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Re: Welcome

Thank you Kevin for your nice words. I am thrilled to be part of the project. Will definitely ask for help if needed (which is actually 99.99999% bound to happen!). Cheers--Angelikmeg 16:28, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

The WikiNovel Project

Kevin,

Had wanted this contact to be to offer help for the project but it seems that other WilkiMembers are more interested in killing this project off by simply deleting any related pages.

I was in the process of constructing my first pages which I could then come to you with & say here is my first submission to the project - between first pass & me learning the Wilkilanguage in greater depth to finish it properly one of the project team had marked both author page & book page as a project stub (K.G.Childs & The Fortress City)

However it seems that; - if you don't have any exisiting pages - others think your pages need automatic deletion - if an author is a vanity publisher (intentionally or otherwise) they are not permitted to be even mentioned in the Wikipages

As such I see little point wasting any more time in the Wikipedia site as everything I attempt will just get wiped! In fact I wonder if your project has any real longevity or if you are just going to see all your hard work wiped away by the likes of Mailer Diablo (I did vent on that users talk page assuming they don't just simply wipe my input there as well)

And just in case anyone wonders why I didn't react when they were flagged for deletion - well despite having both pages on my watch list I recived no watch emails from Wikipedia!

Not your problem & I'm not having ago at you but yes I'm furious at the situtaion - thought you should know why you are loosing future project members before you even hear from them!

Regards User:Elium

Hi Elium, don't give up, take a deep breath, shake it all off! I know it's frustrating but it can be all worked out. The same happened to me twice and the articles ended up not being deleted. What I suggest you do in case you're concerned that they be deleted, is first email your contributions to Kevin and discuss it on the talk page and then create the articles. Then, on the articles' discussion pages, mention that source/copyright (or anything else that could have been contentious) have been verified and in case the article is nominated as candidate for deletion, the user should be notified on his/her talk page (link with your usertalk page) to be able to discuss reasons why the article should be kept or deleted. It works all the time. As far as the stub-tagging, well it's more an invite to expand the article nothing else. At least in my opinion. Don't let this keep you out of the project, and if you need to work with admins I recommend User:Commander Keane and/or User:Splash, they're both very good and extremely nice. I'm sure that along with Kevin, they can give you good reasons to stay. Last, I don't think you receive watch emails: for my article, I knew by chance when I got back to it to upload pictures, that's how I knew it was tagged for speedy deletion. Let's talk more if you wish. Sorry Kevin for using your talk page to talk to Elium... Cheers, Angelikmeg 20:04, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

User:Kevinalewis & User:Angelikmeg - Thank you both for your words of support & encouragement but at this point in time I just have not got the available time to waste creating pages that subsequently going to be deleted over zealous, narrow-minded Admins who are more than contented to bend the laid down guidelines to suit their own personal prejudices

Reasons given for deletion

It appears that everything I'd done had already been deleted before I even found out that any of my pages had been nominated and than for reasons appearing nothing short of puerile. Along the same lines of Arthur Dent's complaint; 'Do I have to check all my pages everyday just in case someone has decided to delete them?'. In my mind that's what the Watchlist is for - to give quick warning via email of any changes to a given page - it appears that this is a function of Wiki that just doesn't work properly

As you suggested I am half tempted to contact User:Commander Keane but then even if this situation is resolved properly then I'm still going to be encountering that type of poor attitude and generic Admin based vandalism so I have to ask myself do I really want to increase my daily stress levels by that much?

I am sorry to say that I have now gone from a 100% supporter of the WilkiConcept and website to now agreeing and sympathising with the critics of Wikipedia - whilst I'll accept there are many folks out there helping new starters and contributing properly into the base there are just as many (and some who have worked themselves up to positions of supposed responsibility) distorting the content base into something unreliable and undesirable thus negating the whole WikiProjects aim of neutrality and acceptance of new contributors

Having looked at the "Reasons for Deletion", the Google cache of the author article that has now gone and the authors website and searched a bit wider on the web, I have to say I can see what these other editors are getting at. What makes you believe that this author has status that makes him notable. For biographies and novels this is the "main" rationale for inclusion, and also non-notability the reason for exclusion. It is a real shame that the subject of your first submission should be something at least boardline. Do you have reason to believe K. G. Childs is really notable, if so please explain. Otherwise you "will" get a far better reception to you work if you work on far more readily recongisable subject matter. (for instance all the works of Charles Dickens, Roddy Doyle, Jane Austin, Tom Clancy to name a disparate group of notable authors). I hope that helps explain what has been going on. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)} 09:39, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Ok ok ok... I'm comming back

Due to the insistance of several editors... I'm comming back early... (don't ask me how it happend, still a little upset over the admins... but I will be able to keep my cool provided that I don't have another one of those encounters for a week or two)

Give me ideas on what other lists that you would like me to generate... The last list that I made saw 102 edits done to that page. In addition the page saw 6 "unique" editors... though most of the work was done by 2-3 people. It seems like these lists are allowing "drudge" work to be done in a simpler and easier manner. By "drudge" work, I mean, non-article creating work. I mean really, it takes special people to sort out stubs... Thanks for you work on them, Kevinalewis.

Of course if you have not figured out I am reffering to Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Book to novel autolist

And I am asking for more ideas on what to base other lists on.... I'm comming back.

P.S. I am also leaving a simmilar message on Pegship's talk page. Between the two of you, I expect to see some good ideas... (just a pun, If you don't have any, It won't make me upset or anything)

Flintknapper

Thanks for fixing the citations on the flintknapper page. I still have to figure out exactly how Wikipedia wants their citations laid out. In the near future (as in this summer) I'd like to give the page an overhaul and include sections on tools, methods of flaking, maybe a listing of other materials people like to mess around in (bottom of coke bottles, scrap industrial glass, or porcelin dishes for instance). If you have any other suggestions or if you know people I should contact before I do this just drop me a line at my user page: ZenTrowel 06:11, 4 April 2006 (UTC).

won't argue...

...with a fellow prog fan, except to say, there's been an awful lot of vandalism on Islam-related pages lately, and I'm just trying to force people onto the talk page to explain themselves. Don't mean to revert good edits, only to distinguish between them and pious vandalism.

"A seasoned witch will pull you from the depths of your disgrace/and rearrange your liver to the solid mental grace" God knows what it means, but know you I am *legit*!

Timothy Usher 10:02, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

New list

Ok thanks for the response. I will create one of the two tonight. It will be up by tommarow. I will leave it up to you to take it from the link below to the project pages... As that is one area I don't want to learn right now. :-) I'm trying to program a janitor for WP:CU

You are free to make any redirects from this page... I know it is my userspace... but I give permission and will not be offended.

NOTE: The link does not link to anything untill Thursday... I am just giving you the location in advance.

• User:Eagle 101/Novel Project/List01

Talk:Young Earth creationism

Hey, I read some of your comments at the Talk:YEC page and I have to agree. Most scientists reject YEC because either they don't want to believe that there is a God and therefore they can do whatever they want, or they don't want to take the Bible literally. It's quite irritating but it's the case. If you know Talk:Origins well, then you know it's also biased toward evolution and therefore won't show YEC in a positive light. But keep up the good editing. Ratso 21:04, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Are you an admin?

