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
<[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>
> 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.
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