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Discussion for the Short story task force

we need to add to the list a collection of short stories by Dr.Moogerbil and Dr.McNully, there short stories are soo funny and doesent make any sense, on the contrary they have sufisticated Philosophy for this time in age

DrMoogerbil 18:46, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

None of the Doctor Who categories need to be here as they all list either full novels (though some of the novelizations are considered novellas) or audio dramas or televised episodes. None of them cover short stories per se. 23skidoo 22:11, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• No disagreement. However, I only put in the categories that were already listed under the various categories that do fall within the scope of this task force. Maybe we could contact the people at Wikipedia:WikiProject Doctor Who and ask them if they would be willing to recategorize the categories? Badbilltucker 22:33, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • The Doctor Who pages have been recategorized. Badbilltucker 20:56, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I tried adding the SS Task force tag to an article as per instructions on the project page, but instead of simply adding a line to the banner it instead placed the big blue monster of a TOC as seen on the project page. Is there a way to make a succinct line that appears on the NovelsWikiProject banner instead of replacing the banner -- along with its assessment scale information, I might add -- with the big TOC? 23skidoo 22:16, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Can you specify which page we're talking about, so we can know how it looks? I've always been a horrible roadside gawker, myself. :) Badbilltucker 22:33, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The documentation was slightly incorrect - I have added the correct template to the task force page now, but you need to use {{NovelsWikiProject}} qualified with "|short-story-task-force=yes". Sorry for the confusion. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 09:06, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Now it works. Thanks! I've added the tag to all the applicable Simon Templar, William S. Burroughs, Modesty Blaise and James Bond articles that I've worked on, as well as a few others. 23skidoo 20:11, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed that most of the categories listed in the section Category:Short stories by year are non-existent or near empty. Would it be possible to create or incorporate into a template that would automatically place the short story in the category corresponding to a user-specified year? Foxjwill 00:10, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Question: is this category only for the dates of the actual stories themselves, or their publication. There have been a couple of cases now where collections that originally resided in a category such as "YEAR books" has been moved to "YEAR short stories" even though the year given is not necessarily the year the story was written or even first published. I think a standard should be set that date categories should only be used for articles on specific short stories, and not short story collections, etc. 23skidoo 05:15, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

To be consistent with other books and novel date categories this this shoud relate to year of publication. If they are not published they have no true "existence" yet in the public arena. However there could be a case for using writing date "if known" (and it often isn't) when unofficial "released and "leaked out". But these would be rare. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 09:06, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've created a short story infobox at {{Infobox short story}} - this seems like an appropriate place to mention it. I created it because many of the sections for the book infobox just didn't apply, and some needed to be added. -User:Elizabennet | talk 21:40, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]