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I made an article for Trinidad Arroyo, and currently the only available image for her is a statue. It's a nice statue, but there are actual photographs of her as well. Images are probably my weakest area on Wikipedia, but I figure someone knowledgeable in media copyright policy might be able to determine whether there are any usable photographs of her. I've seen a few portraits, as well as an image of her voting (before women's suffrage) in this article. Thebiguglyalien ( talk) 16:54, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
I have always been able to access the Wikipedia Library from here but now when I click on "Login via Wikipedia" the response is "Permission denied: Sorry; you aren't allowed to do that." Can anyone help? I have been finding it very useful in connection with our Folklore focus, especially via De Gruyter and JSTOR. Maybe SusunW can help.-- Ipigott ( talk) 15:53, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
Lia Thomas, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has an RFC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Beccaynr ( talk) 21:55, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
Hello everyone at Women in Red. I created an entry for Vera Felicidade de Almeida Campos in response to her being on the Women in red-Occupation Psychologists list. I wonder if any editors involved with Women in Red Project could evaluate the Draft and possibly approve it for publication? I don't know if this is the appropriate place to ask about this evaluation process, but I thought that maybe here there are editors more focused on the Drafts linked to this women's list. Thank you in advance. @ Lidia Pita Lidia Pita ( talk) 02:32, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
Dante8 who has joined the WikiProject Women in Red on multiple accounts and has edited articles related to the project, including their most recent blocked sock-puppets [3] [4] has caused major disruption on Wikipedia for over a decade due to their copyright violations [5]. I would appreciate if users of this WikiProject will check in the future for Dante8's sock-puppets because they will likely re-join this WikiProject again or make edits associated with it, for example Women in Red lists they have taken interest in [6], [7], [8]. If you want to see the sort of mess that Dante8 causes then just check the recent activity going back a month on International Women's Day. They are introducing copyrighted content and editing from multiple accounts and IPs. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 20:11, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
Hi! I've completed translating an article about a novel by Olga Tokarczuk called E.E. for the Books by women event. However, I don't know how to name the article so it waits in my sandbox. An obvious choice would have been E.E., but it's a redirect to EE. I don't know if I should publish the article under E.E. anyway and remove the redirect, or is it better to create something like E.E. (Tokarczuk novel)? I'm not well versed in naming conventions, so I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. GiantBroccoli ( talk) 15:48, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
Not sure if this editathon has been mentioned anywhere on the talk page already, but the Penn State University Libraries have an online month-long edit-a-thon going on for Native American Women Activists. Even better, you can participate in hosted online zoom calls to edit with each other and get support! <3 There are still 2 calls left, one on Wed 4/12 and one on Tues 4/18. If you cannot think of anything to write about, they will gladly "provide suggestions of articles to edit and references to use." Yupik ( talk) 21:54, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
The Ambassadors section of the Women in Africa Initiative lists quite a few women who have thus far been overlooked by this encyclopaedia (as well as many others who are included already, happily). Hafsat Abiola, who serves as president of the organisation, may also be a candidate for attention from Women in Green. The discussion between Dr. Abiola and Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (linked both here and at the bottom aforementioned page) is very poignant. I redlinked WIA as well to indicate that the organisation itself, which I would think WP:NOTABLE enough for inclusion, might be of interest too. -- Cl3phact0 ( talk) 07:35, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
Hi all! Wikimedia Serbia has launched its weeklong international edit-a-thon in honour of International Romani Day yesterday and multiple language versions are hosting their own events related to it too. And this is already the fourth time in a row! <3 If you notice any Roma topics or people missing from the edit-a-thon lists, please feel free to add them! And of course, please join the edit-a-thon! It might not have cookies, but it comes with ready-made lists if you cannot think of anything to write about :) - Yupik ( talk) 07:57, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
