Anaoaks

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Almost there!

All that remains is for you to pick a group here. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 11:14, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

DYK

Hi Esmeralda! Okay, so i'm still learning and I don't know if I'm doing this right.....I checked out the Did you Know criteria as well as how to build an article about a novel and there's some interesting info about everything we'll need. If you haven't looked yet, and if you have time before our meeting tomorrow, then give it a glance. See you tomorrow! --Katie322 (talk) 05:35, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

moved groups

Hi, Anaoaks. I've moved you now to the group for Tomás Rivera. I hope that's OK with you. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 09:21, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I saw this, but as I say above, I'd actually had to move you to Tomás Rivera. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 23:30, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

for completeness's sake...

...please also add yourself here. Thanks! --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 09:28, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

models

To have a sense of what you should be aiming at as you work on your article, you are advised to look at relevant good articles and featured articles. A recent featured article about an author is Mario Vargas Llosa, for instance. This was written by a UBC class last semester. You may also want to consult the Literature Wikiproject. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 09:52, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

reminders: regular editing and plan

Two reminders, from our project page:

Over the course of the semester, you need to log in and make at least one edit, again however minor, to your article twice a week.

By September 19, each group should have their plan in place, and have written it up on their article's talk page.

--jbmurray (talk • contribs) 08:06, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

DYK

Looks like your DYK goes live in quarter of an hour. Congrats! --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 00:22, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

DYK congratulations!

On 25 September, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

You need one of these, too! --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 18:28, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

FA-Team

We have been adopted by the renowned FA-Team! Please add the project page to your watchlists, and feel free to ask FA-Team members if you have any queries or need help. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 20:14, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

October

Anaoaks, after a burst of editing in late September and early October, you haven't edited now for almost three weeks... What's up? --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 23:21, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Can't find the quote

hey girls! For the first correction that Mike gave us in the Background section, I can't find where the "As one columnist notes" quote is. Maybe I'm overlooking it or someone has corrected it and not checked it off the list. Can you let me know which of these it is so that I can fix it if need be. Thanks! Here's the note on the correction so that you know what I'm talking about (copied from our article's talk page):

"As one columnist notes": you don't always need to mention your sources in this way; inline citations mean that you can simply use the material and leave it to the reader to check the source. You should only use this style of quoting when it's clearly opinion. What you're doing is called "qualifying the source", and here is the guideline on when you need to do it. You do quote a lot of opinion, so you need to do a fair amount of this, it's true. --Katie322 (talk) 01:45, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

FYI, this was in the second sentence of the first section, as you can see for instance from this old version. It's now fixed in the current version. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 05:15, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

paraphrasing

Hi. I left a little note on paraphrasing here, and suggested a link you might look at here. There are plenty of other resources online, too, such as this tutorial. Hope this helps! --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 03:30, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Re. hi

(copied over from my talk page:) Where does that come from? I can't see it in the text. And you'd have to go back to the source, of course, to understand fully what the author is trying to say: we don't even have a full sentence here. What is that source? --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 05:19, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Things to do

Hey Esmeralda, would you be able to check out a few things in our article, namely: In the style section there are two citations that are needed and in the themes section there is a page number needed. Also, on our article's talk page in the 'notes' section by Mike Christie, check out the first note on the reception section. It looks like the first sentence of this section (in our article) may need some revision and/or citation. Thanks!!! :) --Katie322 (talk) 21:09, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi Esmeralda! So, we just got a new updated list of edits on our talk page from Awedwit. If you can, try to get the ones addressing your sections done before Monday so we can have a more polished article to submit. I've also let her know that we're still trying to clean up our quoting to make it more about paraphrase than quotations. I think a good rule of thumb for all of us is to try not to add any more quotes except when absolutely necessary. Also (omigod! I sound like such a nag, sorry!) we still need that citation in the style secion. Okay! that's it! haha, i'll see you on monday! good luck! --Katie322 (talk) 22:23, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Hey Esmeralda! Great work on your sections!! You've added so much, it's awesome! I was just wondering if you could check the source for your last sentence in the themes section...it looks like you may have missed some punctuation, and that the last word "woman" should be changed to "women". But I'm not sure, so if you could check it out, that would be great! thanks! --Katie322 (talk) 06:30, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

A little something for you...

Your outstanding efforts in getting Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories to GA mean you've earned one of these:

This user helped promote Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories to good article status.

You can put this on your user page (or somewhere suitable) by copy/pasting {{User Good Article|Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories}} into the page code; this will also add you to the 'Good article writers' category.

Excellent work, well done! EyeSerene^talk 11:55, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar!

		The Literary Barnstar
		For an excellent job on Woman Hollering Creek: from nothing to Good Article over the course of the semester. Featured Article next? jbmurray (talk • contribs) 00:29, 20 November 2008 (UTC)