Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon: Women in Virginia History

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Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon: Women in Virginia History

Join us and help to edit and create Wikipedia articles about notable women from Virginia. Laptops are required. Please bring your own.

Training will be provided for new Wikipedia editors.

Please note that this is an IN-PERSON event.

When

Sunday, August 14, 2022

12pm - 3pm EDT

Where

City of Fairfax Regional Library

10360 North St

Fairfax, VA 22030

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IMPORTANT: Please reserve articles using this Google sheet before you begin.

Red links = Article to be created

Blue links = Existing articles needing improvement

Existing articles

Stub

Audrey Moore (politician)[1] - To do: Expand. Add more references.
Mistress Forrest [2] - To do: Expand. Add infobox. Fix formatting issues including random sentences as a section header.

Start

Sally Fairfax [3] - To do: Embolden name. Add infobox and external link to GW letter.
Jean Packard - To do: Establish clear lead paragraph and sections.
Laura Copenhaver - To do: Establish clear lead paragraph and sections. See Dictionary Virginia Biography for information.
Anne Burras - To do: Add infobox. Expand. See sources: "VA immigrants and adventurers" > Travels and Works of John Smith AND Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia AND Adventurers of Purse and Person
Orianna Andrews - To do: Upload this image to Commons. Add image to infobox. See Dictionary Virginia Biography for more information.

C

Laura Ratcliffe - To do: This article could use a rewrite. The lead lays out part of what she did, but the rest is not fleshed out in the sections. 'Gift for Laura' is a strange heading. After lead should go 'Early life', then 'Spy activities' or similar which should include work with the Confederacy. After that, maybe 'After the war' and then perhaps 'Death and legacy'. See source A Southern Spy in Northern Virginia. Stealing Secrets
Virginia Women's Monument
Evelyn Thomas Butts [4] - Also see Inspiring African American Women of VA and Dictionary Virginia Biography
Clementina Rind [5] - See also Virginia Women: Their Lives and Times.
Anne Spencer [6][7] - To do: Add more about her home as a museum and that it received funding recently from the National Trust. See also More Than Petticoats.
Angela (enslaved woman)[8] - See also: Original Lists of Persons of Quality. William & Mary Quarterly v54.

B

GA

Caroline Branham - To do: Add infobox. Add that she is honored at Virginia Women's Monument
Ella Graham Agnew - To do: Add that she is honored at Virginia Women's Monument
Kate Waller Barrett - To do: Add that she is honored at Virginia Women's Monument
Maggie L. Walker - To do: Add that she is honored at Virginia Women's Monument
Mary Bowser - To do: Add that she is honored at Virginia Women's Monument. Add infobox.
Mary Custis Lee

FA

Articles for creation

Edith Sprouse - Historian[9][10]
Nan Netherton - Historian[11]
Anne Wilkins - Politician and activisit[12][13]
Flora Cooke Stuart [14][15]

-Bold Dragoon: Cavalryman of the Lost Cause.

Odessa Pittard Bailey - Judge. First woman in VA to hold judicial post higher than justice of the peace or county trial justice[16][17]

Photo already in Commons

Hazel Kathleen Doss Barger - Businesswoman[18][19][20]
Virginia Laydon [21][22]

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