If not, would you be willing to direct me to someone you trust?Timothy Usher 08:03, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

No, I'm not. Also I have both fought shy of that type of responsiblity and level of wikistress so far. As I don't tend to get stuck in to the politics of this thing I tend not even to notice who is an admin or not. Sorry to not be very unhelpful but there it is. Are you refering to the debate rating over the Islamism" article. If so I can understand why it is such a target for controversy. For two reasons, The subject itself is one of controversy and the treatment in any of the forms I have read has tended to propose a certain "take" on the issue. In my view any article on this subject would need to be scrupulously impartial and absolutly awash with references to prominent commentators and experts on the issue. Also almost each phrase or sentence would need to be illustrated by a citation. This is extreme kind of wiki writing but an article of this type is only survive with wide editor support if it is writing in such a way. Just my point of view of course.

I know I have'n't been of much help - but if you need more assistance I'll give what I can. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 08:14, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Lists---A question

I am running a search on articles that need the infobox... Where should I look, other than the Novel category??? Give me a full list of locations thanks. (I can handle the rest)Eagle (talk) (desk) 16:01, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Ok - Fuel for the BOT and it's list creation - I would say any category with Novels at the end of it's title. e.g. {Spy novels}. I think that should cover it, Thanks :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 16:08, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

On second thoughts you could include any category with "Novel" or Novels" in it's title, nice to indicate on the listing which category was the cause of it's inclusion if that is easy. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 16:10, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

I am just going to put up a seperate list for each category, at least for now... what did you mean by "On second thoughts you could include any category with "Novel" or Novels" in it's title, nice to indicate on the listing which category was the cause of it's inclusion". The main novel category figures to have over 450 unique articles in it. :-)

I am going to also post my response on the bottem of this page.

Eagle (talk) (desk) 01:19, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

War novels

Heh, sorry about that; we seem to have been working at cross purposes there. I was bumping it down because we at the Military history WikiProject are trying to figure out some form of merging among Category:War, Category:Military, and Category:Warfare. Perhaps you could look over the discussion and let us know if something in what we're trying to do would interfere greatly with the novel categorization? Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 10:23, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

We'll try to keep the novels in mind, then; and we'll let you know when we get close to a final structure. Kirill Lokshin 11:11, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Flags

Hi Kevin, someone (anon) had changed most to 25px. First I thought it was plain vandalism, but then it looked like an attempt to improve the article. I'll change to 20px, please check the other anon edits and correct as necessary. Thankis, Rich Farmbrough 14:41 7 April 2006 (UTC).

I've left a note on User talk:85.165.199.73. Check the contribs, others have been changed as well. Rich Farmbrough 14:45 7 April 2006 (UTC).

Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Archaeology

Hi Kevin: I assume from your comment on Wikipedia:Cleanup process/Cleanup sorting proposal that you've figured out what the PNA sections are for. Yes, this is to be a general thing across all Wikiprojects, not just WP:ARCHAEO; we're testing it out. Your idea of converting headers to subheaders, so they will work properly in transclusion, is great; I'll apply it as I go. Alba 15:12, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Kevin, our intention is to do it generally, but we're starting with the categories already on Pages Needing Attention. Check out the cleanup sorting page for how we're doing it; we started with the natural sciences, but intend to do the others too. We'd love your help if you'd like to give it. Alba 15:22, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Template inclustion???

What did you mean on your last post to me??? I am totally confused, :-)...sorry!!

Note: I am sorry for not getting the list done, I was testing User:Gnome (Bot), to see what it saw on certian pages, sorta like a debug run, with no editing, (just seeing what it would do). But I forgot about the block that was put on the bot, after it did something a admin did not like (fixed it now). Any way long story short, the bot must "click" the edit button to look at a page (gather info)... well when you do that on a blocked account (something I fogot about), you block your whole I.P. address for 24 hours:-). Any way I got the bot unblocked and my I.P. address.

I will put the list up by sunday night, agian sorry about that!!!Eagle (talk) (desk) 19:16, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Blocked agian... the admins told me it is fixed now....I dunno

I will get you this list.

On the archology thing, it appears you have found the right person, I have an inkling on what is going on, as I have been reading the proposal...If you have any specific questions I can answear.Eagle (talk) (desk) 00:27, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

They finally got it!!!, I got to do my tests, and now I am getting the list. It will be up in 25 mins from this edit. (I have to make it wiki-readable)Eagle (talk) (desk) 01:16, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Lists for WP:NOVEL

I am just going to put up a seperate list for each category, at least for now... what did you mean by "On second thoughts you could include any category with "Novel" or Novels" in it's title, nice to indicate on the listing which category was the cause of it's inclusion". The main novel category figures to have over 450 unique articles in it. :-)

The main novel category will be up soon. (a lot of the articles in here are stubs. I may make a new list, looking for article size, and make a new list... but that will be for another day.

Eagle (talk) (desk) 01:21, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

The list is done... here is the link to it agian..(its up there somewhere on your talk page)

• User:Eagle 101/Novel Project/List01

Please, before making the page on the project space, look at the "very important" infomation section of the list. (Note the list will have ALL article that need the info box included..., The articles are sorted by the category that they are in, broken up into 25 article lists. (i.e. Category Novels is a different section than Category:War novels.) Later we can even look for incomplete infoboxes)

Let me know if you want me to redirect the list, if so... where to.

Eagle (talk) (desk) 02:05, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Novels invite

In response to your recent message to me about the Novel group, I would certainly like to help out. For the time being it will be a case of finding the time when I can; I wouldn't want to jump in and make some big commitments I can't keep.

• Are you keen on creating new articles, or are you more interested now in standarding and improving what's already there? I can think of one or two published authors who could use some wikig-nition (I just invented that word).

• Are you interested in novels only, or other types of fiction?

Cranston Lamont (talk) 02:35, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Creating or improving, both I think have equal emphasis, Novels are defined by us a all novel structured works of fiction so classic novels, and genre novels are all included. Thanks for your interest, and most of us are interested on a part time basis, most having their of particular genre or authors of interest. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 07:38, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for Matt's image

Thanks for the Matt Redman photo, somethings is clearly better then nothing. Personally I wasn't there then, Only got to go this decade. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 08:31, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

No problem — I'd forgotten all about it, to be honest. I did email Matt Redman's website last October to try and get a permission for a better photo, but they referred me to the Soul Survivor record label, and record labels aren't exactly liberal with their copyright. The last Soul Survivor I went to was the Manchester mission in 2000. — Matt Crypto 08:44, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome and the help

Hi Kevinalewis, Yes, I'm certified 100% pure newbie. Thank you for your suggestion and your help with citation formatting. PS - If you write in my talk page, should I respond there, or here? Blastfromthepast 16:50, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Peer review...

What exactly would that entail, and why? I just read Grendel and wrote the article when I realized that it did not already exist. The only thing I would like to add is a treatment of the characters. You can have a look at as far as I got before my architecture classes and my involvement with Philwiki got the better of me at User:Donbas/Grendel. Donbas 18:03, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

WP:NOVEL list

Thank's for your correction of my poor englsh, and grammer!!! (I am a bit verbose, but better too much than not enough). I am a math and science person:-)... The reason I am in the project is that I like to read:-).

Some day when we get this project going, I will start to contribute to actual articles... But right now I think it is best if my energy is devoted to getting our categories and stubs uniform.

