Hi. A reminder that you need to choose a group and sign up here. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 09:33, 15 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As you never officially signed up to WP:NRG, I've just added you. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 19:01, 30 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

Another reminder about regular editing: So far you have only made seven edits. Do get up to speed... If you are having any problems, please drop me a note. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 19:18, 30 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

hi! so as you've gathered i'm a little lost but maybe you can send me a copy of the plan and then i will know what i should look up? thanks a bunch alanna --Alannaj (talk) 23:10, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Guys, put the plan on your article's talk page (see the model at Talk:Chicano_literature). You'll soon get up to speed. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 00:10, 25 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Trowan, I see that the last time you made an edit was over a week ago... --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 20:39, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A week later and still no edits! --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 08:15, 15 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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) 20:19, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(copied over from my talk page:) Interlibrary Loan. (And look, Wikipedia even has an article about it!) --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 07:32, 24 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You get my happy face for your work on Talk:Tomás Rivera... but time also to contribute to the article itself! --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 23:44, 24 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

hey tessa, i've added a bunch of info, but have no more books. i couldn't find a lot about his family, but added to the legacy section. if you have his biography do you think you could add to that section? thanks a bunch --Alannaj (talk) 21:02, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Are you coming to my office hours today? --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 23:21, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(copied over from my talk page:) Heh. GA, not FA. OK, you've got a ways to go. But you can do it! (I asked about office hours because you asked me the other day what time they were.) --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 23:32, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

See here. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 03:51, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Trowan, a wikilink is a link to another article on Wikipedia. You create a wikilink by surrounding the article title in [[ and ]]. (So to get Tomás_Rivera, you type [[Tomás_Rivera]]). Sometimes, the article titles are named funny. For example, maybe I wanted to include a link to the Sabine River in Texas. Its wikipedia article is named Sabine River (Texas-Louisiana), but that would look silly in the article text. I can type [[Sabine River (Texas-Louisiana)|Sabine River]] and it will link to the same article but with a prettier name (Sabine River). I hope that makes sense. Karanacs (talk) 14:46, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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:

• Identify the most important sources for your topic. These will be both books and articles. They will vary depending upon the kind of topic you have chosen, but to give a couple of examples this book is a key one for the general topic of magic realism, while this biography would be essential for the article on Gabriel García Márquez.
• Use databases and the Koerner library catalogue to identify these sources. Look for as many as possible in the first instance; you will later choose between them. On the whole, they will not be online sources (though of course many articles are now available online thanks to JSTOR and other services).
• Aim to come up with a long list of, say, 5-20 books and perhaps 15-40 articles. Obviously, for some topics there will be more material than for others. So for some topics you will need to do more searching; for other topics, you will need to be more careful and discerning as you choose between sources. Look far and wide and be inventive in thinking about good sources.
• In some cases, the article may already have a number of references, either in the article itself, or perhaps somewhere in its talkpage archives. You should take account of these, but you should still undertake your own search, not least to find new material that has not been considered before.
• To figure out what you need, you will also have to look at your article and consider what it is missing, what needs to be improved, where it could do with better sources, etc. In other words, you will have to start planning how you are going to work on and rewrite the article.
• Come up with a final short list of c. 2-4 books and perhaps 6-24 articles.
• Put the long list (of all the sources you have found) as well as the short list (of the sources you have decided are the most important) on your article's talk page by Wednesday, January 20.
• Distribute the sources among the members of your group. Each person should be reading the equivalent of one full book or six articles. Exceptionally long books may be divided up between group members.
• Read the sources, bearing in mind the information that is going to be useful as you work on the article. Think about what it covers and take a note of particular page numbers.
• Produce an annotated bibliography of the sources you have read. This will consist of a summary or précis of the most important aspects of the texts, which should be at least 150 words long for each article read; 600 words for each book. You should put this on your user page by Monday, February 8.

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) 23:12, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome back! I'm looking forward to working with your class during the semester - if you have any questions about the project or Wikipedia in general, please feel free to leave me a note at User talk:Awadewit. Wikipedians are here to help you! Awadewit (talk) 23:29, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. Please let me know if there's something specific you'd like help with! Scartol • Tok 13:09, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, in the time I had dinner the MR and surrealism section took new more complete form. That was a cheery surprise because I running a little dry on new material. I'll be charging away on this project until midnight tomorrow so maybe some new collabs can take shape. All the best with the end of year sprint.--Daquigg (talk) 04:31, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Tessa!

Thanks for the message. I didn't touch any of the internal linking (I had no idea how to do it until you mentioned it haha), but I see your point. I'll go thru my sections again and rework some stuff. I'll also go thru all the major works sections tonight and see if I can add any more with my sources.

Hope your papers are going well!! --Phxalana (talk) 02:38, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

thanks! I was wondering about how the linking works--Daquigg (talk) 04:19, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]