Tommaso88

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels

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) 16:01, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Tomas Millian

A tag has been placed on Tomas Millian, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing no content to the reader. Please note that external links, "See also" section, book reference, category tag, template tag, interwiki link, rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article don't count as content. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template {{hangon}} to the page and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Truthanado (talk) 01:26, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Your reference problem

The problem you had with the reference just now was that you used the closing tag <ref/> instead of </ref>.

But when something happens like that, don't panic! The glory of the wiki is that anything can always be undone. And someone will be by soon enough to undo it.

Good luck! --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 06:48, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Source question

Hi, I saw this edit you made. But aren't we talking about two different sources? One is the webpage (not a v. good source, by the way); the other is a book? Or am I confused? Let's sort this out. I undid your edit in the meantime. --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 02:43, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Hey! I think I am just trying to cite a scholarly source that I have already added to the Reference list. The book whose author goes by the last name: Armas. I don't know which web page I cited, but if I did I will try to undo it.

OK, at the moment we have the information "The Green House went on to win the first edition of the Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Prize in 1967, out-voting works by the veteran Uruguayan writer Juan Carlos Onetti and by Gabriel García Márquez." At present this has two references. If you have a reference for this information from Armas (a scholarly source) then we can indeed get rid of the other reference, which ain't doing nothing. Again, perhaps it's me who got confused, and if so, apologies. --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 03:06, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

And it didn't help that I think I'd made a mistake with the reference, leaving a typo. Sorry again! --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 03:09, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Be Careful!

Tommaso, in this edit, you added word for word several sentences from this website. Leaving aside the fact that the website is another weak source, reproducing its words without indicating the fact is plagiarism.

You have two options: either paraphrase, noting the points that the source uses but in your own words; or simply indicate with the use of inverted comments which are your words and which are words taken from your source.

This is a very important issue. If you don't understand it, please be in touch. If you think you have likewise copied verbatim from your other sources, you should do something about it. Again, there's no shame in quoting: but you need to show that you are quoting. --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 06:52, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Ooops! I did not give the novel's review much importance, so that's why I thought it was ok to copy it down. I have rephrased almost everything else that I have quoted from the scholarly sources, thats for sure. Thanxx for all your help and tips Jon. I'll make sure this won't happen again.

Experiment

I noticed that you removed an image at Mario Vargas Llosa then readded it as an experiment, so I'm letting you know that when you want to test something you can use the show preview button that is right next to the save button in the edit page, you can also use the Wikipedia:Sandbox to make all kinds of tests.. I'm just telling you this because making edits to experiment is not well regarded here, obviously if you try something and it doesn't work you can always revert like you did, but if you're only experimenting it's best to either use the preview function or to use the sandbox. That said, the article is making some very nice progress and you guys should be able to get thru GA. Congrats on the work so far Acer (talk) 20:22, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations!

Well done, Tommaso88! You can now, if you want, put the following box on your user page:

This user helped promote Mario Vargas Llosa to good article status.

Congratulations! --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 21:46, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Mario Vargas Llosa

Hi Tommaso88, I'm just checking in on behalf of the FA-Team to see how things are going. It's April already! If you guys want to try to meet the April 10th deadline for reaching FA, then the article will need to be nominated by the end of the week. I've left some comments at the article talk page, and then there were SandyGeorgia's comments at the Peer Review. How are you coming with addressing those? If there are specific areas that you'd like assistance with, please let me know. Otherwise, post to the article talk page when you've addressed most of the comments, and then we can set a plan for what else needs to be done. Karanacs (talk) 18:08, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Literary Barnstar
		I award Tommaso88 the Literary Barnstar for excellent work in improving Mario Vargas Llosa. Thanks to your effort, the article finally does justice to an important figure in literature. Karanacs (talk) 19:18, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Excellent work! Karanacs (talk) 19:18, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you so much!... Now its time to get this baby Featured..

Congratulations!!

Now with much pride you can put this on your user page:

This user helped promote Mario Vargas Llosa to featured article status.

. Well done! --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 21:23, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

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