I will redirect the list, but leave it up to you to advertise this list on the project page, and elsewhere on wikipedia... I have exams comming soon, and I will not have as much time to do anything other than running automated things... like making new lists

Eagle (talk) (desk) 18:32, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

List of archaeological periods

Hi Kevin. Sorry to be so late in responding; my internet and wiki time have been limited recently. Thanks very much for resolving the issue with the user who wanted to keep things all Near East-centric and I think the new page is much better. I realise we still have gaps but I hope archaeologists from around the world will now see that their is potential to add in more detail. Also, I hope you will be pleased to know that our modest efforts have been recognised in the current issue of British Archaeology in its internet round up. Best wishes. adamsan 20:57, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Please put the list I created on the project page, and template

Right now no one knows of this list's existance execpt for those who go to The general forum, (I and pegship posted a message there). To remind you, here is the list Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/NovelsWithoutInfobox.

• I would suggest replaceing the current Without infobox page, with this... are link the two togather...
  • This list will be updated far more often than the one that is up now... What ever you want to do!!!Eagle (talk) (desk) 19:56, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

i've been away I'll do it as an extra (auto) page. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 07:55, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

And greetings from WikiProject Books

Thanks for the kind words and I also wish for cordial relations. After looking thru Your user page, there is something I read today that I think You should read about WP and privacy, see Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#User:Gator1. I have seen your edits earlier (on books naturally) so I'd wonder if You would be interested in adminship (despite the previous link). You know, those tools could be handy etc. I would be willing to nominate You (Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship) if You are interested. Best, feydey 21:47, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

I just had noticed that discussion so it was fresh in my mind. Otherwise I noticed Your work and thought, why not nominate. I think You probably had many situations where the tools could have speed up things. Anyway being an admin is in principle not a big thing. Cheers feydey 23:14, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Sounds good.

Sorry I did not get your reply, but I don't have your page watched... sorry about that. Thank you for doing that, activity is now being seen on that page!!!

As Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Book to novel autolist is complete... is there any other categories that we could search for novel stubs out of??? If so, let me know and I will refresh this list.

• If not, let me know as well.

Eagle (talk) (desk) 14:46, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

P.S. respond on my talk page, else I have no clue that you responded!!! (I don't watch other's pages, as that results in me having to seperate comments directed to me from many pages... more work than it is worth.)

OK

Would you like me to reformat the novels without infobox list to look more like this User:Eagle 101/Sandbox. This is easy to do, and the distance between sections can be made to be what ever number of articles that you want... I do it now by a regex statement... it only takes me 30 seconds to put all the header in now!!!Eagle (talk) (desk) 15:06, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

• That is fine... let me know when and if we should refresh the book to novels list. (now???)

Good idea - although I would do it on our next refresh - some have already made many amendments to the list already and I suspect that these would be lost on a refresh. However all future runs should include you new format (10 titles per heading sould be about right!) Thanks :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 15:19, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome

Thanks for taking note of my addition to the project. I have added the userbox (the first WikiProject I have done so with, probably because it's the first one for which a userbox was available). Daniel Case 15:10, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

I can refresh in new format with out losing comments.

as per title... the rexep only count's lines, not what's in them... trust me on this. Would you like me demonstrate on my sandbox???Eagle (talk) (desk) 15:23, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Tell me what categories to search for stubs in... and what type of stubs am I looking for... be specific, (avoid false positives)

give me 5 miins...

I have to make one modification to the regex expression. Won't take long!!!Eagle (talk) (desk) 15:30, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

• Give me another 5-10... I sent the regex statement into an infinate loop. (will be fixed :-/)

for stubs

when I did the book-->novel stubs I basically assumed that since the article is tagged as a stub, that the article is a stub. The simplist way to do this is to search only for the names, and related phrases... as specific as possible is best.

• Word counts are unnessacary as long as we are searching in stub categories... I like to presume intellegince on the part of fellow wikipedians, therefore articles in stub cats are stubs... else they would not be there. (yes, yes there is the rare one or two, but this differince is hardly meaningful)[[user:Eagle 1

• • Sorry, but correct my reasoning...If it is in the stub category, it must be marked as a stub, else it can't be in the stub cat to start with...

P.S. I will get that list up in a monment... I am having problems with the <strike>... Driving me nuts!!! (If I put it as it is it will do the job correctly, except that the first 3-4 sections will have 13 articles... and one section will have 3Eagle (talk) (desk) 16:24, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Stubs and current list

The sample format is up on my sandbox. have a look!!!

On the stubs... you are 100% correct... but as long as the article is in the stub cat (not nessacarally marked as stub on the article) I will find it. To me I could care less whether or not {{stub}} is in the article or not:-)Eagle (talk) (desk) 16:38, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Can be done

Problem is that I need to configure the program a slight bit to fix... (should be only 2 lines of code that need changed... I need to open the edit page on the talk page, not the article)... This search can be done in Cat:Novels... And I will make this list the same as the Novels needing infobox list... Our current one.

• However, I will wait a couple days before starting this... "we have enough work on our hands":-).

Do you want me to start out of Cat:Novels, than move to Cat:Novel stubs ???

bot run date???

How I do it is through a regex statement. (it is up... but I am reordering the titles to keep consistant groups of ten)...have a look

And of course what do you mean by bot run date???Eagle (talk) (desk) 18:35, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Feel free to add that... If you do, I will update it.

Have a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/NovelsWithoutInfobox and tell me how it looks. Thank you.

Eagle (talk) (desk) 18:47, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Move false hits to bottem

I got most of them... If there are more, feel free to do it... I will straighten up the list every 2-5 days as it needs it:-)...

• I am doing this to keep the list orderly, and upto date.

War and Peace

Hi Kevin - I agree with your removing the miniseries tag to the 1972 BBC version of War and Peace. I just had one thought. As I have gone through many of the British shows that I grew up watching and admiring here at Wikipedia I have noticed that the tag that is often used when there is more than one version (i.e. film, opera, TV etc.) is TV series. I don't know if wikip has a set policy on this, and I am not suggesting that you change what you have already done. I just wanted to mention it in case you are aware of any rules here at wikip that this might fit under. One of the things that I enjoy about this version is that it has perfromances by so many of my favorite British actors, some of whom are fairly early in their careers. I got to see Alan Dobie on stage in the 10 hour play Tantalus (an epic about the Trojan Wars) several years ago and it was a real treat. Keep up the good work here at wikipedia.User:MarnetteD | Talk 17:01, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

lists

I will update the Film-->Novel List this weekend, as well as do the searches for the potentential stub cats:-) Eagle (talk) (desk) 03:04, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

I asked Eagle to create a list of films that have references to novels in them, so I can see if the articles need to be split into separate film and novel articles. If they do I will place a {{split}} tag on them to make them easy to find and edit (for me or anyone else who's interested). Feel free to take a crack at it if you like! Her Pegship 19:41, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Link to film novel list

User:Eagle 101/films that are also novels list--- This is pegship's idea, right now she wants to work on this by herself... an idea that I am respecting (even though I made the list), but I am trying to get her to eventally get it up on the project pages... as it is a very big task. ONE subcategory had 166 hits in it, and there is a large number of sub categorys (Not to mention sub-subcategories) in Category:Films. Eagle (talk) (desk) 20:03, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

World Rally Championship 1973 results ff

I believe you comunicated with the editor, that tagged World Rally Championship 1973 results and similar pages as "inuse". He hasn't edited in weeks so the templates need to be removed. but the articles are devoid of any content and most likly will be deleted. Do you think anyone is willing to fill content? If you don't want to do anything now, you might want to pull a local copy of the layout for later use. Agathoclea 09:10, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

War and Peace

What does "study guides are not replaced" mean?