I just recreated Woni Spotts, which was AfD'd like three years ago, and it made me wonder if we'd ever had an event for women whose previous article had been deleted? Valereee ( talk) 17:00, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
Thanks to all who participated in the Art+Activism event! Collaborating with the Art+Feminism community, Women in Red created or upgraded over 100 articles. Brava! WomenArtistUpdates ( talk) 15:19, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
Slightly silly question but: am I making some mistake or has have refs created on Newspapers.com stopped importing correctly? Previously most of the details autofilled for me (or pretty close) and now none but the title do. Anyone else encountered this? Any tips? Innisfree987 ( talk) 02:35, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
References
We're almost half way through April and our annual editathon on the academics/activists who pressed for the inclusion of women and their activities in the historic record and as subjects for academic study. Happily, we are averaging an article each day. @ Lajmmoore, Innisfree987, PamD, and TJMSmith:, thank you! Rosie tweeted about it but since I don't use twitter, I cannot see or make note of any suggestions made to add to our redlists. (Maybe someone else can check?) Just wanted to remind everyone that as women's studies is interdisciplinary, whatever your interests are, there is probably someone who pioneered writing about or analyzing women in that field. For example while working on a Romanian teacher, I ran across Mary Zirin an American specializing in Russian studies who has a prize and chair named after her. [9], [10], [11], [12]. I encourage participation in the annual editathon because without the work of these scholars, writing about women would be impossible. SusunW ( talk) 15:50, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
Slightly off-topic, but looks interesting. Michael Mandiberg, Wikipedia's Race and Ethnicity Gap and the Unverifiability of Whiteness Social Text (2023) 41 (1 (154)): 21–46.
-- Tagishsimon ( talk) 02:14, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
Our main WiR page regularly updates the statistics from Humaniki on the proportion of biographies of women, now 19.52%. As we also devote effort to attaching images to our biographies, it might be of interest to see that Humaniki reports that as of 10 April the proportion of media about women in connection with biographies on Commons is 20.82% (166,014 of women out of a total of 797,417). It should be mentioned that this is for all language versions of Wikipedia.
Those interested in further background on images on Wikipedia may like to look through "A large scale study of reader interactions with images on Wikipedia" by Danele Rama et al, which reports: "Biographies, making up 30% of the articles on Wikipedia, also contain around 15% of the images." From the accompanying table, it appears that about two thirds of these are images of faces.-- Ipigott ( talk) 07:32, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
Britney Schmidt was included on the Time 100 this year. I've created a stub, but there's probably some room for expansion, if anyone feels so inclined. Eddie891 Talk Work 21:14, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
The biography on Lois K. Alexander Lane came to my attention while researching for the commentary mentioned above. I noticed some copyvio, from a source that is now offline and had to be dug out of an archive. Further checking for copying/overly close paraphrasing is probably warranted. XOR'easter ( talk) 17:24, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
Hi. I'm hoping one of the more experienced members of the group can help me with questions I've had for quite some time now. When I was granted "autopatrolled" permission back in September 2018, my understanding was that new articles I was creating for Women in Red and other WikiProjects would be "automatically marked as 'reviewed' and 'patrolled' in the system," and couldn't figure out why, often within less than 10 minutes of my having posted a new article for WIR, that someone on New Page Patrol would start editing that article, even though the article was a cleanly written profile of a clearly notable subject that was formatted correctly and was well sourced with more than adequate inline citations (C-class or better). I finally just figured out, today, how to access the New Pages feed that New Page Patrollers use to review articles, and see that the two most recent articles that I created for WIR, Lucille C. Gunning and Irene Jakab, are both listed there. Of concern, the article for Lucille Gunning was incorrectly labeled as an "orphan," which it isn't; I've linked her to at least three different Wikipedia articles.
