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The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue XXIV - May 2008
The May 2008 issue of the Novels WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.
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WikiProject Ohio Newsletter
Issue II - May 2008
From the editor:
Here's Issue II of the project newsletter. We're trying to decide if this is sinking or floating. If you would like to contribute to next month's newsletter please jump right in at the
News Desk! Have a great May.
The Ohio Portal
The maintainers of the
Ohio Portal are looking to get it to featured status. They would like to ask all project members to help improve it any way they can. What needs to be done most is the supplying of selected articles and images.
There is a eight ton rock in Ohio that was removed from the
Ohio River. This rock is known as the
Indian Head Rock
Dating back to the early 1800’s, this rock was seen sticking out of the Ohio River and used as a navigational mark for barges along the river. The names of citizens from the town of
Portsmouth, Ohio are carved into the rock from the late nineteenth a early twentieth centuries. Some of the names were of well known families from Ohio. They would swim out to the rock, have their picture taken with it or simply carve their names into it.
With the advent of the Locks and Dams along the Ohio River, the rock eventually was submerged, but the legend lived on.
A gentleman from
Ironton, Ohio located the rock after searching a very long time for it, and he and a crew of scuba divers recovered the rock and took it to the shore to be donated to Ohio for historical value.
After hearing the news about the rock being removed,
Kentucky introduced legislation against the removal of the rock. They also want the diver who found it to be prosecuted for removing the rock. Kentucky owns the greatest part of the land the river runs on.
Even the Army Corp. of Engineers got involved as to how to move the rock without damaging it. Kentucky wants to have it returned to the river.
Billy Massie
Article Assessment
Reedy Bot and
ShepBot are currently hard at work tagging all of the Ohio articles. We may need to have an assessment drive when the bots are finished. Think of it as a late
spring cleaning. Please note your opinions on the project talkpage if you would be interested in helping!
Over 10,000 articles have been tagged with {{OH-Project}}
Article Achievements
New Featured and Good articles
Ohio was listed as a
Good Article nominee; the result of the nomination was Not listed.
If you know of a Wikipedian who has contributed a lot of effort to Ohio articles feel free to award the new
Ohio Barnstar of Merit by placing the following code on their user talkpage.
The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue XXV - June 2008
The June 2008 issue of the Novels WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.
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This is the third edition of the WikiProject Ohio newsletter. If you have any project announcements feel free to drop them by
the NewsDesk. It's request that you watchlist
our talk page; so you can chime in on current discussions. Have a great June!
The Ohio Portal
The maintainers of the
Ohio Portal are looking to get it to featured status. They would like to ask all project members to help improve it any way they can. What needs to be done most is the supplying of selected articles and images.
Getting the Project Moving
WikiProject Ohio as an entity doesn't have as much action as other state projects. For this reason it has been proposed that the inactive
WikiProject Ohio Townships be added as our taskforce. There is a !poll going on at
WT:OH and your opinion is essential in the matter!
Stepshep has also proposed sending an invite to everyone in
Category:Wikipedians in Ohio with an invite to join the project. If you are already a member you would not receive the notice of course. Once again, please note your opinion on the project talkpage.
The Central Avenue Historic District is a nationally recognized
historic district located at 201 to 338 Central Avenue in
Dayton,
Ohio. It consists of late 19th and 20th Century Revival-style houses as well as late
Victorian-style houses, which were all originally single-family residences.
Each month a new Ohio related stub is the selected article. If you have a new stub created feel free to nominate it at
the NewsDesk.
Article Assessment
Reedy Bot and
ShepBot are currently hard at work tagging all of the Ohio articles. We may need to have an assessment drive when the bots are finished. Think of it as a late
spring cleaning. Please note your opinions on the project talkpage if you would be interested in helping!
'Over 15,000 articles have been tagged with {{OH-Project}} We have 5,000 articles that need to be assessed for class!
W. S. McIntosh Memorial Leadership Award was
nominated at Afd.
The result was Delete
Homer E. Woodling and Robert F. Busbey were
nominated at Afd.
