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Hi all, I'm drafting User:Eddie891/Mirman Baheer-- its not a super widely covered topic, but I think there might be enough, not sure. Thoughts? can anyone find anything further? Eddie891 Talk Work 14:06, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
So I asked on Did you know about doing a set of hooks for International Women's Day on March 8th. It turns out that if you have been paying attention or do sensible things like checking the archives, they have actually been doing this every year, but with less than a full set sometimes as they don't always have enough nominations. So it seems a more coordinated approach might be useful for maximising the number of women on the front page for that day.
(For those who are not familiar with it, "Did you know" (DYK) is a section on the front page of Wikipedia that displays a short interesting or quirky fact from a series of articles.)
I wondered if interested WiR editors would keep in mind the date, and work together to get enough nominations? Articles can be bios, women's organisations, anything you think pertains to International Women's Day. Each "set" of Did you knows contains eight hooks (which can contain facts from one or more articles). When there are a lot of article nominations each set lasts 12 hours, and when there are fewer they run for 24 hours, so we need 8–16 hooks, with images for 1–2 of those.
To be eligible for nomination for DYK, an article must have been created OR expanded 5x in the previous seven days. However we've been given permission to start nominating our articles from 8th January, meaning we can nominate any article made eligible from 1st January onwards. Articles can be nominated by the person that wrote them, or anyone else. If you have never nominated an article for DYK before, then you get five "free" nominations. After that, you have to do a Qid Pro Quo ("QPQ") for each nomination you make, which means reviewing one other DYK nomination.
I have some experience with DYK, and I am sure there are a bunch of editors here with much more, so if anyone has a likely article they'd like to see on the front page but is unsure how to go about it, I'm happy to help. What do people think?
(Side note: it would be great to get a relevant Featured Article on the 8th too, but I haven't ever involved myself in that project, anyone else?) - DrThneed ( talk) 21:11, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for the support. And yes, thank you Kingsiffor the reminder that GAs can be DYK too, I forget that. I'll work up some QPQs myself so I can do some nominating, and keep in mind an article or two to nominate. And then I'll come back here at the start of January to remind everyone it's happening. I'll raise the subject in GA too if noone has already (I have never ventured over there, it's probably about time!). DrThneed ( talk) 22:13, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
Hiya, Kayt Jones is a fashion photographer who would seem to be notable but sadly significant coverage on her is hard to find. There's a reasoned debate going on at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kayt Jones in case anyone has any decent sources to throw in. I had a go but couldn't find much ... Mujinga ( talk) 00:47, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
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bell hooks has died and the entry needs a lot of work to be featured at ITNRD—unfortunately the long sections on her books are entirely OR (seems to be result of WikiEd assignment). Help gratefully received! Innisfree987 ( talk) 18:19, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
Bridges2Information brought my attention to this fascinating bit of WMF research: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Research/Diversity,_equity,_and_inclusion_research/United_States_-_2021#Would_be_very/fairly_interested_in_editing_Wikipedia_articles Forgive me if this has been discussed before.
Lots of implications for WIR's work in the biographies section. We have shockingly low proportional representation of Asian and Hispanic women. And lots of cringey language choices. Gamaliel ( talk) 19:25, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
"the second chart "Number of Biographies" does not comport with WiR's headline 19% women bios stat."That’s because this report is focused on US bios (and US editors). Innisfree987 ( talk) 21:32, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
In connection with the above, I have just come across another interesting WMF-funded study published in July 2020 on Global gender differences in Wikipedia readership. It's not too clear how the readers were selected but some of the general trends observed are interesting although not surprising.-- Ipigott ( talk) 12:33, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
We have been discussing planning for 2022 on our Ideas page. It has been suggested that we should discontinue month-by-month events, opting instead for quarterly priorities given the time taken to prepare the event pages. As for me, I would prefer to continue with the existing system of new priorities each month and would be happy to handle the necessary preparations as I did for our first few years.
The other item under discussion is whether we should plan geofocus on the United States and Canada over the next five or six quarters or whether we should go for geofocus on the U.S. territories in January, Canada in February and the whole of the United States in March, leaving the remainder of the year open to other priorities.
It would be useful to have your reactions on these two items fairly soon in order to avoid confusion as we move into 2022.-- Ipigott ( talk) 12:08, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
Building on the January focus of US territories, I wondered whether we should extend that further in other months and include countries partially recognised by the UN, autonomous regions, disputed territories etc.? e.g. February - China: Macau, Hong Kong, Tibet, East Turkestan, etc.
