The Wikipedia project was a fun experience for me. At first,  I had trouble finding a stub article that I could contribute useful information to.  I was looking up some information for a friend when I realized that one of my favorite self published authors page had been delted because the information could not be verified.  So I chose to resubmit the article for Tamika Newhouse.  I knew that she was infact an author because I own and have read several of her books.

Since I had never edited or contributed anything to Wikipedia, I looked for a few  stub articles that had mistakes.  I found a few and I made minor changes.  I then read the tutorial on how to resubmit an article. I also read the tutorials about how to use the Sandbox feature and how to cite references.  I then set up my sandbox to create my article. When creating an article you can request help from other users. I activated this function so that I could recieve help from others who were familar with her work.

The next step in my process was to look for information about Tamika Newhouse and find at least five different references. All of the information about her seem to say the same, but I was able to find information that referenced her publishing company, books, awards and interviews that she had done. The next process was to subit the article and wait to see if Wikipedia accepts or rejects the article.

I am still in the waiting process. I believe that I did provide enough references for the article that they will accept it.  However there was a lot of information about her but it all said the same things.  The article may be marked as a stub article that needs more information. I believe the article will grow in time.  The more books she writes and the more awards she wins will help increase the articles information.

I can’t wait to see the outcome.  If It gets rejected again then I will try again.  Over all as I mentioned before It was a great and fun learning experience about collective knowledge.