The result was Keep
All Ohio High School Conferences were
nominated at Afd.
The result was no consensus keep. There is an effort to improve these articles
here.
Ohio Barnstar of Merit
If you know of a Wikipedian who has contributed a good deal of effort to Ohio articles feel free to award the new
Ohio Barnstar of Merit by placing the following code on their user talkpage.
{{subst:The Ohio Barnstar of Merit|message}}
Article Importance Scheme
A new article importance scheme has been proposed at
the assessment talk page. Please comment on the propsed system.
Coordinate with
Ohio Portal to provide quality articles for use.
Place the {{
WikiProject United States|class=|importance=|OH=Yes|OH-importance=}} banner into Ohio related articles and assess
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WikiProject Novels is currently holding a roll call, which we hope to have annually. Your username is listed on the
members list, but we are unsure as to which editors are still active within the project. If you still consider yourself an active WP:Novels editor, please add your name back to the
Active Members list. Also feel free to join any of our
task forces and take a look at the project's Job Centre to get involved!
The members list is currently under review so we have moved all past active member's name to a
Incumbent List and are doing a Project Roll Call. If you still consider yourself an active
WP:NOVELS editor, please add your name back to the
Active Members List. You may also wish to add your name to any of our many
Project Task Forces.
Devil May Care, written by
Sebastian Faulks ("writing as Ian Fleming"), has become
Penguin Books fastest selling hardcover fiction title. It is the latest installment in the book series about British secret agent
James Bond and was released to coincide with the 100th anniversary of late Bond creator
Ian Fleming's birthday on May 28, 1908.
Me Cheeta: the Autobiography, written by a
ghostwriter, is the autobiography of
Cheeta the Chimp who is listed in the
Guinness World Records as the oldest recorded non-human primate at the age of 76. He has appeared in various movie roles which included twelve
Tarzan movies and even battled addiction to alcohol and cigars. The book is not published until October 1, but judges for the 2008
Guardian First Book Award were sent a early version and were so impressed that they have included it on the 10-strong longlist.
Stephenie Meyer, who is listed by
Time magazine as one of its 100 most influential people of 2008, has decided not to continue with writing her draft for Midnight Sun after 12 chapters of the unfinished manuscript were leaked on the internet.
Current debates
Categories for Discussion has a series of discussions about whether to categorize certain specific types of fictional characters: double agents, dictators, characters with
eidetic memory, etc. Advice from any Novels project members would be valuable in assisting them.
WikiProject Media franchises aims to help editors with the coordination of articles within the thousands of media franchises which exist and has requested input from our members. They are currently
discussing a naming convention for franchise articles. Since this may affect one or more articles in our Novel project, they would like to get opinions before implimenting any changes.
With the Newsletter being almost three months overdue, I have decided to take on the position of Editor to make sure it reaches you regularly on time each month. The Newsletter is meant to inspire and encourage our team of Editors and so my goal shall be to make it informative and interesting each issue.
We now have many positions vacant in our Project Team, so we are looking for members who have the time and interest to take on the various roles, details of which can be found at the Job Centre. Shortly a Coordinator nominations notice shall also be sent out to all members, which will commence the annual Coordinator selection process.
Next month's Newsletter will include a message from our Coordinator
Maria, who will introduce herself and speak on our forthcoming elections for extra Coordinators.
This month's
Collaboration has been selected by popular vote and is Look Homeward, Angel. The next collaboration is due for selection on 14 September, 2008 so cast your
vote.
Newsletter challenge
Our last newsletter's challenge The Pure Land was completed by our member
Maclean25, who also provided us with tipline news for this newsletter.
The first person to start the article is mentioned in the next newsletter. This month's article is Leslie Ann Moore's first book in her fantasy 'Griffin's Daughter' trilogy, which was named by the Independent Book Publishers Association as the 2008 Ben Franklin Award winner for Best First Fiction, Griffin's Daughter. Note: This article was previously deleted due to lack of notability, but that now can be established since winning this award.
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