Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/1lib1ref2017

Celebrating 1lib1ref 2017 at the MIT Libraries!

How-to
How to Participate: Five Basic Steps


 * 1) Find an article that needs a citation. There are many ways to do this. Here are some strategies.
 * 2) * Filling a "Citation Needed" using Citation Hunt
 * 3) * Finding an article with sourcing problems
 * 4) * Select an article while browsing
 * 5) * Cite a source from your collection or research
 * 6) * Use the Wikipedia citation tool for Google Books
 * 7) Find a reliable source that can support that article
 * 8) Add a citation using Wikipedia Style. Click here to learn about adding citations and editing Wikipedia
 * 9) Add the project hashtag #1Lib1Ref in the Wikipedia Edit Summary
 * 10) Share your edit on social media and learn more about libraries and Wikipedia. Grab a userbox for your user page if you're into that sort of thing.

Sample articles and possible sources

 * Anita K. Jones - American computer scientist and former U.S. government official. She was Director, Defense Research and Engineering from 1993 to 1997.
 * This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations.
 * Phyllis Fox - (born 1923) is an American mathematician and computer scientist.
 * This biographical article relating to a computer specialist in the United States is a stub.
 * Nai-Chang Yeh - a Taiwanese American physicist specializing in experimental condensed matter physics.
 * Stub
 * No infobox
 * No headings
 * External links that could be used as references
 * MIT in popular culture
 * Films and television: This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources.
 * Edwin Blashfield
 * The man responsible for the murals in Walker Memorial
 * Add the MIT resource
 * Other opportunities here to add more citations
 * Library anxiety
 * This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations - especially in the Background section
 * American Society of Civil Engineers
 * This article needs additional citations for verification.
 * This article contains content that is written like an advertisement.
 * C. Robert Wieser - MIT electrical engineer and developer of electrical and computing technology
 * No infobox
 * Bio is list, could be put in paragraphs
 * General editing
 * Mary Morrill - the maternal grandmother of Benjamin Franklin
 * No citations
 * Heisuke Hironaka - a Japanese mathematician
 * This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. The specific problem is: "Story" section is unintelligible. Please help improve this article if you can.
 * James Rhyne Killian - 10th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from 1948 until 1959.
 * This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
 * Daughters of St. Crispin - an American labor union of women shoemakers, and the first national women's labor union in the United States
 * Stub
 * Needs citations
 * Henry Davis Sleeper (1878-1934) - nationally-noted antiquarian, collector, and interior decorator.
 * No headings
 * No infobox

A few sources of biographies

 * Dictionary of Scientific Biography
 * Oxford African American study center
 * biographical encyclopedia of astronomers
 * An African biographical dictionary
 * etc.