What do people think? We have some red-lists, or lists in previous events already which could be adapted. Lajmmoore ( talk) 12:44, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
Elfrida von Nardroff, the contestant who won the most money on the 1950s game show Twenty-One, recently died. Her NY Times obit is here: [1] Thriley ( talk) 17:19, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Nurses. There are two entries, one below the other, for the same woman: Letitia Mumford Geer. Same person, but these two entries have two different Wikidata numbers. Anyone here who is active on Wikidata and can take care of that end of the duplication?
Also, Maud H. Mellish-Wilson. I know who this is, and she is usually listed as simple Maud Mellish Wilson. "No. 2751: Mrs. Wilson of the Mayo Clinic". University of Houston. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
Louise Dietrich article is created with Wikidata number Q102046829. The missing article listing has her redlink name of A. Louise Dietrich with Wikidata number Q84997334.
Thanks. — Maile ( talk) 00:13, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
Elizabeth P. Ossoff is a social psychologist and a professor emeritus at Saint Anselm College. She is frequently cited in newspapers as an expert in political communication and behavior but I wasn't finding much significant coverage ( WP:SIGCOV) or indicators that she meets WP:PROF. I was curious if anyone else could find more. TJMSmith ( talk) 21:09, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
I noticed this missing article and went ahead and translated it from the Dutch. Just letting y'all know in case any of you are particularly interested in this subject. I'm not good enough at Dutch to read the sources and find citations, which still needs to be done, or English sources found. Have at it! Skyerise ( talk) 19:21, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
I've been working on Draft:Susie Sutton with FloridaArmy and I've found a photo of Sutton in this issue of Billboard, the bottom, far left image. I want to clip out that picture of her, but I'm not clear of the copyright considerations for this. Anyone have any insights to impart? Silver seren C 00:52, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
Interested in what project members think of articles on women who were pioneers in a particular subject being covered " People notable for only one event". I've not encountered this particular deletion rationale before, and it's a bit depressing. Espresso Addict ( talk) 01:30, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
Can somebody have a look at this as well please. I started working on the references, but it unravelled very quickly and I had to revert. I plan to try and find more references over the Christmas period to get it out of draft. scope_creep Talk 19:35, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
This is the title of a newspaper that was founded by Carrie Best. An IP editor on the talk page made an article request for it, so I thought posting here might give more visibility to someone who might be interested in writing the article. If an article is written, it would need to be distingushed from The Clarion which is an unrelated socialist British newspaper (I don't think the redlink for The Clarion (newspaper) that's currently in the Best article would work because they're both newspapers). I'm thinking that offline sources would likely be more detailed and substantial compared to what I've been able to find online so far, so it would be great if someone had access to sources like that. Or if I'm looking in the wrong places, just finding better online sources. Clovermoss (talk) 05:39, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
Does anyone here have subscription access to ancestry.com or newspaperarchive.com?
She is the oldest outstanding redlink at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Fellowships#Fellows of the American Physical Society (name misspelled there) but I can't find much else about her on the public web than the fellowship itself so if these articles could be retrieved I think it would be very helpful in constructing an article. I can sort of read the text of the newspaperarchive story through the html source of the page but for the ancestry one only the headline is legible. — David Eppstein ( talk) 18:38, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
Ruth Fitzmayer Schwarz, 79, of Abington, a physicist and violinist, died of sepsis Aug. 26 at Abington Memorial Hospital.
In 1952, Dr. Schwarz joined Philco Corp. in Philadelphia when transistors were just beginning to be adapted to computers. She was part of a team of scientists who helped Philco become a leader in the transistor field. Her first successful assignment, her son Timothy said, was to develop a formula for heat flow that was critical in the manufacturing process.
After her children were born, Dr. Schwarz cut back her hours at Philco to two days a week in the company's laboratory in Blue Bell. In 1963, she told a reporter that when she was home, she would sometimes jot down a solution to a problem she and other researchers had been discussing in the laboratory. She was a recipient of Philco's Presidential Special Award.
In the 1970s, Dr. Schwarz was a consulting scientist for the General Electric Space Division in Valley Forge. She was the author of more than a dozen scientific papers and received several patents in the semiconductor field.
A native of Louisville, Ky., Dr. Schwarz was president of the student body at Atherton High School and played violin in the school's orchestra. She planned to major in political science at the University of Louisville until a freshman trigonometry course spiked her interest in math and science.
She met her future husband, John Schwarz, in college. After earning bachelor's degrees, they both attended graduate school at Harvard. They married in 1950.
