User talk:Randolph.hollingsworth

Randolph.hollingsworth

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discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! Chevy monte carlo 07:53, 20 November 2010 (UTC)[reply

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DYK for Julia Bonds

nominate

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Invitation to
WP:WMNHIST
subproject for educators

Randolph, thanks for your participation in

WikiProject Women's History. Since you've given Wikipedia assignments for courses before, I'd love to have your input on the new subproject for educators. If you'd be willing to provide links to assignments you've given and share your experiences, that would be really valuable for other faculty. And, of course, please spread the word about this to your colleagues (on Wikipedia or not). Cheers, ---Shane Landrum (cliotropic | talk | contribs) 00:24, 12 March 2011 (UTC)[reply

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I've just added a link to the assignment you posted on the talk page in the Women's/gender history assignments section. If you'd like that link to go to a separate page in your user space, please update it appropriately. ---Shane Landrum (cliotropic | talk | contribs) 17:23, 12 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Category:History of women in Kentucky

Category:History of women in Kentucky, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 01:40, 26 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Kentucky Women Remembered

Hi Randolph.hollingsworth. I saw your post at WikiProject Women's History and wondered if you knew about the Kentucky Commission on Women. There's a fair amount of crossover between the women listed there and your list of Kentucky women from the Civil Rights era. I was working on women's halls of fame a while back and there are a bunch listed at Template:United States Women's Halls of Fame, but Kentucky's isn't done yet. I believe that the Commission's Kentucky Women Remembered list could be made into an article and linked from that template. Let me know if you're interested in starting an article for Kentucky Women Remembered. Otherwise I may take a stab at it someday. Cheers, Gobōnobō ⁺ ^c 07:02, 15 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome, Gobōnobō! Yes, we have been working with Commissioner Jordan each semester I've offered the class. And you might see on some of the articles, anytime i could get the artist's permission to use the KY Women Remembered portrait, I've gotten it added to Wikimedia. We need help getting this going for all of them! This semester, I told Eleanor my class is working with the kY Commission on Human Rights as our service learning partner... But that I had seen the Hall of Fame entries for the other states and wondered if she wanted us to do Kentucky ... She said YES! and her staff is sending me the basic info for the list soon. I would greatly appreciate your help in getting a KY HoF article drafted properly and up sometime this spring! As you can see in the previous msgs, I am having some difficulty in getting my list article correctly formatted and published. Any suggestions there (see my sandbox)? Randolph.hollingsworth (talk) 18:55, 15 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'd be happy to try and help. I think the biggest hurdle with the list is defining its scope. The reason I mentioned developing a list from Kentucky Women Remembered is that the inclusion criteria are predefined, obviating the need to develop them. The inclusion criteria for your list (or index) should be clearly defined and may be a tad too specific. Focusing on Kentucky women is a given. Narrowing that to civil rights (broadly defined) could get a little hairy, but is probably doable. However, I think that limiting the list to a specific era with set years (1920s-1970s) could be problematic. First off, we'll need to know if women are eligible for inclusion if they were merely alive during that period or whether they have to have been active in civil rights activism during that period. How are you defining "civil rights" in this context? If you're including women's suffrage and abolitionism under that umbrella, you're going to be missing some women by only listing those who flourished after 1920. Gobōnobō ⁺ ^c 02:31, 16 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Open Knowledge Initiative I'm working on is only about the time period after 1920 - of course, people's lives don't always fit neatly into a historical period but we always shove them in there, right? For example, Thomas Jefferson does not only neatly fits in the time period we associate with the American Revolution (depending on his particular time of life lived), but he also fits into the New National Republic Era (after the Revolution) beautifully for his work as a president, AND in the U.S. Antebellum period because of his family (families!) life (lives) as an innovative agrarian/industrialist and slaveowner as well as the father of free, freed and enslaved people. It gets very confusing, right? But somehow, it often seems ok when we're talking about men's lives to put one of them in different time periods based on the concepts/themes, but more troublesome if we imagine a woman as belonging very naturally in different historical time periods. Your comment was very helpful - I'm going to go back to my sandbox and try to explain that better. We're not wanting to include in this proposed list any of the U.S. abolitionists (1790s-1860s) or those involved in the woman's suffrage movement in the U.S. (1790s-1920), but focus on instead Kentucky women and their role in civil rights efforts after the 19th Amendment (1920) and up through the first stirrings of the Women's Liberation Movement coming up out of the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1960s and 70s). Does this help clarify? Randolph.hollingsworth (talk) 16:51, 16 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it does. Thank you for the clarification. Gobōnobō ⁺ ^c 01:03, 17 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

