User talk:Jmdeane1

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Don't Bite the Sun
I have reverted the edits you and your team have made to Don't Bite the Sun, as the entire article appears to be unsourced original research. If you do choose to restore these edits, please provide proper reliable sources. Also, please refrain from writing such an extensive plot summary. The summary should be just that, a summary -- no more than two paragraphs. It should not tell the entire story of the book. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 13:58, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, they're in process
My team is presently hard at work condensing their material. It's based on published sources in major journals, and their citations are soon to follow, but I'll encourage them to delay long enough to have the citations ready to go before they post. Your point on summary is well taken.

Proposed deletion of Lauren Grodstein


The article Lauren Grodstein has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this newly created biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the prod blp tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can when you are ready to add one. ...William 13:51, 24 October 2013 (UTC) ...William 13:51, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Course work
From the message you have posted on various article talk pages, I'm guessing that you are the instructor of a course involving students writing or expanding Wikipedia articles about various books. That being the case, I'll address you and perhaps you can help your students improve their work.

I have just updated the article on The House of Discarded Dreams. I find the speculation and outright original research on that page to be disturbing. These are just the issues I have found in my five minutes with the article. The other articles created by your students (as indicated by the presence of your introductory note on the various talk pages) show similar problems with focus and sourcing. Please work with your students to improve their use of reliable sources and to keep the text in the article focused on the book at hand. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 19:33, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Your students have written an overly long section on the details of Zimbabwean culture (which is unneeded since Wikipedia already has an entire article on the topic), but did not relate that culture to the book in any way.
 * The article contained outright speculation about the real-life settings represented by the fictional settings, based on the fact that the author works at a particular school. (Without a citation to a reliable source indicating that Sedia did, in fact, base any fictional setting on her real-life employer, any conclusion to that effect is speculation at best.)
 * The article contained a note that the character Vimbai's father worked at a particular real world hospital in Africa, and then cited the hospital's website to verify that fact. (Clearly, the hospital's website makes no mention of said character.)

Speedy deletion nomination of Grasshopper Jungle
Hello Jmdeane1,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Grasshopper Jungle for deletion, because it seems to be promotional, rather than an encyclopedia article.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Xcia0069 (talk) 15:13, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

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