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Say I am quoting critism of a book, eg. critic saying that the book-A was XYZ and supporting this claim by brining a quote from another book by the same author, book-B. Would it be enough to list in the notes something like this:
???? If you go to To the Lighthouse look at notes and references, note that in the list of references are books by Woolf although that is not where I actually got the quotes from. ShaiM 15:44, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
I've got a book that has a facsimile of the title page of the orginal edition. Is it permisable to upload it (after scanning) and what sort of tag should be attached to it (re. copyright status)? ShaiM 03:29, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
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I have been looking at The Chronicles of Narnia individual book articles. Some of them show chapter listings and some don't. I asked here if the books should have chapter listins and was refered here. Is there a standard about listing chapter titles?-- roger6106 03:53, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
There has been a situation where the book cover for the semi-nonfiction work Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati was removed, apparently because it was felt posting the cover of a book violated fair use. I think this is ridiculous, but considering that Wikipedia users appear to change their interpretation of the copyright rules whenever the tide does, I have to ask the question -- are we still allowed to include book cover images with our Novels articles? (Incidentally in previous rants on this subject I've made the prediction that Wikipedia will eventually ban all images; I've actually seen people espousing the virtues of the German Wikipedia which has actually done just that; it's one of the dullest sites on the net now. I hope English Wiki doesn't go the same direction.) 23skidoo 13:53, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
This surely isn't a discussion for us, is it? If Wikipedia removes book covers, it'll do it globally and remove the fair use options. Until then, we soldier on. -- Sordel 18:20, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
Please note the creation of this category - novels will be put in here too if they are found in Category:Category needed, so this may be helpful and relevant to this wikiproject. Aelfthrytha 13:06, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
any1 read that book? tell me about it —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.31.233.126 ( talk • contribs) .
I just noticed a banner for a BooksWikiproject starting to appear. Maybe it's been around for awhile, but I wonder if this might be duplicating some of the efforts being undertaken by this project? 23skidoo 19:52, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I've added pics to two novels: The Talisman and Woodstock (novel). These are frontispieces scanned from an 1863 combined volume, and should do until we get the frontispieces of first editions. But my question is, what how should illustrations be cropped? I've put up the versions which show the cover and pages behind the illust page. But at Commons I've uploaded cleaner cropped versions. [1] [2] It has also just now occurred to me that I could have photographed the book instead of laying it on the scanner.
What does the project prefer? (apologies if there are guidelines for this - I haven't been able to find them: perhaps mention at the Infobox template?) Cheers, JackyR | Talk 22:49, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Here's a question I've asked before, but probably not where anyone was likely to respond. Somewhere in the guidelines I read that the preferred image for a novel's article (and infobox) is that of the first edition hardback, if any. But what, if anything, is to be done about articles that instead feature a paperback cover or a later edition hardcover one? Should these be left alone, so as not to "orphan" the fair use images someone took the trouble to upload and place there? Or should they be supplanted and the paperpack images deleted (or used elsewhere)? I'm thinking mostly of certain Madeleine L'Engle articles such as A Ring of Endless Light, A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in the Door. Every time I go to those articles, I resist the temptation to upload my hardcover dustjacket images. (No, I don't have a first of Wrinkle, but my 1965 copy does have the original cover art.) Should I continue to resist, or just do it? Karen | Talk | contribs 05:38, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
I have merged some articles into this but its looking a little messy, as I have no experience in the "novel department", can someone help me make it neat please?-- SGCommand ( talk • contribs) 20:44, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
While disambiguating Dan Gordon (please forgive the lack of wikilink) I came across a couple of lists from Category:Lists of Ace Books (please forgive the lack of wikilink, again). There are 24 such lists in the category, and the ones I've seen are huge and in a complete mess, riddled with redlinks (forgivable), links to dab pages (unfortunate) and links to completely unrelated subjects (oh dear....). As obsessive as I am, I'm not touching this. I thought I'd draw the lists to somebody's attention, and you guys are the novels project. Admittedly, the bad links are (supposed to be) authors, not novels. So feel free to completely ignore them. I know I will.
