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Welcome to Wikipedia! I'm your campus ambassador Gabe and I enjoyed talking with you yesterday about Wikipedia. I've put a few notes and helpful links, particularly about how to find images here: Education Program talk:Boston College/History of the American West (2013 Q1). Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about editing Wikipedia. I hope you enjoy this assignment and I look forward to seeing your contributions. Best, GabrielF (talk) 17:27, 30 January 2013 (UTC)Reply

Sources

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Pechan, Bev and Bill Groethe. "Deadwood: 1876-1976." Chicago: Arcadia Publishing, 2005. Hart, James D. and Philip W. Leininger. "The Oxford Companion to American Literature." Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Hume, Janice. "Obituaries in American Culture." Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2000. McLoughlin, Denis. "The Encyclopedia of the Old West." New York: Taylor and Francis, 1975. Murdoch, David H. "The American West: The Invention of a Myth." Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2001. Popp. Richard L. "Blackhills and Badlands in Vintage Postcards." Chicago: Arcadia Publishing, 2002.

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Formatting your sections

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Hi, Jvarm1!

Just looking through some student edits and wanted to provide some (hopefully helpful) feedback. I noticed the 'formatting' tag another editor added to the top of your new article on Richard "Deadwood Dick" Clarke. Most likely, the main reason this editor added that tag is simply because of the way you formatted your section headers. Instead of bolding those headings (by surrounding the text with three apostrophes), try surrounding the text by == on each side. Start with two equals signs, and then you can increase that number for subsections, if necessary. Also, don't forget to try and summarize the contents of the article in the 'lead paragraph' which you'll notice on most Wikipedia articles simply gives the reader an idea of the rest of the article. I hope that helps; please let me know if you need any further help! JMathewson (WMF) (talk) 00:18, 12 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

Orphaned non-free media (File:Richard "Deadwood Dick" Clarke as a Deadwood tourist attraction.jpg)

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Orphaned non-free media (File:Richard "Deadwood Dick" Clarke in later life.jpg)

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