Her adviser at Harvard for her doctoral thesis on molecular magnetism, her son said, was J.H. Van Vleck, who would go on to receive a Nobel Prize in physics.
Timothy Schwarz said his mother helped him with his math and science homework in high school. "I took physics," he said, "to keep up my grade-point average."
For 29 years, Dr. Schwarz was a violinist with the Old York Road Symphony and also played with the Abington Chamber Orchestra. She was a deacon and an elder at Abington Presbyterian Church.
In addition to her husband and son, she is survived by another son, Scott; a daughter, Linda Bierema; a sister; and three grandchildren.
A memorial service will be at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow at Abington Presbyterian Church, Old York and Susquehanna Roads, Abington.
Contact staff writer Sally A. Downey at 215-854-2913 or sdowney@phillynews.com.
Credit: By Sally A. Downey INQUIRER STAFF WRITER Illustration
Ruth F. Schwarz Word count: 405
Copyright Philadelphia Media Network (Newspapers) LLC Sep 4, 2004
Fwiw this on FamilySearch has a birth date of 12 July 1925, which matches the Find a Grave entry. AleatoryPonderings ( ???) ( !!!) 20:23, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
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There's an AN discussion ongoing about prolific AfC reviewer Luciapop which has resulted in many of their articles being taken to AfD. Some do seem likely to be promotional in intent but others might be notable. I was particularly concerned about Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Judith Balcazar -- on the designer of the washable female incontinence aid Giggleknickers, which I'd definitely heard of before now; also a BBC 100 Women award winner. Espresso Addict ( talk) 03:31, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
(And if anyone wants to help out with other articles, there's also the male biographies of Khamis Chuwal Lom, Saeed Lom, and Ikenna Ikeme) Silver seren C 05:17, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
Literally during the AfD, an admin has gone and deleted a bunch of the articles in the Victory Obasi multi-AfD. And then basically posted that they did so there in the AfD, as if that's an argument for deletion or some nonsense? Again showing why G5 is an utterly worthless CSD category. Silver seren C 18:34, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
I'm also willing to restore any of these to draft that WiR editors wish to adopt, but it might be politic to ask the deleting admin instead? Here's the ones I noted earlier (all deleted by Liz):
Will look for the others in a minute; I know Liz deleted some but another admin did the rest.
Espresso Addict (
talk) 08:13, 26 December 2021 (UTC) ETA I think that's the end of the big batch nominated on 25th; the rest look to be male subjects; will be going offline shortly.
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09:07, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
Regarding the redlist above, I couldn't find much on Naima al-Ayyubi and Renée Cissé, but Marie-Thérèse Bocoum is clearly notable (she was awarded the National Order of the Ivory Coast), so I requested a draftified version of the previous article and would hope to bring it back into mainspace soon; my workings are currently at User:Mujinga/Marie-Thérèse Bocoum if anyone wants to collaborate Mujinga ( talk) 21:26, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
Hi, there is currently an AfD open for actress Tina Ona Paukstelis. I recently expanded the article but it's now at afd. She had had some reasonable coverage, although an issue may be that the sources I noted (and used in the article), were from the same newspaper. She has had many smaller/passing mentions on other papers over the years. Is it a lost cause trying to save it (if there were to be any further !deletes)? Bungle ( talk • contribs) 15:38, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, the author of the first novel to be published by someone from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, was recently redirected to her book Even As We Breathe. Do there appear to be sources out there to justify an article for her? Thriley ( talk) 02:29, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
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link)Not, of course, a "woman in red" but the article is awfully thin. With her death today, I was going to link it for a friend who was unfamiliar with her, but it's so weak I didn't feel that would be appropriate. In particular: not even a mention of her trajectory from enthusiastic "Goldwater girl" at 30 to becoming much more of a social liberal. - Jmabel | Talk 02:30, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
Hi everyone, I'm part of a working group called WP:URFA/2020 that reviews and improves featured articles promoted before 2016. Wikipedia's systematic bias towards men extends to featured articles: according to WikiProject Women in Green, 420 of the 6,048 FAs concern women or topics related to women. URFA/2020 would like experienced editors to help improve FAs so that they are not submitted to WP:FAR and demoted. Would this project be interested in receiving a report on our efforts, specifically focusing on articles that fall within your purview? We hope that a link to this report could be part of the newsletter that your group sends out via mass messaging. Please ping me in responses if interested, or leave a message at WT:URFA/2020. Z1720 ( talk) 18:43, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
Thanks, Alanna the Brave, for summarizing your priorities here. I think it would indeed be useful if you put together a page on how Women in Green is hoping to contribute to reviewing and improving FAs threatened with degrading. It could then be linked from the Women in Red announcements and and from future mass-messaged invitations. Personally, I think it is equally important to try to improve some of the former FAs to at least up to GA standard, if not FA. We could consider starting with those which are most frequently viewed. It should not be too difficult to draw up lists for different fields of interest.