Interestingly, Ace Books is a featured article.... TheMadBaron 06:18, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
If I knew where to start, I wouldn't be shirking the task! Still, since Kevin seems to be taking the bait (like he's not busy enough already), I shall elaborate.
As I said, I was disambiguating Dan Gordon - that's one example of a link to a disambiguation page, albeit one I created myself. The disambiguation effort led me to List of Ace double novels, List of Ace Western Double Titles, and List of Ace Titles in first DGS series, all of which feature links to Dan Gordon, but not one of my three Dan Gordons.
Clicking nearby links, I found several other examples of bad links. I can't remember which ones. It seemed as if any name I didn't recognise was a bad link.
I shall repeat the experiment now to demonstrate the point, choosing common sounding names with no initials. Thank heavens for popups.
Names from List of Ace double novels, and details of the articles they point at:
Cheers. TheMadBaron 23:52, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
I've had an insight as to how this can be (more) easily done. I propose that Grey Shadow and I work together on this, and so rather than bore you with the details here, I'll bore him with the details on his talk page. TheMadBaron 19:13, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
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This page needs moved to change its title, or so I think, which should be Tender Is the Night, not Tender is the Night, but I don't understand if moving it will accomplish the move of all the links, or if they will have to individually be changed? Is there someone more experienced at WikiNovels who can do this?
Although it may fit the case of "capitalization of all words, except for internal articles, prepositions, conjunctions and forms of to be," that is neither the Wikipedia nor the American publishing convention. Maybe this was how it was originally published? Was this a style used by American publishers? I'm not real familiar with this style and its usage.
So I post it in this forum, instead of on its page, in case there is some convention adopted by Wikipedia for book titles that I don't know, or if it is a function of the time frame of publishing, instead of just an internal convention adopted by the publisher for this book.
KP Botany 15:44, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
A friend suggested to me that we could do ratings for the books such as 'adult' 'teenage fiction' children fiction', that sort of thing. I thought it pretty interesting, and it would be neat if that appeared onto every book thingummy, so I thought I'd just ask about it here. Lady Nimue of the Lake 07:19, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
Howdy all - Since so many articles use external links to Amazon.com, I put in a request for an Amazon.com template here. Is anyone good at this? Thanks for any help - Pegship 16:24, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
I've opened a potential pandora's box at The Castle. Someone has created separate articles for different editions/translations of the book. I'm aware of no other work so treated and in my personal opinion the translations should be nominated for AFD. Right now I'm suggesting merging instead. Anyone who wants to comment for or against the idea are invited to comment at the main article and the three spin-off articles (accessed via the merge tags on the main). Personally I think it sets a dangerous and confusing precedent. Anything noteworthy about a translation can be summed up in a paragraph in the main article. Or, if there really is scholarly noteworthiness about the different translations, then ONE article on the topic should suffice. 23skidoo 15:06, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
We have a project structure that allows for the formation of special interest task forces (al la "WP:MILHIST".) This is useful for identifying groups of "Novels" editors who have a common interest. (i.e. Science fiction novels, Crime Novels, Children's novels, Classic literature, Russian novels etc.) Would there be interest out there in setting one or more of these up. Comments please! :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/ (Desk) 10:50, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Um . . . this is so confusing, and I don't know where to ask. Total newcomer (at least in this end of wikipedia). I'm interested in working on the articles on the Jose Saramago novels. What should I do? Is anyone else interested or already working on them? DianaW 19:29, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
I continue to be uncomfortable with the assessing of novels as "low", "medium" and "high" importance. Aside from the fact (expressed before) that I feel assessing on this level violates WP:NPOV, the use of the terms "low-importance", for example, in describing a book is, in my POV, somewhat insulting. At the risk of opening a pandora's box on this issue, can we not perhaps drop the actual wording and instead, perhaps work with a scale of 1 to 10 or 1, 2, 3 or something like that. It doesn't change the POV of assessing novels, but at least it doesn't make it as blatantly POV as labelling a book as "high importance" or as "low importance" which is bound to create some controversy. Thoughts? 23skidoo 03:05, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello, it's nice that there is some sort of organisation going on here - i would like to help out, my first edit in this direction was fattening out The Stars' Tennis Balls. Most editing information is available here, but i seem not to find any info on adding a book cover. Therefore i will ask some questions, if someone can answer me here or point me in the right direction, i would be most grateful.
