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I happened across this lovely list of Women artists in the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection; posting it here in case anyone finds it to be useful. Possibly ( talk) 00:36, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
One of our priorities for December is women philanthropist (including benefactors). I have noticed that people qualified on Wikidata as benefactors are not included in our current redlist of philosophers (e.g. Marie Peyrat). It would therefore be useful if the list could be extended to include benefactors (Q4887411). As far as I can see, on Wikidata philanthropist (Q12362622) is a subcategory of benefactor (Q4887411) — so perhaps it's simply a matter of substituting wd:Q4887411 for wd:Q12362622. I could do it myself but as I'm really no expert on Wikidata, I'd prefer someone else to take care of it.-- Ipigott ( talk) 10:53, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
Was doing a little bit of research looking for an image of Fannie Salter, and I found this blog post: http://clifford-archive.uslhs.org/2014/03/18/celebrating-womens-history-month/
I think we've got articles on most of the best-known women lighthouse keepers, but there may be some fodder for exploration here for those who find the field of interest. I haven't the time to do much more digging right now, but may return to it at some point later.
(And I did find the image, too...it's going up in her article shortly. :-) ) -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 18:30, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Talk:Martha G. Welch § Request Edits December 2020.
KnollLane55901 (
talk)
19:11, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
A discussion regarding "What is a fully professional league" based on WP:NFOOTY inclusion criteria (relevant to this project) is going on here:
Input and ideas are welcome. Hmlarson ( talk) 20:55, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
Maria Angélica Ribeiro User:Tetizeraz. Send me a ✉️ ! 01:55, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
Was very surprised to see all the redlinks at List of Living Legends of the American Academy of Nursing, who I believe all pass our notability criteria. HickoryOughtShirt?4 ( talk) 22:26, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
I wanted to check and see what others thought of the notability of this BLP, a state legislative candidate who was not elected. As far as I can tell, it does not meet NPOL and seems to be a case that exemplifies the problems that can crop up with entries on relatively low-profile individuals, because if the entry is kept, it should probably incorporate coverage like this, yet it feels not right to commit that to the encyclopedia about someone who is not really a public figure. Do others see it differently though? (Also, the two main authors of the page have since been blocked for sock puppetry, but maybe that’s neither here nor there.) Thanks for your thoughts. Innisfree987 ( talk) 01:33, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
I just started an article that might be a fun WIR Christmastime DYK if anyone is interested... American singer-songwriter Maura Sullivan wrote the single " Christmas Eve in Washington" in 20 minutes while on WMZQ-FM and it raised $180,000 for charities at the Children's National Hospital and Susan G. Komen for the Cure. TJMSmith ( talk) 21:04, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
Any template geniuses watching this page, by any chance? Katherine Garrison Chapin's papers are housed at the Library of Congress and Georgetown University Library, but I can only get {{ Archival records}} to pull one of those from Wikidata; it seems to get confused if there's more than one instance of P485 to choose from. Not sure if pulling more than one from Wikidata would require changes to the template or if I'm just being dense. AleatoryPonderings ( ???) ( !!!) 21:21, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
@ Ipigott: Hello, I want to submit two articles for Women in Red. They are Draft:Mehak Ali & Draft:Jasmin Walia. However I am unsure about whether they are suitable for publishing. So I am asking you here. In my opinion, both articles meet the 8th criteria of Wikipedia:NSINGER. If you think the articles are OK, can you please publish them so I can submit. Imfarhad7 ( talk) 17:55, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
{{subst:submit/Imfarhad7}}
to a draft or create the draft by the
Wikipedia:Article wizard and then follow the default instructions to submit. Your account now has enough edits and age for you to
move drafts directly to article space, or create pages in article space directly, if you are confident that the topics are notable. —
Bilorv (
talk)
19:58, 21 December 2020 (UTC)Just finished a restoration:
...and would appreciate a bit of help distributing it to articles. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.7% of all FPs 23:38, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
Any Brits out there have access to an archive of The Sunday Times weekly bestseller lists throughout 2020? I've just created Women Don't Owe You Pretty (June 2020) and I have a source that says it was in the top five for ten consecutive weeks by August, but I'd guess that it later continued being part of the list so I want to know the (as of today) number of weeks. I'd also like to mention the specific date range, cite the Times directly and maybe mention peak/entry position. — Bilorv ( talk) 17:39, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
I don't play a very active role in the discussions here, but wanted to say I am grateful for those that do & keep up WiR as a such a lively project. Dsp13 ( talk) 10:59, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi all, I’ve just run across First Lady Edith Wilson’s autobiography My Memoir at DYK and I’m a bit sorry to see how much the entry is focused on book’s lack of historical worth. It’s all sourced, just, it seems unlikely to be the view of women’s historians or cultural historians for that matter—most artifacts have some historical value, it’s just a matter of what they testify to. Of course as it stands this comment is OR on my part. Just thought I’d throw it out there in case someone immersed in the sources might have seen the book referenced. Long shot! Innisfree987 ( talk) 20:44, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
While performing a routine (boring and time consuming) reference search on ProQuest, I stumbled upon a small filler article in the 1929 edition of the Los Angeles Times that mentioned women working as scientists or human computers at the Mount Wilson Observatory (on the same page with forgettable articles about the number of marriage licenses filed in San Diego County and the arrest of a former czarist Russian general for drunk driving).