With apologies for the length of this post, my questions are: Should my newly-created articles still even be ending up on the New Page Patrol feed if I have the autopatrolled permission? If so, are they being marked correctly as already patrolled and already reviewed so that NPPs know not to waste time focusing their attention on them when there are other articles that truly do need their attention? (Or to phrase it another way, do all of our Women in Red articles end up on this NPP feed and, if so, is my experience common to what you experience as successful, experienced WIR article creators, or is something not working properly with my permissions setting for autopatrolled?) Any guidance you can provide would be greatly appreciated. - 47thPennVols ( talk) 23:28, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
Hi all. I've been creating content on opera singers in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Opera singers list. I tried finding sources on the opera singer Nadzyeya Grade-Kulikovich and have come up with nothing in English, Russian, or Belarusian. The Wikidata is taken from the Belarusian wikipedia article at be:Надзея Мікалаеўна Градэ-Куліковіч which is not promising when it comes to sourcing or getting details about her life and alleged career. Everything on the internet appears to be a mirror of wikipedia. She apparently was the wife of Mikalay Shchahlou-Kulikovich. I'm fairly good at researching opera singers, and the lack of literature on this singer (particularly since she is supposed to have been active in Chicago and English language sources should be readily available) is making question whether she even existed let alone if she had a singing career. She is not in the Lyric Opera of Chicago performance archives, and I can't find any source connecting her with the only other professional opera company in Chicago, the Chicago Opera Theatre. I would like some other people to take a crack at finding at sources, and help me determine whether or not we should remove her from the index. Best. 4meter4 ( talk) 16:00, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
I'm also willing to wager that she was likely a major singer at the national opera or some such similar organization, which would convey a certain notability; I suspect that any sources dealing with that are, for the moment, undigitized. (I'd be willing to bet that the rolls of the National Opera show that she performed with them at least up until the war, and that it would be possible to find a few newspaper reviews of her performances somewhere in the local archive.) I believe I saw a source - on mobile, so I forgot to make note of it - which calls her one of the pioneers of the lyric art in Belarus, or something similar, in conjunction with a number of other artists. A list of names, nothing more, but still. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 04:45, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
If anyone is looking for an article that could use expansion... Regina Morantz-Sanchez is a longtime stub. It falls under both the WIR-262 (Gender Studies) and WIR-263 (Health)! She is a historian specializing in the history of women physicians in U.S. medicine. TJMSmith ( talk) 21:24, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
I've just finished a short stub on Audrey Sabol. Her birth date is listed as 1922 in two sources. [1] [2] One source (Philadelphia Museum of Art) [3] lists her birth date as 1937 (which just happens to be the same birth year as Edward Ruscha0.
She is either 101 years old, or has no obituary, or was born in 1937. Any ideas welcome. Thanks WomenArtistUpdates ( talk) 20:56, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
References
Hello. While adding lists from Category:Women in Red redlink lists (by dictionary) to the Redlist index, I found a couple of duplicate Wikidata redlists. There are 2 lists for A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography. There are also 2 lists for Biographical Dictionary of Swedish Women. I was wondering if they could be merged together. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 22:56, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
Hello all. There is a discussion about Valentina Bodrug-Lungu and their DYK nomination here. Posted for information Lajmmoore ( talk) 07:18, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
Please evaluate possibility for merging of Draft:Feminism, Divorce: Challenging Nigeria's Breadwinner Role in to the article Breadwinner model. Bookku ( talk) 06:44, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
On 19/20 April, French news media including Bourse Direct, La Croix and TV5 Monde carried an extensive article by AFP's Anna Cuenca on Jess Wade titled "Sur Wikipédia, sortir les femmes scientifiques de l'ombre, page après page" (On Wikipedia, bringing women scientists out of the shade, page after page).-- Ipigott ( talk) 09:03, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
Just seen that titled "The British physicist making women scientists visible online", the article was published on 20 April in English on sites including Phys Org and Yahoo News.-- Ipigott ( talk) 09:14, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
And while we're at it, on 19 April there was a long interview with Jess Wade in French on Indigo, titled "Rencontrez la personne qui a ajouté 1 767 scientifiques sous-représentés à Wikipédia" (Meet the woman who has added 1,767 under-represented scientists to Wikipedia).-- Ipigott ( talk) 09:57, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
