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• Misplaced Pages Day 2025

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Where: Brooklyn Central Library, Grand Army Plaza

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• December 8: Editing the Haitian Creole Misplaced Pages
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Black Life Matters Misplaced Pages Edit-a-thon

The entrance to the Center
When and Where
Time	Saturday, February 7, 2015 (noon 4:30/5pm)
City, State	New York City, New York

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is hosting a Black Life Matters Misplaced Pages Edit-a-thon on Saturday February 7, to contribute to articles on Misplaced Pages for the national Black WikiHistory Month outreach campaign.

The Misplaced Pages training and Edit-a-thon will take place in the Aaron Douglas Reading Room of the Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division with a following reception in the Langston Hughes lobby on the first floor of the building.

For events in Brooklyn, Westchester, and elsewhere over this weekend, please see Misplaced Pages:Black WikiHistory Month.

Event information

• Date: Saturday, February 7, 2015
• Time: 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
• Location: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard (Lenox Avenue) between West 135th and 136th Streets, Harlem, New York
• Community Partners: Wireless Harlem & West Harlem Art Fund

The Misplaced Pages training and editathon will take place in the Aaron Douglas Reading Room of the Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, with a reception following in the Langston Hughes lobby on the first floor of the building at 5:00pm.

If you have a laptop, please bring it with you!

Press

• Cassano, Jay. "Black History Matters so why is Misplaced Pages Missing so Much of it." FastCompany. January 29, 2015.
• Solis, Gustavo. "Schomburg Center Hosts Misplaced Pages Edit-a-Thon for Articles on Black Culture." DNAInfo. January 30, 2015.
• Gebreyes, Rahel. "Misplaced Pages Edit-A-Thon Reinforces The Value Of Digitizing Black History," Huffington Post Blackvoices. February 2, 2015.
• Lewis, Taylor. "Misplaced Pages Is Getting a Lesson in Black History." Essence.com
• Noisette, Thierry. "Un éditathon pour rédiger des pages Wikipédia sur la culture noire." Rue89. February 04, 2015.
• Mccalister, Jared. "BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2015 : New York celebrates African-American culture and heritage with an abundance of events." NYDaily News. February 05, 2015.

Sign up

Register for the event on Eventbrite if you plan to attend in-person. If you are able, please also add your Misplaced Pages username to the appropriate section below (signatures are created by saving four tildes in a row). If you haven't edited Misplaced Pages before, we will help you register for a new Misplaced Pages editing account on the day-of.

Likely attendees

• OR drohowa (talk) 15:50, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
• Pharos (talk) 15:55, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
• Jim.henderson (talk) 21:14, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
• Kellis181 (talk) 03:21, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
• Mozucat (talk) 22:47, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
• Deckdeckdeck (talk) 15:54, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
• Becksguy (talk) 21:35, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
• Blue Rasberry (talk) 01:14, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
• Rcamilled (talk) 22:04, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
• Rangilo Gujarati (talk) 19:38, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
• HullIntegrity (talk) 14:40, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
• --DrX (talk) 14:42, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
• Vaparedes (talk) 15:55, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
• Megs (talk) 20:26, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
• Lange.lea (talk) 19:21, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
• Theredproject (talk) 14:25, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
• Jwhysel (talk) 15:52, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
• --Seaseapb (talk) 17:07, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
• Tduk (talk) 17:26, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
• Syzygyst (talk) 17:27, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
• --Judge HLM (talk) 17:28, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
• --Puppytoe2015 (talk) 17:32, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
• --Lisa M Cortés (talk) 17:49, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
• --Emarieb5 (talk) 17:52, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
• --Ewapple (talk) 17:53, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
• --Djembayz (talk) 17:55, 7 February 2015 (UTC) (remote, briefly)

Possible attendees

• The only thing that would keep me from saying yes is that I don't have a laptop. I am however, willing to be a research assistant to someone if you want me to go. Mitch32 22:07, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

• You would be of great help as an experienced Misplaced Pages editor! Please join us :)--Pharos (talk) 23:42, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

• It appears I am going to Boston anyway. Mitch32 14:55, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

• If you don't have a laptop, I think it's possible to borrow a laptop (maybe more than 1) for the day kosboot (talk) 21:42, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

• Yeah well, it is official that I am going to Boston on 2/7. Mitch32 17:44, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

• Depends on my employment search. Bearian (talk) 15:44, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

Regrets

• Wish I could go, but I can't that day. I hope to see everyone some other time. PointsofNoReturn (talk) 17:51, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
• Wish I could attend! kosboot (talk) 19:29, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
• I will be at the Brooklyn event on Saturday DGG ( talk ) 19:58, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

List of articles to edit

Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon.