As you know, many contributors to Women in Red also take part in Women in Green. I'm sure some would be happy to devote some of their editing time to assisting with the priorities you establish in collaboration with Z1720. I've had second thoughts on applying JL-Bot directly to Women in Green as it would probably require too much additional work on tagging, categorization, etc., but given it's success with Women in Music and Women in Business, it might be worthwhile applying it to Women writers and Women artists. I'll look into this more carefully over the next few days. Finally, I think it will be important to establish a realistic list of candidate FAR articles, summarizing the amount of effort required on each and suggesting which field(s) of interest need to be addressed. On that basis, we try to encourage volunteers to carry out the improvements needed, not only from Women in Red and Womeen in Green but from other appropriate wikiprojects dealing with women. Please keep us informed on this talk page of further developments, reporting on which women-related FARs have been revised as "saved".-- Ipigott ( talk) 07:22, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
Just been reading this interesting article by Amy Diehl of Wilson College titled “You Have To See It To Be It”: Missing Female Role Models and What We Can Do About It, published in Ms Magazine on 27 December. It calls for greater generalized emphasis of the achievements of historical and present-day female role models, including better coverage of their stories on Wikipedia.-- Ipigott ( talk) 11:42, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
While we have articles on most of those she mentions ( Anita Willets-Burnham, Katalin Karikó, Alexandra David-Néel, Zora Neale Hurston, Eunice Newton Foote, Amazons of Dahomey, Kathleen McNulty, Jean Jennings, Betty Snyder, Marlyn Wescoff, Frances Bilas, Ruth Lichterman, Grace Hopper and Frances Perkins), it looked as if we had nothing on the explorer Nan Shepard, but that was because of the misspelling of Nan Shepherd. Many of these articles could be significantly improved if they are to be put forward as role models for evolving students.-- Ipigott ( talk) 12:49, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
I read this section of The Signpost ( Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-12-28/Recent research) with interest, in the context of 'lead/lede' paragraphs of women's biographies. It made me grateful that we are tackling the issue of short lead paragraphs in this month's "Double the Lede!" event.
Thanks for all you do -everyone- and Happy New Year! -- Rosiestep ( talk) 18:43, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
List of German Open Women's Singles champions in badminton does not have a WIR talk banner, or any direct relation to this project. But I saw it at AFD. No sourcing at all. Also, nobody seems to be rushing forth to favor deletion. Just thought I would drop this here in case it's a subject matter of interest to someone here. — Maile ( talk) 01:29, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
The
Women in Red Oceania Contest ran from October through December of 2022. There were a total of 24 active participants with 295 eligible articles created!
Congratulations to the winners:
Oceania was the fifth and final part of the Women in Red Continental Challenge. WomenArtistUpdates ( talk) 03:10, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
Is there any other available image of Joan Didion? I don’t think the current one captures her all that well. Thriley ( talk) 21:21, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
I just made a draft for Karen Ferguson, a truly groundbreaking figure. I tried to move it into article space but could not as the article title is currently a redirect to another article. Could someone assist with that? I am on a trip and I find it difficult to do more technical edits on my phone. Thank you, Thriley ( talk) 09:42, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
Dorothy K. Willner, her mother, also appears notable. See her NYT obit. I'm confused about some of the biographical details though. NYT says she went to UChicago and UPenn and was born circa 1920; her entry in American Men and Women of Science says born 26 August 1927 and went to Chicago for all her degrees. Unless there were two American Dorothy Willners born in the 1920s who taught at KSU, one or both of these sources is wrong. I'm adding to Dorothy Willner (Q110371430) and will hopefully resolve the confusion there, but I think there's enough for an article on Dorothy (and possibly Sidney Willner, her father, too, although he's outside WiR's scope). AleatoryPonderings ( ???) ( !!!) 20:29, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
From the francophone project fr:Les sans pagEs happy new year to our sister project !
