Vtdavis

Hello from your OA

Greetings Victoria, welcome to the wiki. Thanks for getting in touch, and feel free to post to my talk page with any questions that come up in the course of your editing (same to the students in your group). I hope you enjoy your wikipedia editing experience. Let me know when your group is selecting a topic, it's important to choose one with lots of available sources. Best, The Interior (Talk) 01:22, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

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Frog Baby!

That's really cool. I think you've got something to work with, the two news sources give you some material. You could also improve the sculptor's page Edith Barretto Stevens Parsons if you are feeling ambitious. It would be nice to find sources for the info in the "Lore" section of the article. Also - get more pictures! Close ups, details of frogs, etc. Good luck with it, and let me know if (when :) you have any problems. The Interior (Talk) 05:25, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

Hey Froggies--you have a promising start with your draft but as you already know need more sources to identify the statue and other copies more accurately. On The Interior's page someone left a user name of a Wikipedian who might be able to help--here it is--leave a request on his talk page. The other statue group will also be asking for help there. User_talk:Doug_Coldwell

Also, you need help from the Interior on where to put your contribution eventually--in a separate article, or as part of Ball State's site, or even as part of the sculptor's site. Where it appears does have an influence on what the content should be. -Webster Newbold (talk) 17:12, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

I would suggest doing a separate article for Frog Baby. It is mentioned briefly in the Ball State page, and we could link it from there. As for the other Frog Babies, you should stick to sources about Ball State Frog Baby (although there maybe relevant general info about the statue in other sources). To disambiguate, you should name your article Frog Baby (Ball State University). The Interior (Talk) 17:46, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Victoria, Doug Coldwell replied to your message in his talk page, but it may be hard to find since he archived it. It's now on this page. Locations of other copies of the Frog Baby can be found on this listing by the Smithsonian Museum of American Art

Also, I haven't heard from the BSU Art Museum folks, so you should go ahead and contact them directly. Email Tania Said at tsaid@bsu.edu. It might be most effective for you and/or others in your group to go over there to the museum and see if they can help. —Webster Newbold (talk) 22:31, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

Student orientation: how to edit Wikipedia

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