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NaNoRenO?

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I read from the webpage of Digital: A Love Story that it was a "pre-NaNoRenO" game. It sounds a bit like NaNoWriMo, but it takes place in March, and deals with visual novels (expanding the abbrev.: National No(?) Renai Month). Should that be included somewhere? --017Bluefield (talk) 04:12, 8 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • "NaNoRenO 2012". VNs Now!. 2012. Retrieved 19 November 2012.

—017Bluefield (talk) 03:09, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]


A section on notable writing projects that are inspired by NaNoWriMo would be an informative addition; projects such as NaNoRenO (visual novels) and NaNoMangO (manga). Ziocho (talk) 18:22, 18 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

How would you define notable? There are a lot of events beyond those related to storytelling that came out of this? NaNoSweMo (National Sweater Knitting Month) for example is notable in the crafting world, but should it be mentioned here? --LibraryGurl (talk) 19:19, 18 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

National Novel Writing Month?

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Which nation?

Koro Neil (talk) 11:10, 30 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it started in the United States. But, last year's event had over 300,000 from around the Globe. FWIW, I saw a recent interview that the reason they didn't change it to International Novel Writing Month was because NaNoWriMo rolls off the tongue a lot better than InNoWriMo.

Robertjm (talk) 17:34, 24 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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This article contains some promotional language. See WP:NOT. Examples include: ". The goal of NaNoWriMo is to get people writing and keep them motivated throughout the process. To ensure this, the website provides participants with tips for writer's block, local places writers participating in NaNoWriMo are meeting, and an online community of support." Others are unencyclopedic and use language that is loaded with emotion, such as: "From 5 pm to 11 pm, hundreds of writers are gathered together in the Julia Morgan Ballroom to eat, chat, exchange excerpts, enter raffle contests, listen to speeches, meet the staff, but most of all, to write. Every hour or so, a 10–20 minute 'word war' is held in which the entire room falls almost completely silent with concentration, save for the sound of keystrokes. Whoever writes the most words in the allotted time frame is temporarily awarded the much-coveted flower pot ha"Jh1234l (talk) 22:26, 15 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have revised the Night of Writing Dangerously section to remove the quoted language above. Grn1749 (talk) 21:51, 20 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Office of Letters and Light

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I am proposing this entry be changed to one about the Office of Letters and Light, the parent nonprofit for NaNoWriMo or that a second entry be started. This would allow us to better organize to focus the entry on the difference between the organization and the various programs it runs. Thoughts? --LibraryGurl (talk) 13:57, 2 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Notable book addition

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I put this on the talk page associated with the IPs that have been editing the entry today, but I also posting it here incase said editor doesn't see it. Please stop adding the book A Fighting Change to the NaNoWriMo entry. I am the editor who keeps removing it. That list is for significant or notable books and is not a general list of books started as NaNoWriMo projects. If you read the source code for that section, you will see a note that says the following: Please don't include vanity publishing anything here should be *notable* – ie have had reasonable sales. Unless you can verify, with a source, that the book is notable, please wait until it is notable and then add it. Wikipedia is not a promotional tool to sell a book and this book is only a month old. --LibraryGurl (talk) 22:59, 15 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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The Office of Letter and Light Citations

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I have been editing this page for a class project and I ran into a problem with The Office of Letters and Light section under Programs. The original citation is a dead link and I haven't been able to find any evidence to back up with is written on the page. I am having trouble finding anything related to The Office of Letters and Light and everything I'm finding has conflicting information. Does anyone know of sources to add or have a new link for the dead one listed? I was debating just deleting most of the information under the section, but I couldn't find anything that even backed up that NaNoWriMo became an official non-profit. Anyone have any ideas or solutions? Imaginelly (talk) 19:35, 18 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I updated the source to the nonprofit page on NaNoWriMo's website, but we still need citations for the rest of the information in the section. Their website only confirms that they are an official nonprofit formerly known as The Office of Letters and Light. Imaginelly (talk) 19:48, 18 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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child porn scandal

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I imagine this has been the subject of many many edits, but I believe that a child porn scandal that got the FBI involved deserves a place in this. 72.211.12.66 (talk) 13:52, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It will need a reputable source. Do you have one?—Anita5192 (talk) 14:20, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It's been completely buried, nothing but a twitter thread and a private forum. Just another missing page in the so-called encyclopedia. 70.44.227.150 (talk) 13:16, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Controversial sponsors

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Would the decision to pair with an AI writing company count as a controversial sponsor? There's a furore about it on Twitter/X at the moment, with many people deleting their accounts in protest, and two board members have resigned over it. I think this should be added to the Controversial Sponsors section. Whynotlolol (talk) 08:27, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Controversial sponsors" may not be an appropriate section to keep, per WP:CSECTION. I have added the sponsorship concern to the part of the history section dealing with this current moment. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 12:54, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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