Thanks! Mujinga 16:03, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
The article Book has the absurd box saying it's in the wikiproject Novel;s--how does it get temoved.? DGG 07:26, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
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WHY do so many of the entries about Harry Potter and events in the novels have dates (e.g. Harry Potter, born 31st July, 1980 (or whatever))? All that needs to be assumed is that the stories take place "in the present" and certain events happened a number of years ago "in the past". J.K. Rowling rightly hasn't bothered herself with exact dates for anything, and neither should anyone writing for Wikipedia, IMO.
Actually, she provides one date, and from that fans have derived all of the other dates. In the second book, when Nearly-Headless Nick has has 500th deathday celebration on Halloween, the date of his death is given as being October 31, 1492. That means that the current date was October 31, 1992, and since she provides plenty of relative dates, the rest fall in place rather easily. Crispus 03:42, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
Since some of the main tenants of writing an article are no original research and adherence to objectivity, is it necessary to read the book before submitting an article about it? WesHoskins 06:39, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
A discussion has begun regarding the issue of making it mandatory for Wikipedia articles to have third-party sources and allowing speedy deletion of articles that do not. The proposed policy is at Wikipedia:Speedy deletion criterion for unsourced articles. This has me concerned because aside from the fact that it's apparently going to require every edit to be sourced (which is unreasonable and unworkable), it also appears to suggest that articles without a third-party source may be also subject to deletion. Which, IMO means a good 75% if not more of the articles in this WikiProject will be endangered. I'm not saying that it's a bad thing to require sources if you make a statement about a book such as "This book inspired Oscar Wilde to get into writing" or whatever ... however when the subject of the article is the only source, and the only real content is a plot summary, a few general words about the book, and the infobox, this policy on the surface would appear to render such articles unusable. Example: I just created a stub article on the Martin Caidin novel Cyborg IV. I can tell you with 100% certainty that you will not find a third-party source providing information about this book. The only information I have for this book is what is between the pages and on the cover; yet as I understand the proposed policy, this article could be deleted. Maybe I'm misreading the policy, but if it goes through I think the members of this wikiproject should be concerned. 23skidoo 21:56, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
This list was started some time ago by a certain Nick Carraway. I'd like to invite you all to expand it by adding any title that crosses your mind while you are working on other things. <KF> 16:26, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
I'm trying to build my first article, I want to know where exactly I paste the article template. The instructions say "new article page" but I can't find that link anywahere. Is it the user page? Thanks, WesHoskins 05:39, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Okay, lets take this one head on. Short stories and Short story collections have come up a number of times as being part of this project. Novellas and novelettes are defined as included. So what about it everyone - should Short stories and/or Short story collections be concidered "in scope". In which case the definition of "novel" as a project title will need to change to mean all narrative prose stories. (excluding graphical and picture comic forms of course) :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/ (Desk) 15:05, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
How about that :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/ (Desk) 17:22, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Just wanted to advise members of this project of the existence of List of fictional books. This is a list of invented or imaginary books created as part of piece of fiction -- for example, Jorge Luis Borges did several short stories that were reviews of books that he made up (these were published in Ficciones). Another famous example is H.P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon , an imaginary book of black magic and necromancy which appears in a number of his Cthulhu mythos stories. If anyone in this project is intrigued by this literary device, we invite your participation, edits, additions, comments etc. Thanks :) -- Bookgrrl 16:10, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
Just FYI a discussion is currently underway at Naming Conventions here about creating a naming standard for categories since there are so many different variations of "Books by X", "X books", "Books written by X", "Novels by X", etc etc. I agree there should be a standard for this. My personaly vote is for "Books by X" since not all authors publish exclusively fiction novels (i.e. Asimov) so this would cover all an author's book releases; "X books" is problematic as that category could also include books written about a subject by others ... 23skidoo 16:14, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Never before in my life have I come across that notice, but I found it today on my talk page. True, Sick Puppy is "only" a plot summary, but now we're really working against each other. That guy might end up tagging hundreds if not thousands of articles on individual novels declaring them "indiscriminate information". Comments, please! <KF> 21:54, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
Can we get a standard block added where people who know a book exists in Project Gutenberg (www.gutenberg.org) can easily add just that reference? There are a number of PG books which have WP entries and it would be nice to have links going both directions on this.
