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WikiProject Novels aims to define a standard of consistency for articles about Novels. Through implementation of standards such as these, Wikipedia can gain some structure to unify it as a reference, making content more easily and quickly located with common organization for novel articles.

However, do not forget the spirit behind these guidelines. If they make editing or reading more difficult for a particular novel or for novels in general, change them or ignore them, preferably with some explanation on talk or meta pages. Many novels don't yet have enough on Wikipedia to necessitate layouts such as this, or have special requirements that do not fit the template exactly. Feel free to adapt this WikiProject to specific situations and to discuss changing it.

Main Project Discussion - takes place here /GeneralForum

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Scope

WikiProject Novels aims to define a standard of consistency for articles about novels. Aims to encourage and provide the structure for enhancing the writing of high qualilty articles on all manner of different novels. For the purpose of this project "Novels" are deemed to be Fiction books of any genre. (It does not include very short stories.) It also aims to encourage and promote the writing of articles on all types of Novels.

Article structure

Naming, Style & Notability

Article templates

Articles should be written to an agreed basic style. We encourage all to make use of this template as a starting place for any new article and a guide to the amendment of any existing article that needs improvement.

For Novel articles:

which includes
an Infobox template for a book - /InfoboxCode

For Fictional character articles:

Parentage

WikiProject Books

Descendant Wikiprojects

Similar WikiProjects

The similar WikiProjects are the WikiProject Albums and WikiProject Songs

Project organization

Participants

This is a list of Wikipedians who are committed to this WikiProject. If you're interested in helping with this project, please, feel free to join by clicking edit on the right, and signing your name at the bottom of the list with four tildes (~~~~), with an optional comment. Also add this template to your user page {{user WikiProject Novels}}. This adds you automatically to the WikiProject Novels Participants category.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Novels.


You might like to see what some of us read by looking at Wikipedia:What I am reading at the moment.

Members

  1. KF (talk · contribs), joined 11 December 2005. - KF detail page
  2. Kevinalewis (talk · contribs), joined 19 January 2006. - Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk)
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  32. FallenAngelEyes (talk · contribs), joined 17 March 2006 - FAE styled : main focus is on scifi/fantasy, as well as some gothic novels
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  63. False Prophet (talk · contribs), joined 7 May 2006, I will add bits and pieces to some stuff,
    and should I come across a book I am very familiar with that needs work, Ill devote time to it
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  86. Badbilltucker (talk · contribs), joined 7 June 2006 - will work on individual novels and series of books as well
  87. 23skidoo (talk · contribs), joined 9 June 2006 - work includes James Bond, Simon Templar, Modesty Blaise series
  88. Plange (talk · contribs), joined 10 June 2006
  89. Comp8956 (talk · contribs), joined 12 June 2006 - focused on texts read as part of High School Curriculum.
  90. Esn (talk · contribs), joined 14 June 2006 - will help with sci-fi/fantasy and some historical/nature novels.
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  95. Ragesoss (talk · contribs), joined 22 June 2006 - science fiction and other science-themed fiction
  96. Angelamaria (talk · contribs), joined 26 June 2006 - will help with certain YA fantasy series I've read and a book here and there
  97. Fantasylover12 (talk · contribs), joined 26 June 2006- sci-fi and fantasy, young adults mostly
  98. Ajferrick (talk · contribs), joined 27 June 2006 - will contribute pieces and devote time to more familiar works
  99. Jdcrow (talk · contribs), joined 28 June 2006 - Apocolyptic, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Mystery, YA, Satire, Etc.
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  103. Runch (talk · contribs), joined 30 June 2006 - I've been an advocate for a while now, might as well list myself as a true member
  104. Cyde (talk · contribs), joined 6 July 2006 - name Cyde Weys - Speculative fiction, definitely (for those of you not in the know, that means the hard-to-distinguish genre of scifi/fantasy)
  105. LittleDan (talk · contribs), joined 8 July 2006 - placing infoboxes on books that lack them
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  107. James Kemp (talk · contribs), joined 11 July 2006 - known as Jim - been doing a bit of work on Michael de Larrabeiti's novels so thought I should sign up
  108. Mavarin (talk · contribs), joined 15 July 2006 - known as Karen - I've been working on the novels of Madeleine L'Engle and other bits and pieces
  109. Amaas120 (talk · contribs), joined 22 July 2006 - name andrew - I've been working on young adult books
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  113. Adasta (talk · contribs), joined 28 July 2006 - I have several articles in mind. Currently working on The Picture of Dorian Gray
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  115. GregoryEvans01 (talk · contribs), joined 5 August 2006. I've been working on some of the Bruce Sterling and Stephen Baxter articles here.
  116. UAAC (talk · contribs), joined 7 August 2006
  117. Errabee (talk · contribs), joined 10 August 2006 - mainly Russian literature.
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  122. Ibis3 (talk · contribs), joined 19 August 2006 - I'll try and contribute as much as possible. I read a lot of classics and a lot of Canadian literature so I'll do what I can in those areas.
  123. The Euphemism of Life 18:22, 23 August 2006 (UTC) I read fantasy, classics, and anything with good character development. I'll try to contribute as much as possible.[reply]
  124. Hurrah 02:51, 25 August 2006 (UTC) Don't have too much experience regarding editing Wikiarticles on novels, but I'll help out as much as needed. =][reply]

Guestbook

This is a list of Wikipedians who are not committed to the WikiProject, but who are sympathetic to the cause. Feel free to express your support by signing the list below!:

Departments

Departments are specialised areas of the project for a targetted activity, serving in a smaller way the aims of the whole. We have just the one currently.

