Wikipedia:WikiProject Murder Madness and Mayhem/Progress reports

An archive of milestones and progress reports for the Murder, Madness, and Mayhem Project.

Milestones

 * 22 April: Mario Vargas Llosa is now a Featured Article! The project is now over, though we trust that the articles will continue to improve.
 * 21 April: I, the Supreme is now a Good Article.
 * 19 April: The General in His Labyrinth is now a Featured Article!
 * 17 April: Facundo is now a Good Article.
 * 17 April: The Feast of the Goat is now a Good Article. Three quarters of our articles are good or featured articles!
 * 14 April: Mario Vargas Llosa nominated a Featured Article Candidate!
 * 14 April: The General in His Labyrinth nominated a Featured Article Candidate!
 * 13 April: Miguel Ángel Asturias has failed Good Article review.
 * 12 April: Facundo is up (again) at Good Article Nominations.
 * 12 April: Augusto Roa Bastos is now a Good Article.
 * 10 April: Latin American Boom is now a Good Article. Over half of our articles are good or featured articles!
 * 10 April: El Señor Presidente is now a Featured Article!! It will appear on the mainpage on May 5, a date chosen by Mfreud.
 * 9 April: Dictator novel is now a Good Article.
 * 8 April: Facundo has failed Good Article review.
 * 7 April: Domingo Faustino Sarmiento is now a Good Article.
 * 4 April: Augusto Roa Bastos is up at Good Article Nominations.
 * 4 April: El Señor Presidente nominated a Featured Article Candidate!
 * 3 April: The Feast of the Goat is up at Good Article Nominations.
 * 2 April: Latin American Boom is up at Good Article Nominations.
 * 1 April: Dictator novel is up at Good Article Nominations.
 * 31 March: Domingo Faustino Sarmiento is up at Good Article Nominations.
 * 31 March: Facundo is up at Good Article Nominations.
 * 30 March: Augusto Roa Bastos reclassified as a B-class article. All our articles are now B-class or better!
 * 30 March: Gabriel García Márquez is now a Good Article. A third of our articles are now officially "good articles."
 * 26 March: Mario Vargas Llosa is now a Good Article.
 * 26 March: The Feast of the Goat reclassified as a B-class article.
 * 26 March: I, the Supreme is up at Good Article Nominations.
 * 26 March: The General in His Labyrinth is now a Good Article.
 * 26 March: Gabriel García Márquez is up at Good Article Nominations.
 * 21 March: Mario Vargas Llosa is up at Good Article Nominations.
 * 18 March: The General in His Labyrinth is up at Good Article Nominations.
 * 17 March: El Señor Presidente is now a Good article!
 * 16 March: Facundo, The General in His Labyrinth, I, the Supreme, and Latin American Boom all reclassified as B-class articles.
 * 14 March: Dictator novel reclassified as a B-class article.
 * 13 March: Miguel Ángel Asturias fly-by GA nomination.
 * 11 March: I the Supreme now "start" class. We have no more stubs!
 * 10 March: El Señor Presidente is up at Good Article Nominations.
 * 6 March: The Feast of the Goat reclassified as a start-class article.
 * 6 March: Domingo Faustino Sarmiento reclassified as a B-Class article.
 * 28 February: El Señor Presidente reclassified as a B-Class article.

Progress Report and to-do (March 31, 2008)
With ten days left, here's a progress report and to-do list for each article:


 * Augusto Roa Bastos: 107 edits, two active group members (of two). Now at B-class, congratulations!  More sourced content still required.
 * Dictator novel: 64 edits, three active group members. Remains at B-class.  Progress has quickened up somewhat.  The "style and theme" section is still the one that probably needs most attention.  But this is probably on the verge of a Good Article nomination.
 * Domingo Faustino Sarmiento: 126 edits, three active group members. Remains at B-class, but now in Good Article Nomination, congratulations!  There has been a lot of work on this, most recently by members of the FA-Team.  What's to be done is summarized in the reviewer's comments and extensive notes on the talk page.
 * El Señor Presidente: 190 edits, two active group members (of three). Remains a Good Article. On the verge of Featured Article Candidacy.
 * Facundo: 251 edits, three active group members. Remains at B-class, but now in Good Article Nomination, congratulations!  There's been a lot of work on this article.  Strong on sources, but needs quite extensive clean-up for style and flow.
 * Gabriel García Márquez: 282 edits, three active group members. Now a Good Article, many congratulations!  A huge effort has been put into this article.  Now under peer review.  The lead could be improved, and some sections (e.g. "More on Style and Themes") fleshed out, but mostly what's required is a question of style and copy-editing.
 * I, the Supreme: 45 edits, one active group member (of three). Remains at B-class, but now in Good Article Nomination, congratulations! The pace has slowed on this article, but what's to be done is summarized in the reviewer's comments.
 * Latin American Boom: 111 edits, two active group members (of two). Remains at B-class.  Now well-sourced.  A few sections need expansion (e.g. "Impact"), but probably close to a Good Article nomination.
 * Mario Vargas Llosa: 81 edits, one active group member (of three). Now a Good Article, many congratulations!  The pace has slowed on this article, but a good indication of what's to be done can be found at peer review and on the article talk page.
 * Miguel Ángel Asturias: 44 edits, one active group member (of two). Remains at B-class, and still in Good Article Nomination.  This article has been somewhat in the doldrums, but a new review indicates what still has to be done.
 * The Feast of the Goat: 92 edits, three active group members. Now a B-class article, congratulations!  The lead and characters need to be fleshed out, plus there are a couple of dodgy sources, but otherwise this is looking good.
 * The General in His Labyrinth: 115 edits, three active group members. Now a Good Article, many congratulations!  A good indication of what's to be done can be found at peer review.