To give some coherency to the many little sf-oriented communities on Wikipedia.-- ragesoss 20:11, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
(Sorry for some cross-posting, but I'm hoping to get the word out.) I've started WikiProject Free book covers, which used to be in my user space, as a project to replace fair use images of old books with public domain ones. All of these images are affected by the replaceable clause of the fair use policy, so this is a crucial task. We've gotten a lot done while it was in user space but there's still a lot of work to be done, so please come lend a hand. Every replacement advertises the project, so even doing one or two will help. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks! Chick Bowen 21:03, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
There should be an entire template for infoboxes for everysingle literature piece of each composer, just like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Edgar_Allan_Poe tries to do, however that should be seperated in years as one user suggested. Lets get to it! 68.123.226.197 19:31, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi all. About a week ago I started a long-term project with the goal of adding infoboxes (with first edition covers, where possible) to all winners and nominees listed at Hugo Award for Best Novel. (Only where articles already exist; I'm not crazy.) Working from the bottom up, I've already run into two separate dilemmas. 1) Many older (1950s) SF novels began their lives as Serial Publications in mags such as Astounding Science Fiction, and in several cases appear to have actually won or been nominated for the Hugo before being condensed and published as a novel, sometimes years later. Is the year of serial publication considered the overall "year of publication?" Does the mag then become the publisher? For an example of where this is a problem (and how I'm currently handling it), click here. 2) It is my understanding that prior to 1967, ISBNs basically didn't exist. However, time and again I run into infoboxes for pre-1967 books already outfitted with an ISBN, which cannot possibly be first edition (right?). I also find these ISBNs sprinkled in the first paragraph, on occasion. How should this be handled? Currently, when a novel is published prior to 1967, I enter "NA" for the ISBN field. Thanks for any and all suggestions. -- Antepenultimate 22:58, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
This isn't about novels per se, but I thought that this WikiProject might be interested nonetheless. I have proposed Category:Simon & Schuster for deletion because, if I understand correctly, subcategories of Category:Book publishing companies of the United States are meant to contain subsidiaries and imprints, not books published by the company. This subcategory conatins only the latter, so I don't see it as having much value. But I thought it would be wise to solicit other opinions, either for or against. Thanks for your time. -- GentlemanGhost 20:59, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
are web novels considered novels? even though they are published a chapter at a time? Avyfain 08:20, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
Found a few book/films Sonar Kella, Sounder and Susannah of the Mounties that need to be split and was wondering were they go? Also found this Star Trek: Titan and I was hoping that someone would split that too Jask99 18:17, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
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 17:29, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
Peter Pan needs help. In theory it is about the book, but the article today includes character descriptions from other books, bits about copyright, etc. It needs to be split into several article I think, but it would be great if a few editors had a view of the best thing to do. Obina 00:18, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
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Say I am quoting critism of a book, eg. critic saying that the book-A was XYZ and supporting this claim by brining a quote from another book by the same author, book-B. Would it be enough to list in the notes something like this:
???? If you go to To the Lighthouse look at notes and references, note that in the list of references are books by Woolf although that is not where I actually got the quotes from. ShaiM 15:44, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
I've got a book that has a facsimile of the title page of the orginal edition. Is it permisable to upload it (after scanning) and what sort of tag should be attached to it (re. copyright status)? ShaiM 03:29, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
