Fictional locations challenge was met by the user {{user|Loom91}} with a modest start that rapidly got expanded a short stub that survived tagging for deletion and then expanding by a number of editors to something quite useful. Along the way it got (correctly!) renamed to Fictional location.

• The first person to start the article is mentioned in the next newsletter. This month's article is P.D. James - A Taste for Death.