Nattes à chat ( talk) 22:00, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
Here's a new one for you. Any help with further sourcing would be appreciated. Knowledge of Bulgarian may be useful for finding them. Skyerise ( talk) 19:06, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
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Hi all, I'm drafting User:Eddie891/Mirman Baheer-- its not a super widely covered topic, but I think there might be enough, not sure. Thoughts? can anyone find anything further? Eddie891 Talk Work 14:06, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
So I asked on Did you know about doing a set of hooks for International Women's Day on March 8th. It turns out that if you have been paying attention or do sensible things like checking the archives, they have actually been doing this every year, but with less than a full set sometimes as they don't always have enough nominations. So it seems a more coordinated approach might be useful for maximising the number of women on the front page for that day.
(For those who are not familiar with it, "Did you know" (DYK) is a section on the front page of Wikipedia that displays a short interesting or quirky fact from a series of articles.)
I wondered if interested WiR editors would keep in mind the date, and work together to get enough nominations? Articles can be bios, women's organisations, anything you think pertains to International Women's Day. Each "set" of Did you knows contains eight hooks (which can contain facts from one or more articles). When there are a lot of article nominations each set lasts 12 hours, and when there are fewer they run for 24 hours, so we need 8–16 hooks, with images for 1–2 of those.
To be eligible for nomination for DYK, an article must have been created OR expanded 5x in the previous seven days. However we've been given permission to start nominating our articles from 8th January, meaning we can nominate any article made eligible from 1st January onwards. Articles can be nominated by the person that wrote them, or anyone else. If you have never nominated an article for DYK before, then you get five "free" nominations. After that, you have to do a Qid Pro Quo ("QPQ") for each nomination you make, which means reviewing one other DYK nomination.
I have some experience with DYK, and I am sure there are a bunch of editors here with much more, so if anyone has a likely article they'd like to see on the front page but is unsure how to go about it, I'm happy to help. What do people think?
(Side note: it would be great to get a relevant Featured Article on the 8th too, but I haven't ever involved myself in that project, anyone else?) - DrThneed ( talk) 21:11, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for the support. And yes, thank you Kingsiffor the reminder that GAs can be DYK too, I forget that. I'll work up some QPQs myself so I can do some nominating, and keep in mind an article or two to nominate. And then I'll come back here at the start of January to remind everyone it's happening. I'll raise the subject in GA too if noone has already (I have never ventured over there, it's probably about time!). DrThneed ( talk) 22:13, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
Hiya, Kayt Jones is a fashion photographer who would seem to be notable but sadly significant coverage on her is hard to find. There's a reasoned debate going on at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kayt Jones in case anyone has any decent sources to throw in. I had a go but couldn't find much ... Mujinga ( talk) 00:47, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
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bell hooks has died and the entry needs a lot of work to be featured at ITNRD—unfortunately the long sections on her books are entirely OR (seems to be result of WikiEd assignment). Help gratefully received! Innisfree987 ( talk) 18:19, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
Bridges2Information brought my attention to this fascinating bit of WMF research: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Research/Diversity,_equity,_and_inclusion_research/United_States_-_2021#Would_be_very/fairly_interested_in_editing_Wikipedia_articles Forgive me if this has been discussed before.
Lots of implications for WIR's work in the biographies section. We have shockingly low proportional representation of Asian and Hispanic women. And lots of cringey language choices. Gamaliel ( talk) 19:25, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
"the second chart "Number of Biographies" does not comport with WiR's headline 19% women bios stat."That’s because this report is focused on US bios (and US editors). Innisfree987 ( talk) 21:32, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
In connection with the above, I have just come across another interesting WMF-funded study published in July 2020 on Global gender differences in Wikipedia readership. It's not too clear how the readers were selected but some of the general trends observed are interesting although not surprising.-- Ipigott ( talk) 12:33, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
We have been discussing planning for 2022 on our Ideas page. It has been suggested that we should discontinue month-by-month events, opting instead for quarterly priorities given the time taken to prepare the event pages. As for me, I would prefer to continue with the existing system of new priorities each month and would be happy to handle the necessary preparations as I did for our first few years.
The other item under discussion is whether we should plan geofocus on the United States and Canada over the next five or six quarters or whether we should go for geofocus on the U.S. territories in January, Canada in February and the whole of the United States in March, leaving the remainder of the year open to other priorities.
It would be useful to have your reactions on these two items fairly soon in order to avoid confusion as we move into 2022.-- Ipigott ( talk) 12:08, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
Building on the January focus of US territories, I wondered whether we should extend that further in other months and include countries partially recognised by the UN, autonomous regions, disputed territories etc.? e.g. February - China: Macau, Hong Kong, Tibet, East Turkestan, etc.