The problem that I have with these links is the fact that there are so many such "study guides", and Wikipedia is choosing to advertise just one of them. Remember. Wikipedia is not a link repository. If there is useful information about the book that is encyclopedic, we should seek to include that information in Wikipedia, not link to external texts that contain it. In as far as these guides are just summaries of the book, I'm not sure that they are encyclopedic, and therefore a link to them isn't required. Either way, we just don't need them. -Harmil 21:24, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Typically, there are two ways books are cited as reference material, (typically in the References section): by a standard bibliography entry or by ISBN, which Wikipedia automatically references and links (e.g. ISBN 0596000278). The problem is that there's no single "the study guide for War and Peace" book, so you have to pick and choose which isn't so good. If you could find a Web site like you suggest, which lists the available study guides for War and Peace, that would be good. You could also use a google link like so:

• War and Peace study guide search on Google

Which advertises Google, but that somehow seems a lesser concern, especially given that Wikipedia tends to use Google widely. If you were concerned, you could always add a second link for Yahoo!:

• War and Peace study guide search on Yahoo!

Which amusingly enough returns the Wikipedia entry as the first hit ;-) -Harmil 14:46, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Film/novel splits

I usually incorporate the link into a logical place in the text; for example "based on a [[Fail-Safe (novel)|novel of the same title]] by so-and-so..." I only recently discovered the use of coded disambig tags and haven't learned how to use them yet...thanks for the tip. Her Pegship 17:31, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

P. S. I'm not territorial about the list - feel free to attack any of those articles if you like! thanks - Her Pegship 17:32, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Disputed tag in Armstrong article

I saw that you placed the disputed tag in the Armstrong article (I agree with this). Unfortunately I was editing the article at the same time and I think your edit (08:26) overwrote my edit (08:19). I had taken out a huge copy/paste of an external article that was clearly not NPOV and then your minor edit put it right back! I took it out again. I have been in the process of cleaning up this article. Please take a look at the history and the current state of the article. It should be better now. Would like to hear your points of view on the article's talk page. RelHistBuff 09:04, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Archive?

I was just wondering if you thought it might be time to archive the WikiProject Novels talk page; it is getting a bit lengthy and I figured you might be the person to ask. -- Gizzakk 03:37, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Archiving done as requested. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 10:52, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

OK, thank you very much. I probably would have done it myself, but I have no idea how to do it properly. -- Gizzakk 12:07, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

sf-novel-stub

I created it as a redirect because of the large number of -novel-stubs, while this one was pre-existing at -book-stub, just to avoid needless name confusion. I don't see any difficulty using it, though it might be marginally preferable to use the redirect target. I'd be surprised were it to "go away" at any point, certainly. I didn't envisage it as a separate type, since I'd imagine the considerable majority of "sf-book-stubs" are indeed novels. If the non-novels ever get large enough to be split out, it would be fine with me, but there's not much point in splitting the "novels" if that almost entirely depopulates the remaining "books". Alai 19:32, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

1 Enoch

Quote : this still need proper citation as did the alternative view. Unless you can support the word most please lose it!

We have, in user CodexSinaiticus, someone trying to make an article reflect their own opinions (religious beliefs too, perhaps?) more than the majority academic opinion. Wiki is supposed to recognize all points of view, but give prominence to majority opinions. I fail to see how the use of 'most', when coupled with citations from several leading academics as well as a reference to the alternative position, is wrong.

I have close on 15 years academic research experience with topics that overlap with 1 Enoch. I know the academic sources, and can cite many that presuppose a complex redactional history. Very many. To be honest, I'd be hard pressed to think of an academic (as opposed to religious) source that doesn't. But if I cited, say, 100 sources, it would still not prove 'most' to someone asking for such proof; indeed, any such proof would require the citing of greater than 50% in order to fulfil the requirement of 'most'. So it is an impossible task, in the same way is it would be an impossible task to "prove" through citation that, say, most people dont think the world is flat. But it is surely acceptable to say "Most people do not believe the world is flat" without exhaustive citation, so how is it any less acceptable to say, "Most modern scholarship considers 1Enoch to be a composite work"? (Take a look at the article "Earth" - It mentions the flat earth theory, and says that those who hold the view for eg. religious reasons are treated with mockery - should I write similar for 1Enoch?! I jest, of course ...)

Put another way, he is coming to a judgment over the validity of the opinion expressed by this group of 'most', disagreeing with it, and demanding the removal of 'most'. But the label 'most' is a fact, irrespective of the validity of the opinion held by this group.

172.141.236.166 15:24, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Xanth character template

The reason that I don't think that a whole separate section is needed for the characters is that what the characters do in the novel will be covered in the Plot Summery section of each book. The more general information about the character will be covered in the character entry on the character lists.

The character template is for the primary and other major characters in the novels. All the rest are pretty cursory and need not be listed. When you talk about the look of the template, do you mean that you would like to have it look sort of like this:

Characters of Novel Name
Primary character	Primary character
Major characters	Major character 1 Major character 2 Major character 3 Major character 4
Demon X(A)NTH	Present
Good Magician Humfrey	Present
Demoness Metria	Present

And after looking at the table, I will alter the look of the current template. I like it better than what is there now. Should there be a line in the template for Humfrey, Metria, and the Demon Xanth? Those characters pop in a lot of the novels. It is almost expected. The Good Magician appears from A Spell for Chameleon, Demoness Metria since Vale in the Vole, and Demon Xanth since Yon Ill Wind (though he appeared before, Yon Ill Wind has him popping up more). I will make the first alteration now, but let me know about the listings for those 3 special characters.

Lady Aleena 11:30, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

PS. I use the yellow on the table to make the articles tie together a lot more. It adds interest in my opinoin.

Take a look at the changes made now. I floated it left and have the box placed in the Plot summary section of the article right before the spoiler warning. Does it look a little better. Lady Aleena 11:54, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

I will let others deal with boiling down the plots. I am not that good at it. I am better with straight facts not analysis. Lady Aleena 13:05, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

I will see what I can do. After I get the character boxes finished for the novels, I need to get back to other articles I am editting. Lady Aleena 13:26, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

The Death of Virgil

Just a question, but this book is a rather unusual case. It was written in German , but first published in America in English, so should the German title be used under the origional title heading? And for that matter shuld it be used under the language heading? -- Gizzakk 21:21, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

OK, and thank you very much. -- Gizzakk 11:51, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi Kevin

I do not know how to add new material to the footnotes, so I removed them and changed them to references so I could. Want to add The Methods of Biblical Archaeology. They are somewhat unique. What if I add my new material, with the reference and then you add it to footnotes. Do not want to cause any trouble. User:Kazuba 18 May 2006

Watch This One!

Thankyou Kevin. User:Kazuba 18 May 2006

Early Islamic historiography

You're right that the article sucks. I put it up as a sketch and never got back to it. I figured other Wikipedians might fill it out but no ...

People are happy to pontificate, or squabble over a word or two, if it involves no reading or research. Anything involving digging into the books languishes. I'm in over my head. My house is stacked with books I haven't had time to read. My head is exploding.

Can you help with the research on the article? Zora 06:21, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Resources?

