User:LeMonde17

Some Useful Lists for our Edit-a-thon at Wellesley (Nov 28, 2018)

 * List of newspapers submitted by students who signed up for the edit-a-thon.
 * List of all newspapers in the United States (retrieved from USNPL).

Needs an infobox and/or further research:

 * 1) Jacksonville Free Press (black newspaper in FL. Page exists with only one line, needs research and infobox)
 * 2) Florida Sentinel Bulletin (black newspaper in FL. Doesn't have infobox information. Needs research.)
 * 3) Bossier Press-Tribune (Bossier City, LA) (needs an infobox)
 * 4) The Star Press (Muncie, IL) (needs more research)

Needs a full page:

 * 1) Draft:The Middle Georgia Informer (Macon, GA)
 * 2) Draft:Sebring News-Sun (Sebring, FL)
 * 3) Draft:Visalia Times-Delta (Visalia, CA)
 * 4) Texas Border Business (McAllen, TX)
 * 5) Draft:Progress Times(Mission, TX)
 * 6) Draft:Lamar Times (Hattiesburg, MS)
 * 7) Adelante Valle (a Spanish-language newspaper in El Centro, CA)



About Me
User:LeMonde17

I am a student at Wellesley College, interested in building up local newspapers to help web users identify credible news sources.

I am currently participating in a project initiated by user:Michaelacaulfield to improve the coverage of historic local newspapers in Wikipedia. One of the best ways to help readers sort out whether a newspaper is real or fake is to check Wikipedia to see if it has an article (and what that article says). Having newspapers documented is also crucial to Wikipedia internally, since many historical claims are sourced to local papers, and editors require context on the nature of the publication the material appears in. This project, Local Historical Newspapers on Wikipedia (LHNOW) will help to improve the quality and reliability of local news sources, particularly historic newspapers.