Wikipedia:Meetup/HonouringIndigenousWriters/UBC 2021/Articles
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Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion. All of the writers on this list have consented to this work being done as per our event policy. We have organized them according to the type of work needed and listed a few suggestions for improvement. Authors with existing articles might have suggestions for improvement in their Talk pages. If the article hasn't been created yet (indicated by a red link), check out the Start Your Research page to see if there is any information there that can get you started.
Creating
[edit]Articles that involve creating require more "original thought" and effort. These articles may need to be created from scratch, or have already been created but are only a WP:Stub with no actual content. Other possible work might include re-writing content so that the article presents a WP:Neutral point of view.
Author | Work Needed |
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Aaron Paquette | Current article is a WP:Stub; Check Talk:Aaron Paquette for editing suggestions |
Alexis Wright | Current article is too short; Check Talk:Alexis Wright for editing suggestions |
Alistair Campbell (poet) | Current article is a WP:Stub; Check Talk:Alistair Campbell (poet) for potential sources |
Alootook Ipellie | Current article is a WP:Stub; Needs reformatting |
Anders Larsen | Current article is a WP:Stub |
Anthony Apakark Thrasher | New article needs to be created |
Armand Garnet Ruffo | Current article is a WP:Stub; Information needs citations from WP:Reliable sources; Needs reformatting |
Asani Charles | New article needs to be created |
Barbara Anne Cameron | Current article is a WP:Stub; Category needs to be added |
Bernard Assiniwi | Current article is a WP:Stub; Information needs citations from WP:Reliable sources; Needs reformatting; Check Talk:Bernard Assiniwi for potential sources |
Bertrand Walker (Hen-Toh) | New article needs to be created |
Beth Cuthand | Current article is a WP:Stub; Author wants to preview a draft version before it is published |
Bev Sellars | Current article is a WP:Stub |
Bevann Fox | New article needs to be created |
Blake Hausman | New article needs to be created |
Bob Joseph | Current article is somewhat short; Formatting |
Brandy Nālani McDougall | New article needs to be created |
Carole LaFavor | Current article is a WP:Stub; Information needs citations from WP:Reliable sources; Check Talk:Carole LaFavor for potential sources |
Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard | Current article is a WP:Stub; Author wants to preview a draft version before it is published |
Catharine Brown (author) | New article needs to be created |
Catherine Knutsson | New article needs to be created |
Charles Gibson (author) | New article needs to be created |
Charles Red Corn | New article needs to be created |
Chelsea Vowel | Current article is a WP:Stub; Check Talk:Chelsea Vowel for editing suggestions |
Cheryl Savageau | Tone needs editing to be in a WP:Neutral Point of View |
Chip Livingston | New article needs to be created |
Chris Bose | New article needs to be created |
Cinnamon (Spear) Kills First | New article needs to be created |
Connie Fife | Current article is a WP:Stub; Information needs citations from WP:Reliable sources |
Craig Womack | Current article is a WP:Stub |
D.L. Birchfield | New article needs to be created |
Darrel J. McLeod | Current article is a WP:Stub |
David Eggleton | Current article is too short; Categories need to be added; Check Talk:David Eggleton for editing suggestions |
David Groulx | New article needs to be created |
Debra Magpie Earling | Current article is too short; Categories need to be added. |
DeWitt Clinton Duncan | New article needs to be created |
Diane Burns | New article needs to be created |
Doris Pilkington Garimara | Current article is a WP:Stub |
Duane Niatum | Current article is too short |
Elizabeth Woody | Tone needs editing to a more encyclopedic style and to be in a WP:Neutral point of view; Check Talk:Elizabeth Woody for potential sources |
Ella Cara Deloria | Tone needs editing to a more encyclopedic style and to be in a WP:Neutral point of view |
Ellen van Neerven | Current article is a WP:Stub |
Emma LaRocque | Current article is a WP:Stub |
Erika Wurth | New article needs to be created |
Ernestine Hayes | Current article is too short; Check Talk:Ernestine Hayes for editing suggestions |
Esther Belin | Current article is a WP:Stub |
Garry Gottfriedson | New article needs to be created |
Geary Hobson | Current article is too short |
George Henry (Maungwudaus) | New article needs to be created |
Gerry William | New article needs to be created |
Glenn Twist | New article needs to be created |
Gogisgi | Current article is a WP:Stub |
Gordon Henry | Current article is a WP:Stub |
Gwen Benaway | Current article is too short |