If I were creating a list for the Kentucky Women Remembered, I would use a sortable table such as the one used in the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame. Sorting that list by birth date gives readers a general idea of the era that women are active in. Perhaps dropping the specific year criteria from your list and using a sortable table would do the trick. Gobōnobō ⁺ ^c 02:31, 16 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Great idea - let's use this example once we get the info from the Commission on Women. I think you're mixing up the two projects in your last sentence above...? My list I've submitted (and which is still being held up by Wiki reviewers) has to do with my Open Knowledge Initiative www.kywcrh.org on Kentucky Women's History and the Long Civil Rights Era of the 20th century. Randolph.hollingsworth (talk) 16:51, 16 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I was using those as examples of how a list that spanned many eras could still be useful to readers who are only interested in women from a specific era. Gobōnobō ⁺ ^c 01:03, 17 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You might also want to check out Wikipedia's notability guideline for lists at

WP:LISTN. Gobōnobō ⁺ ^c 02:51, 16 January 2013 (UTC)[reply

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It is entirely possible that Wikipedia's guidelines for lists/articles (and editors' interpretations of those guidelines) will not allow for a list that is going to exactly match your Open Knowledge Initiative. Very specific lists like this are unlikely to be linked to from other articles and tend to languish. Regardless, I'm willing to try it out and see if we can't make it work. If it is nominated for deletion, my guess is that it will be kept with a broader scope. I'll go ahead and move the article to the main space and make some small adjustments. If the article name isn't quite what it should be we can always move it. Gobōnobō ⁺ ^c 01:03, 17 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Kentucky Women Remembered article is live now. Gobōnobō ⁺ ^c 00:27, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

LCC Alum

Hello, I recognized your name, and though I don't expect you'll remember me, I thought I would introduce myself. My name is Brian Padgett. I took your U.S. History course in about 1994 or 1995 at

Lexington Community College. Glad to see you are active here, and hope you are well! Boneyard90 (talk) 11:21, 19 January 2013 (UTC)[reply

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A barnstar for you!

	The Writer's Barnstar
	Florence Shoemaker Thompson is a good article if I ever saw one! Keep up the good work! ~ Anastasia (talk) 01:17, 18 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Women in politics

Please note that women are not added directly to Category:Women in politics; that's an international category that would contain tens of thousands of women from all over the world (and thus be virtually unusable) if it were actually being used that way. Rather, each country has its own country-specific subcategory (e.g. Category:American women in politics) and each US state has its own state-specific one (e.g. Category:Women in Kentucky politics) — so each individual woman goes only in the most specifically appropriate subcategory and not in the undifferentiated worldwide one. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 23:14, 18 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Love history & culture? Get involved in WikiProject World Digital Library!

World Digital Library Wikipedia Partnership - We need you!
	Hi Randolph.hollingsworth! I'm the Wikipedian In Residence at the SarahStierch (talk) 22:31, 22 May 2013 (UTC)[reply ]

Hey! I'm so happy to see you signed up for the WDL project - welcome. I know you're fond of US history. We have a to-do list for North America

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World Digital Library-Wikimedia Partnership Newsletter

Hi Randolph.hollingsworth! Thanks for participating in the World Digital Library-Wikimedia Partnership. Your contributions are important to improving Wikipedia! I wanted to share a few updates with you:

We have an easy way to now cite WDL resources. You can learn more about it on our news page, here.
Our to-do list is being expanded and features newly digitized and created resources from libraries and archives around the world, including content from Sweden, Qatar, the Library of Congress, and more! You can discover new content for dissemination here.
WDL project has new userbox for you to post on your userpage and celebrate your involvement. Soffredo created it, so please be sure to thank them on their talk page. You can find the userbox and add it to your page here.
Our first batch of WDL barnstars have been awarded! Congratulations to our first recipients: ProtoplasmaKid, ChrisGualtieri, TenthEagle, Rhyswynne, Luwii, Sosthenes12, Djembayz, Parkwells, Carl Francis, Yunshui, MrX, Pharaoh of the Wizards, and the prolific Yster76!! Thank you for your contributions and keep up the great work. Be sure to share your article expansions and successes here.

