Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: African American Artists, presented by PNC Arts Alive
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Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: African American Artists, presented by PNC Arts Alive
When
- November 6, 2021
Registration
Event Dashboard
Sign in: Outreach Dashboard
[edit]Step 1: Go to the Outreach Dashboard
Step 2:
- Have a Wikipedia username? Select 'Log-in with Wikipedia'.
- Don't have a username? Select 'Sign-up with Wikipedia'
Google Sheet
[edit]Before editing, please open THIS SHEET and add your username next to the article you would like to edit or create.
Safe Space Policy
[edit]Presentation
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Suggested Article Work List
[edit]Organized by article rating (non-existent to GA-Good Article).
Select red links to start new article drafts. See links to potential sources. Other verifiable sources welcome.
Articles for creation
- Avel de Knight papers, SI
- Monuments to the Future: The Art of Ed Love
- Contemporary Black artists in America
- Bio, The Watercolor Page
- Philadelphia Murals. See page 150
- If These Walls Could Talk: Community Muralism and the Beauty of Justice
- Page showing one of his murals. Use in external links
- Phila. Inquirer
- Represent : 200 years of African American art in the Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Petrucci Family Foundation
- Interview (use as external link)
- Draft:John L. Wade Sr. - first African American art professor at Temple University, founding member of Brandywine Workshop
Stub (short) articles
Start articles
- African-American Artists, 1929–1945: Prints, Drawings, and Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Biography, Petrucci Family Foundatiom
- Oral history, add to external links
- To do: Expand, add more references (onle two now), add missing external links section below references
- Add infobox
- Add that her work was featured in Afro-American Images 1971: The Vision of Percy Ricks
C class articles
- Add that his work was featured in Afro-American Images 1971: The Vision of Percy Ricks
- Add section for Afro-American Images 1971: The Vision of Percy Ricks in notable exhibitions
- Create external links section. Add this interview
- Add that his work was featured in Afro-American Images 1971: The Vision of Percy Ricks
- Add that his work was featured in Afro-American Images 1971: The Vision of Percy Ricks
- Add that her work was featured in Afro-American Images 1971: The Vision of Percy Ricks
- Add that his work was featured in Afro-American Images 1971: The Vision of Percy Ricks
- Add that her work was featured in Afro-American Images 1971: The Vision of Percy Ricks
- Add that his work was featured in Afro-American Images 1971: The Vision of Percy Ricks
- Add infobox
- Add that her work was featured in Afro-American Images 1971: The Vision of Percy Ricks
- Fix tone. Remove warning template when done.
B class articles
- Add that her work was featured in Afro-American Images 1971: The Vision of Percy Ricks
- Add that his work was featured in Afro-American Images 1971: The Vision of Percy Ricks
- Add that his work was featured in Afro-American Images 1971: The Vision of Percy Ricks
GA class articles
- Add that his work was featured in Afro-American Images 1971: The Vision of Percy Ricks
- Add that his work was featured in Afro-American Images 1971: The Vision of Percy Ricks
- Add that her work was featured in Afro-American Images 1971: The Vision of Percy Ricks
- Add that his work was featured in Afro-American Images 1971: The Vision of Percy Ricks
- Expand lead paragraph
- Add that his work was featured in Afro-American Images 1971: The Vision of Percy Ricks
- Add that his work was featured in Afro-American Images 1971: The Vision of Percy Ricks
- Add that his work was featured in Afro-American Images 1971: The Vision of Percy Ricks
- Confirm that issue in template has been resolved. Remove template.
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[edit]GLAM professionals and WIkipedians-in-residence may improve Wikipedia using their organizations' resources while still complying with Wikipedia's policy on paid editing. COI-GLAM states that,
- Museum curators, librarians, archivists, and similar are encouraged to help improve Wikipedia, or to share their information in the form of links to their resources. If a link cannot be used as a reliable source, it may be placed under further reading or external links if it complies with the external links guideline.
You must include a conflict of interest statement on your user page if planning to edit as part of your professional duties
Sample statement
About Me
I am a paid employee of the Delaware Art Museum. We are working to make our resources more accessible to the public by working directly with Wikipedia.
Conflict of interest statement
I am editing Wikipedia as part of my official duties at the Delaware Art Museum. I will abide by Wikipedia's accepted practices on conflicts of interest, neutrality, and notability. Because the mission of the National Museum of Women in the Arts is in line with Wikipedia's mission to disseminate knowledge, I will not make edits that I do not believe are in accordance with Wikipedia's practices and procedures. If you believe I have made an error or violated Wikipedia’s norms, please let me know.
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