I thought that people writing articles about books should have some links for information on books á la Amazon.com, see WikiProject_Books#Resources. I found The Literary Encyclopedia with nice info. I haven't put Amazon.com, B&N.com etc. as it would seem as advertising (should they be added?). So if You know of similar places with information/reviews/general data on books... just add them to the list. Thanks. feydey 11:22, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Left Behind

Kevin, I was a little unclear; I guess I was smuggling an extra term into my definition of Rapture.  : ) Of course, amillennialists believe in a rapture (as in "here, there, or in the air") but not separate from the Second Coming. I changed it to a- and post- not believing in the same time-line as dispy pre-s, but perhaps it could be improved further. Wooster 16:57, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Novel edits

Kevin, thanks for pointing out that I shouldn't be removing the hardback and paperback designations from the first editions. Must say, that as a the daughter of a collector of rare books, the idea of two first editions (one hardcover, one paperback) seems oh so very wrong. As a newcomer to Wikipedia, am I correct in assuming that this matter was resolved long ago? Victoriagirl 15:05, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Once again, many thanks for the advice concerning the various editions. You'll see that I've tried my best to incorporate your recommendation with Rohinton Mistry's Such a Long Journey. I've even gone to the trouble of nailing down all editions, save Penguin's (which is elusive). I've only included information about the first Canadian in the infobox. I fear adding more will only be confusing. Any thoughts you might have are always appreciated. Cheers. Victoriagirl 16:54, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

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Watchman Nee

Hi, could you please upload the image to Commons? Many thanks, MHV 18:20, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Nordic Skiing at the Winter Olympics

Would it not make more sense to keep everything seperate, such as the Cross-country skiing events, the Nordic Combined, and the Ski Jumping? This is improtant in order to maintain some degree continuity within the Winter Olympics? Chris 18:08, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

I can see that line of think except that for a large number of articles you would only have one event per article, making for a very small article and (particularly early on) the events were considered very much as part of "nordic" skiing. If we do go to seperate and divide out the articles then I think we need to do this in measured and controlled change over. I,e, work back from 1964 first providing all 3 replacement articles. Changing the "nordic skiing" article to a "list style" as with 1968 and beyond. The all the associated navigation templates need to be adjusted as well. May be a few other things I havn't thought about too. The attude across "wiki" has largely been to go for consistency but also to keep to large articles rather then pure stub like "note like" entries. No sense of scale and to much darting about. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 19:47, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

What if we phased all of the items in (Cross-country skiing, Nordic Combined, and Ski Jumping) as seperate files with the correct templates, then gradually phase out all of the Nordic Skiing part of this? I am already in process of getting all of the cross-country medalists bunched into one area, then having them access the specific Olympics. I have just completed the Men's and am now starting on the Women's events. As soon that is complete, then I will work on the Nordic Combined and the Ski Jumping parts. Chris 20:05, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

With the gradual division it would make more sense, but you have to take into account all of the Nordic skiing was introduced as one at the 1924 Games, but Alpine Skiing was not intorduced until 1936. By creating separate categories in the Nordic Skiing area, it would allow for someone who is interested in Cross-country, but may not care about Ski Jumping or the Nordic Combined to just look at the cross country from its 1924 inception until now without having to go through the Nrodic Skiing category. Let's look at how they categorize Aquatics. In Wallenchinsky's The Complete Book of The Olympics (1984), they have swimming, diving, and water polo all bunched into two chapters (one for men and one for women). In later editions of his book, the swimming, diving, water polo, and synchornized swimming are in seperate chapters. Shouldn't the cross-country, nordic combined, and ski jumping be the same way? Chris 12:15, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. Chris 12:26, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Talk page redirects

Thanks for the heads-up. I just caught this the other day and am trying to amend. Cheers, ♥ Her Pegship♥ 18:43, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

New Infobox Question

Hellow! I saw you'd responded to my question about an infobox I was trying to create on the Novel Forum but only because I looked at the edit history of the page, because you'd then deleted my whole post? Did I post in the wrong spot? Anyway, I figured out how to add a template to the name space and so know it's here: Template:JAustenCharacter and to test it out I've added it to: Mr. Bennet Where should I post this for comments? Thanks! plange 04:44, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Novels Wikiproject

Hi! Got your message. I must admit I was a bit unsure of what to do, but the explanation said that you either were to make one of these boxes, or just put the appropriate templates on the talk page. Terribly sorry if I did this wrong, but you might want to update your explanation pages if that is the case... Please let me know what you want me to do with this project. I'm more than willing to help. :) Norwaystudent 16:17, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Mike Oldfield

Thanks for your corrections to my footnote in the Oldfield article. I'm slowly catching up on the best way to do such things, and I was already proud that I had referenced my change and created a good footnote. I'll try to incorporate the changes you made in future references I'll do. Fram 18:45, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for responding. Just wondering, is there a more efficient way of talking than through our talk pages? Like, some kind of IM or something? --Norwaystudent

Book covers

When making infoboxes for the Novels WikiProject, can we upload book covers from the internet, or would that collide with copyright issues? What has been done to get book covers before? --Norwaystudent

Isobelle Carmody novels

Thanks for the link to the naming conventions! There's a whole group of us working on Carmody's Novels, and I've been nominated as the code bunny :P I'll go fix them up ASAP. Rigel 12:43, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks again! They're all fixed up; I've had to add a further disambiguation for Darkfall, as there is already a novel of that title by Dean Koontz. At the moment much of the discussion for adding to the Carmody Project is underway on our message boards. We have an internal submission guideline and are rigorously weeding out any fancruft or overt spoilers, much of what was on the page before today's alteration was not up to standard.

I've bookmarked all the templates (which are very handy!), and we're in the process of finding bookcovers and pictures we can use. Rigel 13:10, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: Obernewtyn Chronicles page - Gods yes! In fact that was the article that sparked off the spree, I came across it and was horrified. Never fear - it will not last long at all! Rigel 14:26, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Leaving Wikipedia?

Have I left the novels project or Wikipedia? No no no, not at all, just taking an unannounced Wikibreak while I'm rather busy at the moment in that other life some people call real. Here at Wikipedia, I have been doing other things recently, mainly writing new entries on German or Austrian entertainers (such as Freddy Quinn)—the List of German actors (from 1895 to the present) contains just too many red links. I'll be back. Anyway, thanks for inquiring after me, and all the best, <KF> 16:06, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Novels Lists.

I too am sort of taking an unanouced wikibreak as well... this is my first post in 3 days! (long time since that happened!) I am also busy with "real life" :-(.

I have already broken one promise to pegship about updating a list... I will try my best to remember to update both the novels stub, and infobox incomplete lists. Just tell me what genres you want the list to cover, and I will do my best to get a new update on by monday. I would hate to delay the effort that WP:NOVEL has been putting into completing these lists.

Put it short:-), give me the genres you want me to update on, and if I don't have the list up by tuesday at the LATEST, hound me untill I do. (honest about the hounding thing!). Agian I don't want to delay work done by this many people... I want to be consistant. Please help me with this...

P.S. that wikibreak is looking to be annouced very soon if "real life" does not let up...

