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WikiProject Warriors tasks you can do: Here are some tasks you can do: Requests: Wayne McLoughlin, List of Erin Hunter tours Verify: Kate Cary, Dark River (Warriors) Cleanup: The Darkest Hour (Warriors), Midnight (Warriors), Twilight (Warriors), Sunset (Warriors) Disambiguation: Erin Hunter Stubs: Kate Cary, Cherith Baldry, Victoria Holmes

[edit] Deadline?

I'm no awesomneth wiki-person, nor am I one of the most significant contributors to this project, but I've been looking to the active/possibly inactive/inactive members list. A good few have received the message and have listed themselves as active--for which I am glad, but the majority seems blissfully unaware. Should someone--Shrewpelt, I think, since she was the one with the original idea, contact the possibly inactives in whatever way possible to set a deadline?

I mean, nothing crazy, not like, next week, maybe give it a few months? Because if they really are unaware, then they are basically inactive, so... yeah. -blushes- Am I too mean? IceUnshattered (talk) 23:26, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

I based this role call off the Harry Potter WP role call. I don't think that role call had a deadline, so this one probably doesn't need one either. Thank you for the idea. Shrewpelt (talk) 03:08, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Why?

Why do we even have this? This "project" doesn't even do anything. The only real thing needed was the splitting of the characters page (And I see only one mention of that, and it's an indirect one too. Under "open tasks," it lists "split long pages up.") - and I did that. So what now? Seriously, we need to get this thing going! I propose that we set actual goals now. Try to get a page as featured article, even! I believe that we should either start with the main Warriors page, or with the book pages. Take a look at some other novel series articles, such as Harry Potter. We should attempt to have the Warriors articles look something like that - encyclopedic, so to say. Well, that's all I really have to say on the matter... We just need to do something, ya know? --~|ET|~(^{Talk|Contribs}) 00:04, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

I can't believe no one has replied to this. Of course. How about we set a goal to get all the book articles to Good Status (and then Featured)? That should keep most of the serious editors occupied. Cheers, Corvus coronoides _{talk 20:54, 2 September 2007 (UTC)}

That would be a nearly impossible idea - so let's do it! Shrewpelt 11:48, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Icy-chan totally agrees! As a member who signed up--what, twelve hours ago, she's ready to help. I'll look through other book articles, get more familiar with wikipedia coding, and brush the dust off articles. Let's do it! IceUnshattered (talk) 23:32, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Two article are up at GAC. We may have our first Good Articles here! Shrewpelt (talk) 20:27, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Template

Thanks to the WONDERFUL work of User:Kevinalewis, we have an improved template where ratings can be put and such. I wanted to know if anyone would be willing to start going through and rating the books. You might have to figure out how to place the ratings in the templates, but there should be directions somewhere. Secondly, we can put an image into the template and I can do that but I don't know which image to use, and if we should even use one. (Note: Book cvers and other certain images CANNOT be used in the template) Bella Swan 21:25, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

How about that cat shadow picture we use on our navbox? Shrewpelt 23:46, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

o_O I think that's totally fine, Shrewpelt. From what I can read from the description under the image, we can use it freely as we have been doing without breaking any inconvenient laws. 71.234.96.39 (talk) 23:20, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Collaboration

Why don't we start a collaboration? Inkpelt 22:00, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Secrets of the Clans

The page is currently in need of a major (and immediate) revamp if we Warriors Fans wish to save it from a premature death. We need to smarten things up a bit, and get more information on the actual book (reference research needs to be done, for one, so we can support things we say on the page), in addition a shortening of the plot summary that's more to the point and less of a meander through the pages of the book. Kitsufox 12:23, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

The AfD went through. And unfortunately, despite a good bit of research, I was not able to find anything significant enough to satisfy Wikipedia:Notability (books). Untill such time as we have it, there's no point in recreating the article. Kitsufox 16:45, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Role Call

We have twenty four users signed up as members of WikiProject Warriors, but not all of them seemed to be active. I think we need a role call to see who is active, then start getting this project in motion! Shrewpelt (talk) 19:02, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