Need to be Created

• Violette Neatley Anderson (1882–1937), lawyer and reformer, first Black woman lawyer to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court (1926) (brief stub created)
• Lawrence Benjamin Brown (1893–1973), American pianist, composer, and arranger of folk songs
• Glory Van Scott (b. 1947), dancer and educator
• Charles A. Smythwick, novelist
• Harlem Book Fair
• National Black Theatre
• Molefe Pheto, South African political prisoner
• Mogorosi Motshumi (b. 1955), South African cartoonist
• Dumile Feni (b. 1942), South African sculptor
• Charles Cyrus Thomas (1909–1988) (died in California)
• Mildred Blount (1907–1974?), milliner
• Ruth Bowen (1924–2009), booking agent
• Elombe Brath (d. 2014), anti-apartheid activist
• Judy Dearing (1940–1995), Broadway costume designer
• Cheryll Greene, editor
• Harlem Six
• Eliza Healy (1846–1919), educator, first African American Catholic Mother Superior (see Healy family#Eliza Healy)
• Roi Ottley
• Myra Adele Logan (1908–1977), physician at Harlem Hospital (I looked at the deleted page for her and there is nothing to bring to the new article.)
• Maritcha Rémond Lyons (1848–1929)
• Ruth Logan Roberts (1891–1968), Harlem salon host, suffragist, activist
• Cecelia Cabaniss Saunders (1883–1966), Harlem YWCA leader
• Greater Bethel AME Church (Harlem)
• James Yates, soldier, civil rights activist and author
• George Washington Ellis, http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Ellis,+George+Washington

Biographies

• Lawrence D. Reddick, curator of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature, 1939–1948
• Jean Blackwell Hutson, Schomburg curator, 1948–1980
• Aaron Douglas
• dream hampton
• John Henrik Clarke
• Mae Virginia Cowdery
• Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
• Xenobia Bailey
• Miriam Tlali
• Annie B. Martin
• Lloyd Sealy, NYPD officer/commander and CUNY professor
• Sarah J. Garnet , created this article 5 years ago during Women's History month. Need picture!!, and expansion.
• Red links in Harlem Renaissance - Notable figures (especially poets)

Organizations

• West Harlem Art Fund
• Harlem bookstores
• Schomburg Honor Roll, 1939-1947
• Studio Museum in Harlem

See also pages relating to the Harlem Renaissance

Other lists with articles that need to be created

• African-American artists
• missing entries from the Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
• Caribbean poets
• missing entries from Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia
• missing entries from Writing African-American Women
• missing entries from Black Women Scientists in the United States
• missing entries from the Dictionary of African Biography
• Timeline of New York City (existing article to be expanded)
• African American city/state/regional histories, e.g. more examples like in {{African Americans by location}}

Stubs!

"Stubs" - very short articles in need of expansion:

• Category:African diaspora stubs
• Category:African American stubs
• Category:Africa stubs
• Category:Caribbean stubs
• Other stub types

Languages other than English

• You can also contribute in Misplaced Pages language editions in Spanish, French, Haitian Creole, Yoruba, Garifuna and other languages!

For further inspiration

See also:

• Misplaced Pages:WikiProject African diaspora

Resources

• NYPL Guide: Black Life Matters Misplaced Pages Edit-a-thon: How You Can Help
• Digital Schomburg: Links and Resources
• Digital Schomburg: Online Exhibitions
• Digital Schomburg: Online Books
• Digital Schomburg: Images & Illustrations
• Digital Schomburg: Africana Heritage Newsletters

Tools and templates

• Cheatsheet for editing Misplaced Pages
• Misplaced Pages Template:Infobox person
• Misplaced Pages:Biographies of living persons
• Writing an article
• About the Sandbox

External links

• NYPL Schomburg event description

• Misplaced Pages meetups in New York City
• Black WikiHistory Month
• Misplaced Pages meetups in 2015