Thank you for the heads up! Eagle talk 05:07, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Saint infoboxes

Thanks for the help regarding the infoboxes. There seems to be a problem with them, however, as the image caption is being cut off. I feel captions are very necessary particularly since I'm working with numerous examples where the original title of the book was changed. See, for example, Once More the Saint. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers. 23skidoo 11:42, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

• Never mind, I was able to figure it out a few moments after leaving the message. Cheers. 23skidoo 11:49, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

The Pirate Saint trial works for me (though it should say "The Saint" rather than "TV series" but I can fix that later). Since you're adjusting captions, what about adding a field for alternate titles? I think that might be handy as well (plus in my case it would allow me to eliminate the succession box entirely). 23skidoo 14:47, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

• Any suggestions how I might work with alternate titles? I really don't need that succession box now, except that it lists the alternate titles. If this was just obscure trivia I might just leave it out, but with The Saint the books were widely available under different names. See She Was a Lady as an excellent example; it was published initially under one title, and later available at the same time under two different titles. 23skidoo 15:37, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
• That's a perfect idea! Thanks! BTW could you take a look at Featuring the Saint (as one example) ... for some reason the image is appearing off-centre, yet on other ones such as She Was a Lady things look OK. 23skidoo 15:47, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: Fiction references

Quick comment: Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/ArticleTemplate is ok, I was hoping to create something more like a guide (like (Wikipedia:WikiProject Books/Non-fiction article), not a straight copy/paste template. I'll think about it... Got to go to the library now actually, bye feydey 15:50, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Ok, will do!

Ok I will start with one or two of those tonight... will be up by tomarrow.

Note when you respond on my page, can you please make a new section at the bottem? I keep losing track of your comments!! ThanksEagle talk 03:55, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

We are looking at approx. 120-150 on mystery novels alone.

NOTE-I will re-run the novels category. and post those up on the auto list as well. (plus I will finally get around to running the other auto list... (on the novel stubs). (give me ideas... as my new stratagy is going to be generate a list a night...(while I sleep).Eagle talk 04:22, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

InfoBoxIncompleate

I may also create a auto list for infobox incompleate... I need to see what to look for, the sample list will be on my user page in 1 week. Please tell me if you think this is a good idea. My view is that we have the novel stubs going (new one generated tomarrow) infobox needed going, and the only thing missing is infobox-incomplete.

Basically I guess I should ask, will the list help the project?Eagle talk 06:20, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Ski jumping lengths & reference listings

As you are aware, I completed the Wikipage Ski jumping at the Winter Olympics with details on the various ski jumping lengths between 1924 and 1956. While I was doing this, I e-mailed the FIS offices in Switzerland regarding the Lengths of the jumps between 1924 and 1956. I received a response yesterday from kurt Henauer, FIS PR and Media Coordinator Ski Jumping with both the Hill name and lengths for all of the Ski jumping compeitions between 1924 and 1964. I do plan on putting this in, but how do I put this in without revealing my personal e-mail address? I will look at the reference guides that Wikipedia has, but I would like your opinion on this. Thank you. Chris 12:43, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

I do not plan on risking this information about a private e-mail address on revealing this information, but I would like to get this information from the FIS somehow because what they have listed on their website from 1924 to 1956 is inaccurate, in my opinion. Chris 12:51, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

I like the footnote that you have done on this. I was able to find the reference setup using the MLA Formatting guide for electronic sources from Purdue University in Indiana and it was very helpful. Thank You. Chris 14:08, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Slow down there, cowboy

Hey, what's with reverting all of my changes (many of which are necessary to conform to the manual of style) in order to "fix" one small "error" that didn't change the look visually? —Joseph/N328KF (Talk) 14:33, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Novels/Films

Hi Kevin! Thanks for the note. I'm slogging away at the new list Eagle made me...feel free to pitch in any time you want a break from your current project. Cheers, ♥ Her Pegship♥ 15:09, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

List Update-Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Book to novel autolist

Hi Kevinalewis, seeing that you contributed to this list before... I am dropping you this note today to let you know that the book stubs -> novel stubs autolist has been updated today. Currently there are 37 items on this list that need to be sorted through. This is far less than the original list size.Eagle talk 04:10, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Note this post is a semi-automated message sent with the aid of firefox tabs.

You recieved this message because you were a significent contributor on this list. If you don't want to recieve messages like this from me (as part of wikibook project), just let me know on my talk page!

Infobox Incomplete

Is it at all possible that you can get more users to contribute to this list... I have another 500 articles waiting on my computer... At any rate, let me know when that list winds down to about 40-50 articles...

Seriously, try to advertise the list on the main project page... you will more than likely draw new members from the new info-boxes.

I am working on the regex for info-box incomplete... right now I am not getting a high enough success rate... I am up to about 75%, as you know I want to hit something like 90%.

Anyway, cheers! Eagle talk 04:51, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Saw this on Book talk page...

infobox_needed

the sub page of this project "/infobox_needed" seems to have been superseded by "/NovelsWithoutInfobox"-- if nobody objects I am going to change the link under "work in progress" in the project box. Matt Kurz 21:51, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

they are doing different things, the first is a manually generated list and can pick up articles intelligently, the second is automatically generated and is liable to faulty and incomplete selection. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 07:35, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Me speaking agian

I just want you to know that you are correct with the fualty selection, but the list will always display err on the side of displaying too many articles, rather than risk missing a article or two. Just thought you should know.

Oh and I can say with 100% accuracy, ALL articles with out infoboxes in the category searched will be found(as long as they are created at the time of the search) the only false hits that I have seen on that list have been human error. (i.e. a non-novel is placed in the novel category).

Put it another way, if a article in a searched category does not have a infobox, my program WILL find it:-).

This is the reason why I am requesting more help, (I may jump in soon... if I get time). If we can search all categories... we would be in very good shape as far as recognition and visability go.

By yours truly... Eagle talk 05:05, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

P.S. I promise this is my last post to you for today...

Portal:Books

I just stumbled upon this recently created (not really maintained) portal. Do You have any ideas what to do with this new one. feydey 21:51, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

That was exactly my reaction. I will just redirect it to Portal:lit. and hope nobody will start yelling. feydey 11:54, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

BTW I have automatized Portal:Literature so that selected articles, images will change monthly, go click on Archive and click on a red linked month and add Your own... Also quotes change weekly the same way. feydey 12:00, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

It's not really maintained cause I can't think of what to add to it. I haven't forgotten, but it needs help. I didn't go anywhere... Anyhow, literature and books are not mutually exclusive. Books are books. Literature is what's in the books. Literature can exist online, in magazines, on papers, wherever. Books are bound and they exist physically and they entail a totally different process than literature would. Maybe it's not the most inspired portal in the world, but publishers, distributers, bookstores, booksellers, etc all fall under books and not literature. Anyhow... contact me before my watchlist informs me next time. :] --Keitei (talk) 23:45, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Follow the Saint

Good catch. The day I put that article together Wikipedia was acting up and some edits were failing (as in not being saved). One of them was the uploading of the image, though I thought the image was in place otherwise I wouldn't have moved on to the next book. For a moment I thought someone had deleted the image but there seems to be no indication of that. Just Wiki-weirdness! I noticed you recategorized Alias the Saint into 1931 novels. That actually isn't correct since it wasn't a novel but rather a novella collection. If we're changing that one we'll need to change the other 40. 23skidoo 13:15, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Let me have a look

There should not be any false hits... all the program is looking for is the absence of {{Infobox novel

This is very interesting please give me an hour to look this over. I will be back with this soon.Eagle talk 20:00, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Dumbass mistake

I figured out the problem. My regex statement was looking for {{Infobox Novel and reporting anything else that was not {{Infobox Novel, I had a few other things tossed in the regex, but that seems to be the problem.

