User:Occupational Therapy History Matters

Aim to add biographies of people notable for their contribution to occupational therapy theory, practice, education, research or development; anywhere in the world.

Second year: editing, monitoring and lots of learning about the infrastructure and processes underpinning Wikipedia

Edited existing entries:  Total of 60 edits included adding citations, expanding text, correcting or verifying information in biographies and other entries about occupational therapy.  Most notably:

• Added citations and details about Patricia Sunderland the first occupational therapist at Cardiff City Mental Hospital,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitchurch_Hospital
• Expanded the biography of Frances Rutherford, she was instrumental in gaining recognition for occupational therapy in New Zealand, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Rutherford  Her page has been viewed 446 times in the last year.
• Corrected errors, including the misspelling of  William Rush Dunton Jr, a founder of the profession in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_therapy 

Category: Continue to monitor the category ‘occupational therapists’.  Thanks to Wikipedians who added five entries, increasing the number from 57 last year to 63 today.  Two are notable occupational therapists (Clare S Spackman, Helen S Willard).  The others are notable for other reasons Monica Bascio as a paralympian; Tim Kennedy an American politician; Dona Ivona Lara a Brazilian singer and composer.

Loving learning! Information about the Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy was judged ‘promotional’ and deleted as unsuitable for an encyclopaedia. Probably because the content was worthy rather notable (the oldest occupational therapy journal with the same title) and five of the nine references were from the journal (about first issue in 1933, the journal at 50 and at 90 years).

First task finding occupational therapists and adding to the Category 'Occupational therapists' to create a baseline for this work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Occupational_therapists

14 January 2023 Tagishsimon created a redlist with 44 occupational therapists in the index and more linked to the Women in Red project:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_occupation/Occupational_Therapists

Category: 4 January 2023 there were 28 entries in the Category 'Occupational Therapists', including an occupational psychologist (Nigel Guenole), a doctor (John Stoke), a place (Belclare) and four, founding patrons (Elizabeth Casson, a psychiatrist; Thomas B Kidner, an architect; Eleanor Clark Slagle, a social worker; and Susan E Tracey, a nurse). A year later, there are 57 entries / pages in this category.

Learning by creating entries and editing existing biographies

March: created first entry as part of excellent Wikipedia training. Dilanthi Amaratunga, a Sri Lankan quantity surveyor who leads research and international projects into disaster mitigation, reconstruction and resilience at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilanthi_Amaratunga

June: published a biography of Evelyn Mary Macdonald, a forgotten pioneer who helped establish occupational therapy in the United Kingdom, Argentina and Greece. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Mary_Macdonald

September: expanded Susan Edith Tracy’s entry to respect an American registered nurse who developed invalid occupations and was a founder member of the Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy in 1917. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_E._Tracy

Official log: for Occupational Therapy History Matters account created on 3 January 2023 with 279 edits.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Women in Red