Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Collaboration

	This is the current Novels WikiProject Collaboration of the Month!
	Please read the nomination text and help improve this article towards featured article standard. The next collaboration will be selected on 14 September 2008. (Vote here)

Welcome to the Novels WikiProject Collaboration of the Month! This effort seeks to identify articles within the field of literature and novels—including novels and novel series, novel characters, novellas and many others—that require improvement. Every month, a single article will be selected as the collaboration, and everyone will work to improve it as much as possible. (It has been requested we work on a number of articles from different genres at once to reflect interest diversity, that may be added later)

[edit] Nominating articles

To nominate an article, add

===[[Name of article]]===

Nomination text. ~~~~

'''Support'''

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'''Comments'''

at the bottom of the list of candidates, filling in the name of the article and the nomination text (which should indicate why the article would benefit from a collaboration and what needs to be improved).

Please remember to add collaboration-candidate=yes to the {{NovelsWikiProject}} project banner at the top of the article's talk page (see the Project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax).

[edit] Stalled nominations

Nominations which have "stalled" through lack of support are listed at: Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Collaboration/Stalled. Stalled nominations are those which have received no more than two votes of support (including the original nomination) during their first six months on the candidates list. Should a stalled nomination receive a third vote of support, its listing should return to the list of active candidates below as it may have sufficient community interest to be selected.

[edit] Candidates

[edit] The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Classic children's novel that is a former Featured Article. It was demoted in 2005, with the note that it could easily return to FA status if specific tasks were completed. However little effort seems to have been made to complete these and the article has fallen further into disrepair. There is a specific list of tasks to complete on the talk page, although other contributions would of course be welcome as well. S Luke 23:20, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Support

1. S Luke (talk Â· contribs)
2. Million_Moments (talk Â· contribs)
3. Goodleh (talk Â· contribs)

Comments

[edit] Steppenwolf

A well-known 1928 novel by German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse. According to the current article, the novel has four characters and a theme. I have great difficulty following the Plot Summary, though I am familiar with the novel. --EncycloPetey 21:28, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Support

1. EncycloPetey (talk Â· contribs)
2. Dwarf Kirlston (talk Â· contribs)
3. William P. Coleman (talk Â· contribs)

Comments

[edit] Shantaram_(novel)

Noticed Shantaram is up for collaborative improvement and want to support it. At 936 pages it deserves more layers in the plot with themes, subplots and characters sections at least. Julia Rossi (talk) 01:16, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Support

1. Julia Rossi (talk Â· contribs)
2. Robert Waalk (talk Â· contribs)

Comments

[edit] The Counterfeiters

The Counterfeiters is a novel by French author André Gide. Les Faux-Monnayeurs (1925) (translated as The Counterfeiters in 1927) is considered one of his more noteworthy endeavors.

Support

1. Runch (talk Â· contribs)
2. William P. Coleman (talk Â· contribs)
3. Robert Waalk (talk Â· contribs)

Comments

• An article on this novel does not yet exist. - Runch 16:18, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
• Gide's novels were, at the time, regarded as epochally pioneering works of modernism, and I personally find them inspiring and fascinating. I'm amazed to find so little coverage of them on Wikipedia and to see their priority ranked as "low."
• I have not read any of Gide's novels, but have heard of him. The novel looks like a promising read, and I intend to read it. It could use some work.

[edit] A Fable

Where to begin. This article very obviously needs work. No one can deny that. As is, it is a stub article with a poorly written summary. This has not been seen, critically, to be Faulkner's best novel, but Faulkner's own opinion differed. He considred it his masterpiece, his magnum opus, and spent more than a decade working on it. It won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book award, and was his last, important works, and was, aruguably, his only non-Yoknapatawpha work of any major significance and an important part of his overall legacy. Robert Waalk (talk) 04:19, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Support

1. Robert Waalk (talk Â· contribs)

Comments

• An important piece of Faulkner's work that needs to be written. I already have an idea for how it should be rewritten and structured, and can provide a lot, except in the section, (yet to exist), on the characters and the plot, because it's been so long since I read it. But I am familiar enough with it's origins and how Faulkner himself felt about it. I think that of all the books on this list thisone should be of the uptmost priority and we should get together on it as soon as possible.