Outreach

The Outreach Department acts as the project's central point of coordination for recruiting new members and maintaining the interest of current participants. Its primary activity is the production of monthly project newsletters, it also contains a welcome message that can be sent to each new member as they join.

General discussion forum

  • /GeneralForum - Main Project discussions (only use the page talk for page related discussion)

Hierarchy Definition

Since there are many types of Novel, boundaries must be set so that other WikiProjects can guide articles that this one doesn't. (Just like the discussion on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Novel categorization project page.) So far, the titles that have been included are those that the 'man in the street', would call it a 'novel'.

Included:

Overall genre description category stub template
"can be used in the text and infobox to describe the article" "Use to categorise the article" "Use to mark short and incomplete articles as stubs"
Fictional Characters [[Fictional characters|Fictional character]] Characters from Novels [[Category:Fictional characters]] {{fict-char-stub}}

Category hierarchy Novel articles are sorted under many categories, look in Category:Novels for a list. There are three "main" categories that most books are sorted to:

Genres of novels including

Overall Genre Description Category Stub template
Can be used in the text and infobox to describe the novel Use to categorise the article Use to mark short and incomplete articles as stubs
General Novels [[Novel]] Novels that cannot be described by other categories [[Category:Novels]] {{novel-stub}}
Specific Genres with subgenres [[Adventure fiction]] Novels featuring high adventure, action-based narrative often with travel [[Category:Adventure novels]] {{adventure-novel-stub}}
[[Alternate history]] Novels that ask "What If", where history has developed differently [[Category:Alternate history novels]] {{alternate-hist-novel-stub}}
[[Anti-war]] Novels whose message argues for peace rather than war [[Category:Anti-war novels]] {{war-novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Autobiographical]] Novels write about the author's own life story [[Category:Autobiographical novels]] {{autobio-novel-stub}}
[[Biographical]] Novels providing slight fictionalization of someone else's life [[Category:Biographical novels]] {{bio-novel-stub}}
[[Bildungsroman]] Novels featuring the education, maturation or coming-of-age [[Category:Bildungsromans]] {{bildungsroman-stub}}
[[Comedy]] Novels featuring comical situations or characters [[Category:Comedy novels]] {{comedy-novel-stub}}
[[Crime fiction]] Novels about criminal characters, settings or events, without the whodunit [[Category:Crime novels]] {{crime-novel-stub}}
[[Detective fiction]] Novels where the main character is a detective or criminal investigator, typically with a whodunit ending [[Category:Detective novels]] {{mystery-novel-stub}} or {{crime-novel-stub}}
[[Dystopian]] Novels about a dystopian society or character highlighting bleak, dehumanizing or fearful life [[Category:Dystopian novels]] {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Epistolary novel]] Novels that are epistle-like or written as a series of documents [[Category:Epistolary novels]] {{epistolary-novel-stub}}
[[Erotic fiction]] Novels featuring adult content, typically of a sexual nature, aka erotica [[Category:Erotic novels]] {{erotic-novel-stub}} (sorts to novel-stub category)
[[Family saga]] Novels that portray the history of a particular family, usually multi-generational in nature [[Category:Family saga novels]] {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Fantasy]] Novels based on fantastical, magical, mythical and/or classical legends [[Category:Fantasy novels]] {{fantasy-novel-stub}}
[[Feminist]] Novels focusing on women's rights usually with a female protagonist [[Category:Feminist novels]] {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Gothic fiction]] Novels featuring dark and horrific situations and/or character, usually set in the past (see genre) [[Category:Gothic novels]] {{gothic-novel-stub}}
::[[Southern Gothic]] Subgenre of gothic (see genre) – set in the Southern U.S. [[Category:Southern Gothic novels]] {{gothic-novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Historical fiction]]
*With the subcategory for children 		Novels set among historical events, prior to author's time period [[Category:Historical novels]]
*See also: [[Category:Children's historical novels]] 		{{hist-novel-stub}}
*{{child-hist-novel-stub}}
[[Horror fiction]] Novels featuring horrific or scary subject matter [[Category:Horror novels]] {{horror-novel-stub}}
[[Jacobin novel]] Novels that espouse ideals of the French revolution [[Category:Jacobin novels]] {{hist-novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Legal thriller]] Subgenre of thriller with a legal or law theme [[Category:Legal thriller novels]] {{thriller-novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Medical fiction]] Subgenre of thrillers focusing on medicine or medical professions [[Category:Medical novels ]] {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Mystery fiction]] Subgenre of the crime or detective novel is the whodunit [[Category:Mystery novels]] {{mystery-novel-stub}}
[[Non-fiction]] Not included in scope – often misplaced here! [[Category:Non-fiction novels]] {{nonfiction-book-stub}}