Hans Aslak Guttorm | Current article is a WP:Stub |
Harry Robinson (author) | New article needs to be created |
Helen Knott | Current article is too short |
Hendrick Aupaumut | Current article is a WP:Stub; Category needs to be added |
Irvin Morris | Current article is a WP:Stub |
James Thomas Stevens | Current article is a WP:Stub |
Jean Starr (author) | New article needs to be created |
Jeannette Armstrong | Tone needs editing to be in a WP:Neutral point of view |
John Milton Oskison | Current article is too short |
Jónína Kirton | New article needs to be created |
Jordan Abel | Current article is a WP:Stub; Check Talk:Jordan Abel for potential sources |
Joseph Johnson (author) | New article needs to be created |
Joseph Nicolar | New article needs to be created. He is mentioned in the article about his daughter (Lucy_Nicolar_Poolaw) |
Joshua Whitehead | Current article is too short |
Jovette Marchessault | Current article is a WP:Stub; Category needs to be added |
Juan Wallparrimachi | Current article is a WP:Stub |
JudyLee Oliva | New article needs to be created. She is mentioned in the Te_Ata_Fisher article. |
Jules Koostachin | New article needs to be created |
June Scudeler | New article needs to be created |
Justin Neal | New artcle needs to be created |
Kim Senklip Harvey | New article needs to be created |
Kevin Loring | Current article is a WP:Stub |
Konai Helu Thaman | Current article is a WP:Stub |
ku‘ualoha ho‘omanawanui | New article needs to be created |
Kung Jaadee | Current article is somewhat short; Categories need to be added; Check Talk:Kung Jaadee for editing and resourcesuggestions |
Lara Mann | New article needs to be created |
Laura Da’ | New article needs to be created |
Laura Tohe | Current article is a WP:Stub; Check Talk:Laura Tohe for editing suggestions |
Lee Francis IV | New article needs to be created |
Leialoha Apo-Perkins | New article needs to be created |
Lisa Bird-Wilson | New article needs to be created; Check Talk:Lisa Bird-Wilson for potential sources |
Lisa Linn Kanae | New article needs to be created |
Louis Oliver (poet) | Current article is a WP:Stub |
Mini Aodla Freeman | Current article is a WP:Stub; Check Talk:Mini Aodla Freeman for potential sources; Author wants to preview a draft version before it is published (email HIW.UBC@gmail.com). |
M.L. Smoker | New article needs to be created |
Maggie Culver Fry | Current article is a WP:Stub |
Marcie Rendon | New article needs to be created |
Margaret Pokiak-Fenton | Current article is a WP:Stub; Check Talk:Margaret_Pokiak-Fenton for improvement suggestions |
Margaret Noodin | Current article is a WP:Stub; Category needs to be added; Check Talk:Margaret_Noodin for improvement suggestions |
Margaret Verble | New article needs to be created |
Maris Bryant Pierce (Ha-dya-no-doh) | New article needs to be created |
Mark Kalluak | New article needs to be created |
Marvin Francis | New article needs to be created |
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas | Current article is too short; Check Talk:Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas for improvement suggestions |
Michelle Good | Current article is a WP:Stub |
Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk | Current article is a WP:Stub |
Molly S. McGlennen | New page has been accepted. |
Moses Manu, Jr. | New article needs to be created |
Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler | New article needs to be created; |
Nicole Watson | New article needs to be created |
Ofelia Zepeda | Current article is too short |
Ora Eddleman Reed | New article needs to be created |
Paul Seesequasis | Current article is too short |
Penina Ava Taesali | New article needs to be created |
Pita Nwana | New article needs to be created. Her book Omenuko has an article. |
Richard Van Camp | Current article is too short |
Rita Bouvier | Current article is a WP:Stub; Check Talk:Rita Bouvier for improvement suggestions |
Robert Conley | Current article is a WP:Stub; Needs reformatting |
Robert Sullivan (poet) | Current article is a WP:Stub |
Roxy Gordon | Current article is a WP:Stub |
Royal Roger Eubanks | New article needs to be created |
Ruby Slipperjack | Current article is too short |
Sable Sweetgrass | New article needs to be created |
Sandra Lynn Lynxleg | New article needs to be created |
Sara Sue Hoklotubbe | New article needs to be created |
Sequoyah Guess | New article needs to be created |
Shane Belcourt | Current article is a WP:Stub |
Stephen Graham Jones | Current article is a WP:Stub; Check Talk:Stephen Graham Jones for improvement suggestions |
Sue McPherson | New article needs to be created |
Sy Hoahwah | New article needs to be created |
Tanaya Winder | Current article is too short |
Tim Giago | Current article is a WP:Stub |
Todd Downing (author) | New article needs to be created |
Tommy Pico | Current article is too short |
Traci Sorell | New article needs to be created |
Tunchai Redvers | New article needs to be created |
