I second everyone's comments before mine! I was actually out with a
friend and was saying "oh wow, Figureskatingfan has been working on Maya
Angelou.." and was bragging (for lack of a better word!) about how
awesome your work is with Wikipedia and how amazing your new news about
Miss Angelou is.
Your work is inspiring and so amazing!!! Congratulations !!!
-Sarah
On 8/1/12 3:16 AM, Cynthia Ashley-Nelson wrote:
My own thoughts echo those expressed by others. Great job, Christine!
No surprise though, I think your work is outstanding!
Cindy
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Sydney Poore <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Christine, that's truly awesome. :-)
I've watched you working on the Maya Angelou topic for years now,
and thrilled to see that you've got her biography to FA. It will
be fantastic for her article to be on the main page on her
birthday as a feature article!
Sydney
User:FloNight
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Christine Meyer
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I've been doing my part in addressing the gender gap in
en.Wikipedia, and this week marks a major accomplishment for
me in this area and for me as an editor. [[Maya Angelou]] is
now a featured article.
I've been literally working on Angelou's article for years; my
very first edit of it was early in my WP-editing career, in
September 2007: [diff
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maya_Angelou&diff=prev&oldid=158867180].
It took this long mostly because I do have a life, most of
the time. When I came across it, I realized that Angelou's
work and life was sorely underrepresented and not at all
comprehensive, way before I came to understand the gender gap
in this project. I also realized that in order to do the
subject justice, I needed to become a MA-expert, something
I definitely was not at the time. I realized that at the very
least, I needed to read her six autobiographies, and while I
was at it, write articles about them. Only one article
existed at the time: her first autobiography [[I Know Why the
Caged Bird Sings]], which was in a pitiable state. A year's
worth of research, a lot of assistance from some of the most
premiere editors in the project, and 3 FACs later, it became
an FA.
In the ensuing years, I created and wrote articles about
Angelou's five remaining autobiographies (one is a FA, the
others are GAs), some ancillary articles about her other
works, and a couple of lists. ([[Works of Maya Angelou]] is
currently up for FLC.) After I completed the article about
Angelou's final autobiography, I worked to get her bio up to
snuff, and it had a relatively easy FAC, my first FA to pass
in its first candidacy. I think that was due to the fact that
the article was truly prepared before it was submitted. For
anyone who wants to drive an article through the FAC process,
that's my advice: make sure it's ready to be reviewed, and do
not use FAC (or GAC, even) to review it. There are other
places for that, so use them before bringing it to FAC.
My next goal is to create a Maya Angelou Featured Topic.
There are some things that need to be accomplished before
that; my goal is to get there before Dr. Angelou's 85th
birthday in April. I'm certain, at the very least, that her
bio will on the front page. Ironically, this is the week I
started researching the article about another elderly and
important woman: [[Joan Ganz Cooney]], co-creator of Sesame
Street.
Christine
Username: Figureskatingfan
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