User talk:Rachel Helps (BYU)

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I appreciate all of your efforts on Wikipedia--you and your team do great work.

I read an article a couple years ago about a female scientist in England writing a wikipedia article a day on a female scientist to improve the number of female-centric articles. I loved the idea and decided to do something similar, but for female members of the Church. I have completed about 25 so far. I was going to reach out and see if you guys wanted to edit or add to any of them. I am pretty good at sourcing, but my editing skills need work.

Here is a sample list:

• Catherine Stokes
• Janis Mars Wunderlich
• Jennifer Reeder (historian)
• Fiona Givens
• Caitlin Connolly
• Bonnie D. Parkin
• Suzanne Fei
• Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye
• Bonnie H. Cordon
• Alex Warnick
• Rose Datoc Dall
• Laura Harris Hales
• Erin Morley
• Morgan Lyon Cotti
• Cydni Tetro
• Camille N. Johnson

Fullrabb (talk) 13:09, 9 April 2021 (UTC)FullRabb

Hi Fullrabb, I am just now getting back to work and replying to things. I actually had a similar idea--to improve the pages of prominent Mormon women scientists. I ended up not pursuing it after our first 2-3 pages from it, because other editors perceived our writing about current BYU professors as a Conflict of Interest (COI). We have plenty of work to do that is less controversial. I'm happy to look over your work though--are those linked pages ones that you've worked on? Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 17:14, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

Matt Page (artist)

I just noticed he has two different birth dates. Surely that is incorrect?

Hi, Thmazing I corrected the one in the infobox to match the one in the text, but looking back at it, I don't think I should use Facebook as a source for his birthday (like I did when I created the page in 2017). The information isn't on his Facebook page anymore that I can see. I managed to find a tweet from BCC about it (here), but I decided to replace it with the authority record from worldcat, which has only the year. Let me know if you find a more reliable source about his birthdate. Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 17:06, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

I'm back

Hi friends and editors, I am back at work in my old Wikipedian-in-Residence position at BYU's Harold B. Lee Library. Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 17:17, 8 June 2021 (UTC)