Victoria Kneubuhl | New article needs to be created. She is mentioned in the article about her uncle John_Kneubuhl; Author wants to preview a draft version before it is published. |
Wanda John-Kehewin | New article needs to be created |
Warren Cariou | Current article is a WP:Stub; Information needs citations fromWP:Reliable sources; Needs reformatting; Category needs to be added; Prove WP:Notability |
Waubgeshig Rice | Current article is a WP:Stub |
Wayne Arthurson | New article needs to be created |
william bearheart | New article needs to be created |
William S. Yellow Robe Jr. | Current article is a WP:Stub; Author wants to preview a draft version before it is published. |
Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene | New article needs to be created; Author wants to preview a draft version before it is published. |
Revising
[edit]Articles that involve revising strengthen the content that has already been created. These articles may have been flagged by Wikipedia as having issues with WP:Notability or needing WP:Reliable sources which need to be addressed. Other possible work might include reformatting content so that the article is easier to navigate.
Author | Work Needed |
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Al Hunter (writer) | Prove WP:Notability; References need reformatting |
Allison Hedge Coke | Information needs citations from WP:Reliable sources |
Carol Lee Sanchez | Information needs citations from WP:Reliable sources; Needs reformatting |
Chrystos | Information needs citations from WP:Reliable sources; Check Talk:Chrystos for editing suggestions |
Daniel David Moses | Information needs citations from WP:Reliable sources; Check Talk:Daniel David Moses for editing suggestions |
David Cusick | Information needs citations from WP:Reliable sources; Check Talk:David Cusick for editing suggestions |
Deborah Miranda | Information needs citations from WP:Reliable sources; Author wants to preview a draft version before it is published. |
Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl | Information needs citations from WP:Reliable sources |
Herb Wharton | Information needs citations from WP:Reliable sources |
Janet Rogers | Needs reformatting |
Larry Loyie | Information needs to be linked to other Wikipedia articles |
Louis Owens | Information needs citations from WP:Reliable sources; Needs reformatting |
Luther Standing Bear | Overly long quotations; |
Marilyn Dumont | General adding; Author wants to preview a draft version before it is published. |
Margo Kane | Information needs citations from WP:Reliable sources |
Philip McLaren | Prove WP:Notability; Information needs citations from WP:Reliable sources |
Ray Young Bear | Information needs citations from WP:Reliable sources; Needs reformatting; Author wants to preview a draft version before it is published. |
Sarah Biscarra-Dilley | Information needs citations from WP:Reliable sources; Needs reformatting; Check Talk:Sarah Biscarra-Dilley for editing suggestions |
Will Rogers | Information needs citations from WP:Reliable sources |
Authors to Add
[edit]The above authors have been contacted for permission to edit their articles. If you think there's an author that's not on this list who you think should be part of this event, please add their name to the table below, as well as any work that might be needed on their Wikipedia article, and the HIW team will work on gaining their consent to be included. To link to their article, put their name in double brackets ([[]])
Author | Work Needed |
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Name of Author | Work that needs to be done |
David Robertson (writer) | Infobox could be added, more information about recent works |
Joan Kane | Infobox could be expanded, information about inclusion in U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's project, 'Living Nations, Living Words'. |
dg nanouk okpik (poet) | Create article. |
Nora Marks Dauenhauer | Expand Life section with biographical content from source=Sealaska Heritage Institute Finding Aid for Dauenhauer Tlingit Oral Literature Collection, 1899-1999 and information related to 2020 IMLS grant to preserve papers of Dauenhauer estate. Add Sealaska Heritage Institute materials to External Links. |
Zitkala-Ša (musician, writer) | Update links to publications, sources in WikiSource do not resolve. Full text of American Indian Stories is available from University of Pennsylvania Libraries' "A Celebration of Women Writers" project. |
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through (Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry) | Mine the Table of Contents for unrepresented authors would be a great project. TOC can be viewed via Google Preview. |
Wikipedia Categories
[edit]Here are some lists of different Wikipedia Indigenous writing categories that you can link to your articles. They are organized according to the form or genre that the author writes in.
