User talk:Decurry
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Sincerely, Crtew (talk) 01:13, 12 January 2012 (UTC) (Leave me a message)
Keep going!
[edit]Devyn, You found enough reference sources from world press freedom organizations but you'll need additional sources that are from news reports. Otherwise the quality of your Wikipedia article will suffer from lack of verification and you will not be able to show significant coverage. If you noted any variations in spellings or names used for your person, you should incorporate that into your searches. Google News is the place we will start for news. From there we will go into Lexis-Nexis. Do the Google search now and don't forget that it only brings up recent events and so you'll typically have to go into archives (using the menu on the side) to go back to past articles. You know the old saying, "Yesterday's news is today's history." I have a lecture on Blackboard about how to do effective searches for your reference. Please do that now before going to then next step. Crtew (talk) 16:57, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
More news
[edit]Decurry, You still need more news sources as the world press freedom organizations will not give you the verfication status needed for publication on Wikipedia. Add your citations from Lexis-Nexis! Include a statement of notability about your journalist. Crtew (talk) 16:22, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Submit
[edit]Decurry, Good work, I did use some info from another student who was working on the son and some of my own info. You packed too much detail at the top about the murder for the significance. If you look at the copy now, you might think that I did the same thing, but what I was trying to do is to get the big picture. It was a complicated story that expanded out to other articles, like the one for Yolanda. This article was the inspiration for a new category in Wikipedia: "Victims of the Mexican Drug War." It's new. I created it and assigned some other journalists to the category. I also added a map for Veracruz and template for the Mexican Drug War to the article. Go ahead and submit! Click on the submit on the topmost banner. Good Luck, Crtew (talk) 21:28, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
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[edit]You're invited to help plan and attend Wikimedia's very first Evansville meetup! Bob the WikipediaN (talk • contribs) 02:40, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hello! Decurry,
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