Course description: Students on the Bjork-James team of the Research on Conflict and Collective Action will be working on Ultimate Consequences, comprehensive database of deaths in Bolivian political conflict during the democratic era, 1982–present.

Our project draws on journalistic, advocacy, and scholarly sources to comprehensively document all deaths in political conflict. This approach overlaps with Wikipedia's focus on verifiability, neutral point of view, use of reliable sources, and careful research. Many events described in the database are notable, a criterion for inclusion on Wikipedia.

For this semester, students will write narrative accounts for events in which 4 or more people were killed (currently n=32). The accounts will summarize the protest campaign underway, participating movements, nature and sequence of deadly events, responsibility for deaths, outcomes for movements, and accountability for perpetrators of violence. Narratives will only draw on existing sources and avoid "original research", as defined on Wikipedia.

Main article writing goal: Your goal for this assignment is to produce a page that meets the Good Article criteria (WP:GA?). That page explains these criteria, which can be summarized as well-written, with a defined structure, well-researched, broad in its coverage, and neutral.

Writing advice: The Perfect Wikipedia Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_perfect_article | Writing Better Articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_better_articles