[[Paranormal romance]] Subgenre of the Speculative fiction and Romance novel [[Category:Paranormal romance novels]] {{romance-novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Parody]] Novels that mimic the style of a more serious work using satire, irony, or ridicule [[Category:Parody novels]] {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Philosophical]] Novels where philosophical ideas form the main crux of the narrative [[Category:Philosophical novels]] {{philos-novel-stub}}
[[Political fiction]] Novels that deals with affairs of state, elections or political theme [[Category:Political novels]] {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Psychological]] Novels that highlight a psychological storyline, theme or character(s) [[Category:Psychological novels]] {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Romance novel]] Novels that feature a romantic situation, usually formulaic in structure [[Category:Romance novels]] {{romance-novel-stub}}
[[Satirical]] Novels whose characters, themes and/or situations elicit disapproval in a cautionary way [[Category:Satirical novels]] {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Sentimental novel]] Novels which elicit sentimental emotions or intellect, set in the 18th century [[Category:Sentimental novels]] {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Science fiction]]
*With the subcategory for children 		Novels featuring scientific advancement or contact with advanced civilizations [[Category:Science fiction novels]]
*See also: [[Category:Children's science fiction novels]] 		{{sf-novel-stub}}
*{{child-sf-novel-stub}}
[[Speculative fiction]] Novels that speculate about futuristic, fantastical or supernatural existence (Sci-Fi, Alt-Hist, Fantasy, Horror have their own categories and stubs) [[Category:Speculative fiction novels]] {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice) or individual spec fiction genre
[[Sports]] Novels that feature a particular sport or sportsman [[Category:Sports novels]] {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Spy fiction]] Novels about spying and espionage [[Category:Spy novels]] {{spy-novel-stub}}
[[Techno-thriller]] Subgenre of Thrillers with a technical or modern science element [[Category:Techno-thriller novels]] {{thriller-novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Thriller (genre)|Thriller]] Novels that feature fast-paced, action-packed suspense [[Category:Thriller novels]] {{thriller-novel-stub}}
[[Time travel]] Subgenre of the Speculative fiction which goes forwards or backwards in time [[Category:Novels about time travel]] {{sf-novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Utopian]] Novels about hopeful, optimistic or idealistic characters and/or worlds [[Category:Utopian novels]] {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Victorian fiction]] Novels set in Victorian times [[Category:Victorian novels]] {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[War novel|War fiction]] Novels about wars and/or warfare, set modern or historical times [[Category:War novels]] {{war-novel-stub}}
::[[American Revolutionary War]] Subgenre of War fiction set in the American Revolutionary War [[Category:Novels set during the American Revolutionary War]] {{AmericanRevolutionaryWar-novel-stub}}
::[[French Revolutionary Wars]] Subgenre of War fiction set in the French Revolutionary Wars [[Category:Novels set during the French Revolutionary War]] {{war-novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
::[[American Civil War]] Subgenre of War fiction set in the American Civil War [[Category:Novels set during the American Civil War]] {{AmericanCivilWar-novel-stub}}
::[[Napoleonic Wars]] Subgenre of War fiction set in the Napoleonic Wars [[Category:Novels set during the Napoleonic Wars]] {{war-novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
::[[First World War]] Subgenre of War fiction set in the World War One [[Category:Novels set during World War I]] {{WWI-novel-stub}}
::[[Second World War]] Subgenre of War fiction set in the World War Two [[Category:Novels set during World War II]] {{WWII-novel-stub}}
::[[Korean War]] Subgenre of War fiction set in the Korean War [[Category:Novels set during the Korean War]] {{Korea-War-novel-stub}}
::[[Vietnam War]] Subgenre of War fiction set in the Vietnam War [[Category:Novels set during the Vietnam War]] {{VietnamWar-novel-stub}}
[[Western fiction]] Novels set in the American West, featuring cowboys, gunslingers, settlers and 'native Americans' [[Category:Western (genre) novels]] {{western-novel-stub}}
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Project notices

  • {{NovelsWikiProject}} - Please place this template into top of "Novel" and "Fictional Character" article's talk, relevant template talk, category, and category talk pages so that people can find this WikiProject easily:
  • {{Novelinfoboxneeded}} - Also if you find a Novel related article in need of an Infobox add this to the top of the talk page:
  • {{Novelinfoboxincomp}} - Also if you find a Novel related article in need of Infobox completion add this to the top of the talk page:
  • {{User WikiProject Novels}} - Userbox

Internal project organization

Work to be done

This is where you can really start to contribute. please look at these articles and see if you are able to help by adding or removing as appropriate Novels from the each of the lists and if you feel able please help by writing or revising articles to meet the needs listed.

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