I started Draft:Kathy Ceceri, an interesting author and educator. I would be happy to have help in adding newspaper coverage of her and her books. FloridaArmy ( talk) 15:26, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
Maybe we have seen something along these lines before but much of this is new to me. Headed "Facts about the gender gap and how you can help close it", the presentation contains information added as recently as March 2023. Some of the "facts" are nevertheless rather strange, for example, under "Who is contributing to Wikimedia projects?" we read "... there was a modest increase in women contributors between 2019 (11.5%) and 2020 (15.0%)". Perhaps there is a case for working on this?-- Ipigott ( talk) 11:53, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
Women in Guam History. Any help would be appreciated. I did give an answer on the article's talk page, but a little support over there might help. As a woman, I am deeply offended that the nominator doesn't think these Guam women are notable. Thanks. — Maile ( talk) 22:06, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
Despite the closure of the AfD, there are still plenty of redlinks on the list of women featured in this book, many of whom are likely notable. — David Eppstein ( talk) 21:35, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
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Hi all. I just created an article on the Italian opera singer Maria Giustina Turcotti. Sadly much of the RS focuses on her weight during the latter part of the year; probably because of a well known caricature of her now in the Royal Collection which emphasizes her size ( see here; it's also available in Commons) and the many nasty comments made about her weight in published criticism and in private letters by colleagues and employers. For example, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians doesn't mention a single opera she performed in but spends half the article quoting people on her weight. I wanted to smack the authors; particularly because she was one of the highest paid opera singers in Italy at the time and was a well known singer of her day. Therefore, I'd like to also include a more positive image of her for balance sake also found in the royal collection, see here. I am not savvy with copyright and loading images. Given the age of the work, I think it probably is no longer copyrighted. If anyone can help upload it to the English wiki or commons who knows the right copyright language I would appreciate it. Thanks. 4meter4 ( talk) 20:42, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
Hello again. I was wondering what happens to completed redlists. Are they deleted or marked historical? The ones I'm wondering about are Afro-American encyclopaedia and Afro-American women in journalism. I found them at Category:Women in Red redlink lists (by dictionary). They were not completed by me. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 18:50, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 120 | ← | Archive 124 | Archive 125 | Archive 126 | Archive 127 | Archive 128 | → | Archive 130 |
I made an article for Trinidad Arroyo, and currently the only available image for her is a statue. It's a nice statue, but there are actual photographs of her as well. Images are probably my weakest area on Wikipedia, but I figure someone knowledgeable in media copyright policy might be able to determine whether there are any usable photographs of her. I've seen a few portraits, as well as an image of her voting (before women's suffrage) in this article. Thebiguglyalien ( talk) 16:54, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
I have always been able to access the Wikipedia Library from here but now when I click on "Login via Wikipedia" the response is "Permission denied: Sorry; you aren't allowed to do that." Can anyone help? I have been finding it very useful in connection with our Folklore focus, especially via De Gruyter and JSTOR. Maybe SusunW can help.-- Ipigott ( talk) 15:53, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
Lia Thomas, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has an RFC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Beccaynr ( talk) 21:55, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
Hello everyone at Women in Red. I created an entry for Vera Felicidade de Almeida Campos in response to her being on the Women in red-Occupation Psychologists list. I wonder if any editors involved with Women in Red Project could evaluate the Draft and possibly approve it for publication? I don't know if this is the appropriate place to ask about this evaluation process, but I thought that maybe here there are editors more focused on the Drafts linked to this women's list. Thank you in advance. @ Lidia Pita Lidia Pita ( talk) 02:32, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
Dante8 who has joined the WikiProject Women in Red on multiple accounts and has edited articles related to the project, including their most recent blocked sock-puppets [3] [4] has caused major disruption on Wikipedia for over a decade due to their copyright violations [5]. I would appreciate if users of this WikiProject will check in the future for Dante8's sock-puppets because they will likely re-join this WikiProject again or make edits associated with it, for example Women in Red lists they have taken interest in [6], [7], [8]. If you want to see the sort of mess that Dante8 causes then just check the recent activity going back a month on International Women's Day. They are introducing copyrighted content and editing from multiple accounts and IPs. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 20:11, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
