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Wow, the article truly looks absolutely amazing now. The only things left to do are the second paragraph in the lead and the style and genre section. I can deffinently pull of the lead part but I really need some help with the style and genre section. As the reviewer, can you help me out? Thanks.--

Lol, just noticed you sent me a message. I was listenng to the best song ever.--

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I hope to renominate it after sorting out the issues you raised. Can you please tell me whether the article is short on anything but 1A and 1B? Your suggestions would be appreciated. Pmlineditor  ^Talk 07:51, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

As the article is right now, 1A and 1B are the big problems. Once those are cleared up, I think the article will have a good chance at GA. Cheers, Wassupwestcoast (talk) 15:33, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Can you restore the redirect? Thanks. 208.70.31.186 (talk) 12:06, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Hello, when you failed the Lightning Thief, you said the plot section was about 700 words. I took it into Word Perfect and it only came out as 549 words. So do you mean the plot and the major characters section put together?--

I agree. Right now, I get a word count of 549. By the way, 'plot summary' and all the sections have to be in balance with each other. A plot summary that is 500 words long when every other section is barely a 100, would be out of balance. At the moment, the 'plot summary' of The Lightening Thief is still the longest section. Cheers, Wassupwestcoast (talk) 02:59, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

I've reduced the plot summary to 438 words. However, it still remains the longest section of the article. I'll probably re-nom it within a few days. Regards,

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The WikiProject Novels Newsletter Issue 32 - August 2009

Archives  |  Tip Line  |  Editors The Novels WikiProject Newsletter Issue 32 - August 2009 Member news The Novels Project now has 133 active members. 17 positions remain unfilled at the Job Centre. Members who are active project contributors are encouraged to apply even if they can only do a position for a short time. Project news ON July 26, a fact about F. Springer's novel Bougainville appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the DYK section. On July 27, a fact about Arnon Grunberg's award-winning 2003 novel The Asylum Seeker appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? section. On July 28, a fact about Austrian writer Felix Salten appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the DYK section. On August 1, a fact about Scottish novelist Walter Scott appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? section. On August 4, a fact about Mark Twain's novel The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know? section. On August 12, a fact about American author Jeffrey McClanahan appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? section. - Contributors were Alan16 and Sabiona (who searched the archives). Task force and related news The members of the Chronicles of Narnia task force have created a new ad encouraging people to join. You can display it on your user page or talk page using the following code: {{Wikipedia ads |ad=190}}. The role of Coordinator for the Sword of Truth task force was undertaken by SADADS. The role of Coordinator is vacant for the following task forces: Australian, Chronicles of Narnia, Crime, Lemony Snicket, Science Fiction, and Short Story . – The position of Task Force Coordinator is still available at the Job Centre. Peer review and assessment news Peer Reviews are still open for eight articles – The Lightning Thief, The Last of the Masters, The Kindly Ones, Flowers for Algernon, World War Z, Sector General, Petals of Blood, and Scenes of Clerical Life. Feel free to submit any novel-related article that you are working on for review, and please consider stopping by and reviewing an article, as we need more reviewers for our articles! – Alan16(talk) Members in Focus Hello, I am a school librarian in my ‘real life’ and so I use Wikipedia a lot with students ageing from twelve to eighteen. While helping students research various topics I’ve run across many holes in Wikipedia that need to be filled so I created an account and began editing pieces. I’m taking a break from teaching for a few years while I raise two boys of my own, so I created a personal account a couple months ago and am focusing on editing articles on literature as well as the upper Midwest area of the United States and theatre. I enjoy all forms of literature but most often read fantasy and mystery. I am an occasional editor with no intent to run for any post; instead, I look at one or two articles a month that need help and do what I can. 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Members are encouraged to help improve this article. The first person to start the article is mentioned in the next newsletter. This months newsletter challenge is Oberon Past and Present by Anthony Burgess . Announcements and open tasks WikiProject Novels • (inc. novellas, novelettes & short stories) Announcements and open tasks (watch • edit • discuss • changes) → Please help with tagging articles! Critique (Featured article): 33 achieved Novels WikiProject Peer reviews: • Sector General • Petals of Blood • Flowers for Algernon The Age of Reason • Furies of Calderon • Wolf Brother • The Monk • The English Patient • Bones of the Moon Create: To the Vanishing Point • Spoilt City Recently a new worklist had been created and quietly arrived, the Cleanup listing which gives a fairly comprehensive hit list of "novels" related articles that have been tagged for something or other. 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Alan16 (talk) 17:13, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Hi! I was just thinking ummmmm maybe .... one more time. This time in groups of three which would limit us to 5 articles. A first semester deadline (January) so as not to drag things out. Also less over the top complicated medical issues - more like the Banker Horse Article. You up for it? --JimmyButler (talk) 18:21, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes! And, I think your new format would work better. I still like the idea of tackling North Carolina state flora and fauna. Also, come September, I'll be on Wikipedia much more. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast (talk) 03:10, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject AP Biology 2009 I copy pasted the html from 2008 into a new page for 2009. It would an excellent format although it may need some tweaking to adapt to this years project.--JimmyButler (talk) 11:22, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Wow - thanks for the valuable feedback on topic selection. I'm reluctant to dictate any particular topic - students tend to use that as a rationale for failure. But your suggestions should - if they take a moment to think - guide them in the appropriate direction. The requirement to justify their topic choice for approval on the project talk page should offer insight into their potential for success. "Its all I could think of" "It looked easy" or "All the good ones were taken" should expose any lack of planning or forethought. --JimmyButler (talk) 17:29, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Greetings to you again from Brisbane, Australia. Someone has created an article "Archbishop of Papua New Guinea" and referred in it to the "Archdiocese of Papua New Guinea." In fact there's no such office and no such archbishopric. (That is of course RC terminology, not Anglican.) This I suppose calls for a merge proposal (not that I know how to do that) but in fact there isn't anything in the article that merits transferring into the article on the Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea (which is in fact an Anglican "Province" -- in the sense that the Anglican Church of Canada, the Church of South India and so on are provinces of the Anglican Communion, but it is also only one ecclesiastical province as well, there being only one metropolitan). How do you think this ought to be dealt with? Masalai (talk) 07:13, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for that. Not only is that page not being maintained but its originator appears to have been banned from Wikipedia some time ago. I'm afraid that the merge function is somewhat beyond my ken; in any case, on looking again at the "Archbishop of Papua New Guinea" article, the fact of the matter is that it is -- or was, before I corrected them, leaving the article essentially devoid of content -- replete with misstatements and misapprehensions. I think it would be better deleted altogether. What say ye? Masalai (talk) 04:36, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Ah. You're quite right: that was easy. I blanked the page and redirected with an explanation on the talk page of the original. It seems unlikely anyone will object. Masalai (talk) 09:40, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

