Fall 2023

Richard M. Venable

• [ ] Reformat name (last name, first name)
• [ ] Separate the employers under employed by into separate entries
• [ ] Add something to the learn more about this subject
• [ ] Add an image

John Peter Mettauer Award

• [ ] Reformat title to match scholarship/prize template
• [ ] Remove physical description— this is not a mandatory field for non-physical memorials
• [ ] Remove memorial inscription— this is not a mandatory field for non-physical memorials
• [ ] Add a more specific creator/participating person
• [ ] Add a more specific funded by (It’s an award given by the College so not sure what else to add)

John Peter Mettauer

• [ ] Reformat name (last name, first name)
• [ ] Separate organization under related organization into separate entries
• [ ] Remove related persons— this field is only for you to link other people this person might have worked with or were related to that are also in the database
• [ ] Separate the employers under employed by into separate entries (I don’t see Hampden-Sydney College as a related item which I think it should be? Maybe I didn’t do the search correctly.)

Burial Site of Robert Lewis Dabney

• If this is a headstone then it needs to be recategorized as a sculptural memorial. If it is a plaque/marker then you can keep it as it is.
  • [ ] Reformat title to match the title structure either for sculptural memorial or plaque/marker
  • [ ] Add more to background and context
  • [ ] Add more to physical description
  • [ ] Add something to the learn more about this subject
  • [ ] Add images (I could’ve sworn the students sent me pictures of the headstone but I cannot seem to find it. I can go take another, or grab one off Find a Grave if that’s acceptable. I’d rather use the student ones so will keep looking.)
  • [ ] Map memorial (It is the Union Theological Seminary Cemetery. I am not sure how to add that.)

Robert Lewis Dabney

• [ ] Separate the related organizations into separate entries
• [ ] Delete the related persons— this field is only to tag people they may have been related to or worked with who are also in the database
• [ ] Separate the employed by into separate entries
• [ ] Delete the Wikipedia link in the wikidata field— this is only for wikidata links not for Wikipedia pages
• [ ] Change the wiki tree link in the learn more about this field into a URI

Hugh Garland

nothing needed 🙂

Venable Hall

• [ ] Reformat title to match the title structure for named building
• Why is the year 2024 added as a date modified? You need to include that information into your background and context for the item.
• [ ] Delete the wikipedia page for the wikidata field— this section is only for wikidata pages not wikipedia pages
• [ ] Add a label to the link in the learn more about this field
• [ ] Add images
• [ ] Map memorial
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