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Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: Hispanic Heritage Month: Getting Started

This guide reviews Wikipedia as a research tool and explains how editors can learn information literacy skills as well as diversifying the demographics of Wikipedia editors.

Choosing Your Article/Page to Edit

Every article on Wikipedia must prove notability—in other words, it’s up to you to demonstrate that your article belongs in the encyclopedia. To help your article pass the notability test, use a rule of three: Be sure to cite at least three reliable, published sources that are independent of your subject—i.e., no official websites or promotional material. If you can’t find at least three good sources, you may find it difficult to prove notability.

What is notability?

The Wikipedia Notability guideline for people states:

  1. The person is regarded as an important figure or is widely cited by peers or successors.
  2. The person is known for originating a significant new concept, theory or technique.
  3. The person has created, or played a major role in co-creating, a significant or well-known work, or collective body of work. In addition, such work must have been the subject of an independent book or feature-length film, or of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews.
  4. The person’s work (or works) either (a) has become a significant monument, (b) has been a substantial part of a significant exhibition, (c) has won significant critical attention, or (d) is represented within the permanent collections of several notable galleries or museums.

Wiki Project Latinos

For suggestions on articles to edit, check out the WikiProject Latinos, or WikiProject Hispanic and Latino Americans.   The project was created to encourage the creation and development of articles about Hispanic and Latino Americans and their art, culture, history, politics, achievements and issues.   The goal of the project are as follows.

  1. To ensure articles accurately depict Hispanic and Latino Americans.
  2. To ensure articles reference comprehensive sources by including all the various perspectives of, and about, Hispanic and Latino Americans.
  3. To standardize the use of Spanish-language terms, names, and translations into English.

The Wiki Project Hispanic and Latino Americans has compiled a list of approximately 200 articles that could be edited and updated.   I would like to suggest that you look at articles of people on the list to edit.  You may also want to add an article on a favorite author or entertainer.   Please click on the link below for the list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Start-Class_Hispanic_and_Latino_American_articles

 

Or,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Stub-Class_Latin_articles