Keep up the great work, and please contact me if you need anything! Thank you for all you do for free knowledge! EdwardsBot (talk) 16:43, 30 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to WIKISOO

Hello and welcome to the Writing Wikipedia Articles course (#WIKISOO)! We look forward to meeting you in the first class on 25 February (Americas)/26 Feb (Asia/Australia). By now you should have received an introductory email with some details about the course. If you can't find it, there's an archived copy of the email at this link.

To attend the live session, please check our course home page for instructions and the link. We recommend logging into Blackboard Collaborate (the live class software we use) before the day of class, to be sure it's working. (More tips on the home page.)

If taking the course in self-paced mode, please come say hello on the

course talk page so we know who you are! Thanks for signing up, and we'll see you Tuesday! - Pete (talk) 06:15, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply

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You're appreciated!

	Beercheese barnstar
	Hi Randolph, Thanks you for expanding the Mary E. Sweeney article. It is great to know that there are other people who share my interest in notable Kentucky women. FloNight ♥♥♥♥ 02:27, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Second WIKISOO class starts soon!

Hi! Just a quick reminder that the second

class talk page! You can also watch a video of last week’s class on YouTube (earlier audio problems have been corrected). Feel free to contact me on my talk page with questions anytime! - WIKISOO co-instructor Sara FB (talk) 22:07, 4 March 2014 (UTC)[reply

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WikiMeetUpKY with THATCampKY 2014?

You said: Hi Flo! Several of us are talking about getting a new THATCampKY together again this summer - want to join in and plan a WikiMeetUp too? Randolph.hollingsworth (talk) 02:54, 5 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Count me in, Randolph. I would love to participate. Sydney Poore/FloNight ♥♥♥♥ 03:12, 5 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Just wanted to butt in to say it's nice to see

students interacting! :) -Pete (talk) 17:12, 5 March 2014 (UTC)[reply

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GREETINGS

Thanks for the hello.Researcherguy (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 17:24, 5 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

WIKISOO Week 3

Hi Randolph.hollingsworth, we look forward to seeing you in class in a few hours. We look forward to seeing you in class in a few hours. Here's the link to

our Week 3 class page and to the live webinar

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PLEASE NOTE: If you're not in the USA, please double-check the class time. We have gone on Daylight Savings Time (also known as Summer Time) in the USA, so for some of you the class time will be an hour earlier. (If your country goes on Summer Time in the coming weeks, you will want to check again!)

This week we are going to start off with some basic review of all we've covered. So if you've been feeling behind or confused by all the details, we'll make sure we've got your questions answered before forging ahead! See you soon, -Pete (talk) 16:30, 11 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Week 4 of Writing Wikipedia Articles: Final Projects Ahoy!

Hey Randolph.hollingsworth - hope all is going well with you as we segue into Week 4 of

Final Project - if you already know which article you're working on, you'll find instructions there for sharing this information easily with your classmates. Post any questions to the class Talk page, please! See you in class tomorrow! Sara FB (talk) 01:46, 18 March 2014 (UTC)[reply

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WIKISOO check-in

How's it going, Randolph.hollingsworth? Just touching base as we start the fifth (!) week of the WIKISOO course. We're excited to see students working on such a diverse range of articles! If you haven't already, log in, scroll down to the bottom of the

course talk page; and join the live lecture tomorrow as we move towards completion of the course! This is when things get exciting. :) Looking forward to seeing you in class! - Sara FB (talk) 23:43, 24 March 2014 (UTC)[reply

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Week 6 of WIKISOO

Hi Randolph.hollingsworth! Just checking in as we head into the final week of the Writing Wikipedia Articles class. You can look through last week's ether pad notes, check out your homework assignments from Week 5, and watch last week's lecture on YouTube -

course talk page to see if anyone else is having the same issues you are! Looking forward to seeing you in the last live webinar of the session tomorrow. Big WikiLove. -Sara FB (talk) 23:24, 31 March 2014 (UTC)[reply