Progress Report (March 25, 2008)
Another chance to take stock, as there are just a couple of weeks left. What follows are details of progress during the past week:


 * Augusto Roa Bastos: 29 edits, one active group member (of two). Remains at start-class.  A couple of sources have been added, but more are urgently required.
 * Dictator novel: 38 edits, three active group members. Remains at B-class.  Progress has been slow but steady.  The "style and theme" section is the one that probably needs most attention.
 * Domingo Faustino Sarmiento: 28 edits, one active group member (of three). Remains at B-class.  New sources have been added, but some weak ones remain and more sourcing is required.
 * El Señor Presidente: 100 edits, two active group members (of three). Now a Good Article. Inadvertently put in to Featured Article Candidacy; subsequently withdrawn.  Some sources issues remain, and some stylistic issues too, but Manual of Style questions loom large.
 * Facundo: 45 edits, three active group members. Remains at B-class.  Sources have been added, but expansion required, most urgently a full synopsis.
 * Gabriel García Márquez: 205 edits, three active group members. Remains at B-class.  A huge amount of new material and sources have been added.  Requires some formatting and editing, but coming close to GA review.
 * I, the Supreme: 71 edits, two active group members (of three). Remains at B-class.  Now has some good, reliable sources, and probably not far to go before a Good Article nomination.
 * Latin American Boom: 111 edits, two active group members (of two). Remains at B-class.  A number of good sources have been added.  This article is taking shape, but structure still needs work.
 * Mario Vargas Llosa: 376 edits, three active group members. Remains at B-class, but now in Good Article Review. This has been a huge effort on the part of this group, and particularly Lincoln.  We are mostly now waiting for a review.
 * Miguel Ángel Asturias: 84 edits, one active group member (of two). Remains at B-class, and still in Good Article Review.  Still a couple of issues to be cleared up as part of the Good Article Review.
 * The Feast of the Goat: 57 edits, three active group members. Remains at start-class.  This article is starting to take shape, but still has some way to go.
 * The General in His Labyrinth: 227 edits, three active group members. Remains at B-clss, but now in Good Article Review.  A tremendous effort, above all from Eva and Carla.  A few issues remain, above all the book synopsis.

So there has been a decent amount of progress pretty much everywhere across the project. Let's see a bunch more Good Article nominations this week!

Progress Report (March 16, 2008)
This seems a good time to take stock, before we start on the final straight towards (hopefully) Feature Article status. What follows is an account of each article's progress in 2008 to date:


 * Augusto Roa Bastos: 12 edits, is still at start-class.
 * Domingo Faustino Sarmiento: 143 edits, has progressed from start-class to B-class.
 * Dictator novel: 170 edits, has progressed from unrated to B-class.
 * El Señor Presidente: 579 edits, has progressed from non-existence to B-class, currently in Good Article Review.
 * Facundo: 149 edits, has progressed from unrated to B-class.
 * Gabriel García Márquez: 118 edits; is still at B-class.
 * I, the Supreme: 121 edits, has progressed from non-existence to B-class.
 * Latin American Boom: 80 edits, has progressed from unrated to B-class.
 * Mario Vargas Llosa: 135 edits, is still at B-class. (It had initially been incorrectly marked as GA-class.)
 * Miguel Ángel Asturias: 381 edits, has progressed from start-class to B-class, currently in Good Article Review.
 * The Feast of the Goat: 32 edits, has progressed from stub-class to start-class.
 * The General in His Labyrinth: 184 edits, has progressed from start-class to B-class

So there has been a decent amount of progress. We just need to keep it up!

Initial Ratings (January 14, 2008)
At the start of this project, the following were the ratings for each article, as determined by various other Wikipedia projects:


 * Augusto Roa Bastos: high importance, start class (Wikiproject South America)
 * Dictator novel: unrated
 * Domingo Faustino Sarmiento: high importance, start class (Wikiproject Argentina)
 * El Señor Presidente: did not exist
 * Facundo: unrated (Wikiproject Books)
 * I, the Supreme: did not exist
 * Gabriel García Márquez: B class (Colombian Wikiproject)
 * Latin American Boom: unrated
 * Mario Vargas Llosa: top importance, B class (Version 1.0 Editorial Team)
 * Miguel Ángel Asturias: low importance, start class (Wikiproject Central America)
 * The Feast of the Goat: low importance, stub class (Wikiproject Novels)
 * The General in His Labyrinth: mid importance, start class (Wikiproject Novels)