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The University of British Columbia's class SPAN365 ("Magical Realism Reconsidered: Survey of Spanish-American Literature since the 1820s") is contributing to Wikipedia during Spring 2010. Our aim is to bring a selection of articles on magic realism to featured article status (or as near as possible).
If you have any questions or comments, you can add them to the project's talk page or at my user talk page.
Magic realism (talk · edit · history)
Wikipedia liaisons: Awadewit (talk), Scartol (talk)
Miguel Ángel Asturias (talk · edit · history)
Wikipedia liaison: Scartol (talk)
Leyendas de Guatemala (talk · edit · history)
Wikipedia liaisons: Ceranthor (talk), Mike Christie (talk)
Alejo Carpentier (talk · edit · history)
Wikipedia liaisons: NuclearWarfare (talk), Moni3 (talk)
The Kingdom of this World (talk · edit · history)
Wikipedia liaison: EyeSerene (talk)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (talk · edit · history)
Wikipedia liaison: Awadewit (talk)
McOndo (talk · edit · history)
Wikipedia liaison: Ruhrfisch (talk)
These are the stages we need to pass through:
There's no precise order for everything. Small, incremental change is always important. But over the course of the project we're looking for radical change, in some cases seeking to create a featured article from scratch. So we need also to be methodical.
NB see also what Wikipedia has to say about article development.
To be awarded "good" or "featured" status, articles have to conform to the Wikipedia style guides. The three most important aspects of style are:
Secondary style guide are specific to different projects. Articles must conform to these also. Conflict between any of these is inevitable and troublesome; editors simply have to work out conflicts through consensus.
The simplest way to understand the various style guides is to examine articles that have passed GA or FA. Here is a recently-promoted featured article of a novelist: Mario Vargas Llosa. Here are a couple of featured articles of a novel: El Señor Presidente and The General in His Labyrinth. What's more, these three articles were all written by UBC students like you.
We welcome participation and help from other Wikipedia editors. You may wish to add your username below.
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GA |
Gabriel García Márquez | ||||
B |
One Hundred Years of Solitude | Miguel Ángel Asturias | |||
C |
Magic realism | ||||
Start |
Alejo Carpentier | ||||
Stub |
The Kingdom of this World | Leyendas de Guatemala | |||
Unassessed |
McOndo |