I would personally love to see this project get more active. Most of the Warriors Articles on Wikipedia need some hardcore work, and a handful will never be able to reach Wikipedia standards and really need to be transwikied to Warriors Wiki BEFORE they're up on AFD. We need to start getting proactive. Kitsufox^{(Fox's Den)} 15:25, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

So the Role Call message would be like this:

I'll send these things out tomorrow. Shrewpelt (talk) 14:30, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

I replaced my name in "possibly inactive" with "active". That's a good idea, BTW. IceUnshattered (talk) 00:24, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tasks to do

You probably are here to see some ideas on what to do. So, here you go!

For the main Warriors article:

• A critical reaction section - what did reviewers think of the Warriors books?
  • Y Done Shrewpelt (talk) 20:34, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
• A plot summary section - describe the plot of the Warriors books, but try to keep it around three paragraphs long
  • Not Done The sections about the books seem to have a plot summary already. I don't think an entire section on the plot is needed. I did just add a section about the Warriors universe, to help readers unfamiliar with the subject. Shrewpelt (talk) 13:34, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
• A themes section - make sure it is referenced
  • Y Done Shrewpelt (talk) 19:40, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
• Translations section
  • Y Done This could use a picture of one of the foreign translations... Shrewpelt (talk) 20:34, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
• Of course, a ton more references
  • Y Done Shrewpelt (talk) 13:34, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

For the book articles:

• A publication history section - when the book was announced, editing, early releases, ect.
• A critical reaction section
  • Y Done A couple don't have reviews, but once they come out I expect someone will add 'em. Shrewpelt (talk) 19:40, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
• A release versions section - paperbacks, audiobooks, ect.
• A shortened plot summary - right now, most of the Plot Summary sections are too long
• More references

Get editing! Shrewpelt (talk) 21:41, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Shouldn't we organize this into types of tasks and put it together on the to-do list of our template? So it acctually gets out there? It should also probobly be edited into the main page of the project, rather than hiding back here in the end of the discussion page. Kitsufox^{(Fox's Den)} 15:35, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Warriors pages up for deletion

Just thought I'd let everyone know, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fire and Ice (Warriors) ^DAVID _CAT 14:19, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Portal and Project scope questions

As some will know, there have been concerns expressed regarding whether this subject has sufficient scope for a portal, by, among others, me. I think it would be rather easily possible to expand the scope of the project a bit, with the consent of the members, to overcome this difficulty.

As many of you will know, there are a number of other fictional series and works which deal with cats as leading characters. These include the Midnight Louie series, Rita Mae Brown's series about "Mrs. Murphy", The Joe Grey Mysteries (series), the Cat Who series, and fantasy novels including "The Wild Road" series by Jane Johnson (writer) and M. John Harrison, The Book of Night with Moon (novel) series, and all the characters in the List of fictional cats. I personally have no doubt that there is more than enough content from all of these subject to create a very viable portal, maybe something like Portal:Fictional felines. Unfortunately, to expand like this would require changing the stated scope of the project and name. Doing so would probably expand the number of involved editors, though, so I personally think it might be for the better. If it were to be done, it would probably be for the best to also become a task force of the main WikiProject Novels, or at least using that project's banner, as several of the subjects cross genre boundaries. Would this be acceptable to you all? John Carter (talk) 17:37, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

I have been thinking about this too. I support changing this wikiproject to a task force, as the scope is so small. First, however, I'd like to change the project to WikiProject Erin Hunter, to allow coverage of Seekers (novel series) and individual author projects like Bloodline (2005 novel). I'm more neutral on changing to the project to cover fictional cats. Thanks, Shrewpelt (talk) 02:27, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Warrior's Return

I've created a page on Warrior's Return http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrior%E2%80%99s_Return but I don't really know how to link it to the other pages. Can someone edit it to provide a summary? (I haven't read the book yet!!) Stot (talk) 21:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)