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Hello Rabbitfast, and Welcome to Wikipedia!

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Your Latin American Literature project is generating quite a bit of interest (more on this to follow...), and we wish you all the best with your endeavours. We hope to make your time here successful, productive, and above all, enjoyable!

Happy editing! EyeSereneTALK 15:41, 1 February 2008 (UTC)Reply

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RE message

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Thanks for your note - the comments about signing talk pages and using edit summaries in the Welcome message I left aren't aimed at you in particular, they're just included in the template I used ({{w-graphical}}). Now I've re-read it more critically, although it's good advice that first paragraph does come over as a bit abrupt... maybe I'll switch to something different in the future! Anyway, please don't think I was in any way intending to criticise or 'lay down the law', I just wanted to make you feel welcome :P

Looking forward to working with your project, and if you have any questions at all don't hesitate to get in touch. All the best, EyeSereneTALK 10:28, 21 February 2008 (UTC)Reply

Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels

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The Novels Project is a Wikipedia group dedicated to improving the quality of articles on novels. If you would like to help, please consider joining: seeWikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Members. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast (talk) 15:54, 14 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

yes!

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This is the kind of edit summary I like to see.  :) --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 07:45, 2 April 2008 (UTC)Reply


Encouragement

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  The Working Woman's Barnstar
I know you're ploughing a bit of a lonely furrow there at Latin American Boom. This is a bit of encouragement: you're doing a good job! jbmurray (talk|contribs) 20:31, 4 April 2008 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for the vote of confidence :)I'm trying to prevent the Boom-Bust scenario. I'm just not sure how much I can get
done over the weekend as I have to finish writing a paper for another class by Tuesday. --Rabbitfast (talk) 08:14, 5 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

Well, I came here to leave you a barnstar, and found you'd already got one! Well deserved, too. I am working on the copyedit of Latin American Boom but I have to go out this evening and it may not be done till tomorrow; I'll see what I can get done. I think I'll have a few prose issues, but the main thing I wanted to say is that the article is in very good shape. I think all the right material is there, and there are a lot of citations; it's close to GA and I will see what I can do to push it over the boundary for you. Congratulations on some excellent work -- I look forward to seeing this get even better. I think after the GA you're definitely in striking distance of an FA nomination; we still have six days so if we can get this through GA this weekend I think you can do it. More later -- Mike Christie (talk) 23:12, 4 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

Thank you! The help and encouragement are greatly appreciated :)--Rabbitfast (talk) 08:11, 5 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

Latin American Boom update

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I just added some copyedit notes; I think most of those should be pretty quick to fix. For the historical background point, if you can explain to me what the intention is in that section I think I can help you fix it. That only leaves the three "citation needed" tags. This is now very close to GA. Let me know if I can help with any of this; I will be away from the net between about 2 and 9 CDT today but should respond outside those times. And thanks for an interesting read -- I am learning a lot about Latin American literature and I am enjoying these articles tremendously. Mike Christie (talk) 14:47, 5 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

Congratulations!

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Many congratulations on the GA status of Latin American Boom! A heroic effort! You should feel free to put the following on your user page:

. --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 11:20, 10 April 2008 (UTC)Reply


  The Literary Barnstar
For radically improving an important and wideranging article on Latin American literature: Latin American Boom. You very much deserve this token of thanks and congratulations! jbmurray (talk|contribs) 11:24, 10 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

Great work

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Well-deserved! Thank you so much for your hard work and the contribution you've made to improving Wikipedia. Your superb efforts are much appreciated! EyeSerenetalk 11:37, 10 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

I agree; it's been a pleasure to work with you and thanks for the great work on Latin American Boom. Mike Christie (talk) 11:43, 10 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

Vancouver meet-up

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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