Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Outreach/Newsletter May 2007

Image:Book collection.jpg The Novels WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XII - May 2007

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; Project news

• The peer review department of the Novels WikiProject is running well after the start in February, having 2 new articles under review: So You Want to Be a Wizard and To Kill a Mockingbird.
• Our article count has leapt again rising to over 11500. Do get stuck in and assist in improving this rising tide of narrative prose related material. A statistical count of articles can be found here.
• We have a new project page for Article Style Guidelines which has had a few editors work on it. Currently based on our existing article template it needs some extra eyes to hone any rough edges.

::: (n.b. also see debates below!)

• Also to accommodate this page the main navigation template has been slightly reorganised.

; Member news

• The project has currently 229 members, 12 joined & 0 leavers since the last newsletter at the start of April 2007

; Other news

• The Brothers Karamazov has been nominated for a featured article review.
• Uncle Tom's Cabin and Original Stories from Real Life were nominated for Featured Article.

; Auto list news

• Our Auto Generated lists appear to have lost the editor who created and supported them. If any other editors have the ability and are willing to have a stab at producing replacement updates, please let us know.

; Current debates

• Of crucial importance to our progress and the way we edit is a debate on the Main Article Template which is strongly recommended for every editor who can, getting involved with. We have worked with the existing template for well over a year now and this debate proposes making radical changes.

:::(n.b. also see the "Article Style Guidelines" mentioned in "Project News" above)

• On the project's general discussion page there is a thread on sourcing novel articles.

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; From the Members

Welcome to the twelfth 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 involved and if you are wondering what with, please ask.

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

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Newsletter tip line has been created for members to link, doodle, shortly write news ideas, discussions they think are possibly interesting/important for the Newsletter.

feydey, Co-editor

; Collaboration of the Month

• This month's Collaboration has been selected by popular vote and is Moby-Dick.

; Newsletter challenge

Last month's Political thriller challenge was met by the user {{user|Loom91}} with a nice stub.

• The first person to start the article is mentioned in the next newsletter. This month's article is Louisa May Alcott's Work: A Story of Experience.