Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Book Club

message: :The next project article is to be selected on March 1, 2006 
Please add new nominations below; the initial list was created from suggestions made by User:Mgreenbe on 10 December 2005.
Also, please do us all a favour: When you vote, update the vote count in the subhead at the same time.  If you're feeling generous, check to see if you've put it over the "stays until" margin and update that line too, if needed.
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===Middlemarch (George Eliot) (3 votes, stays until March 8, 2006)===
:Nominated 10 December 2005; needs at least 6 votes by March 8, 2006
; Support:
# User:Mgreenbe 22:24, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Nominated 20 February 2006; needs at least 3 votes by March 1, 2006
; Support:
# User:Cromwellt (nominator)
# Mgreenbe 22:24, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: '''Nominations'''

message: :Nominated 10 December 2005; needs at least 6 votes by March 8, 2006
; Support:
# User:Mgreenbe 22:24, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Middlemarch]] ([[George Eliot]]) (3 votes, stays until [[March 8]], [[2006]])

message: :Nominated 20 February 2006; needs at least 3 votes by March 1, 2006
; Support:
# User:Cromwellt (nominator)
# Mgreenbe 22:24, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[In Our Time (book)|In Our Time]] ([[Ernest Hemingway]]) (1 vote, stays until [[March 1]], [[2006]])

message: I'm sorry, but since I'm in college, I doubt I'll have much time for this. I've reluctantly dropped out. Best of luck for the continuation of this, and if I have any available time I'll try to contribute what I can. Volatile 19:30, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sorry 

message: (thought this would be a good place to disscuss progress)
* Started read a while ago. I'm working on building a complete charicter list as a go. I don't think I'll put it in until I complete the book. I also have the cliff notes and some critical essays on the work wich might be useful, anyone else doing that sort of thing? --Mr. Dude †@£К ║ Çøת†яĭβü†ĬŎИ 03:50, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current Project - Vanity Fair 

message: I supported a novel even though the date is past...hope that is OK...
Lesdumort
:Well, according to the WikiProject bylaws, you'll be fined in biweekly increments for five weeks, followed by triweekly for two, and so on ad nauseam vel infinitum, whichever comes first. :) --Mgreenbe 22:24, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Support 

message: Hello. I'm part of Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Core topics working toward a release version of Wikipedia (on paper or CD). 
If you're interested in helping, these are some related articles we plan to include: 
*Fiction
*Literature
*Poetry
If you think any of these are ready, please let us know. You can see our proposed initial quality standards or learn more about the overall project.
Thanks. Maurreen 04:28, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Version 1.0 core topics

message: A very long time ago, T.S. Eliot observed that literary works exist in two time periods -- their own chronological time, and eternity.
Why not design the book club around this idea -- an eternal conversation on classic works of literature.
That way, we can read whatever we want, whenever we want, comment when we feel the desire, and have a vast wealth of commentary that extends over days, weeks, months, years, decades. . . .
The current approach seems to require people to agree to read the same book at the same time, Oprah Winfrey style. Why don't we be more liberated and take advantage of the resources of the internet to carry on multiple conversations.
In my case, I teach English literature in South Korea, so I am usually reading or reviewing a book for classes about once every two or three weeks -- and often am teaching a book or poem I have taught before, so I might want to enter into a dozen conversations or many more each year -- if they were always there to join.
I think, over time, this more flexible approach would attract more members and more activity.
Fredricwilliams
:Maybe a combination will work best.  How about we have a focus book, but we include conversations on a wide variety of books (any books that have been focus books in the past, maybe).  The only requirement for joining the conversations will be having read the book.  Just an idea.  We really need to update this page, guys.  The nominations say "March"!  And when did we decide on The Razor's Edge?  I guess I missed that vote.  --Cromwellt|Talk 13:51, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strategy Change?