Children's
[edit]- Category: Faroese children's writers
- Category: Igbo children's writers
- Category: Native American children's literature
- Category: Native American children's writers
- Category: Yoruba children's writers
Fantasy
[edit]Language-specific
[edit]- Category: Basque-language poets
- Category: Chewa-language writers
- Category: Chuvash-language poets
- Category: Finnish Sámi-language writers
- Category: Fula-language writers
- Category: Guarani-language writers
- Category: Igbo-language writers
- Category: Ilocano-language writers
- Category: Kalmyk-language writers
- Category: Kikuyu-language writers
- Category: Komi-language poets
- Category: Komi-language writers
- Category: Kurdish-language poets
- Category: Kurdish-language writers
- Category: Kurdish-language writers
- Category: Kyrgyz-language writers
- Category: Lingala-language writers
- Category: Malagasy-language writers
- Category: Malagasy-language writers
- Category: Mayan-language poets
- Category: Mayan-language writers
- Category: Nahuatl-language writers
- Category: Nenets-language poets
- Category: Nenets-language writers
- Category: Norwegian Sámi-language writers
- Category: Nzema-language writers
- Category: Oromo-language writers
- Category: Quechua-language writers
- Category: Russian Sámi-language writers
- Category: Sakha-language writers
- Category: Sámi-language poets
- Category: Sámi-language writers
- Category: Sotho-language writers
- Category: Swahili-language writers
- Category: Swedish Sámi-language writers
- Category: Tumbuka-language writers
- Category: Waray language
- Category: Waray-language writers
- Category: Wolof-language writers
- Category: Xhosa-language writers
- Category: Yoruba-language poets
- Category: Yoruba-language writers
- Category: Zapotec-language writers
- Category: Zulu-language writers
Literature
[edit]- Category: 21st-century Kurdish literature
- Category: Adivasi literature
- Category: Balinese literature
- Category: Basque literature
- Category: Chewa-language literature
- Category: First Nations literature
- Category: Fula literature
- Category: Greenlandic literature
- Category: Guarani-language literature
- Category: Hawaiian literature
- Category: Indigenous literature of the Americas
- Category: Inuit literature
- Category: Komi literature
- Category: Kurdish literature
- Category: Kyrgyz-language literature
- Category: Literature by Native American women
- Category: Manchu literature
- Category: Mayan literature
- Category: Mongolian literature
- Category: Nahuatl literature
- Category: Native American literature by writer
- Category: Native American literature
- Category: Nenets literature
- Category: Newar literature
- Category: Sámi literature
- Category: Sámi-language literature
- Category: Swahili literature
- Category: Tibetan literature
- Category: Uyghur literature
- Category: Yoruba-language literature
- Category: Zulu literature
Non-fiction
[edit]- Category: Greenlandic non-fiction writers
- Category: Native American autobiographers
- Category: Samoan non-fiction writers
Novelists
[edit]- Category: Basque novelists
- Category: Faroese male novelists
- Category: Faroese novelists
- Category: Faroese women novelists
- Category: First Nations novelists
- Category: First Nations novels
- Category: Igbo novelists
- Category: Mongolian novelists
- Category: Mongolian novels
- Category: Native American novelists
- Category: Native American novels
- Category: Samoan novelists
- Category: Samoan women novelists
- Category: Yoruba novelists
Poets
[edit]- Category: 18th-century_Faroese_poets
- Category: 19th-century Faroese poets
- Category: 19th-century Mongolian poets
- Category: 20th-century Faroese poets
- Category: 20th-century Mongolian poets
- Category: 20th-century Samoan poets
- Category: 21st-century Faroese poets
- Category: 21st-century Mongolian poets
- Category: 21st-century Samoan poets
- Category: Basque-language poets
