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Welcome to the
Novels WikiProjectCollaboration 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.
Improvement Drive
The Novels Improvement Drive seeks to engage editors and steadily improve articles within the project scope.
===[[Name of article]]===
Nomination text. ~~~~
'''Support'''
# ~~~~
'''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). It is recommended that specific goals be given for new collaborations, such as "promoting to GA status", to help direct the efforts of contributors.
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).
A Newbery-medal winning book, it deserves a better article than the unsourced, no plot one it has now. It is in desperate need of cleanup. There are very few members who are working on the article. Glimmer721talk16:53, 11 January 2011 (UTC)reply
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.
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
Remove {{NovelsWikiProject Collaboration}} from the top of the current collaboration article.
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.
Add the current article to the bottom of the
history section.
Move the current article's nomination text to the
archive.
To select the new collaboration
Add {{NovelsWikiProject Collaboration}} to the top of the new article.
Move the new article's nomination text to the "Current collaboration" section.
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.
Notify other members of the WikiProject
Add {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Collaboration/Notice|Name of article}} ~~~~ to the talk pages of users who supported the new article.
Add a post on the
GeneralForum advertising the new collaboration to project members.
Notify any relevant
task forces of the current collaboration.
Notify regular contributors of the new collaboration of the month.