Hi! I've completed translating an article about a novel by Olga Tokarczuk called E.E. for the Books by women event. However, I don't know how to name the article so it waits in my sandbox. An obvious choice would have been E.E., but it's a redirect to EE. I don't know if I should publish the article under E.E. anyway and remove the redirect, or is it better to create something like E.E. (Tokarczuk novel)? I'm not well versed in naming conventions, so I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. GiantBroccoli ( talk) 15:48, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
Not sure if this editathon has been mentioned anywhere on the talk page already, but the Penn State University Libraries have an online month-long edit-a-thon going on for Native American Women Activists. Even better, you can participate in hosted online zoom calls to edit with each other and get support! <3 There are still 2 calls left, one on Wed 4/12 and one on Tues 4/18. If you cannot think of anything to write about, they will gladly "provide suggestions of articles to edit and references to use." Yupik ( talk) 21:54, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
The Ambassadors section of the Women in Africa Initiative lists quite a few women who have thus far been overlooked by this encyclopaedia (as well as many others who are included already, happily). Hafsat Abiola, who serves as president of the organisation, may also be a candidate for attention from Women in Green. The discussion between Dr. Abiola and Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (linked both here and at the bottom aforementioned page) is very poignant. I redlinked WIA as well to indicate that the organisation itself, which I would think WP:NOTABLE enough for inclusion, might be of interest too. -- Cl3phact0 ( talk) 07:35, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
Hi all! Wikimedia Serbia has launched its weeklong international edit-a-thon in honour of International Romani Day yesterday and multiple language versions are hosting their own events related to it too. And this is already the fourth time in a row! <3 If you notice any Roma topics or people missing from the edit-a-thon lists, please feel free to add them! And of course, please join the edit-a-thon! It might not have cookies, but it comes with ready-made lists if you cannot think of anything to write about :) - Yupik ( talk) 07:57, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
I just recreated Woni Spotts, which was AfD'd like three years ago, and it made me wonder if we'd ever had an event for women whose previous article had been deleted? Valereee ( talk) 17:00, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
Thanks to all who participated in the Art+Activism event! Collaborating with the Art+Feminism community, Women in Red created or upgraded over 100 articles. Brava! WomenArtistUpdates ( talk) 15:19, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
Slightly silly question but: am I making some mistake or has have refs created on Newspapers.com stopped importing correctly? Previously most of the details autofilled for me (or pretty close) and now none but the title do. Anyone else encountered this? Any tips? Innisfree987 ( talk) 02:35, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
References
We're almost half way through April and our annual editathon on the academics/activists who pressed for the inclusion of women and their activities in the historic record and as subjects for academic study. Happily, we are averaging an article each day. @ Lajmmoore, Innisfree987, PamD, and TJMSmith:, thank you! Rosie tweeted about it but since I don't use twitter, I cannot see or make note of any suggestions made to add to our redlists. (Maybe someone else can check?) Just wanted to remind everyone that as women's studies is interdisciplinary, whatever your interests are, there is probably someone who pioneered writing about or analyzing women in that field. For example while working on a Romanian teacher, I ran across Mary Zirin an American specializing in Russian studies who has a prize and chair named after her. [9], [10], [11], [12]. I encourage participation in the annual editathon because without the work of these scholars, writing about women would be impossible. SusunW ( talk) 15:50, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
Slightly off-topic, but looks interesting. Michael Mandiberg, Wikipedia's Race and Ethnicity Gap and the Unverifiability of Whiteness Social Text (2023) 41 (1 (154)): 21–46.
-- Tagishsimon ( talk) 02:14, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
Our main WiR page regularly updates the statistics from Humaniki on the proportion of biographies of women, now 19.52%. As we also devote effort to attaching images to our biographies, it might be of interest to see that Humaniki reports that as of 10 April the proportion of media about women in connection with biographies on Commons is 20.82% (166,014 of women out of a total of 797,417). It should be mentioned that this is for all language versions of Wikipedia.