- Category: Berber poets
- Category: Chuvash-language poets
- Category: Faroese male poets
- Category: Faroese poets
- Category: Faroese women poets
- Category: First Nations poets
- Category: Igbo poets
- Category: Inuit poets
- Category: Iraqi Kurdish poets
- Category: Komi-language poets
- Category: Kurdish poets
- Category: Kurdish-language poets
- Category: Mayan-language poets
- Category: Mongolian poets
- Category: Nahuatl poetry
- Category: Native American poets
- Category: Nauruan poets
- Category: Nenets-language poets
- Category: Poets from Tibet
- Category: Poets from Xinjiang
- Category: Quechua-language poets
- Category: Sámi poetry
- Category: Sámi-language poets
- Category: Samoan male poets
- Category: Samoan poets
- Category: Samoan women poets
- Category: Swahili poetry
- Category: Tatar poets
- Category: Tibetan poetry
- Category: Tibetan poets
- Category: Uyghur poets
- Category: Yoruba poets
- Category: Yoruba-language poets
Short Story Writers
[edit]- Category: Faroese short story writers
- Category: Igbo short story writers
- Category: Mongolian short story writers
- Category: Native American short story collections
- Category: Native American short story writers
- Category: Short story writers from Inner Mongolia
- Category: Short story writers from Xinjiang
Miscellaneous
[edit]- Category: 19th-century First Nations writers
- Category: 19th-century Mongolian writers
- Category: 20th-century First Nations writers
- Category: 20th-century Mongolian writers
- Category: 20th-century Tongan writers
- Category: 21st-century First Nations writers
- Category: 21st-century Kurdish writers
- Category: 21st-century Mongolian writers
- Category: 21st-century Tongan writers
- Category: Adivasi writers
- Category: American writers of Native American descent
- Category: Assyrian Iranian writers
- Category: Assyrian Iraqi writers
- Category: Assyrian Syrian writers
- Category: Bashkir writers
- Category: Basque women writers
- Category: Basque writers
- Category: Berber writers
- Category: Books by writers from peoples indigenous to the Americas
- Category: Chechen writers
- Category: Cherokee writers
- Category: Chuvash writers
- Category: Coptic writers
- Category: Crimean Tatar writers
- Category: Faroese male writers
- Category: Faroese women writers
- Category: Faroese writers
- Category: First Nations women writers
- Category: First Nations writers
- Category: Frisian writers
- Category: Greenlandic literary awards
- Category: Greenlandic women writers
- Category: Greenlandic writer stubs
- Category: Greenlandic writers
- Category: Hakka writers
- Category: Hazara writers
- Category: Igbo fiction writers
- Category: Igbo women writers
- Category: Igbo writers
- Category: Indigenous Australian writers stub
- Category: Indigenous Australian writers
- Category: Indigenous writers of the Americas
- Category: Inuit writers
- Category: Iraqi Kurdish writers
- Category: Kashmiri writers
- Category: Kurdish books
- Category: Kurdish writers
- Category: Mapuche writers
- Category: Mestizo writers
- Category: Métis writers
- Category: Mongolian women writers
- Category: Mongolian writers
- Category: Native American women writers
- Category: Native American writers
- Category: Native Hawaiian writers
- Category: Nauruan women writers
- Category: Nauruan writers
- Category: New Zealand Māori writers
- Category: Niuean writers
- Category: Ossetian writers
- Category: Pangasinense writers
- Category: Samoan male writers
- Category: Samoan women writers
- Category: Samoan writers
- Category: Tatar writers
- Category: Tibetan women writers
- Category: Tibetan writers
- Category: Tongan women writers
- Category: Tongan writers
- Category: Tuvaluan writers
- Category: Uyghur writers
- Category: Visayan writers
- Category: Writers from Inner Mongolia
- Category: Writers from Xinjiang
- Category: Yoruba women writers
- Category: Yoruba writers