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Proposed deletion of Waves (novel)

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Long tagged as non-notable (with talk page "bump") with no attempts to address the issue.

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The Garden of Forking Paths

I noticed a similarity between the story and the Many-worlds interpretation, I wrote a sugestion in the The Garden of forking path's discussion. Could you consider it? Thanks

Make WikiProject Discworld a task force?

While I'll admit that the Discworld series has a fairly large amount of articles, most of those could probably be merged somewhere anyway. The WikiProject hasn't been active in a while now, and I don't think it can really function as its own WikiProject. I still think it would function greatly as a task force, however, so I'm proposing this. What does everyone think? Harry Blue5 (talk) 20:27, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Btw, there's a discussion going on about Discworld characters here. Harry Blue5 (talk) 00:15, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Most of those articles are merged already, but haven't been listed as "redirect" on their talk pages. Serendi^podous 13:38, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

changed the class ranking of redirected articles, though I don't know how long it will be before they are removed from the article list. Serendi^podous 14:20, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

As far as the Taskforce goes, I'll participate. Also I'm going to start dropping lines on editor talk pages to invite those who I notice making substantial content-related edits to Discworld articles, as previously discussed.--Mobtown Mongrel (talk) 01:14, 10 February 2011 (UTC) Reposted from my talk page.

"Got your note on an IP-user talk page (User_talk:98.228.48.11) regarding the Discworld cleanup. I'd be glad to help, but won't have much time until July 30th -- I'm finishing law school and getting ready to take the bar exam, which is (ahem) nontrivial. If there are any specific tasks, let me know via my talk page; I'll try to check it on weekends. MJustice (talk) 12:03, 20 February 2011 (UTC)"--Mobtown Mongrel (talk) 19:29, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

I'm happy to join in (non-Wikipedia duties permitting). LordVetinari (talk) 01:01, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

I'll have to renege on that. I have too much else happening elsewhere on Wikipedia and and in WP:REALLIFE. Sorry. -- LordVetinari (talk) 04:27, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

So, we setting up the taskforce or what? :P Harry Blue5 (talk) 17:26, 7 March 2011 (UTC) With only 3 confirmed editors involved? Up to you two if you want to go ahead now or wait for more people to sign on for it. Doing a little reading and 5 seems to be the preferred minimum number for a taskforce.--Mobtown Mongrel (talk) 14:38, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

FAC for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is up for an FAC nomination, and I would appreciate it if there is more feedback on it. Thanks, Guy546^(Talk) 02:16, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Structure question

Hey, all. I posted a question about article structure/sectioning here -- but, the talk-page edit history has big gaps (i.e. doesn't look like it has a lot of traffic), so I thought I'd ask here, too, for someone to chime in. --EEMIV (talk) 18:38, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Howl's Moving Castle

A discussion is ongoing (see here) to rename Category:Castle series to a less ambiguous title. Input from this project's members would be most welcome. Thank you, -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 17:07, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Lensman rewrite

I'm interested in doing a thorough edit/rewrite of the Lensman article, but I need help from someone familiar with Wiki's policies. If anyone is interested in collaborating or helping me with this, please respond on my personal talk page. (P.S.-- I hope I have not violated procedure by posting here. If so, my apologies.) --Lensman003 (talk) 13:12, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Sharpe series characters

Several Sharpe series characters have been nominated for deletion. As there is no current list of characters article for the Sharpe series, there's no obvioius merge target. See WP:Articles for deletion/Log/2011 February 22 . 65.93.15.125 (talk) 23:17, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Image deletion problems

I've been adding lots of book cover images of late; but just had a problem with

• File:PenalColony.jpg
• File:KafkaCompleteStories.jpg
• File:DescriptionOfAStruggle.jpg
• File:ChamberMusicJoyce.jpg

which are being considered for speedy deletion. I have added the hang on tag to them and used a wordier Fair use rationale. Can anyone help; am I missing something ? Thanks GrahamHardy (talk) 18:09, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

I think these have been fixed...GrahamHardy (talk) 21:08, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Should "Category:Novels by X" be a subcat of "Category:Books by X"?

I was puzzled to find that Category:Books by H. G. Wells only had 13 entries, then noticed that it has a note saying "for non-fiction works by the author". There is a separate Category:Novels by H. G. Wells, and both are children of Category:Works by H. G. Wells. This seems odd - I would place novels as a subcat of books. I see that Category:Works by Jean-Paul Sartre has the same subcats. Is this standard? Any thoughts?

I have also raised this at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Books#Should_.22Category:Novels_by_X.22_be_a_subcat_of_.22Category:Books_by_X.22.3F. Could you please make any comments there, to keep discussion in one place? Thanks.

PamD (talk) 16:58, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Young Adult Novel focus school project

Just letting interested people here know. There is currently a school project underway to write and/or improve various articles on young adult novels. I've added a link to their coordinating page listing this wikiproject as a resource. I thought that the editors here might appreciate a heads up. - TexasAndroid (talk) 15:11, 7 March 2011 (UTC)