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We're so glad you're here! ceran thor 12:41, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi -- I noticed you'd added your name to the top of the Alejo Carpentier page. I see you're part of Jon Murray's Magical Realism Reconsidered project, so I figured you wanted to add yourself to the list of students working on that article. I went ahead and made the change, but wanted to let you know. I think what you did was click on the edit link next to Carpentier's name on the project page -- that leads you to edit the article. What Jon wanted was for you to click on the edit link that edits that part of the project page, which would have let you add your name. Anyway, it's fixed now. Any questions, ask me here. Mike Christie (talk) 14:00, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi, here are the details of the MRR annotated bibliography assignment...
Good Wikipedia articles are built on a foundation of good sources. In this respect, Wikipedia articles are not much different from academic essays. In fact, if anything a good Wikipedia article is more reliant on good sources than are other academic or scholarly texts. The whole notion of verifiability, which is the first of the encyclopedia's five pillars, depends upon reliable sources.
The aim of this bibliography assignment, then, is to identify, read, and comment on the most important and reliable sources that relate to the topic of your chosen article.
In coordination with your group, you need to do the following:
To coordinate with the other members of your group (whose names you can find here), use their talk pages. Each time that you log in to Wikipedia, you will notice that if you have a message waiting for you, there will be a yellow banner at the top of the page.
Good luck! -- jbmurray ( talk • contribs) 22:24, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
Hey Tristán! I started our official bibliography on the Alejo Carpentier talk page. The sources are in alphabetical order for easy reference and I added a description of how the source might best help our article (ie: sections like 'music', 'style', etc...) in brackets after each source, if you want to do the same (makes it easy to remember what every source is about). I have to go home to look at more books before I add to the shortlist, but please add many more references and add the best ones to the short list before tomorrow. Thanks! Katie322 ( talk) 02:55, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
Nice Work on adding to the bibliography, Tristán! AND adding some more sources to the shortlist :) Katie322 ( talk) 07:08, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
Hey Tristán, Check out our article's discussion page (go to the 'Discussion' tab at the top of the Alejo Carpentier article). Nuclear Warfare has left some very helpful hints for us regarding cleaning up the article at the bottom of the discussion page :) Katie322 ( talk) 15:30, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
Hey-o! I just nominated our article for GA status and also asked Nuclear Warfare if he/she wouldn't mind reviewing it. We should still keep workin on it til Monday though, especially minor edits such as grammar. As for the photo, I asked Ettrig, Jon, and NW what they thought of the situation, but so far there have been no replies, so I guess we'll just hold tight on that one. On a side note, Hanne told me last night that she has been editing, but for some reason it is not showing up in the history of the article. She has emailed Jon about this to see what to do. If you do your peer review before we hear why this is happening, then maybe just make a note of it or mention it in your peer review of Hanne. I have no idea why something like that would happen. Buena suerte, amigo! Katie322 ( talk) 19:17, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
Check the discussion page, we didn't get the GA status. The reviewer gave us some good feedback though and we may be able to resubmit by Tuesday. Hope all is well!-- Josiemitchell ( talk) 21:54, 17 April 2010 (UTC)