What do people think? We have some red-lists, or lists in previous events already which could be adapted. Lajmmoore ( talk) 12:44, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
Elfrida von Nardroff, the contestant who won the most money on the 1950s game show Twenty-One, recently died. Her NY Times obit is here: [1] Thriley ( talk) 17:19, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Nurses. There are two entries, one below the other, for the same woman: Letitia Mumford Geer. Same person, but these two entries have two different Wikidata numbers. Anyone here who is active on Wikidata and can take care of that end of the duplication?
Also, Maud H. Mellish-Wilson. I know who this is, and she is usually listed as simple Maud Mellish Wilson. "No. 2751: Mrs. Wilson of the Mayo Clinic". University of Houston. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
Louise Dietrich article is created with Wikidata number Q102046829. The missing article listing has her redlink name of A. Louise Dietrich with Wikidata number Q84997334.
Thanks. — Maile ( talk) 00:13, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
Elizabeth P. Ossoff is a social psychologist and a professor emeritus at Saint Anselm College. She is frequently cited in newspapers as an expert in political communication and behavior but I wasn't finding much significant coverage ( WP:SIGCOV) or indicators that she meets WP:PROF. I was curious if anyone else could find more. TJMSmith ( talk) 21:09, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
I noticed this missing article and went ahead and translated it from the Dutch. Just letting y'all know in case any of you are particularly interested in this subject. I'm not good enough at Dutch to read the sources and find citations, which still needs to be done, or English sources found. Have at it! Skyerise ( talk) 19:21, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
I've been working on Draft:Susie Sutton with FloridaArmy and I've found a photo of Sutton in this issue of Billboard, the bottom, far left image. I want to clip out that picture of her, but I'm not clear of the copyright considerations for this. Anyone have any insights to impart? Silver seren C 00:52, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
Interested in what project members think of articles on women who were pioneers in a particular subject being covered " People notable for only one event". I've not encountered this particular deletion rationale before, and it's a bit depressing. Espresso Addict ( talk) 01:30, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
Can somebody have a look at this as well please. I started working on the references, but it unravelled very quickly and I had to revert. I plan to try and find more references over the Christmas period to get it out of draft. scope_creep Talk 19:35, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
This is the title of a newspaper that was founded by Carrie Best. An IP editor on the talk page made an article request for it, so I thought posting here might give more visibility to someone who might be interested in writing the article. If an article is written, it would need to be distingushed from The Clarion which is an unrelated socialist British newspaper (I don't think the redlink for The Clarion (newspaper) that's currently in the Best article would work because they're both newspapers). I'm thinking that offline sources would likely be more detailed and substantial compared to what I've been able to find online so far, so it would be great if someone had access to sources like that. Or if I'm looking in the wrong places, just finding better online sources. Clovermoss (talk) 05:39, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
Does anyone here have subscription access to ancestry.com or newspaperarchive.com?
She is the oldest outstanding redlink at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Fellowships#Fellows of the American Physical Society (name misspelled there) but I can't find much else about her on the public web than the fellowship itself so if these articles could be retrieved I think it would be very helpful in constructing an article. I can sort of read the text of the newspaperarchive story through the html source of the page but for the ancestry one only the headline is legible. — David Eppstein ( talk) 18:38, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
Ruth Fitzmayer Schwarz, 79, of Abington, a physicist and violinist, died of sepsis Aug. 26 at Abington Memorial Hospital.
In 1952, Dr. Schwarz joined Philco Corp. in Philadelphia when transistors were just beginning to be adapted to computers. She was part of a team of scientists who helped Philco become a leader in the transistor field. Her first successful assignment, her son Timothy said, was to develop a formula for heat flow that was critical in the manufacturing process.
After her children were born, Dr. Schwarz cut back her hours at Philco to two days a week in the company's laboratory in Blue Bell. In 1963, she told a reporter that when she was home, she would sometimes jot down a solution to a problem she and other researchers had been discussing in the laboratory. She was a recipient of Philco's Presidential Special Award.
In the 1970s, Dr. Schwarz was a consulting scientist for the General Electric Space Division in Valley Forge. She was the author of more than a dozen scientific papers and received several patents in the semiconductor field.
A native of Louisville, Ky., Dr. Schwarz was president of the student body at Atherton High School and played violin in the school's orchestra. She planned to major in political science at the University of Louisville until a freshman trigonometry course spiked her interest in math and science.
She met her future husband, John Schwarz, in college. After earning bachelor's degrees, they both attended graduate school at Harvard. They married in 1950.
