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WikiProject Novels aims to define a standard of consistency for articles about novels, novellas and short stories. Through implementation of standards such as these, content can become more easily and quickly located with common organization and structure for novel articles.

Do not, however, 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 (discussion) pages. Many novels do not 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 at the General Forum.

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Scope

WikiProject Novels aims to define a standard of consistency for articles about novels and literary genres associated with fictional narratives. It also aims to encourage and provide the structure for enhancing the writing of high quality articles on all manner of different novels. For the purpose of this project, "Novels" are deemed to include all works of narrative fiction that exhibit novel-like structure, regardless of length and genre. (This includes full novels, novellas, novelettes and short stories.) It also aims to encourage and promote the writing of articles on all types of such Novels. (see "#Hierarchy definition" for more details of what is in or out of scope.)

Open tasks logo WikiProject Novels • (inc. novellas, novelettes & short stories)
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Article structure

Naming, style and notability

Article templates

Articles should be written to an agreed basic style for standardization purposes. We encourage all participants to use this template not only as a starting place for new articles, but also as a guide to amend any existing articles that need improvement. There are currently two supported templates:

For novel articles:

For fictional character articles:

Related WikiProjects

Parentage

Descendant Wikiprojects

Sister Wikiprojects

  • Romance - covers novels and author biographies

Project organization


There are currently four major elements to our project organization. Participants (or membership), a Job Centre, specialist Departments and special interest Task forces.

Members

The list of Wikipedians who are committed to the WikiProject can be found at Knowledge (XXG):WikiProject Novels/Members. If you are interested in participating, please feel free to join by visiting that page.

Once you join, you are welcome to add this template to your user page: {{User WP Novels}}. This userbox automatically adds you to the WikiProject Novels participants category and appears as such:

This user is a participant in WikiProject Novels.

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:

Guestbook signators
Guestbook signatures

Please feel free to add your name to this list if you would like to express your support for the project.

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!:

You would be most welcome! :: Kevinalewis : /(Desk) 14:55, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
SWP13 (talk) 15:16, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

If a member is interested in becoming involved with the work of the project, they are welcome to visit the "responsibility clearing house" or Job Centre. From here it is possible to join multiple areas of the project that need supervising and/or updating, including our five departments, which are listed below. Departments are specialised areas of the project for a targeted activity, serving the aims of the whole in a smaller way.

The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Knowledge (XXG)'s novel and novel related articles. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work, and are also expected to play a role in the WP:1.0 program. The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{NovelsWikiProject}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in a set of categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.

The automation department of the Novels WikiProject uses various automated and semi-automated methods to perform batch tasks that would be extremely tedious to do manually; it collects requests for tasks, discusses whether they are suitable for automation, and attempts to match them with bot operators or users of semi-automated tools for implementation. All project members are invited to request tasks and to comment on the suitability of outstanding requests.

The project's Collaboration of the Month seeks to identify particular articles that would benefit from a significant collaborative effort. Every month (currently), a single article is selected as the focus, and the project attempts to improve it, potentially to featured article standards. All articles dealing with some aspect of novel literature (except for current featured articles and featured article candidates) are eligible, and everyone is invited to nominate candidates. The current collaboration article is '''The Sound and the Fury'''.

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.

The peer review department conducts peer reviews of articles on request; this helps to obtain ideas for further improvement by having contributors who may not have previously worked on particular articles examine them. Project members are invited to submit articles to the department in lieu of using the generic peer review process.

Task forces

Please discuss any proposals for new task forces with other members or with the project as a whole before creating them.

Task forces are informal groups of editors gathered for collaborative work on a particular topic within the field of Novels (as defined in the "scope" above); all project members are encouraged to participate in any task forces that interest them.

General topics
Genres
Areas or nationalities
Specific authors and series
Periods
Proposed

Hierarchy definition

Since there are many types of novel, boundaries must be set so that other WikiProjects can guide articles that this one does not include. (Just like the discussion on the Knowledge (XXG):WikiProject Novels/Novel categorization project page.) So far, the included titles are those that a common reader would call a "novel". Serial novels, such as "Twilight" and "Harry Potter" are included, with subcategories of Young adult fiction, and Children's fiction, as well as Adult fiction (for mature audience due to language, situations or sexuality).

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 ] Characters from novels ] {{fict-char-stub}}
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 Locations ] Locations from Novels ] {{fict-location-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:

then also by the following, as applicable.

Genres of novels

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

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"
Adult (i.e. intended for mature readers) Audience mature readers no specific category no specific stub notice
] Audience typically Children ] {{child-novel-stub}}
] Audience typically Young Adults ] {{ya-novel-stub}}

Here is a list of categories that short stories are often sorted to:

Genres of short stories

Overall Genre Description Category Stub template
Can be used in the text and infobox to describe the short story Use to categorise the article Use to mark short and incomplete articles as stubs
General short stories ] Those that cannot be described by
categories below 		] {{story-stub}}
Specific genres ] Based on alternative views of history ] {{story-stub}}
] Based on comedy and humour ] {{story-stub}}
] Based on crime stories ] {{story-stub}}
] Based on detective type crime stories ] {{story-stub}}
] Based on stories that are erotic ] {{story-stub}}
] Based on stories that are fables ] {{story-stub}}
] Based on magic, ancient myths and legends ] {{fantasy-story-stub}}
] Set among historical events, prior to author ] {{story-stub}}
] with Horrific, scary subject matter ] {{story-stub}}
] Subgenre of the crime or detective novel is the whodunit ] {{story-stub}}
] Based on stories that are parables ] {{story-stub}}
] Based on plup short stories typically appearing in magazines ] {{story-stub}}
] Science advancement, or contact scientifically advanced civilizations ] {{sf-story-stub}}
] Speculation about worlds - alternatives to the
normal Sci-Fi,Alt-Hist,Fantasy, Horror
have their own sub-genre (categories and stubs) 		] {{story-stub}}
] Spying based stories ] {{story-stub}}
] Fast paced, action packed suspense ] {{story-stub}}
] War based stories ] {{story-stub}}
] Western based stories ] {{story-stub}}
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Short stories by age-group

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"
Adult (i.e. intended for mature readers) Audience mature readers no specific category no specific stub notice
] Audience typically children ] {{child-story-stub}}
] Audience typically young adults ] {{ya-story-stub}}

Literary genres

Description Category Stub template
"Use to categorise the article" "Use to mark short and incomplete articles as stubs"
encyclopedic article about the literary genre ] {{lit-stub}}

These genres are not included within the project's scope:

References (can be made to)

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Infoboxes belong at the top of an article. Each article should only have one infobox depending on what the article is about. Instructions for completion are included on each page.

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List of literary works with eponymous heroes
List of literary works with eponymous heroines

Incoming articles

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Category:Novels Category:Novel stubs
Category:Short stories Category:Story stubs

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