Wikipedia:Notable authors without pages
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Welcome to WikiProject Notable Authors Without Pages. Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Award Winning Authors Without Pages and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.
Premise
[edit]The goal of this page is to highlight new and upcoming authors who are notable but not documented on Wikipedia. They are authors who have made a significant cultural impact or received distinguished awards but do not currently have a page on Wikipedia.
Criteria
[edit]Four of the main criteria we look at is:
1. Accolades and Awards
2. Historical prominence
3. Interviews and press coverage
4. Googleability (meaning will searches of these authors yield 15 or more results)
Scope
[edit]We intend to cover authors who are underrepresented/missing from history on Wikipedia (ex: women in science). We are looking to websites that feature lists of award winners in literature or prominent newly-published authors in this area and then cross-examine them on Wikipedia to see if there are entries covering them. Our areas include:
- Pulitzer Prize
- National Book Award
- NPR
- Man Booker Prize
- Washingtonian
- Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature
Guidelines
[edit]Each article added should initially be a stub, 3-5 sentences for starters, with basic information about the author and a note or two about their most famous work. Also feature short bibliography at the bottom of page and a "See also" section with several related topic links that users can search.
Open tasks
[edit]- Find new authors who have received prestigious awards, mostly under the areas listed above (Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, etc.) and create a list on the page of people who need to be cross-checked with Wikipedia to see if they have articles and compile a list of authors who still need pages.
- Invite users to modify stubs under "Featured content."
- A current place to look at is Kirkus: Best of 2014 reviews to find authors. Try to find other "best of" lists on book websites that feature authors missing pages on Wikipedia
Participants
[edit]- js4189a (talk · contribs)
- Alchavers21 (talk · contribs)
- hqfrancis (talk · contribs)
- Bluenosescholar (talk · contribs)
- Sushidude21! (talk · contribs)
Articles
[edit]Featured content
[edit]Alchavers21 (talk · contribs):
Candidates
[edit]- Lauren Castillo (2015 Caldecott Honor book)
- Yuyi Morales (2015 Caldecott Honor book)
- Barb Rosenstock (2015 Caldecott Medal)
- Jen Bryant (2014 Caldecott Medal)
- Lesley Nneka Arimah (2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Africa Regional Winner)
- Siddhartha Gigoo (2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Asia Regional Winner)
- Kevin Jared Hosein (2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Caribbean Regional Winner)
- Mary Rokonadravu (2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Pacific Regional Winner)
- Breena Clarke (quoted in the Washingtonian, Oprah's Book Club pick)
- Hauwa Ali (has entry in Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature)
- Kara Candito (Pushcart Prize winner, Prairie Schooner Book Prize winner, Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize winner)
- Xuan Juliana Wang (Pushcart Prize winner, various prizes and fellowships from The Corporation of Yaddo, Cite des Arts International, Breadloaf Writer's Conference and the Elizabeth George Foundation)
- Catherine Lacey (Vanity Fair 2014 best book, Granta New Voice, Artist's Fellowship from NYFA)
Please feel free to list your new Award Winning Authors Without Pages-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,500 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.
