Ahsoka Dillard

I am a public musicologist and educator.
I am a WikiScholar trained by the Wiki Educational Program to edit Wikipedia, specializing in biographies of women and minorities. Learn more at WikiEdu.org.
All of my contributions are my own and I take responsibility for them.

Asian American Composers Articles

Tangelene Bolton Asako Hirabayashi Min Xiao-Fen Farangis Nurulla-Khoja Niloufar Nourbakhsh Kamala Sankaram Betty Ann Wong Wu Fei

Women in Red Articles

Anne-Marie Lagrange Lucienne Divan Shelly M. Jones Susie Rayos Marmon Marie-Andrée Gill Marian Anderson Helen Taylor (composer)

Userboxes

This user is a participant in WikiProject Musicians. This user is a participant in WikiProject Women in music. This user participates in WikiProject Asian Americans. This user is a participant in WikiProject Women in Red (redlinks→blue) This user is or was a participant in Wiki Education's Scholars & Scientists Program. This user plays the piano. This user plays the double bass, and thus requires this extra-large userbox to show it. This user enjoys bluegrass music. SDThis user lives in or hails from San Diego. This user is a member of WikiProject Protected Areas.

Principles of Wikipedia Articles

• Five Pillars of Wikipedia
• Wikipedia Policy on Notability of People
  • Notability (music - musicians, ensembles, composers, and lyricists)
• Wikipedia Policy on Biographies of Living Persons

How to Get Started Editing Biographies

• link to Women in Red Project primer for getting started on creating women's biographies on wikipedia
• link to Women in Red Project Redlink index
• link to discussion and guidelines on Wikipedia Notability Academics
• link to discussion and policies for biographies of living persons on wikipedia.
• Biographies typically include the following sub-sections:
  • "Introduction (or lede)"
  • "Early life and education
  • "Career and/or service"
  • "Select publications"
  • "Notable awards"
  • "References"

WikiProjects

• Women in Music
• Women in Red - Very active
  • Redlist Index
    • Composers (Crowd-sourced)
    • Composers (Missing articles by dictionary)
    • Music (Crowd-sourced)
• Musicians
• Asian Americans
• Protected Areas

Useful Links + Pages

• Wikipedia Village Pump (For help on technical issues)
• Wikipedia:Meetup
• Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Editing, creating, and maintaining articles/Editing for the first time
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout
• Wikipedia Training || Wikipedia:Training || Wikipedia Tutorials
• ORES based script for the quality rankings listed on the talk page of new articles I work on. ORES uses machine learning to help automate assessments of edits on wikipedia. You can learn more about useful tools you may want to utilize on wikipedia based on ORES here.
• link to Wikipedia Manual of Style/Words to Watch
• to reply or ping a user, use this format when responding or editing on a talk page {{u|username}} or {{ping|username}}
• to sign-off when editing talk pages you can add this to the end of your message ~~~~