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I have been looking at The Chronicles of Narnia individual book articles. Some of them show chapter listings and some don't. I asked here if the books should have chapter listins and was refered here. Is there a standard about listing chapter titles?-- roger6106 03:53, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
There has been a situation where the book cover for the semi-nonfiction work Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati was removed, apparently because it was felt posting the cover of a book violated fair use. I think this is ridiculous, but considering that Wikipedia users appear to change their interpretation of the copyright rules whenever the tide does, I have to ask the question -- are we still allowed to include book cover images with our Novels articles? (Incidentally in previous rants on this subject I've made the prediction that Wikipedia will eventually ban all images; I've actually seen people espousing the virtues of the German Wikipedia which has actually done just that; it's one of the dullest sites on the net now. I hope English Wiki doesn't go the same direction.) 23skidoo 13:53, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
This surely isn't a discussion for us, is it? If Wikipedia removes book covers, it'll do it globally and remove the fair use options. Until then, we soldier on. -- Sordel 18:20, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
Please note the creation of this category - novels will be put in here too if they are found in Category:Category needed, so this may be helpful and relevant to this wikiproject. Aelfthrytha 13:06, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
any1 read that book? tell me about it —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.31.233.126 ( talk • contribs) .
I just noticed a banner for a BooksWikiproject starting to appear. Maybe it's been around for awhile, but I wonder if this might be duplicating some of the efforts being undertaken by this project? 23skidoo 19:52, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I've added pics to two novels: The Talisman and Woodstock (novel). These are frontispieces scanned from an 1863 combined volume, and should do until we get the frontispieces of first editions. But my question is, what how should illustrations be cropped? I've put up the versions which show the cover and pages behind the illust page. But at Commons I've uploaded cleaner cropped versions. [1] [2] It has also just now occurred to me that I could have photographed the book instead of laying it on the scanner.
What does the project prefer? (apologies if there are guidelines for this - I haven't been able to find them: perhaps mention at the Infobox template?) Cheers, JackyR | Talk 22:49, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Here's a question I've asked before, but probably not where anyone was likely to respond. Somewhere in the guidelines I read that the preferred image for a novel's article (and infobox) is that of the first edition hardback, if any. But what, if anything, is to be done about articles that instead feature a paperback cover or a later edition hardcover one? Should these be left alone, so as not to "orphan" the fair use images someone took the trouble to upload and place there? Or should they be supplanted and the paperpack images deleted (or used elsewhere)? I'm thinking mostly of certain Madeleine L'Engle articles such as A Ring of Endless Light, A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in the Door. Every time I go to those articles, I resist the temptation to upload my hardcover dustjacket images. (No, I don't have a first of Wrinkle, but my 1965 copy does have the original cover art.) Should I continue to resist, or just do it? Karen | Talk | contribs 05:38, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
I have merged some articles into this but its looking a little messy, as I have no experience in the "novel department", can someone help me make it neat please?-- SGCommand ( talk • contribs) 20:44, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
While disambiguating Dan Gordon (please forgive the lack of wikilink) I came across a couple of lists from Category:Lists of Ace Books (please forgive the lack of wikilink, again). There are 24 such lists in the category, and the ones I've seen are huge and in a complete mess, riddled with redlinks (forgivable), links to dab pages (unfortunate) and links to completely unrelated subjects (oh dear....). As obsessive as I am, I'm not touching this. I thought I'd draw the lists to somebody's attention, and you guys are the novels project. Admittedly, the bad links are (supposed to be) authors, not novels. So feel free to completely ignore them. I know I will.