Those interested in further background on images on Wikipedia may like to look through "A large scale study of reader interactions with images on Wikipedia" by Danele Rama et al, which reports: "Biographies, making up 30% of the articles on Wikipedia, also contain around 15% of the images." From the accompanying table, it appears that about two thirds of these are images of faces.-- Ipigott ( talk) 07:32, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
Britney Schmidt was included on the Time 100 this year. I've created a stub, but there's probably some room for expansion, if anyone feels so inclined. Eddie891 Talk Work 21:14, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
The biography on Lois K. Alexander Lane came to my attention while researching for the commentary mentioned above. I noticed some copyvio, from a source that is now offline and had to be dug out of an archive. Further checking for copying/overly close paraphrasing is probably warranted. XOR'easter ( talk) 17:24, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
Hi. I'm hoping one of the more experienced members of the group can help me with questions I've had for quite some time now. When I was granted "autopatrolled" permission back in September 2018, my understanding was that new articles I was creating for Women in Red and other WikiProjects would be "automatically marked as 'reviewed' and 'patrolled' in the system," and couldn't figure out why, often within less than 10 minutes of my having posted a new article for WIR, that someone on New Page Patrol would start editing that article, even though the article was a cleanly written profile of a clearly notable subject that was formatted correctly and was well sourced with more than adequate inline citations (C-class or better). I finally just figured out, today, how to access the New Pages feed that New Page Patrollers use to review articles, and see that the two most recent articles that I created for WIR, Lucille C. Gunning and Irene Jakab, are both listed there. Of concern, the article for Lucille Gunning was incorrectly labeled as an "orphan," which it isn't; I've linked her to at least three different Wikipedia articles.
With apologies for the length of this post, my questions are: Should my newly-created articles still even be ending up on the New Page Patrol feed if I have the autopatrolled permission? If so, are they being marked correctly as already patrolled and already reviewed so that NPPs know not to waste time focusing their attention on them when there are other articles that truly do need their attention? (Or to phrase it another way, do all of our Women in Red articles end up on this NPP feed and, if so, is my experience common to what you experience as successful, experienced WIR article creators, or is something not working properly with my permissions setting for autopatrolled?) Any guidance you can provide would be greatly appreciated. - 47thPennVols ( talk) 23:28, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
Hi all. I've been creating content on opera singers in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Opera singers list. I tried finding sources on the opera singer Nadzyeya Grade-Kulikovich and have come up with nothing in English, Russian, or Belarusian. The Wikidata is taken from the Belarusian wikipedia article at be:Надзея Мікалаеўна Градэ-Куліковіч which is not promising when it comes to sourcing or getting details about her life and alleged career. Everything on the internet appears to be a mirror of wikipedia. She apparently was the wife of Mikalay Shchahlou-Kulikovich. I'm fairly good at researching opera singers, and the lack of literature on this singer (particularly since she is supposed to have been active in Chicago and English language sources should be readily available) is making question whether she even existed let alone if she had a singing career. She is not in the Lyric Opera of Chicago performance archives, and I can't find any source connecting her with the only other professional opera company in Chicago, the Chicago Opera Theatre. I would like some other people to take a crack at finding at sources, and help me determine whether or not we should remove her from the index. Best. 4meter4 ( talk) 16:00, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
I'm also willing to wager that she was likely a major singer at the national opera or some such similar organization, which would convey a certain notability; I suspect that any sources dealing with that are, for the moment, undigitized. (I'd be willing to bet that the rolls of the National Opera show that she performed with them at least up until the war, and that it would be possible to find a few newspaper reviews of her performances somewhere in the local archive.) I believe I saw a source - on mobile, so I forgot to make note of it - which calls her one of the pioneers of the lyric art in Belarus, or something similar, in conjunction with a number of other artists. A list of names, nothing more, but still. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 04:45, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
If anyone is looking for an article that could use expansion... Regina Morantz-Sanchez is a longtime stub. It falls under both the WIR-262 (Gender Studies) and WIR-263 (Health)! She is a historian specializing in the history of women physicians in U.S. medicine. TJMSmith ( talk) 21:24, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
I've just finished a short stub on Audrey Sabol. Her birth date is listed as 1922 in two sources. [1] [2] One source (Philadelphia Museum of Art) [3] lists her birth date as 1937 (which just happens to be the same birth year as Edward Ruscha0.