Long story short, it was a capitalization error on my part. I will regenerate this list and have a new one up a half-hour after this post. Sorry about the mistake!!Eagle talk 20:10, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Fixed the mistake

New list is generated. There are no infoboxes in these unless they are added after the list was generated... Sorry about that!!!Eagle talk 20:39, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: Mists of Avalon

Yeah, sorry about that--I hadn't realised that I didn't source the info. I'll remove it since I forgot where I got that info (accutually I don't even recall putting it there) and can't find better info to replace it with. Thanks for pointing it out. Stoa 23:04, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Nevermind--I see you already rm the info. Stoa 23:07, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Manual List

I saw that I accidently added Settling Accounts: Drive to the East by Harry Turtledove to the "Mystery Novels needing templates" list, not knowing it was for mystery novels. I saw that you had moved it to a manual list. Where is that list and I'll add others I find? I like helping out but would rather not try adding the template myself until I learn more. Thanks for all your work also! PeregrineV 15:00, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

sf-novel-stubs

Thanks a bunch for helping recat those. Cheers, ♥ Her Pegship♥ 17:22, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Newsletter

Thanks for the information. Looks good. Hope I can be of help in the future. <KF> 15:58, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Newsletter and auto lists

The newsletter looks great! Very good concept... As I sse you all have been having fun while I am in wiki-purgetory (semi-wikibreak).

On the auto-lists, I will put them back in groups of 10... that was an impulse experiment I had, will be put back correctly 10 minutes after this post. Also:

• Cat:Novels- is fairly empty, the last round was about 1 month old-(I re-ran the program when I updated the list a couple times:) Will generate if you or others respond that regeneration is wanted.
• Let's think about allowing others to join in on choosing the next categories to run. This is a wiki after all. I am ok with this now since we have the page up and moving. My concern is that you have contributed over 50% of the list... I would like to get other members of the project involved.

Let me know what you think on these ideas! Eagle talk 02:49, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Absolutly

Will do! I will run and have up the lists for tomarrow! stubs will have little to offer... same for novel infobox tagging... Is there any where else we can pull stubs from??? (sub cats of books?)

• When does the next newsletter come out? I want to get my prototype infobox-incomplete tested out before then... (got it up to about 90% accuracy, will go up higher once I get 'false hit' imput)Eagle talk 07:47, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Aha

Ok, I have the prototype regex statements, Right now I am limited only by the amount of time I have... Where should I put the first 'test' page... (you and pegship can go loose on it) and find most of the errors in my logic:). Agian, I designed the regex statement to pick up all articles with incomplete infoboxes at the cost of picking up a few 'extra' articles that don't have a infobox or have a info box. Right now I have gotten 100% incomplete infoboxs... (I manually went through the category and checked) And about 10% false hits +-2%, (little statistics there:).

Note, right now the incomplete info-box list will also list infoboxes that are not there at all... I am slowly fixing this, and the regex is now about 5 lines long:(

I want to know, is it possible to start immediatly out of project space, (to prevent creation in my space and redirecting to project space. (prevent broken links). I would appreciate that:) Of course I don't want any advertisement of the new list... only you pegship and other longtime members... I want to focus on fixing 'false hits' not explaining the why and how of policy.

I will be glad to write up a part of the newsletter every month or when ever we deciede to send it out. (my part would of course be news on the 3 autolists... things like what is comming up, how many we got done, ect.

Also is it possible to run agaist the actuall book category, (looking for misplaced novels) in a similar fashon to book stub->novel stub (i.e. book->novel)?

Ok will do

Thanks, I will be updating a bunch of lists tomarrow, one for pegship, ours here at WP:NOVEL and the 2 new concepts. (incomplete and novel->stub)Eagle talk 08:38, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

There, this is the shortest message I ever posted to you, even with this extra comment! enjoy:)Eagle talk 08:38, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Novels Newsletter June 2006

The Novels WikiProject Newsletter Issue I - June 2006
Project news Two automatically generated worklists have been established Book stubs → Novels stubs and Novels without Infobox. These have been created for the benefit of the project and so that editors can use them as hitlists to target sets of articles needing specific attention. (n.b. these do not replace but complement the manually enhanced "Work in Progress" lists) The project's New Articles list continues to track brand new articles that members of the project and other editors have written. Of particular note has been some sterling editing by one member creating a whole raft of articles on the Simon Templar as The Saint novels by author Leslie Charteris. Also notice that the {{Infobox Book}} now has a separate field for "image_caption" this should enable the book cover image to be clearly described, particularly giving information on the edition (ideally first) to which the image relates. Member News The project has currently 88 members, 30 of them have joined after 1 May 2006.	From the Members Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Novels WikiProject's newsletter! We hope that this new format will help members—especially those who may be unable to keep up with some of the rapid developments that tend to occur—find new groups and programs within the project that they may wish to participate in. This inital issue is really a trial; any comments and suggestions are quite welcome, and will help us improve the newsletter in the coming months. Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk), Initiating Editor (n.b. credit must be given to the Military History WikiProject inspiration for this newsletter format)
Current debate Categorization of novels debate is currently ongoing. Further input would be very welcome.
Current proposal It has been proposed that a Collaboration of the Week/Fortnight/Month be established, but we need more response.

 :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 08:40, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Template

Thanks for the template. I'll add it though I personally feel that only the user should add anything to their Userpage. That's not specifically why mine is protected though -- I had some anonymous users targeting it for vandalism. 23skidoo 14:23, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi. I thank you for informing about the Novels WikiProject Newsletter June 2006. We shall surely inter-act more. Due to varioud reasons, I could not contribute to WP Novels - but, I shall surely start contributing actively soon. Regards. --Bhadani 14:54, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

I messed up the code...

I was working on a improvement to allow use of multiple passes by the regexes... and I introduced a bug into my program... I need to root it out. Please give me untill tomarrow to update the project lists. (sorry:-(Eagle talk 05:47, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

I am working on this ASAP!

Killing Zone

I made a correction to your addition to the article. Glidrose had nothing to do with Charter Books. That was a Grosset and Dunlap imprint. Glidrose had no imprints of its own; it licensed its books to companies such as Pan and Coronet. Besides, the article and the CommanderBond articles suggest the Glidrose connection was bogus. 23skidoo 18:06, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Aww, crap

Sorry about leaving the Geek category in Wikipedia:WikiProject Books/User Participant; I thought I'd caught it all, and apparently I was wrong. :\ EVula 15:37, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

FYI. Official Olympic Reports

I have just found a gold mine of information you might find interesting. There is a website named www.aafla.org (Amateur Athletic Found of Los Angeles) that you can download all of the official Olympic Reports of everything regarding all of the Olympic coverage. I was able to find information on all of the demonstration events for the 1932 Winter Olympics and I will put them in over the next couple of days. You should check it out. Chris 14:41, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes fixed

Sorry about being unreachable. What lists do we need generated? Eagle talk 18:42, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes Sir!!!

• I will be working on these tonight. The first 2 will be up tonight for sure. The third one is experimental, I have never ran it on an entire category... :). My primary problem is getting false hits on some (but not all <very puzzled on this>) articles that don't have an infobox at all. I will do my best on the new list... I will start on Category:Novels, unless you have a better first target.