Interestingly, Ace Books is a featured article.... TheMadBaron 06:18, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
If I knew where to start, I wouldn't be shirking the task! Still, since Kevin seems to be taking the bait (like he's not busy enough already), I shall elaborate.
As I said, I was disambiguating Dan Gordon - that's one example of a link to a disambiguation page, albeit one I created myself. The disambiguation effort led me to List of Ace double novels, List of Ace Western Double Titles, and List of Ace Titles in first DGS series, all of which feature links to Dan Gordon, but not one of my three Dan Gordons.
Clicking nearby links, I found several other examples of bad links. I can't remember which ones. It seemed as if any name I didn't recognise was a bad link.
I shall repeat the experiment now to demonstrate the point, choosing common sounding names with no initials. Thank heavens for popups.
Names from List of Ace double novels, and details of the articles they point at:
Cheers. TheMadBaron 23:52, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
I've had an insight as to how this can be (more) easily done. I propose that Grey Shadow and I work together on this, and so rather than bore you with the details here, I'll bore him with the details on his talk page. TheMadBaron 19:13, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
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This page needs moved to change its title, or so I think, which should be Tender Is the Night, not Tender is the Night, but I don't understand if moving it will accomplish the move of all the links, or if they will have to individually be changed? Is there someone more experienced at WikiNovels who can do this?
Although it may fit the case of "capitalization of all words, except for internal articles, prepositions, conjunctions and forms of to be," that is neither the Wikipedia nor the American publishing convention. Maybe this was how it was originally published? Was this a style used by American publishers? I'm not real familiar with this style and its usage.
So I post it in this forum, instead of on its page, in case there is some convention adopted by Wikipedia for book titles that I don't know, or if it is a function of the time frame of publishing, instead of just an internal convention adopted by the publisher for this book.
KP Botany 15:44, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
A friend suggested to me that we could do ratings for the books such as 'adult' 'teenage fiction' children fiction', that sort of thing. I thought it pretty interesting, and it would be neat if that appeared onto every book thingummy, so I thought I'd just ask about it here. Lady Nimue of the Lake 07:19, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
Howdy all - Since so many articles use external links to Amazon.com, I put in a request for an Amazon.com template here. Is anyone good at this? Thanks for any help - Pegship 16:24, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
I've opened a potential pandora's box at The Castle. Someone has created separate articles for different editions/translations of the book. I'm aware of no other work so treated and in my personal opinion the translations should be nominated for AFD. Right now I'm suggesting merging instead. Anyone who wants to comment for or against the idea are invited to comment at the main article and the three spin-off articles (accessed via the merge tags on the main). Personally I think it sets a dangerous and confusing precedent. Anything noteworthy about a translation can be summed up in a paragraph in the main article. Or, if there really is scholarly noteworthiness about the different translations, then ONE article on the topic should suffice. 23skidoo 15:06, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
We have a project structure that allows for the formation of special interest task forces (al la "WP:MILHIST".) This is useful for identifying groups of "Novels" editors who have a common interest. (i.e. Science fiction novels, Crime Novels, Children's novels, Classic literature, Russian novels etc.) Would there be interest out there in setting one or more of these up. Comments please! :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/ (Desk) 10:50, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Um . . . this is so confusing, and I don't know where to ask. Total newcomer (at least in this end of wikipedia). I'm interested in working on the articles on the Jose Saramago novels. What should I do? Is anyone else interested or already working on them? DianaW 19:29, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
I continue to be uncomfortable with the assessing of novels as "low", "medium" and "high" importance. Aside from the fact (expressed before) that I feel assessing on this level violates WP:NPOV, the use of the terms "low-importance", for example, in describing a book is, in my POV, somewhat insulting. At the risk of opening a pandora's box on this issue, can we not perhaps drop the actual wording and instead, perhaps work with a scale of 1 to 10 or 1, 2, 3 or something like that. It doesn't change the POV of assessing novels, but at least it doesn't make it as blatantly POV as labelling a book as "high importance" or as "low importance" which is bound to create some controversy. Thoughts? 23skidoo 03:05, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello, it's nice that there is some sort of organisation going on here - i would like to help out, my first edit in this direction was fattening out The Stars' Tennis Balls. Most editing information is available here, but i seem not to find any info on adding a book cover. Therefore i will ask some questions, if someone can answer me here or point me in the right direction, i would be most grateful.