I think the explanation for merging and redirecting is more complicated than the actual process :-) Cheers! Wassupwestcoast (talk) 14:07, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

I saw from here that it's been exactly three years since you joined the project. Happy WikiBirthday! Keep up the good work, rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 01:08, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Neat! I didn't even realize I've been here for three years. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast (talk) 02:16, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Hello Wassupwestcoast, and thanks for your work patrolling new changes. I am just informing you that I contested the speedy deletion of

Nope. I'll go with you. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast (talk) 05:04, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

It appears that there is an effort to delist this FA article. Any assistance or comments you could offer would be appreciated. Thanks. --Filll (talk | wpc) 22:56, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

I've watchlisted the FAR. And, will jump in. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast (talk) 01:27, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

A much more organized approach than last season - despite having 90 fewer days to complete the process. It will be interesting to see whom (if any) take the leap and actually start editing.--JimmyButler (talk) 17:31, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I'm curious to see how these article take shape. So, far very little activity :-) Cheers!Wassupwestcoast (talk) 02:50, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi mate, your revert there was a bit swift, slackbaba does play with system 7 sometimes, would you please revert, ta.

yea it did look a bit like vandalism, have a listen here , he was in [1]

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Thanks! Cheers, Wassupwestcoast (talk) 03:22, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Hi, Wassupwestcoast. I undid your edit to Herta Müller's talk page; FYI, the Novels WikiProject is for novels/novellas/short stories, not those who write them. That's why there are no author FAs listed at Category:FA-Class novel articles. ;) The Bio banner already lists her as being in the "Arts and Entertainment work group", so that's all that is needed for fiction writers. Take care, María (habla conmigo) 14:29, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

OK! Cheers, Wassupwestcoast (talk) 16:25, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Thank you very much for all your guidance, what you are doing is essentially saving lives. Saving children's lives. We greatly appreciate the help you have offered the AP Biology family.--NYMFan69-86 (talk) 21:26, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