She is either 101 years old, or has no obituary, or was born in 1937. Any ideas welcome. Thanks WomenArtistUpdates ( talk) 20:56, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
References
Hello. While adding lists from Category:Women in Red redlink lists (by dictionary) to the Redlist index, I found a couple of duplicate Wikidata redlists. There are 2 lists for A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography. There are also 2 lists for Biographical Dictionary of Swedish Women. I was wondering if they could be merged together. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 22:56, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
Hello all. There is a discussion about Valentina Bodrug-Lungu and their DYK nomination here. Posted for information Lajmmoore ( talk) 07:18, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
Please evaluate possibility for merging of Draft:Feminism, Divorce: Challenging Nigeria's Breadwinner Role in to the article Breadwinner model. Bookku ( talk) 06:44, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
On 19/20 April, French news media including Bourse Direct, La Croix and TV5 Monde carried an extensive article by AFP's Anna Cuenca on Jess Wade titled "Sur Wikipédia, sortir les femmes scientifiques de l'ombre, page après page" (On Wikipedia, bringing women scientists out of the shade, page after page).-- Ipigott ( talk) 09:03, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
Just seen that titled "The British physicist making women scientists visible online", the article was published on 20 April in English on sites including Phys Org and Yahoo News.-- Ipigott ( talk) 09:14, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
And while we're at it, on 19 April there was a long interview with Jess Wade in French on Indigo, titled "Rencontrez la personne qui a ajouté 1 767 scientifiques sous-représentés à Wikipédia" (Meet the woman who has added 1,767 under-represented scientists to Wikipedia).-- Ipigott ( talk) 09:57, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
I started Draft:Kathy Ceceri, an interesting author and educator. I would be happy to have help in adding newspaper coverage of her and her books. FloridaArmy ( talk) 15:26, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
Maybe we have seen something along these lines before but much of this is new to me. Headed "Facts about the gender gap and how you can help close it", the presentation contains information added as recently as March 2023. Some of the "facts" are nevertheless rather strange, for example, under "Who is contributing to Wikimedia projects?" we read "... there was a modest increase in women contributors between 2019 (11.5%) and 2020 (15.0%)". Perhaps there is a case for working on this?-- Ipigott ( talk) 11:53, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
Women in Guam History. Any help would be appreciated. I did give an answer on the article's talk page, but a little support over there might help. As a woman, I am deeply offended that the nominator doesn't think these Guam women are notable. Thanks. — Maile ( talk) 22:06, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
Despite the closure of the AfD, there are still plenty of redlinks on the list of women featured in this book, many of whom are likely notable. — David Eppstein ( talk) 21:35, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
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Victuallers' article creation efforts at WP:WIRED are a tour de force. He has created nearly 3,000 articles in total, personally tipping the imbalance of gender biographies towards equity. As a helpful collaborator, Victuallers provides advice to others (see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red). In 2020, Victuallers created a biographical article about one woman every day for 360 days straight. Amazing! |
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Congratulations to @ Victuallers, Wikipedia's Editor of the Week. CT55555( talk) 13:09, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
Hi all. I just created an article on the Italian opera singer Maria Giustina Turcotti. Sadly much of the RS focuses on her weight during the latter part of the year; probably because of a well known caricature of her now in the Royal Collection which emphasizes her size ( see here; it's also available in Commons) and the many nasty comments made about her weight in published criticism and in private letters by colleagues and employers. For example, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians doesn't mention a single opera she performed in but spends half the article quoting people on her weight. I wanted to smack the authors; particularly because she was one of the highest paid opera singers in Italy at the time and was a well known singer of her day. Therefore, I'd like to also include a more positive image of her for balance sake also found in the royal collection, see here. I am not savvy with copyright and loading images. Given the age of the work, I think it probably is no longer copyrighted. If anyone can help upload it to the English wiki or commons who knows the right copyright language I would appreciate it. Thanks. 4meter4 ( talk) 20:42, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
Hello again. I was wondering what happens to completed redlists. Are they deleted or marked historical? The ones I'm wondering about are Afro-American encyclopaedia and Afro-American women in journalism. I found them at Category:Women in Red redlink lists (by dictionary). They were not completed by me. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 18:50, 18 April 2023 (UTC)