Wikipedia:GLAM/SLIC/Events/1Lib1Ref at SLIC

About the event

The annual #1Lib1Ref campaign takes place this year 15 January - 3 February, with the aim of engaging more library professionals with Wikimedia - asking us to Imagine a World where Every Librarian Added One More Reference to Wikipedia. Librarians worldwide have been taking part in this campaign... and on Friday, it's our turn!

We'll be adding citations and making small improvements to Wikipedia pages about Scottish libraries, writers and novels.

We Can Edit

How do I prepare?

• Create a Wikipedia account - please don't everyone do this at once from a work computer! If too many people create an account from the same IP address within 24 hours, our IP address will be flagged for vandalism and the IP blocked. Which will make things... really difficult for me, for a start. So please create an account from your phone (3G or 4G NOT WiFi!), or from home. Your username can be anything you like - but please don't include "SLIC" in it - you're editing as an individual, not an organisation. Any questions, shout me!

• You can read a little more about editing and adding references over on the main 1Lib1Ref page.

Trainers

Sara Thomas, and our student placement Jenny will be around too :)

Hit list of articles in need of references

Thanks to Jenny for putting this list together!

All could be expanded and tidied up

Public Libraries

• Birnam Arts - public library in scotland - could have more detail
• Central Library, Aberdeen
• Edinburgh Central Library
• Coatbridge Library
• Dunfermline Carnegie Library
• Glasgow Women's Library
• Mitchell Library
• Pollokshields library
• Airdrie Public Library - not in 'public libraries in Scotland' category
• Hamilton Townhouse - includes library - not in 'public libraries in Scotland' category

Female Scottish Writers

• Marion Arnott - very short entry
• Catherine Macartney - Stub article
• Alison Cockburn - needs citations
• Lorraine Davidson - stub article
• Jennie Erdal - citations and stub article
• Aminatta Forna - content like advertisement
• Pat Gerber - stub and needs citations
• Anne Lorne Gillies - needs citations and rewritten in encyclopedic tone
• Muriel Gray - needs citations
• Jessie Kesson - needs citations
• Maggie Kingsley - needs citations
• Liz Lochhead - lead section needs work
• Hilda Lockhart Lorimer - needs citations
• Mary Maitland - stub and needs more specific categories
• Anna Murdoch Mann - needs citations
• Margery Palmer McCulloch - needs citations
• Sharon McPherson - needs citations
• Lisanne Norman - needs citations
• Carmen Reid - needs citations
• Margaret Ryan - needs citations
• Ali Smith - needs citations

Scottish Novels

• The Big Man (novel) - very short
• Blood in the Water (novel) - needs citations and expanded
• Bridal Path (novel) - needs citations
• Castle Gay expanded and citations needed
• The Cone Gatherers - needs citations
• The Cost of Living like This - needs citations
• A Disaffection - needs citations
• Divided City - needs citations
• Dùn Aluinn - needs citations
• Giraffe (novel) - citations
• Greenmantle - citations
• How Late It Was, How Late - citations
• The Kiln - expand
• The Lantern Bearers (Frame novel) - citations
• Lee Goes for Gold - citations
• Lee's Holiday Showdown - citations
• Miss Marjoribanks - citations
• The Mystery of Cloomber - citations
• The New Confessions - citations
• Rodney Stone - citations
• Venus as a Boy (novella) - citations
• Weir of Hermiston - citations
• Young Adam - citations

Other Scottish women

• A list of memorials to women in Scotland can be found on the Women of Scotland website. Links to the appropriate page could be added to those women's Wikipedia page, should the information be missing...

Sources

• Wikipedia is a tertiary resource, which relies upon good quality secondary sources and some primary sources. Wikipedia is not a place for fringe theories, untested hypotheses, or personal interpretation.
• For more guidance on the use of sources, see this guide here.
• We will provide a variety of reference materials on the day.
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• Shareable Images can be found through a Creative Commons search(which includes Google, Flickr & Wikicommons in its search).
• Scottish Bibliographies Online
• Scottish Song Index
• Histories of Scottish Families