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.
   • Filling a "Citation Needed" using Citation Hunt
   • Finding an article with sourcing problems
   • Select an article while browsing
   • Cite a source from your collection or research
   • Use the Wikipedia citation tool for Google Books
2. Find a reliable source that can support that article
3. Add a citation using Wikipedia Style. Click here to learn about adding citations and editing Wikipedia
4. Add the project hashtag #1Lib1Ref in the Wikipedia Edit Summary
5. 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
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A few sources of biographies

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