Lexinormandin
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editHello, Lexinormandin, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Adam and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:02, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
Good work completing the training modules. Be sure to practice the techniques; we'll be editing soon!Edw04005 (talk) 23:27, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
Possible topics for the Wikipedia project
editMy first choice to study would be Ida Castro, who was the first Hispanic chairwoman of the equal employment opportunity commission in the United States, I feel as though this is a very important role to take as a woman, but her Wikipedia page has very little information; I'd like to find out more about her. My other choices are Harriet Taylor Mill who worked with her husband towards women's suffrage, Linda Lovelace who fought against pornography, Catherine McKinnon who was a feminist lawyer and professor, or Susan Brown Miller who was a feminist journalist. I would have liked to create a new Wikipedia page, but all of these women already have pages that just need work done to better them. Lexinormandin (talk) 16:34, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
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I'd stay away from living individuals -- note on the wikipedia page and talk section how verification is needed for sources and the importance of neutral sources (often difficult when subjects are living AND are in controversial fields (or fields that often stir controversy). You might be able to add more information on HT Mill, if we can find good secondary sources. See what you can find in the library catalog -- books, journal articles -- and don't forget general books on the suffrage movement which will provide helpful contextual information.
One idea for an original entry would be to write on the Biddeford Textile Strike of 1841. This was (I believe) the first organized walk out of laborers in Maine -- and it was the young women workers at the mill. I know there are period newspaper articles, secondary sources, and contextual information (other strikes at the same period). That would be an original contribution to Wikipedia. And see the list on BB that the UNE librarians suggested -- there are some women on there who do not have a page. And feel free to come see me and we can chat about these ideas.Edw04005 (talk) 18:23, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
Works Cited
editStanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902. History of Woman Suffrage. United States:, 1881. Web. 8 March 2016.
Kirschmann, Anne Taylor. Vital Force: Women in American Homeopathy. New Brunswick, NJ, USA: Rutgers University Press, 2003. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 22 February 2016.
Harth, Erica. "Founding Mothers of Social Justice: The Womens Educational and Industrial Union of Boston, 1877-1892." Historical Journal of Massachusetts 27.2 (1999): 140. ProQuest. Web. 22 February 2016.
Lexinormandin (talk) 23:15, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
Mercy B. Jackson
editHey, Lexinormandin! I noticed you had started the page Mercy B. Jackson, M.D. with an edit summary indicating that you were moving the article to that location from your sandbox, and subsequently requested that page be deleted. Is there anything I do to help you? Do you have any questions? 
--Erick Shepherd (talk) 17:46, 18 April 2016 (UTC)