User talk:Miriamcc

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Hello Miriamcc, 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 15:50, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi miriamcc, and thanks for your questions!

To take the image question first: the image link you left on my talk page ([1]) does look ideal for your article. However, the web site it's on has this at the bottom of the page: "© Augusto Wong Campos, 2004. Yahoo! Geocities Inc." This means the image is copyrighted to the page author, and we can't use it on Wikipedia unless the author agrees to release it under a free license. There may also be another issue with this image, because we don't know if the individual photos used in it are copyrighted too. I would suggest looking for alternative pictures elsewhere (there are some useful free image resources on this page here). Once you have found the pictures you want, I would be happy to help with editing them, uploading them etc.

OK, the footnotes next... There are templates on this page here that are designed for use with almost any type of reference (books, internet, newspapers, films etc). The one you need for a web site is {{cite web}}. I'll set this out below for the site you posted on my talk page ([2]) so you can see how it works:

<ref>
{{cite web
| last = 
| first = 
| authorlink = 
| coauthors = 
| title = EL FENÓMENO DEL "BOOM LATINOAMERICANO"
| work = 
| publisher = 
| date = 16 October 2006
| url = http://lenguayliteratura.org/ltr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1537&Itemid=1
| format = HTTP
| doi = 
| accessdate = 2008-11-02
}}
</ref>

I don't speak any Spanish, so I hope I've got the details right! Really the minimum information we need are the web address, the title of the article used, and the date it was last accessed (to show when we know the link was working in case it goes dead in the future).

Copy/pasting this at the end of a sentence or paragraph (after the punctuation) produces an in-line citation. This means you can use it to cite the facts you have quoted in that sentence/paragraph. HOWEVER, I noticed that the Latin American Boom article you're working on doesn't have any footnotes...yet ;) This means you will also need to add this towards the end of the article, or your footnotes/citations won't show up:

==Notes and references==
{{reflist}}

A bit of a long answer, but I hope it helps! If you have any more questions or need me to explain these answers further, don't hesitate to give me a shout ;) All the best, EyeSerene^TALK 12:27, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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) 15:59, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations!

Congratulations on the GA status of Latin American Boom! You should feel free to put the following on your user page:

This user helped promote Latin American Boom to good article status.

. --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 11:21, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent work! Congratulations from me too - thank you so much for your contributions to improving our Encyclopedia! EyeSerene^talk 11:39, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, great job! Congratulations on the GA. Mike Christie (talk) 11:44, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Image copyright problem with Image:626px-Latin America terrain.jpg

Image Copyright problem

Hi Miriamcc!
We thank you for uploading Image:626px-Latin America terrain.jpg, but there is a problem. Your image is currently missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. Unless you can help by adding a copyright tag, it may be deleted by an Administrator. If you know this information, then we urge you to add a copyright tag to the image description page. We apologize for this, but all images must confirm to policy on Wikipedia.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks so much for your cooperation.
This message is from a robot. --John Bot III (talk) 16:30, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]