Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/July-BLT BINGO

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BLT BINGO!

BLT's July Contest is a national contest that celebrates the work of Black artists by working to increase information about them across Wikimedia platforms and create opportunities for new editors familiarize themselves with Wiki.

The contest runs:

Through July 31st, 2020

What must the contestant do to generate content and win the contest?

Contestants must fill out the bingo card by adding qualifying edits to the existing Wikipedia pages of 5 artists of their choice. Once you’ve completed a BINGO, submit your filled out card alongside your Wikipedia username to contest@blacklunchtable.com. From there, we’ll verify your edits. If everything checks out, you win! First come, first serve for the grand prize of a BLT goodie bag.

What qualifies as an edit?

Adding a paragraph with proper citations (250 words minimum) to the page;
Adding an image that you own the rights to, more on image rights and how to HERE;
Reorganizing the existing information on pages to increase readability,i.e., making long lists into succinct paragraphs,etc.

What prizes are offered?

First place BLT Bingo winner:

One copy of Ralph Lemon: Modern Dance Series Edited by Thomas J. Lax
BLT tote bag
BLT stickers
BLT notebook

Second and third place BLT Bingo winners:

BLT tote bag
BLT stickers

Judging

We will receive BINGO submissions until July 31st, 2020 by email. At that point we will verify submissions in the order received and announce a first, second, and third place winner.

Winners

To be announced August 1st. Thank you to everyone who participates in the contest!

BINGO Cards

The center square is free and participants are working to complete five squares in a row diagonally, horizontally, or vertically.

Rules

Articles/edits must be published by the end of the competition period. Contestants are welcome to work on articles in AFC, draft space, their sandboxes or off-wiki in advance but the new articles have to be in the mainspace during the duration of the contest.
All entries are expected to be fully sourced, no unsourced claims or poorly formatted sources such as bare URL links or missing publisher information. Try to make the formatting consistent with dates and layout, clean, useful new entries are what the contest is about.
It is important that before starting new entries you take the time to ensure that articles meet Wikipedia:Notability guidelines and have adequate coverage in Wikipedia:Reliable sources needed to be acceptable on Wikipedia. We don't want the contest to generate non notable articles or cause WP:BLP issues. Leading up to the start of the contest there are prizes for editors who help build and refine the missing article lists for the contest with articles which are notable and make it easier for editors to select suitable articles during the contest.
Take extra care to avoid paraphrasing and copyright. If producing a lot of content it is sometimes difficult to avoid sentences at times which don't resemble something in a source but it is important that the articles are without problems and will stick around on Wikipedia for a long time to come. If editors are found to create successive articles with paraphrasing or quality issues or of dubious notability and continue to do so after being alerted of a problem, they may be disqualified from further contributing to the contest. It is very important that care is taken to avoid copyright issues and ensure that articles meet notability and content requirements as if they don't they may cause a potential nightmare for the contest and editors at a later date.
Cookie-cutter style articles which show signs of minimal text writing and simply quickly changing some facts to mass generate a lot of articles on the same subject or entries which show signs of cheating may be discounted. Though articles on the same subject (such as women athletes) may often have a similar format and facts, the articles submitted must demonstrate original text and that some time has been taken to write them. If using public domain sources this must be rewritten to comply at least if you're competing in the contest.
No automated, semi-automated tools, scripts or manual templates to mass generate content are permitted for the contest. Any indication that editors are cheating by using a cookie-cutter template or script to mass generate through lists may lead to disqualification.
To be eligible to win prizes for quantity, all articles are expected to be of a high quality, even if short. It cannot simply be "whoever produces the most articles, regardless of prose quality is the winner". All of the entries have to be satisfactory to read and be reliably sourced/reliable new entries.

Participants, Let us know you're joining!

My first wikipedia BINGO, inspiring idea! Going to join the edit-a-thon tomorrow.--Wil540 art (talk) 00:18, 12 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Also my first Black Lunch Table BINGO! Terrific to learn about these artists. Nicolet1327 (talk) 22:41, 18 July 2020 (UTC)Nicolet1327[reply]

This is my first time participating in an edit-a-thon. I'm excited to learn about these folks! Grn1749 (talk) 03:13, 23 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]