User blog comment:Gideoncrawle/Milestone Trifecta: 200K, 120K and Over 9000/@comment-1221823-20130512193431/@comment-1874924-20130515033122

@ JER: If I understand you correctly, that's basically a statement of this wiki's mission.

@TBTDIF: Definitions vary, but a prose work of fiction telling a sequential story in a narrative style is generally considered a novel if it exceeds 45,000 words, give or take. I don't know what the stylistic requirements are for a work to be considered a novel, but I do know that Don Quixote (written in the first decade of the 17th Century) is generally regarded as the first modern novel.