My hunch is that the third list will be up tommarow... I will be working on it tonight, trying to get some more buggies out:) Eagle talk 02:37, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Book->Novel

Several things:

1. A new list for the stubs has been generated. There are 15 items... please leave it alone! :)
2. I have not generated a new list covering Category:Novels due to it's small size of 55.
3. I would like suggestions on other categories to look at for this list. (under the book->novel criteria).
4. I am thinking about moveing the current list to Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Book-to-Novel. Please give me a yes/no (or post on project talk page for others to disscus). I will do the move, or you may do it, your choice.

4.b or suggest a name change... Perhaps the rest of the project should join in to disscuss an appropriate name.

--Enjoy looking at all thatEagle talk 03:16, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Category:Novels

This category currently has 8 items... suggestions for new categories are welcome!Eagle talk 03:29, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

InfoboxIncomplete

Ok, I fixed the problem with picking up novels with out infoboxes. Still I have a question or two before I launch the beta version.

• What parts... other than the mandatory parts of the {{infobox book}} should cause a hit.

Put that another way... The lack of the following items will cause an article to show up on the autolist.

1. "Name"
2. "Author"
3. "Publisher"
4. "Release date"
5. "Genre"

Should others be included, (that are desired on novel articles, but may not be desired on a generic "book")?

Also, please note that some of the time that I have taken to code this has gone into a 'experimental' autocommenting after each entry. (is 50% complete, I need an response to my question above to take this any further).

The idea with this is to have something like this...

Article Needing Infobox Author missing, Release date missing, Genre missing.

• I hope to be able to expand this feature beyond just that... It would be nice to also have it note improperly formated items, and optional items. Given time I can have the program "recommend" values if it finds appropriate values in the article.

Please tell me what you think of all this... Sorry for so many messages at once. :)Eagle talk 03:45, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Oh and my idea's for additional categories are: 'isbn' 'release_date' 'language' and 'image'. Image is not really nessacary but does make article look so much better! Eagle talk 04:05, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Will Do (though a bit busy on the prototype list)

Will do... If you are out of articles on any of the current lists give me a buzz. Else please let me finish work on the new list. I will get the first 2 up by Sunday unless it is more urgent then that. The prototype should be up... barring any problems by monday. Eagle talk 03:53, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

I am doing a bit more now than I orignially started with. My hope is to provide other infomation about the article right on the list page. A.K.A. On stub articles have a count of words in the article after the article link. :) As a result I may be delayed a slight bit (1-2 days). If a list needs repoupulated earlier I will do so, but it will be in the old format. Eagle talk 02:06, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Give me some ideas on what extra info you would like to see along with the articles in each Autolist. Right now I am planning on having an indicator that will indicate if the article needs wikified AND the article does not have a {{wikify}} tag on it. Other idea's welcome... I am creating a seperate program "task list" for each autolist (I have really invested some time here!), so feel free to ask for infomation to be displayed on only one list and not the others!Eagle talk 02:10, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

The Outpost (Mike Resnick novel)

This has now been fixed. However, in future, please do not use cut and paste to move pages created at the wrong location as this destroys page history which is required in order to comply with the GFDL. If, in future, you need to move a page but cannot due to a page already existing at the target location, please place a listing on WP:RM. Thanks! Stifle (talk) 10:49, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

DLL hell

As the title says I am in some minor DLL hell right now. What that is, if you don't know, is best described here. Basically I got a couple file versions mixed up... so I have to go through the code and see what goes to what. I will put updates (using old program) to the current lists on wednesday. The prototype will be up on sometime between thursday and saterday. (depending on how quickly I figure my way out of hell :). Just thought you should know Eagle talk 04:37, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi I am Eagle ... Agian

I got out of Dll hell:) I am posting to ask, do you guys need the lists today? To honest, if I have to see or think of another novel related thing I just might start chucking novels... (are hardback harry potter novels they are around 700 pages long?) randomly at people :). Unless both lists are empty, I ask that you please wait until tommarow. I will post the 2 current lists in the old style. I am aiming for saterday for the new prototypes... It would be sooner... but agian, I need to protect my sanity here:) Thanks for understanding Eagle talk 04:39, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Reclassing as FA

I noted you added an FA designation to The Illuminatus! Trilogy. I assume that any novel article that reaches FA status is eligible for this so I went ahead and added the designation to Thunderball. If this is incorrect, please feel free to change it back. 23skidoo 19:19, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Starting to get geared up to have a proper assessment department going to fit in twith the WP:1.0 team and their approach to this. Watch this space. Yes such a change is fine, the article could do with being split between novel and film though. Her Pegship is the one to organise that. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 07:31, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi I am Eagle

What of the active lists need regenerated? Please try to keep it to one or two Categories. I am putting the finishing touches on the code. The lists that I will generate today, (depending on when you respond with needed cats) will be through the old program. On saterday I will begin to create lists out of the new program. (First list off will be the novels with out infobox... Finally!!!) Until saterday I will be programming new functions into my code. I will disscuss with you the capacities of the program at a later date... to put it simply, I can do more than generate these "simple" lists. Perhaps you and I need to disscuss this on IRC sometime. I am often on #Wikipedia-bootcamp , perhaps you can look for me there. Thanks for waiting so long! I am sorry about that!Eagle talk 03:09, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

no change on the suggestions mentioned the other day. Please just go ahead with those if you are able. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 07:28, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Assessments and worklists

Hi Kevin,

Congratulations on getting the bot to work for you - now you only have about 2000+ articles to assess! I held off replying until I could see if things were working nicely (I also had visitors show up suddenly). I'll put my main reply here, but I must say as a personal note I'm very excited when a major project like this starts assessing. I spent a frustrating hour or two looking for suitable books to nominate for Version 0.5, but the result was simply a few edits like this. So you can see, I'm very interested in seeing some more major works reach a high standard, we really need them. Regarding MILHIST, they are indeed a very impressive example to follow, and with the scope of your project being so broad you probably need an Assessment Department, if you have the people to staff it. I would suggest contacting directly User:Kirill Lokshin (Generalissimo at MILHIST), who seems very helpful and able to advise you on coordinating such a scheme. Good luck! Walkerma 15:59, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Novel Talkpage Comment

Thanks, I'm trying to get involved! Glad to know I'm not totally messing anything up. -- Zagsa 17:53, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Novels InfoBox Incomplete

I found an excellent way to lookat ALL existing articles with the Template:Infobox Book!!! Basically I will be looking through the what links here, rather than through a category as originally planned! This has two benifits. 1) We get All to look at all articles with the infobox book on it. (regardless of category) 2)We don't have to look at any articles that don't have infobox book on it. :). I am going to try to generate a basic version of this sometime today. Eagle talk 18:54, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Basically when we get this perfected, there should be no need for the manual infobox incomplete list, as the autolist will look at every article with infobox book on it. (Agian... keep the manual until we get the code perfected, but serously the list I generate today should have every article that is on the manual infoboxincomplete list, plus more :) Eagle talk 18:57, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/NovelsInCompleteInfobox

Please check this list out ASAP. This list is not Novels InComleteInfobox, but it is a prototype that I want experianced editors with WP:NOVEL to look at first. More lists will be posted to this page. Infomation about the lists will be posted on with the lists. Please don't remove the articles, just have a look, make sure that it is accurate, and comment on the format. I want others to be able to see the list. (Yes in the end this page will be for Incomplete novels infoboxes :)Eagle talk 22:00, 30 June 2006 (UTC)