Wikipedia:Meetup/Notre Dame/NDBlacklivesmatter

Event information
This ND Black Lives Matter Wikipedia Edit-a-thons celebrates Black History Month and the black alumni and faculty at the University of Notre Dame. This event is designed to generate coverage of influential black ND faculty and alumni on Wikipedia and encourage a more diverse editorship.

Notre Dame Center for Arts and Culture Please bring a laptop and power cord with you! For the editing-averse, we urge you to stop by to show your support.
 * Date: RESCHEDULED - Friday, March 4, 2016
 * Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
 * Location: ND Center for Arts and Culture, 1045 W. Washington Street, South Bend, IN 46601
 * Contact: Kai Alexis Smith, ksmith59@nd.edu
 * Hashtag:' #NDblm

Registration
Join Black Faculty and Staff Association, the Notre Dame Center for Arts and Culture and Hesburgh Libraries in celebrating Black History Month. Together, we’ll research, write, and publish to Wikipedia the significant stories of the influential black alumni and faculty of Notre Dame.

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Attendees
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 * 1) Siarus1074 (talk) 06:01, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 2) Eccekevin (talk) 01:47, 10 February 2016 (UTC) (tentative)
 * 3) Ruthbrarian (talk) 20:37, 4 March 2016 (UTC) [2015-03-04]
 * 4) Visviva (talk) 03:00, 4 March 2016 (UTC) [2015-03-04]
 * 5) Randal sean (talk) 4 March 2016 (UTC) [2015-03-04]
 * 6) jkshields (talk) (tentative)
 * 7) GJansen793 (talk) 03:58, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Users below this line were added later from edit logs and logs of accounts created by Account Creators.

List of articles to edit
Athletics Created page: Ruthbrarian (talk) 01:00, 5 March 2016 (UTC) Edit needed: Page needs to be created for him. Possible category to consult for reference. Edit needed: He recently retired from the Minnesota Supreme Court. Just edited to include the Twin Cities article as a supporting link in a section that was mostly grounded on a primary source link to his foundation. Ruthbrarian (talk) 23:33, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Dave Duerson - He was the former Notre Dame football player and member of the storied 19585 Chicago Bears Super Bowl Champions; Notre Dame’s first black president of the Monogram Club.
 * Frazier Thompson - He was a first black student to enter Notre Dame and the first black student-athlete at Notre Dame; one of the three black students to graduate from Notre Dame in 1947; Notre Dame Alumni Association minority alumni network.
 * Alan Page - Justice Alan Page was a member of the Notre Dame’s 1966 National Championship Football Team and was a member of the Minnesota Supreme Court.


 * Richard Arrington

Department Page
 * African Studies Department Notre Dame - Comparable department page from Syracuse University See also a Notre Dame department And the Notre Dame History Science Society

Notable African Studies Faculty
 * Hugh R Page Jr. - Visviva (talk)
 * Richard B. Pierce
 * Dianne Pinderhughes
 * Paulinus Odozor - Father Paulinus Odozor is scholar and the Associate Professor, Theology, Africana Studies, Christian Ethics and the Theology of World Church, Moral Theology/Christian Ethics and World Religions & World Church.    [http:// ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/vatican-consistory-creating-six-cardinals-packs-global-punch]  LeslieLMorgan2016 (talk) 23:56, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Notable Black faculty of ND
 * Darren Davis - Dr. Darren Davis is the Associate Vice President for Research & Faculty, Political Science, University of Notre Dame and active members of the National Black Catholic Congress.
 * Deacon Melvin “Mel” Tardy, Jr. - He is a Deacon that serves on the Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese Black Catholic Advisory Board. He is also the Academic Advisor-Assistant Professional Specialist-First Year of Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Sandbox Practice Exercise
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Tools & Templates
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Wikipedia resources Beginner Advanced
 * Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
 * Five Pillars of Wikipedia (philosophical guidelines and best practices for Wikipedia editing)
 * How to Edit a page
 * Wiki Markup Quick Reference (PDF version of printed handout)
 * Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)
 * Article Development
 * Your First Article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
 * Citation Template
 * Info template
 * Bookshelf (additional "getting started" resources)
 * Wikipedia Notability Guidelines
 * Wikipedia Education Program handouts
 * Beginner Training Tutorial Videos
 * Beginner training lesson plan
 * Beginner training slides
 * Advanced Training Tutorials Videos

Cheat sheet
 * Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia

Other resources
 * Biographies of living persons
 * Writing an article
 * About the Sandbox
 * Wikipedia Template:Infobox person
 * Manual of Style
 * Wikipedia editing Resources

Resources for editing

 * Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
 * Gender gap resources.