Her adviser at Harvard for her doctoral thesis on molecular magnetism, her son said, was J.H. Van Vleck, who would go on to receive a Nobel Prize in physics.
Timothy Schwarz said his mother helped him with his math and science homework in high school. "I took physics," he said, "to keep up my grade-point average."
For 29 years, Dr. Schwarz was a violinist with the Old York Road Symphony and also played with the Abington Chamber Orchestra. She was a deacon and an elder at Abington Presbyterian Church.
In addition to her husband and son, she is survived by another son, Scott; a daughter, Linda Bierema; a sister; and three grandchildren.
A memorial service will be at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow at Abington Presbyterian Church, Old York and Susquehanna Roads, Abington.
Contact staff writer Sally A. Downey at 215-854-2913 or sdowney@phillynews.com.
Credit: By Sally A. Downey INQUIRER STAFF WRITER Illustration
Ruth F. Schwarz Word count: 405
Copyright Philadelphia Media Network (Newspapers) LLC Sep 4, 2004
Fwiw this on FamilySearch has a birth date of 12 July 1925, which matches the Find a Grave entry. AleatoryPonderings ( ???) ( !!!) 20:23, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
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-- Megalibrarygirl ( talk) 16:01, 28 December 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
There's an AN discussion ongoing about prolific AfC reviewer Luciapop which has resulted in many of their articles being taken to AfD. Some do seem likely to be promotional in intent but others might be notable. I was particularly concerned about Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Judith Balcazar -- on the designer of the washable female incontinence aid Giggleknickers, which I'd definitely heard of before now; also a BBC 100 Women award winner. Espresso Addict ( talk) 03:31, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
(And if anyone wants to help out with other articles, there's also the male biographies of Khamis Chuwal Lom, Saeed Lom, and Ikenna Ikeme) Silver seren C 05:17, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
Literally during the AfD, an admin has gone and deleted a bunch of the articles in the Victory Obasi multi-AfD. And then basically posted that they did so there in the AfD, as if that's an argument for deletion or some nonsense? Again showing why G5 is an utterly worthless CSD category. Silver seren C 18:34, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
I'm also willing to restore any of these to draft that WiR editors wish to adopt, but it might be politic to ask the deleting admin instead? Here's the ones I noted earlier (all deleted by Liz):
Will look for the others in a minute; I know Liz deleted some but another admin did the rest.
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talk) 08:13, 26 December 2021 (UTC) ETA I think that's the end of the big batch nominated on 25th; the rest look to be male subjects; will be going offline shortly.
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09:07, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
Regarding the redlist above, I couldn't find much on Naima al-Ayyubi and Renée Cissé, but Marie-Thérèse Bocoum is clearly notable (she was awarded the National Order of the Ivory Coast), so I requested a draftified version of the previous article and would hope to bring it back into mainspace soon; my workings are currently at User:Mujinga/Marie-Thérèse Bocoum if anyone wants to collaborate Mujinga ( talk) 21:26, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
Hi, there is currently an AfD open for actress Tina Ona Paukstelis. I recently expanded the article but it's now at afd. She had had some reasonable coverage, although an issue may be that the sources I noted (and used in the article), were from the same newspaper. She has had many smaller/passing mentions on other papers over the years. Is it a lost cause trying to save it (if there were to be any further !deletes)? Bungle ( talk • contribs) 15:38, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, the author of the first novel to be published by someone from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, was recently redirected to her book Even As We Breathe. Do there appear to be sources out there to justify an article for her? Thriley ( talk) 02:29, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
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link)Not, of course, a "woman in red" but the article is awfully thin. With her death today, I was going to link it for a friend who was unfamiliar with her, but it's so weak I didn't feel that would be appropriate. In particular: not even a mention of her trajectory from enthusiastic "Goldwater girl" at 30 to becoming much more of a social liberal. - Jmabel | Talk 02:30, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
Hi everyone, I'm part of a working group called WP:URFA/2020 that reviews and improves featured articles promoted before 2016. Wikipedia's systematic bias towards men extends to featured articles: according to WikiProject Women in Green, 420 of the 6,048 FAs concern women or topics related to women. URFA/2020 would like experienced editors to help improve FAs so that they are not submitted to WP:FAR and demoted. Would this project be interested in receiving a report on our efforts, specifically focusing on articles that fall within your purview? We hope that a link to this report could be part of the newsletter that your group sends out via mass messaging. Please ping me in responses if interested, or leave a message at WT:URFA/2020. Z1720 ( talk) 18:43, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
Thanks, Alanna the Brave, for summarizing your priorities here. I think it would indeed be useful if you put together a page on how Women in Green is hoping to contribute to reviewing and improving FAs threatened with degrading. It could then be linked from the Women in Red announcements and and from future mass-messaged invitations. Personally, I think it is equally important to try to improve some of the former FAs to at least up to GA standard, if not FA. We could consider starting with those which are most frequently viewed. It should not be too difficult to draw up lists for different fields of interest.