Thanks! Mujinga 16:03, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
The article Book has the absurd box saying it's in the wikiproject Novel;s--how does it get temoved.? DGG 07:26, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
James Joyce is up for a featured article review. Detailed concerns may be found here. Please leave your comments and help us address and maintain this article's featured quality. Sandy ( Talk) 21:47, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
WHY do so many of the entries about Harry Potter and events in the novels have dates (e.g. Harry Potter, born 31st July, 1980 (or whatever))? All that needs to be assumed is that the stories take place "in the present" and certain events happened a number of years ago "in the past". J.K. Rowling rightly hasn't bothered herself with exact dates for anything, and neither should anyone writing for Wikipedia, IMO.
Actually, she provides one date, and from that fans have derived all of the other dates. In the second book, when Nearly-Headless Nick has has 500th deathday celebration on Halloween, the date of his death is given as being October 31, 1492. That means that the current date was October 31, 1992, and since she provides plenty of relative dates, the rest fall in place rather easily. Crispus 03:42, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
Since some of the main tenants of writing an article are no original research and adherence to objectivity, is it necessary to read the book before submitting an article about it? WesHoskins 06:39, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
A discussion has begun regarding the issue of making it mandatory for Wikipedia articles to have third-party sources and allowing speedy deletion of articles that do not. The proposed policy is at Wikipedia:Speedy deletion criterion for unsourced articles. This has me concerned because aside from the fact that it's apparently going to require every edit to be sourced (which is unreasonable and unworkable), it also appears to suggest that articles without a third-party source may be also subject to deletion. Which, IMO means a good 75% if not more of the articles in this WikiProject will be endangered. I'm not saying that it's a bad thing to require sources if you make a statement about a book such as "This book inspired Oscar Wilde to get into writing" or whatever ... however when the subject of the article is the only source, and the only real content is a plot summary, a few general words about the book, and the infobox, this policy on the surface would appear to render such articles unusable. Example: I just created a stub article on the Martin Caidin novel Cyborg IV. I can tell you with 100% certainty that you will not find a third-party source providing information about this book. The only information I have for this book is what is between the pages and on the cover; yet as I understand the proposed policy, this article could be deleted. Maybe I'm misreading the policy, but if it goes through I think the members of this wikiproject should be concerned. 23skidoo 21:56, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
This list was started some time ago by a certain Nick Carraway. I'd like to invite you all to expand it by adding any title that crosses your mind while you are working on other things. <KF> 16:26, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
I'm trying to build my first article, I want to know where exactly I paste the article template. The instructions say "new article page" but I can't find that link anywahere. Is it the user page? Thanks, WesHoskins 05:39, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Okay, lets take this one head on. Short stories and Short story collections have come up a number of times as being part of this project. Novellas and novelettes are defined as included. So what about it everyone - should Short stories and/or Short story collections be concidered "in scope". In which case the definition of "novel" as a project title will need to change to mean all narrative prose stories. (excluding graphical and picture comic forms of course) :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/ (Desk) 15:05, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
How about that :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/ (Desk) 17:22, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Just wanted to advise members of this project of the existence of List of fictional books. This is a list of invented or imaginary books created as part of piece of fiction -- for example, Jorge Luis Borges did several short stories that were reviews of books that he made up (these were published in Ficciones). Another famous example is H.P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon , an imaginary book of black magic and necromancy which appears in a number of his Cthulhu mythos stories. If anyone in this project is intrigued by this literary device, we invite your participation, edits, additions, comments etc. Thanks :) -- Bookgrrl 16:10, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
Just FYI a discussion is currently underway at Naming Conventions here about creating a naming standard for categories since there are so many different variations of "Books by X", "X books", "Books written by X", "Novels by X", etc etc. I agree there should be a standard for this. My personaly vote is for "Books by X" since not all authors publish exclusively fiction novels (i.e. Asimov) so this would cover all an author's book releases; "X books" is problematic as that category could also include books written about a subject by others ... 23skidoo 16:14, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Never before in my life have I come across that notice, but I found it today on my talk page. True, Sick Puppy is "only" a plot summary, but now we're really working against each other. That guy might end up tagging hundreds if not thousands of articles on individual novels declaring them "indiscriminate information". Comments, please! <KF> 21:54, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
Can we get a standard block added where people who know a book exists in Project Gutenberg (www.gutenberg.org) can easily add just that reference? There are a number of PG books which have WP entries and it would be nice to have links going both directions on this.
