User talk:Paulleblanc

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Hello Paulleblanc, 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! EyeSerene^TALK 15:51, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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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) 16:00, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Introduction and Synopsis

Hey Paul, do you mind working on the introduction part and synopsis section, expanding both? Carla and I will be adding a plot summary, publication details, and analysis of the labyrinth and other themes. Otherwise, anything else that you can think of to add would be great!Eshiu (talk) 05:21, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Citations

Paul, do you mind also adding the citations to your parts that you have added earlier? It has been mentioned quite a few times on the discussion page and think it may be needed for getting good article. Thanks!Eshiu (talk) 21:02, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, Paul, you added with this edit the following:

"Critics have also noted that Bolivar’s anti-Americanism reflects a sentiment which is still widely held in Latin America. Bolivar tells his aid at one point in the novel that “[America is] omnipotent and terrible, and its tale of liberty will end in a plague of miseries for us all.” As a critic observes, American diplomacy in Latin America has changed little since the time of Bolivar. Further, given that Russian communism has come to an end, this modern unchallenged America has never seemed so “omnipotent.” Perhaps then, Garcia is observing like Noam Chomsky and other respectable political scientists, that an all powerful America will only lead to disaster for the world."

It's not clear which critics and/or critic you are referring to here. There needs to be a citation. Can you provide one? This is holding up the article from passing Good Article review. Thanks. --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 09:12, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations!

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

This user helped promote The General in His Labyrinth to good article status.

Congratulations! --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 21:47, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yay!

I'm glad to see you helping out! :) --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 20:17, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Paul, you have to click the red link to finish the nom; the instructions are at WP:FAC. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 04:54, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Great; that's two out of three, almost done. But you should indicate co-nom with the other nominators, and sign by clicking on the red link on the fac template on the article talk page. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 04:56, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Good job putting the article up for FAC! Now there'll be comments and suggestions over the next few days. Let's hope that there's not too much they ask us to do. --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 05:30, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

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thanks, and advice...!

Heya, thanks for supporting my support (heh) over at the FAC. But as I mentioned, this is an exercise in diplomacy, too. Probably better on the whole to stick to responding to substantive comments, rather than being distracted. Is my advice! --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 06:53, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats!!

Congratulations on the FA status, it was well deserved.. Thanks for helping it reach FA and in doing so improving Wikipedia :) Acer (talk) 00:56, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, many congrats!! I'm so pleased. You can now put this on your user page if you want:

This user helped promote The General in His Labyrinth to featured article status.

--jbmurray (talk|contribs) 02:10, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wooohooo! We did it! Congratulations Paul! Carlaty (talk) 05:05, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

		Fist of respect
		I award this fist of respect to Paulleblanc and colleagues for fine work in bringing The General in his Labyrinth to featured status. qp10qp (talk) 13:29, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You and your friends made this a cert all along with all your meticulous sourcing. I love your attitude: your tutor promised everyone in the class that they'd get an A* if they achieved this and no way were you letting the opportunity go. That sort of determination puts you in a small group at the top of your class and I suspect it bodes well for your future success.

Your tutor is also remarkable. Much though I loved my tutors at university, I can't imagine any of them putting in this amount of time and work to help students along within the writing of an assignment. To be honest, I never really thought of my tutors as teachers, just as founts of knowledge who handed out booklists, graded essays, and left the rest to chance. This project is ahead of its time, and I expect it will prove seminal and semi-legendary (don't be surprised if in thirty years time, or whatever, you find yourself interviewed as one of the guinea pigs of this type of assignment). I have no doubt that education will become increasingly interactive, that sourcing skills will rise in importance, and that the barriers between free public information and privileged, expensive scholarly information will be drastically eroded.

I hope you will keep your eye on the article, because trivial deteriorations tend to creep in otherwise. Regard this as a baby that you now have to care for for life. qp10qp (talk) 13:29, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]