Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/Occidental

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To-Do
Here are a few suggested articles to create or improve during this edit-a-thon, but you are welcome to work on anything you like. '''Please note: This is a crowdsourced list. You can help us by adding to it!'''

To create:
 * Margaret Collier Graham - writer
 * Alice Millard - bookseller, collector, cultural promoter
 * Elmer Wachtel - painter
 * Jean Mannheim - painter
 * William Lees Judson - painter, stained glass maker (there's entry for Judson Studios)

To improve:
 * Ward Ritchie - printer, book designer, publisher
 * Idah Meacham Strobridge - writer, bookbinder, publisher
 * Charles Fletcher Lummis - writer, editor, librarian
 * George Wharton James - writer, editor
 * Franz Bischoff - painter
 * Alson S. Clark - painter
 * Ernest A. Batchelder - painter
 * Marion Wachtel - painter
 * Olive Percivel - photographer, toymaker, writer
 * Clyde Browne - printer, book designer

Outcomes

 * Created: The "Artists of the Arroyo Seco" article is a stub upon which to build a description of the artistic and cultural life of the community over time. We have begun with the early arrivals who settled along the Arroyo. We anticipate developing an overview of the 20th thru the 21st century.Oxy-Librarian (talk) 00:06, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

New Stub:
 * Clyde Browne - printer, book designer
 * Alice Millard - bookseller, collector, cultural promoter
 * Elmer Wachtel - painter
 * William Lees Judson - painter, stained glass maker (there's entry for Judson Studios)
 * Grace Channing

Improved
 * Ward Ritchie - printer, book designer, publisher
 * Idah Meacham Strobridge - writer, bookbinder, publisher
 * Charles Fletcher Lummis - writer, editor, librarian
 * George Wharton James - writer, editor
 * Franz Bischoff - painter
 * Alson S. Clark - painter
 * Ernest A. Batchelder - painter

Resources for research
Article on Alice Millard

Article on Idah Meacham Strobridge

Periodicals
Southern Calif Quarterly

(CalHistQuart)

(CalHistSocQuart)

(HistSocSoCal)

(HistSocSoCalQuart)

Document that links to The Land of Sunshine volumes.

Academic Databases
JSTOR

EBSCO Art Databases

Newspaper Databases
Calif Dig News

Historical LA Sentinel

Historical LA Times

Current LA Times

Other
Ancestry.com California

Resources for publishing on Wikipedia
Please start here: When in doubt:
 * Unforgetting L.A.: Getting Started (step-by-step instructions + links)
 * GLAM/Beginner's guide to Wikipedia
 * Notability Guidelines for Artists & Creative Professionals
 * Notability Guidelines for Organizations
 * Conflict of Interest policy
 * Image Use Policy
 * Article Naming & Disambiguation

Additional Tutorials:
 * Basic tutorial
 * More detailed tutorial
 * Wikipedia Adventure - a silly but easy and effective tutorial!
 * Citing sources video tutorials (about two minutes each, very helpful) >