To give some coherency to the many little sf-oriented communities on Wikipedia.-- ragesoss 20:11, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
(Sorry for some cross-posting, but I'm hoping to get the word out.) I've started WikiProject Free book covers, which used to be in my user space, as a project to replace fair use images of old books with public domain ones. All of these images are affected by the replaceable clause of the fair use policy, so this is a crucial task. We've gotten a lot done while it was in user space but there's still a lot of work to be done, so please come lend a hand. Every replacement advertises the project, so even doing one or two will help. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks! Chick Bowen 21:03, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
There should be an entire template for infoboxes for everysingle literature piece of each composer, just like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Edgar_Allan_Poe tries to do, however that should be seperated in years as one user suggested. Lets get to it! 68.123.226.197 19:31, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi all. About a week ago I started a long-term project with the goal of adding infoboxes (with first edition covers, where possible) to all winners and nominees listed at Hugo Award for Best Novel. (Only where articles already exist; I'm not crazy.) Working from the bottom up, I've already run into two separate dilemmas. 1) Many older (1950s) SF novels began their lives as Serial Publications in mags such as Astounding Science Fiction, and in several cases appear to have actually won or been nominated for the Hugo before being condensed and published as a novel, sometimes years later. Is the year of serial publication considered the overall "year of publication?" Does the mag then become the publisher? For an example of where this is a problem (and how I'm currently handling it), click here. 2) It is my understanding that prior to 1967, ISBNs basically didn't exist. However, time and again I run into infoboxes for pre-1967 books already outfitted with an ISBN, which cannot possibly be first edition (right?). I also find these ISBNs sprinkled in the first paragraph, on occasion. How should this be handled? Currently, when a novel is published prior to 1967, I enter "NA" for the ISBN field. Thanks for any and all suggestions. -- Antepenultimate 22:58, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
This isn't about novels per se, but I thought that this WikiProject might be interested nonetheless. I have proposed Category:Simon & Schuster for deletion because, if I understand correctly, subcategories of Category:Book publishing companies of the United States are meant to contain subsidiaries and imprints, not books published by the company. This subcategory conatins only the latter, so I don't see it as having much value. But I thought it would be wise to solicit other opinions, either for or against. Thanks for your time. -- GentlemanGhost 20:59, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
are web novels considered novels? even though they are published a chapter at a time? Avyfain 08:20, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
Found a few book/films Sonar Kella, Sounder and Susannah of the Mounties that need to be split and was wondering were they go? Also found this Star Trek: Titan and I was hoping that someone would split that too Jask99 18:17, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
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 17:29, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
Peter Pan needs help. In theory it is about the book, but the article today includes character descriptions from other books, bits about copyright, etc. It needs to be split into several article I think, but it would be great if a few editors had a view of the best thing to do. Obina 00:18, 31 December 2006 (UTC)