Talk:Blood on the Forge

Notable?

Is this notable enough?--Kanata Kid (talk) 14:16, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

You betcha. Only two novels by African Americans were published that year, this book and one by Richard Wright.Rudowsky (talk) 14:50, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Organizing class project of expanding article

hey group, we need a plan. (also, i think there may be too many of us in this group?) Most pages seem to be set up with these categories: Michaela M (talk)

Background

• Kristingoch (talk · contribs)
• Caitlinannee (talk · contribs)
• Zoesharpe (talk · contribs)
  • Great Migration History

Publishing history (can be a separate section or can go with "background")

Plot summary

• RMarchetti (talk · contribs)

Characters

• Ivannalq (talk · contribs)
  • minor characters
• Mikaylarosemoore (talk · contribs)
  • Moss Brothers character description

Genres/Styles

• Caitlinannee (talk · contribs)
• Katiemcellistrim (talk · contribs)

Themes

• Michaelam315 (talk · contribs)
• Shannagrier
  • willing to work on individualism vs mass theme. Let me know what else everyone else wants to work on. Shannagrier (talk) 07:10, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

Critical reception

• Katiemcellistrim (talk · contribs)

Discussion

we can add more categories, or take ones out later. Any other suggestions for how to organize the page? Also we need to figure out who wants to do what parts. Michaela M (talk) 10:32, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

Maybe we can just have everyone type their name next to each section so we know who is doing what. I can start to work on characters.

Sure. I can help with themes and characters (unless we should each just do one section? not sure how many of us there are...) I don't have a huge preference... - Michaela

I can do the genres/styles section. - Caitlin E

Shannagrier (talk) 04:43, 13 October 2011 (UTC)Michaela- i think that works. We also need everyone in the group to add their names on the page so we know how many of us there are.

I added this article next to your names at Wikipedia:WikiProject Classroom coordination/SFSU Class Project. If you have classmates who haven't signed up for an article there yet please remind them. Doing that will let other Wikipedia editors help you all with some of the technical stuff. Cloveapple (talk) 04:06, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

I found a some good journal articles on JSTOR while starting to think of themes. I'll update what I have so far later, in regards to theme categories. -Michaela — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michaelam315 (talk • contribs) 18:28, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Shannagrier (talk) 18:40, 18 October 2011 (UTC) shannagrier@gmail.com

References

I took a look at the reference section and right now it's actually a list of published fiction by Attaway. So I'll take that list out of the reference section.

The article will need reliable independent secondary sources to support any theories, views, interpretations, or facts beyond the bare plot. You can't base the article on your own reading of the book. This means you'll want to back up what is written with references to specific sources. For example you might use books that discuss the novel or book reviews that discuss the novel. Sources might include newspaper, magazine, or academic journal articles.

If you need help formatting actual citations and inserting them in the text I'd be glad to help. Cloveapple (talk) 20:57, 17 October 2011 (UTC)