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The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue XIX - December 2007

The December 2007 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 Newsletter n°2

It's been one high aiming month! The French WikiProject and related pages have been aiming high for Christmas - and have received an equal number of presents in return!

Well, that's this issue. Au revoir et à bientôt till the next time, ChrisDHDR (18:52, 9 December 2007 (UTC)).

New York Native

Actually the first two are already inline references, I just listed them separately because I thought they were interesting reading. The third was an external link to the NYPL, so I included all three as external links in a new section. That's enough work for today. It's good enough to avoid deletion, I hope, and as a stub class article. It's really notable, and there are reliable sources. And it will get better as we all work on it, as it does need work (but don't they/we all). — Becksguy (talk) 09:07, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

  • And it was your request that sparked my interest in doing the article, so awesome to you too. Thanks for the note. BTW, I assume that you did see that there is a current article on OutWeek. — Becksguy (talk) 02:01, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Willa Cather

Templates, not sure how to answer your question. I have nothing to look at to see what the problem is/was.

Basically templates are ways of coding once and including that code in each article the templates is transcluded. The form being used here makes use of another template to formalise the layout of a navigation table for authors works. But then you probably know all that. :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 13:39, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

reqphoto

hi, just a friendly request to make others work easier. Could you please add one or more subject to any {{reqphoto}} you make. Thanks Traveler100 (talk) 14:49, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue XX - January 2008

The January 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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Miss Julie

She's under the weather - or under something anyway - from what I hear. I think Gopher and Isaac are going to have to step in and put something together. Feel like giving me a hand? -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 17:49, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Miss Julie and the others are all characters from the sit com The Love Boat. Miss Julie is also the alter ego of the person who usually writes the newsletter. Aleta (Sing) 20:02, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
You're welcome.  :) I don't watch tv now either (unless staying at someone else's house). It ran back in the late 70's - mid 80's. Aleta (Sing) 20:07, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, Aleta - I don't watch any TV these days except Heroes and Torchwood. Love Boat is archaic by contrast, but still quite campy :) Anyway - feel free to pitch in on the Newsletter if you want. -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 15:26, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Pictures of Apple River, Illinois

Hi Zigzig20s! I added two pictures from a recent trip and deleted your request on the talk page. I may continue adding my own pics to articles, but would welcome some feedback first. Regards, gidonb (talk) 02:07, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Photo of something?

Was I supposed to take a photo of someone for you? --Moni3 (talk) 15:33, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Luhan, etc.

WP:AGF, k?

I'm offended by several of your recent actions. First, on Talk:Mabel Dodge Luhan I described exactly what I was thinking and why I'd removed the information. I also asked, right there, that if I was incorrect to please re-add the information. I do make mistakes, and I don't mind being corrected. Histrionics like "if we decide not to include books, then it will be extremely difficult to reference anything at all" do not help make a better encyclopedia.

Which brings me to your post on WT:LGBT. If you have a problem with a change I've made to an article, the article's talk page is the place to discuss it. If you still think I'm incorrect, feel free to bring it to *my* talk page. Making what borders on WP:ATTACKs on WT:LGBT does not help better any article.

You and I (until now) have had a pretty good working relationship. I would have thought you'd feel comfortable asking me why I did something directly rather than trying to make me feel bad by slamming me on the project board. -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 21:40, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Hmph. <sniff>. <hair toss, eyelash batting> Sigh.
I suppose I might be persuaded to think about giving you a second chance.
Maybe.
=D
As I mentioned, I don't mind the reference - but my Google search implied there wasn't much there. If Faderman says Luhan's a lesbian (or bisexual) or however it's put, feel free to add the info back :) I won't stand in your way - I'll probably wave pom-poms! =D -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 22:15, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Tommy, the Unsentimental

Hi, you recently created a page at Tommy, the Unsentimental which was a copy of A Night at Greenway Court. Next time, there is no need to copy the article. If you wish, you can redirect to the article by placing the syntax #REDIRECT [[A Night at Greenway Court]] in the article. I have taken the liberty of redirecting the article for you. Cheers! Redfarmer (talk) 11:26, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

History is still valid on it. It was an exact copy of A Night at Greenway Court. To go to the page without redirecting, click here. Redfarmer (talk) 11:33, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
Ah, I see what confused me. You had the wrong title in the header. I corrected it. Cheers and sorry for the confusion! Redfarmer (talk) 11:36, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

LGBT WikiProject Newsletter

Delivered sometime in January 2008 (UTC). SatyrBot (talk) 23:59, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Eric Hermannson's Soul