[edit] V.

The article still needs some work. The layout of the plot, it needs a background of the critical reception, culutral influence, and a note on the beginnings of Thomas Pynchon's career, which it started. It's an important work, it ignited the career of one America's greatest living writers, and a possible future Nobel Prize winner. It's a very important work. Robert Waalk (talk) 05:42, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Support

1. Robert Waalk (talk Â· contribs)

Comments

[edit] Humboldt's Gift

This is arguably Saul Bellow's most important book, and Saul Bellow is a titanic figure in 1950s-1970s literary scene, and will go down as one of three major figures in American Literature in latter half of the twentieth century. It won the Pulitzer Prize, and is a very highly considered figure. In addition, the article has need, it is lacking and empty. Let's get to work on this and other pieces.

Support

1. Robert Waalk (talk Â· contribs)

Comments

[edit] Current collaboration

	This is the current Novels WikiProject Collaboration of the Month!
	Please read the nomination text and help improve this article towards featured article standard. The next collaboration will be selected on 14 September 2008. (Vote here)

The next collaboration will hopefully be selected on 14 September 2008. The current time is 17:18, August 18, 2008.

[edit] Look Homeward, Angel

Look Homeward, Angel is Thomas Wolfe's first novel. Published in 1929, it is slightly autobiographical, and Wolfe uses the main character, Eugene Gant, as a stand-in for himself.

Support

1. Runch (talk Â· contribs)

1. William P. Coleman (talk Â· contribs)
2. Robert Waalk (talk Â· contribs)

Comments

• A two sentence article - a true stub. - Runch 16:18, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
• In the 30s, Wolfe was regarded as a major novelist, in the first rank of Americans. Now, in the postmodern age, he is completely out of fashion due to his extravagantly anti-minimalist approach. This current judgment seems blatantly unfair and fashion-centric. In any case, Wolfe's historical importance is great -- and Angel deserves comprehensive treatment in any encyclopedia.
• A very weak an lacking stub on the major work of an important novelist who has been mainly forgotten in the shadow of Faulkner, Hemingway, and other major figures of period, perhaps because he died young. Faulkner consistently called Wolfe the 'best failure', among American writers, ranking himself and Steinbeck behind him. In today's literary era of postmodernism, minalamism, and exorbitant stylism, Wolfe is frequently dismissed, or worse, ignored. In the 1930s Wolfe was among the highest regarded in the American literary scene, right among Faulkner, Hemingway and Steinbeck. It was after his death that his reputation gradually declined. Had he not died young he might have secured his reputation. If Faulkner had died in 1938 he would not have the reputation he enjoys today. At that point in time, in fact, his literary reputation was in the pits. This should be a prime candidate for improvement.

[edit] History

[edit] Archives

• Current year archive
• 2007 archive
• 2006 archive

[edit] Maintenance

At the beginning of every month, a new collaboration article should be selected. This should generally be the candidate with the most support (and the oldest candidate in case of a tie).

To archive the current collaboration:

1. Remove {{NovelsWikiProject Collaboration}} from the top of the current collaboration article.
2. Change the date details on the article talk page past-collaboration=<start date>–<end date> in the {{NovelsWikiProject}} project banner to include the end date.
3. Add the current article to the bottom of the history section.
4. Move the current article's nomination text to the archive.

To select the new collaboration:

1. Add {{NovelsWikiProject Collaboration}} to the top of the new article.
2. Move the new article's nomination text to the "Current collaboration" section.
3. Update Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Collaboration/Current to point to the new article.
4. Update Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Collaboration/NextDate to use the next vote date.
5. Replace collaboration-candidate=yes with past-collaboration=<start date>–<end date> in the {{NovelsWikiProject}} banner at the top of the new article's talk page. The "<end-date>" element should read "open" to start with.
6. Add {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Collaboration/Notice|Name of article}} ~~~~ to the talk pages of users who supported the new article.
7. Notify any relevant task forces of the current collaboration.