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New book on Women's Steering Committee

This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered.

I am related to the author,who has a Phd in Film History from UCLA, is the Manager of the UCLA Film Archive Research and Study Center and an academic authority on this subject.

I wish to add the following cite to the webpage with specific reference to Chapter 4 which discusses the Women's Steering Committee.

Smukler, Maya Montañez (2019). "Chapter 4: " Radicalizing the Directors Guild of America "". Liberating Hollywood: Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of 1970s. Rutgers University Press. pp. 232–277. ISBN 978-0813587479. passim

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Hsmukler (talk • contribs) 2019-09-14 17:20:51 (UTC)

Not done for now: Hi - this looks like it would be a good source for the article, but can you specify what you would like done here, please. Are you simply requesting that the book be added as a reference to the article? It would be better, I think, if you could provide some content that could be used to expand the article. While I understand you have indicated a conflict of interest if you used the sandbox (see Help:Sandbox_tutorial) to draft material this could be reviewed and then added...or you could just add some material here, too. --Goldsztajn (talk) 18:43, 14 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Goldsztajn: The editor is suggesting this be added as "Further reading". PamD 19:19, 14 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, you guys are a tough crowd to satisfy. Everywhere I look I see suggestions of books for "Further Reading", so when my daughter writes one of the first books on the subject of the Women's Committee, interviews all the living members, gets good reviews, has a respectable position at the UCLA Film Archive and then I saw a line at the top of the site which says, "This article needs more links to other articles", I think, I'll just add my daughter's book and reference the relevant chapter 4 which is an in dept analysis of the Committee. I have spent a full week on this effort, getting the formatting correct, answering questions, even figuring out how to do a bullet and at the end of the process, I still can't figure out how anyone loads stuff on Wikipedia. It remains a mystery to me! All of the articles I saw on the 1970's women directors were incredibly thin with almost no further reading citations, which I think is unfortunate. In any case, I'm moving on, this process is clearly beyond me. I will still continue to donate money to Wikipedia because I believe in the principle, but if people want to learn about the Women's Committee they will have to dig deeper than Wikipedia. Thanks for all your previous help, I tried to follow every suggestion, sorry I wasn't up to the task. Hsmukler (talk) 21:27, 14 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hsmukler Sorry that you find this process overwhelming. Unfortunately, I do not have access to this book - I was only stating that I am sure there is valuable material in it which could be used here. I was asking whether some of that material could be added here on the talk page or in a sandbox - if it was then another editor (like me!) would be able to review it and add it to the article. @PamD:

Done--Goldsztajn (talk) 21:12, 15 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]