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I created the Afronauts page for a class project where we're contributing to Wikipedia articles. I'm publishing this article for peer review and will be writing about my experiences here. This Wikipedia assignment was a challenge in the beginning because I wasn't sure what page to pick. I wanted to learn more about Afrofuturism for personal interest but the talk page for that article was a bit confusing. On the Afrofuturism in film page, I found Afronauts at the top of the table with a red link. It's a film I'd seen in classes before and wanted to learn more about so I thought it would be a great opportunity to start a page from scratch. Thankfully I found enough information about the short film to be able to create a wiki page for it. Citations used are from interviews with filmmaker Nuotama Bodomo (who also goes by Frances Bodomo on some sites) her Kickstarter for this project and her website. I'm hoping to reach out to Bodomo through email for permission to use an image for this page, to interview her or ask her to make contributions. It's a long shot but I might as well try. A professor of mine, Akosua Adoma Owusu, is one of the executive producers on this film so I could ask her to contribute and extra information she has as well. Right now I'm considering cutting the list of the crew in the Production category since the essential people are in the film infobox at the top and at the bottom is a link to the full credits on IMDB. --NandeWalters (talk) 21:39, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your contribution, and congrats on creating your first article! By coincidence, I just saw this film for the first time last week after hearing talk about it for years, so I was excited to see that someone made an article for it. Overall I think this article is really well put together, and I will offer some constructive feedback. I think the major piece of information missing from this article is what the film is about. Every film article ought to have a plot section. Since this is a short film, I think that two or three sentences would be enough to summarize what happens, but there is no specific guideline that I'm aware of. I would recommend reading other film articles to get an idea of how the plot should be written, and for more detailed information you can refer to WP:FILMPLOT. As for reaching out to Nuotama Bodomo, I think that while that is an exciting idea and I certainly encourage you to try it for your own sake, I don't think it would be helpful to writing a Wikipedia article. The policy Wikipedia:No original research doesn't allow any information to be used for articles unless it is in a reliable, unbiased, and published source. I hope that all makes sense, and feel free to reach out if you have any questions! --Secundus Zephyrus (talk) 23:16, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much! That's very helpful! --NandeWalters (talk) 15:53, 7 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 22 January 2020 and 30 April 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): NandeWalters.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 15:48, 18 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Reverted soft delete[edit]

I reverted the soft delete of this article that redirected it to Nuotama Bodomo. Afronauts is referred to multiple times in the books In the Black Fantastic and Africanfuturism and Reclaiming Space: Progressive and Multicultural Visions of Space Exploration. Numerous results also exist in Google Scholar as seen here. Erik (talk | contrib) ^{(ping me)} 13:42, 1 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]