Wikipedia:Meetup/Nashville/Superheroes Edit-a-thon

The Nashville Public Library is hosting a "Superheroes Wikipedia Edit-a-thon" to create and edit Wikipedia articles about your favorite superheroes from comics, movies, video games, or better yet, real life. Our goal is to have fun, teach people about Wikipedia, and help make Wikipedia better. This program is part of Summer Challenge. Participating counts towards your Summer Challenge goals.

The Wikipedia training and Edit-a-thon will take place in the Commons Room on the third floor of the Main library downtown. Please bring a laptop with you.

Details

 * Date: Saturday, June 13, 2015
 * Time: 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
 * Location: The Nashville Public Library, Nashville, TN
 * Find us at: 615 Church Street, Nashville, TN
 * Who Should Attend: Anyone interested in fandom, pop culture, history, and Wikipedia. Beginners and experts welcome!
 * Hashtag: #NPLsummer
 * Participating Organizations: Nashville Public Library

Please Bring A Laptop with You!

Likely attendees
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 * Librarian Bryan (talk) 14:50, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
 * MeganA-J (talk) 20:15, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

Regrets

 * Ugh, I was hoping to make it, but I'm gonna have to work instead. :\ EVula // talk // &#9775;  // 07:21, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

Content worked on

 * Portrayal of black people in comics minor touch ups, grammar, citations
 * Jaime Hernandez Updated the "Awards" section, corrected 2 external links (1 to his Fantagraphic author page and 1 to a review on Pop Matters), and added a citation from Comics Alliance to the "Other work" section. MeganA-J (talk) 14:04, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Liz Prince added photo
 * Maria Bamford (real life hero) updated awards, updated American Comedy Awards to reflect her win
 * The X-Files merchandise Added a "Tabletop games" section and information for 3 X-Files games - The X-Files Collectible Card Game, The X-Files Trivia Game, and The X-Files Board Game. MeganA-J (talk) 21:20, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Callie House (real life hero) added photo
 * Love and Rockets (comics) Corrected 1 external link to a review on Pop Matters. MeganA-J (talk) 01:37, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

You Can Work on Whatever You Want BUT
There are a ton articles about comics on Wikipedia. Many of these articles need edited to meet community standards. If you want to be Batman you have to be willing to clean up Gotham City.
 * These comics articles need cleaned up.
 * Some other comics related tasks that need done - some of these are better left to more experienced editors. If that is you - go for it.

There is a shortage of articles about women on Wikipedia. Be a hero, or at least a good citizen, and help change that.
 * These awesome female artists need their pages created or expanded.
 * These accomplished woman scientists need articles too.
 * All of these women from around the world need articles too.

A lot of real life heroes of the Civil Rights movement don't have articles, or their articles need expanded. A lot of these people have Nashville connections. Keep the spirit of the library's Our Story Matters Editathon going by:
 * creating these articles about Civil Rights activists
 * improving these articles about Civil Rights activisits

You're an awesome person and your pet/parent/high school physics teacher is your hero. And that is awesome but there is a high probably they not notable enough to be included in Wikipedia. For more pointers see the tools and templates below.

Tools and templates

 * Training
 * Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
 * Wikipedia Template:Infobox person
 * Biographies of living persons
 * Writing an article
 * About the Sandbox