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The WikiProject Novels Newsletter Issue 33 - December 2009

Archives  |  Tip Line  |  Editors The Novels WikiProject Newsletter Issue 33 - December 2009 Member news The Novels Project now has 144 active members. 17 positions remain unfilled at the Job Centre. Members who are active project contributors are encouraged to apply even if they can only do a position for a short time. Project news On November 1, a fact about the novel Madol Doova appeared in the DYK? section on Wikipedia's main page. On November 22, a fact about the book Acquainted with the Night appeared on Wikipedia's main page in the Did You Know? section. On December 1, a fact about the book Blown for Good appeared on Wikipedia's main page in the DYK? section. On December 8, a fact about the book The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter appeared in the Did You Know? section. On December 9, a fact about Alistair Campbell's novel All in the Mind appeared in the Did You Know? section on the main page. On December 11, a fact about the novel Kajsa Kavat by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren appeared on Wikipedia's main page in the Did You Know? section. - Contributor was Alan16 (who searched the archives). Task force and related news A new Military fiction task force has been recently created by SADADS. The group focuses on military fiction that is not primarily associated with fantasy and science-fiction, and is calling for users to help support the integration of the Military fiction task force, including template development, tagging, and assesment. Anyone interested in joining can sign up here. The role of Coordinator is vacant for the following task forces: Australian, Chronicles of Narnia, Crime, Lemony Snicket, Science Fiction, and Short Story . – The position of Task Force Coordinator is still available at the Job Centre. Peer review and assessment news Peer Reviews are still open for twelve articles – The Lightning Thief, The Last of the Masters, The Kindly Ones, Flowers for Algernon, World War Z, Sector General, Petals of Blood, The God Beneath the Sea, Time After Time, The Tell-Tale Heart, Snow Crash, and Scenes of Clerical Life. Feel free to submit any novel-related article that you are working on for review, and please consider stopping by and reviewing an article, as we need more reviewers for our articles! – Alan16(talk) From the Outreach Department Hello all. As you're probably aware this is the first newsletter since August. I had hoped that although I was unable to write one for the ensuing months, somebody would have picked it up, but that was sadly not to be. However I am back, and that should hopefully mean a new newsletter every month, like it used to be. There has been a lot of work done on novel related articles in my absence, however the project does not appeared to have progressed very much, which I'm sure you would all agree, is a shame as it holds such promise for Wikipedia. But with the new year approaching I am hoping that things will turn around, so I urge you all to get involved with the project in whatever way you can, and help it achieve its full potential. All that's left for me now is to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. – Alan16(talk) Current debates There is an ongoing debate about whether A Death In The Family by James Agee qualifies as a great American novel. Novel related news Début novelist 29 year old Evie Wyld won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for her novel After The Fire, A Small Still Voice. Collaboration of the Month There have been no novels nominated at the Collaboration department for the past few months, so this months collaboration will remain: The Sound and the Fury. All members are asked to assist where they can. If you think there is an article which requires the projects collaboration, you can nominate it here. The next months collaboration will be selected on 17 January 2010. Newsletter challenge In the Oberon Past and Present by Anthony Burgess. This challenge was completed by Xanthoxyl . Members are encourage to help improve this article. This months newsletter challenge is to create an article for The Spoilt City by Olivia Manning. The first person to start the article will be mentioned in the next newsletter. Announcements and open tasks WikiProject Novels • (inc. novellas, novelettes & short stories) Announcements and open tasks (watch • edit • discuss • changes) → Please help with tagging articles! Critique (Featured article): 33 achieved Novels WikiProject Peer reviews: • Sector General • Petals of Blood • Flowers for Algernon The Age of Reason • Furies of Calderon • Wolf Brother • The Monk • The English Patient • Bones of the Moon Create: To the Vanishing Point • Spoilt City Recently a new worklist had been created and quietly arrived, the Cleanup listing which gives a fairly comprehensive hit list of "novels" related articles that have been tagged for something or other. Since then a new Article alerts listing has also been added of more topic and "urgent" items worthy of our attention.

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Bog Turtle

Mr. Westcoast, we reached GA, thank you for your help.--NYMFan69-86 (talk) 12:37, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Catholic Church RfC

Input is welcome at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Catholic Church. SlimVirgin ^{talk contribs} 00:14, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Harry and the Potters (album)

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Sure! Cheers, Wassupwestcoast (talk) 21:01, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Harry Potter: Evanna Lynch

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