Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Queens Name Explorer/Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world.

The Queens Name Explorer team requests help from editors with expertise on notability guidelines. Many of the individuals with honorary street names are appropriate candidates for Wikidata entity records, but only some are appropriate candidates for Wikipedia articles. Creating stub articles or even just a list of people who should have articles, would be very helpful.


 * WP:5 Pillars
 * Article structure and editing: Louis Armstrong
 * Photos on Wikimedia Commons

= Tasks =

Articles to enhance
🔍 all people with an English Wikipedia article

Example: Barbara M. Clark

Also, street and geography articles. (List of eponymous streets in New York City very underdeveloped)

Articles to create
🔍 all people without an English Wikipedia article (not all people will be appropriate candidates for Wikipedia articles)

Start new articles in your WP:Sandbox (we'll help!)

For geography or biography topics with fewer sources, we might use Wikispore.


 * Ann Juliano Jawin, educator, author, and activist who was part of the Second Wave of women's liberation in the 1970s; founder of the Center for the Women of New York (CWNY); Douglaston resident; featured in Veteran Feminists of America Pioneer Histories Project
 * Robert Rygor, LGBT rights and AIDS activist who grew up in Astoria; first person to protest the exclusion of the LGBT community from the annual New York City St. Patrick's Day Parade on Fifth Avenue
 * Samuel Bowne Parsons, Sr., horticulturist; established Parsons Nursery in Flushing in 1839 in present-day Kissena Park; participant in the Underground Railroad; father of landscape architect Samuel Parsons; namesake of Parsons Boulevard
 * Jean Dubos biologist and environmentalist, her scientific partner and husband René Dubos has an article, but she does not yet
 * Stephen A. Halsey, namer of Astoria, Queens