Agreed. I have removed the tag. But the best form of defense in this cases is to demonstrate or argue notability in the article itself. So if you can find and real world material on reception, awards etc and referencing please do add it. :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 09:10, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Novels Collaboration of the Month

You supported Rabbit, Run, which has been selected as the Novels WikiProject's new Collaboration of the Month. Please help improve this article towards featured article standard. :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 16:06, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue XXI - February 2008

The February 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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University of Provence

Regarding your question, the text I deleted was: "Mazarine Pingeot, former French President François Mitterrand's illegitimate daughter, is a lecturer at the University of Provence Aix-Marseille I." I have no doubt that Mme Pingeot is a graduate teaching fellow at the university, while she works on her doctorate. However, I am sure there are many distinguished faculty at the university, who are known for their contributions to scholarship and learning. To cite her as one of the principal people worthy of note, and essentially because of the "illegitimacy" of her birth to a former president, is to lose a sense of proportion, relevance, and appropriateness. MyPOV (talk) 01:00, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Anthony Hope

I noticed that you have edited Anthony Hope. If you are still interested in that article, please have a look at the recent changes I have made. Any additions or clarifications would be most welcome. Thanks! BrainyBabe (talk) 18:59, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

LGBT WikiProject Newsletter

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The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue XXII - March 2008

The March 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. This is an automated delivery by KevinalewisBot --18:11, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Novels - 1st Coordinators Election

An election has been proposed and has been set up for this project. Description of the roles etc., can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Coordinators. If you wish to stand, enter your candidacy before the end of March and ask your questions of anyone already standing at Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Coordinators/May 2008. Voting will start on the 1st April and close at the end of April. The intention is for the appointments to last from May - November 2008. For other details check out the pages or ask. KevinalewisBot (talk) 14:26, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

WikiLinks

Hey, Hon! Just FYI - years all by themselves (as in "the movie premiered in 1997") don't get wikilinked, as a general rule. Take a look at MOS:DATE for some info on that. Good to see you around! =D -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 15:05, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Here, second paragraph. That page can be a tad overwhelming :) -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 15:22, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

I think only you would be interested in this mini-essay: You asked me to tell you when I photographed small towns

I know you are interested in small towns. I recently went home to Colorado, and was invited to talk to my brother-in-laws high school seniors who he teaches, out in Calhan, Colorado. Some kids are very poor and even hunt for their food and lack running water; other kids are preparing to go to Duke University or the Art Institute of Chicago, if they can find the money. Rob, my sister's husband, is like nobody these kids have met. Handsome, smart, thoughtful, artistic and intellectual, he a true renaissance man: he was the Illinois state champion in football, a typical jock meathead who got a football scholarship for Arizona State University. Then he really got into writing and studying poetry, and worked part time at a gym where he met my sister. When I was at the University of Colorado at Boulder he and my sister both moved to Colorado for post-graduate work; my sister went to law school and he pursued his MFA at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, a program at the only accredited Buddhist college in the US, Naropa Institute, co-founded by Allen Ginsberg. I met Ginsberg one summer and talked to him about NAMBLA while he peed (he asked me to follow him into the bathroom). I didn't know how important he was then, but I knew he was important enough that it was huge news that he was a proud member, and I asked him about it.

Walking the halls I was struck by how familiar that charged high school air felt. Look at the photo on the secondary education article. I was surprised how comfortable I felt with kids who epitomize God's country (and whose school IP was only used for vandalism, which was funny. Rob, who the kids respect immensely, is openly liberal and defiantly artistic. He told me he once argued passionately with his class after they said the biggest problems facing the country are illegal immigration and gay marriage. He actually told them it's astonishing they focus on what are perhaps the two issues that least affect their well-being. They were super friendly and fascinated at how things work on here. I had no ability to impress them with names: I was unable to conceal my shock that none of them had heard of Martin Scorsese. Rob later told me I was a huge hit, and that some of the kids who talked to me afterwards had been some of his most difficult to reach. Here are some of the pages:

Perhaps more background than you wanted, but I thought you'd like the backstory to the photos; if not, hopefully you skimmed. Write back on MySpace. --David Shankbone 01:49, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue XXIII - April 2008

The April 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. John Carter (talk) 23:24, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Re: Neighbor Rosicky

I changed the link because the article exists as Neighbour Rosicky; nothing exists under the title Neighbor Rosicky. I'm not sure why, but every literature book and anthology in which I have referenced this story has spelled it according to British English. Maybe a move is necessary regarding the article; it's probably a good discussion to be made. Ashleyy osaurus (talk) 03:32, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

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. SteveCrossinBot (talk) 08:26, 10 May 2008 (UTC)