Wikipedia Love

This week's assignment is all about Wikipedia! http://www.wikipedia.org/

I decided to create an account and write an article on something that hadn't been covered already... my friend Paul!

I met Paul when I was finishing up my BFA at the University of Lethbridge. If anyone I know deserves a Wikipedia entry, it's Paul. After all, he is an international recording artist. I could have written a lot more, but it took me quite a while to do what I did.

This is the page that I made: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_K_Lawton
I also added him to a List of people from Lethbridge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Lethbridge
(Dar Heatherington is also on that list, FYI.)

I would say that in general, it's difficult to find an entry that needs grammar or spelling help, and easy to find an entry that needs more content. I didn't come across anything that is factually wrong, but I wasn't really browsing to fact check.

So I did create the Paul K Lawton Wikipedia page, and I am awfully proud of myself. I edited the "List of people from Lethbridge" page, by adding him and by sorting the other entries a wee bit (some of the ones at the bottom, that I assume were the newest, weren't alphabetical by last name like the rest of the list.) Creating the PKL page took quite a while, and I really only mastered the easy things. Referencing took a few minutes to understand, because I don't speak Html... and I attempted to put a photo of Paul on the page but decided against it because it was just a bit too hard. I also added in a section of "External Links" twice, but they seem to disappear (?), so I guess it wasn't as successful as it should be.

Anyway, I had a lot of fun with this project.

Thanks to Paul for letting me do this!

PS - If you're interested in more Paul K, here is an interview with him from 2009: http://newcanadianmodern.org/2009/09/24/garage-rock-explosion-tmrw-night-%E2%99%A5flavour-of-the-week-paul-lawton%E2%99%A5/

PPS - Wikipedia has flagged my PKL article for "speedy deletion," noted by the large red box at the top of the page. I hope it doesn't get deleted! UPDATE: I just checked the PKL article, and it has been deleted, as has my addition to the "List of people from Lethbridge" page. Disappointing! Wikipedia apparently doesn't think that "my friend Paul" is of importance or significant.