User:Ahsoka Dillard

I am an educator, public musicologist, and editor, who has been trained by the Wiki Educational Program to edit Wikipedia, specializing in biographies of women and minorities. Learn more at WikiEdu.org. All of my contributions are my own and I take responsibility for them.

Principles of Wikipedia Articles

 * Five Pillars of Wikipedia
 * Wikipedia Policy on Notability of People
 * Notability (music - musicians, ensembles, composers, and lyricists)
 * Wikipedia Policy on Biographies of Living Persons

How to Get Started Editing Biographies

 * link to Women in Red Project primer for getting started on creating women's biographies on wikipedia
 * link to Women in Red Project Redlink index
 * link to discussion and guidelines on Wikipedia Notability Academics
 * link to discussion and policies for biographies of living persons on wikipedia.
 * Biographies typically include the following sub-sections:
 * "Introduction (or lede)"
 * "Early life and education
 * "Career and/or service"
 * "Select publications"
 * "Notable awards"
 * "References"

WikiProjects

 * Women in Music
 * Women in Red - Very active
 * Redlist Index
 * Composers (Crowd-sourced)
 * Composers (Missing articles by dictionary)
 * Music (Crowd-sourced)
 * Musicians
 * Asian Americans
 * Protected Areas

Tips for editing

 * Wikipedia is edited collaboratively by volunteers. You can see all volunteer wikipedia editors who have contributed to any given article and their specific contributions by clicking the "View History" tab of an article.
 * Articles on living academics and and individuals editing such these must adhere to the Wikipedia policies on Biographies of Living Persons.
 * While all articles in blue links are live and have passed wikipedia peer-review, new biographies of academics can still be subject to deletion (a peer-reviewed wikipedia process) under the wikipedia guidelines for Notability of Academics. To help ensure new articles are not nominated for deletion on notability grounds, a major effort with biographies on academics (and edits thereof) is ensuring articles are as detailed and well-sourced as possible.
 * You can easily request automated updates on changes that are made to any given article on wikipedia by adding it to the watchlist of your wikipedia account. More info about making a free wikipedia account is at this link.

Useful Links + Pages

 * Wikipedia Village Pump (For help on technical issues)
 * Meetup
 * Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Editing, creating, and maintaining articles/Editing for the first time
 * Manual of Style/Layout
 * Wikipedia Training || Training || Wikipedia Tutorials

Asian American Composers Articles

 * Tangelene Bolton
 * Asako Hirabayashi
 * Min Xiao-Fen
 * Farangis Nurulla-Khoja
 * Niloufar Nourbakhsh
 * Kamala Sankaram
 * Betty Ann Wong
 * Wu Fei

Women in Red Articles

 * Anne-Marie Lagrange
 * Lucienne Divan
 * Shelly M. Jones
 * Susie Rayos MarmonSymbol question.svg
 * Marie-Andrée Gill
 * Marian AndersonSymbol support vote.svg
 * Helen Taylor (composer)

Other Articles

 * Comic-Con Museum
 * Lucie Pinson > expansion for WikiEdu, Climate Finance Biographies