Dear wikiboston,
Phoebe is coming to visit at the end of the month, and Nicole and I have been talking about getting together for a reference day at the BPL, focused on BLPs and [other] disputed topics.
In particular, I would like to see [[List of people from Boston]] improved and expanded to include modern people, so that it look more like lists from other major cities (e.g., [[List of people from Chicago]] and [[List of Austinites]]).
Modern writers, musicians, and educators might be a place to start. A Reference Challenge with a list of 100 peeps to begin with would be interesting. (does someone want to start putting this together?)
I would start with * [[Category:People_from_Boston,_Massachusetts]] * Older unref'ed BLPs from [[Category:Unreferenced_BLPs]] * Topic searches of the BLP noticeboard's archives: http://tinyurl.com/blpsearch
And at the end of the day we could have a new and improved list of Bostonians (with a special marker for BLPs? for those who have been through BLP review?) and wrap up with comments on the en:wp policies... [[Wikipedia talk:Biographies of living persons]]
SJ, who can bring a 12-plug power strip.
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Nicole Willson artisticaltruist@gmail.com wrote: < So, do we want to do BLP at BPL? Also is there a
specific area of BLP that could use help, like people in a certain area of the humanities (authors, artists etc.)? Another idea would be researching disputed articles.
What time should this be? I just remembered that the BPL opens at 9 on Saturdays, but I think it'd be better that this start around 1 or 2.
I know Hasty and Janet were interested, so that's two people right there. I can also email Evan to see if he can make it.
SJ: Could you post this to the meetup group and the mailing list? I can do some sort of write-up, but can't post things to the meetup group. Thanks!
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 2:18 AM, phoebe ayers phoebe.ayers@gmail.com wrote:
Sounds like the humanities area is the way to go, and someone should bring a power strip.
Can you guys publicize it to wpians? I can put together a quick how to reference page. Doing boston history articles would also be sweet, but maybe too hard.
If we even get one or two people it will be a fun way to spend an afternoon.
P.