As you know, many contributors to Women in Red also take part in Women in Green. I'm sure some would be happy to devote some of their editing time to assisting with the priorities you establish in collaboration with Z1720. I've had second thoughts on applying JL-Bot directly to Women in Green as it would probably require too much additional work on tagging, categorization, etc., but given it's success with Women in Music and Women in Business, it might be worthwhile applying it to Women writers and Women artists. I'll look into this more carefully over the next few days. Finally, I think it will be important to establish a realistic list of candidate FAR articles, summarizing the amount of effort required on each and suggesting which field(s) of interest need to be addressed. On that basis, we try to encourage volunteers to carry out the improvements needed, not only from Women in Red and Womeen in Green but from other appropriate wikiprojects dealing with women. Please keep us informed on this talk page of further developments, reporting on which women-related FARs have been revised as "saved".-- Ipigott ( talk) 07:22, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
Just been reading this interesting article by Amy Diehl of Wilson College titled “You Have To See It To Be It”: Missing Female Role Models and What We Can Do About It, published in Ms Magazine on 27 December. It calls for greater generalized emphasis of the achievements of historical and present-day female role models, including better coverage of their stories on Wikipedia.-- Ipigott ( talk) 11:42, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
While we have articles on most of those she mentions ( Anita Willets-Burnham, Katalin Karikó, Alexandra David-Néel, Zora Neale Hurston, Eunice Newton Foote, Amazons of Dahomey, Kathleen McNulty, Jean Jennings, Betty Snyder, Marlyn Wescoff, Frances Bilas, Ruth Lichterman, Grace Hopper and Frances Perkins), it looked as if we had nothing on the explorer Nan Shepard, but that was because of the misspelling of Nan Shepherd. Many of these articles could be significantly improved if they are to be put forward as role models for evolving students.-- Ipigott ( talk) 12:49, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
I read this section of The Signpost ( Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-12-28/Recent research) with interest, in the context of 'lead/lede' paragraphs of women's biographies. It made me grateful that we are tackling the issue of short lead paragraphs in this month's "Double the Lede!" event.
Thanks for all you do -everyone- and Happy New Year! -- Rosiestep ( talk) 18:43, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
List of German Open Women's Singles champions in badminton does not have a WIR talk banner, or any direct relation to this project. But I saw it at AFD. No sourcing at all. Also, nobody seems to be rushing forth to favor deletion. Just thought I would drop this here in case it's a subject matter of interest to someone here. — Maile ( talk) 01:29, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
The
Women in Red Oceania Contest ran from October through December of 2022. There were a total of 24 active participants with 295 eligible articles created!
Congratulations to the winners:
Oceania was the fifth and final part of the Women in Red Continental Challenge. WomenArtistUpdates ( talk) 03:10, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
Is there any other available image of Joan Didion? I don’t think the current one captures her all that well. Thriley ( talk) 21:21, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
I just made a draft for Karen Ferguson, a truly groundbreaking figure. I tried to move it into article space but could not as the article title is currently a redirect to another article. Could someone assist with that? I am on a trip and I find it difficult to do more technical edits on my phone. Thank you, Thriley ( talk) 09:42, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
Dorothy K. Willner, her mother, also appears notable. See her NYT obit. I'm confused about some of the biographical details though. NYT says she went to UChicago and UPenn and was born circa 1920; her entry in American Men and Women of Science says born 26 August 1927 and went to Chicago for all her degrees. Unless there were two American Dorothy Willners born in the 1920s who taught at KSU, one or both of these sources is wrong. I'm adding to Dorothy Willner (Q110371430) and will hopefully resolve the confusion there, but I think there's enough for an article on Dorothy (and possibly Sidney Willner, her father, too, although he's outside WiR's scope). AleatoryPonderings ( ???) ( !!!) 20:29, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
From the francophone project fr:Les sans pagEs happy new year to our sister project !
Nattes à chat ( talk) 22:00, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
Here's a new one for you. Any help with further sourcing would be appreciated. Knowledge of Bulgarian may be useful for finding them. Skyerise ( talk) 19:06, 2 January 2022 (UTC)