Talk:The Prophet of Zongo Street

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Stillber, Phoenix47.tm, BDClark. Peer reviewers: Whirlpool2112.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 04:14, 18 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Peer Review

I really enjoyed the way your group divided the plots of each short story. This made it look very clear and concise (I am also doing a short story book and this inspired me to edit my layout as well).

For your themes section it would be great if you could add some examples from the stories that "prove" the theme.

Whirlpool2112 (talk) 01:50, 19 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Notes on article

Hi Stillber, Phoenix47.tm, BDClark, I wanted to give you some feedback on your draft. I only have a few true notes:

I've removed the section with the author bio - this is generally unnecessary on Wikipedia unless the author doesn't have an article on Wikipedia and their general biography is overly pertinent to the article, as in the case of an autobiography or a book that closely mirrors the author's life. Since Ali already has an article, this is a bit superfluous here.

Be careful with POV words. I've changed the word "important" to "major" in the themes section. The reason for this is ultimately that the word important can be seen as subjective - what's important to one may not be to another reader. Major is somewhat more neutral.

I also removed the external links section, as none of the articles were about the book itself per se. They were about the author, but they didn't really say much about the book other than he wrote it. The external links section is meant more for things that are specifically about the book, such as an official book website and other things that may not necessarily fit into the article itself. Those would be better off in the main article for the author, if they're not already being used as sources.

I also noticed that one of you, Stillber, took a picture of a book cover and uploaded it to Wikimedia Commons. Unfortunately this is seen as a copyright issue, as the cover is copyrighted to the publisher and even a photograph of the cover would still pose an issue, as the photograph would be released under a Creative Commons license that could allow people to do whatever they want to it, for the most part. You can still upload an image to Wikipedia for this - you just need to follow these directions:

Find a good quality version of the cover, preferably from a primary source, like this.
Go to Wikipedia:File Upload Wizard and follow the directions until you get to step 3, Provide source and copyright information.
Here you want to select "This is a copyrighted, non-free work, but I believe it is Fair Use."
You will need to specify the article title the image will be placed in, however most importantly you need to make sure that under the non-free fair use rationale section you select "This is the official cover art of a work."
This will bring up a new section that will ask you to provide the source, name the author (you can put down the publisher and author's names), and date (use the publication date). There will be a tiny check box underneath this that signifies that you will be using this as the primary form of identification - make sure this is clicked.
Finally, make sure that you fill out the information about how the use of the image will be minimal. I typically do something along the lines of the following:

"This book cover will be used to identify the work in question and distinguish it from similarly titled or themed books in a way that cannot be done with words alone. Usage of this cover will not impede or otherwise harm sales or distribution of the work."

After all of this is done, you can hit "upload" and add the image to the article.

If you need me to, I can do this for you, but I would like you to try first. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:47, 2 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Other than this, the article looks great! Have you guys put any thought into expanding the author's article? It could definitely use some TLC! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:49, 2 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]