User talk:Carlaty

Welcome to Wikipedia!

Hello Carlaty, and Welcome to Wikipedia! Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Also, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. 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) Getting started Introduction The five pillars of Wikipedia How to edit a page Finding your way around Table of contents Department directory Editing articles How to develop an article Manual of Style Getting help Frequently asked questions Cheatsheet Where to ask a question Help pages New contributors' help page How you can help Contributing to Wikipedia Community Portal Follow Wikipedia etiquette Practice civility

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) 15:54, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations!

Well done, Carlaty! 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) 21:46, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Interview

Hi. Over on Wikinews they are conducting an interview about our project. Some of the questions are directed specifically at me, and some specifically at those who edited El Señor Presidente. But there are others for any student in the class. I thought you might want to participate.

You will have to set up a new account on Wikinews. Drop a line to Brianmc who can guide you through the technicalities.

It would be good to have an opportunity for you to have your say! --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 20:43, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Great guns!

		The Working Woman's Barnstar
		You guys are making great progress over on The General in his Labyrinth. Fantastic stuff! Here's to an FA nomination soon! jbmurray (talk|contribs) 21:24, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Nom time?

I think this is as good a time as any to nominate. What do you think? (I can set it up for you, if you like, and you can sign the nom, and your colleagues can follow suit when they are around.) Be very afraid. (Only kidding.) qp10qp (talk) 22:44, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. Ideally, I think, the honour should go to either Carlaty or Eeshiu or, better still, both. Awadewit finessed this somehow, including with messages to SandyGeorgia, when she !nominated El Señor Presidente. I'll send her a ping. --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 22:56, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

I would urge the student to nominate - it's not hard and others will fix any mistakes made. There is no time like the present to learn how to nominate an FAC! Seriously, it's a wiki - it is not a big deal to make a mistake! :) Awadewit (talk) 23:03, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

I agree; the instructions at WP:FAC are supposed to be intelligible to anyone, and if they're not, I'd like to know :-) I'll watch over it and help them get it right (as I do all FAC noms), in case they need help. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:07, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes, they definitely nominate. But they might need nudging. By the way, the three editors don't all need to nom at once; one can do it, and the others can add their signatures/comments when available. qp10qp (talk) 23:10, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Yep. But for Rick Block's script, they should indicate co-nom and all three names in the opening paragraph. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:12, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

That's true. qp10qp (talk) 23:20, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry I missed the Nom...was at work. Thanks for all the hard work everyone!!! And I am very afraid, Qp10qp :). Carlaty (talk) 06:16, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Congrats!!

		The Original Barnstar
		Congratulations on the FA status, it was well deserved.. You worked hard and it payed off!! Thanks for improving Wikipedia :) Acer (talk) 00:43, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes, many congrats!! I'm so pleased. You really deserved this, and put a lot of work in. You can now put the following on your user page if you want:

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

--jbmurray (talk|contribs) 02:11, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Ha! Like Eshiu, you're one step ahead of me!  :) --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 02:13, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Oh Acer did it for me too! Carlaty (talk) 04:59, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

		Fist of respect
		I award this fist of respect to Carlaty and colleagues for fine work in bringing The General in his Labyrinth to featured status. qp10qp (talk) 13:25, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your note. 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) 13:25, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Oh it definitely is like a baby. I will definitely be keeping an eye on it. Thank you!!! Carlaty (talk) 19:05, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations on the promotion and on sticking with it when you could have sat back after reaching GA. Yomangani^talk 11:08, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

...and from me too! You've done a fantastic job - I hope you're not being too modest about what you've achieved ;) EyeSerene^talk 19:59, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Vancouver meet-up

Vancouver Meetup Please come to an informal gathering of Vancouver Wikipedians, Monday, May 5 at 6:30 pm. It will be at Benny's Bagels, 2505 West Broadway. We'd love to see you there, and please invite others! Watch the Vancouver Meetup page for details.

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:46, 24 November 2015 (UTC)