The following individuals were listed in the article:
I think the information contained in the L.A. Times article could served as the starting point for the creation of several articles (as many as eight) about previously unknown women astronomers working in anonymity in early 20th century Southern California and would make a nice subject for a Women in Science write-a-thon or a Wikipedia in Education writing project. I believe the employment situation at Mount Wilson is similar to that of the Harvard Computers.
The following resources might also be useful:
Who were these persons that time has apparemtly forgotten? How many of these persons are the Rosalind Franklins of their generation? -- 68.50.32.85 ( talk) 00:35, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
On a somewhat related note, I thought I'd mention astronomy researcher Antoinette de Vaucouleurs who worked at Harvard Observatory 1958-1960. For now I just redirected to her husband's page as the two were frequent collaborators. She probably deserves her own page, but their work is closely interlinked. [1] Praemonitus ( talk) 16:04, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
I just made an article for criminal justice reform activist Amy Povah. She is very deserving of an article. It is a work in progress at the moment. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you! Thriley ( talk) 02:49, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi all, can anyone find information about the coder Sheila Elizabeth Whitton? Her article is currently tagged for notability, would be nice to get it resolved one way or another. Eddie891 Talk Work 02:33, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
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I recently made an article for the Afghan women's rights activist Freshta Kohistani. She was assasinated on December 24th. Please feel free to help build it out. Thank you. Thriley ( talk) 05:08, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
I just started an article on Kathleen Hicks, the first female nominee for the United States Deputy Secretary of Defense. There are many creative commons YouTube videos [2] that may be a good source for an image of Hicks....at least until an official portrait is produced. It would be great if someone could help do this as I fear my screenshot methods may lose resolution. TJMSmith ( talk) 19:55, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
I am compiling a list of artists, some of whom are in wikidata, but have not had an article written yet. I have seen, but can't find again, examples of the name being linked to wikidata. An example is the Dutch painter Theo Beerendonk. Does anyone here know the "correct" way to do this? Thanks in advance for any assistance. Best, WomenArtistUpdates ( talk) 23:31, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
[[:wikidata:Q21545325|Theo Beerendonk]]
.
AleatoryPonderings (
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23:37, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
Wanted to share this bio here: Agitu Ideo Gudeta. She was an impressive Ethiopian refugee who was murdered a few days ago :( Gudeta overcame racist threats and established a successful goat farm using a rare indigenous goat, later becoming a national symbol of environmentalism in Italy. Glad she is no longer red linked, although I wish the circumstances were different. Let's hope for a better 2021. TJMSmith ( talk) 17:32, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi all, I've come upon Elizabeth Carraway Howland, a confederate spy. Any coverage that establishes notability? I'm not seeing it, but hope someone else can find something I'm missing. Eddie891 Talk Work 21:18, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
Hello, I recently made an article for the Malaysian botanist Halijah Ibrahim. I need some help sourcing her. Any assistance with the article would be appreciated. Thank you! Thriley ( talk) 23:49, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
Retied Rear Admiral Margaret G. Kibben has been appointed by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to be the first woman in history to be the Chaplain for the United States House of Representatives. "Margaret Kibben to become first woman to serve as House chaplain". Roll Call. — Maile ( talk) 22:28, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi all
I just published an article about Zhang Zhan, a journalist who has been tortured and sentenced to four years in prison for her work covering the pandemic in Wuhan. I'd really appreciate some help in adding more detail and references.
Thanks
John Cummings ( talk) 00:56, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
Would there be any interest in a complementary effort to add bios of close relatives of "notables" (as WP defines notability) to the " Bio Spore" section of Wikispore? This could include for example, children and parents, and perhaps most significantly, spouses. Since a great number of people in "structurally notable" positions (such as elected officials at various levels) have historically been men, that would be an opportunity to focus on their wives. These women may not have been notable in their own standing (again, per my understanding of WP's definition) but may have done interesting things that bear mentioning outside the context of a sentence or two (if that) in their husbands' WP articles. Wikispore's bio section seems to be ideally suited for such articles. (One could also see Wikispore bios on husbands of notable women, of course.) I'd just add that in my understanding, the "Bio Spore" is not a " minor league" or "below A-list" platform, but rather a place to explore other dimensions of notability, and recognizing that people we deem "notable" achieve such status in a nexus of family support from individuals who are worth knowing about in their own right.-- A12n ( talk) 17:58, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
Just finished my last 1day1woman 2020 page a bit ahead of schedule — 299 brand new pages and 67 stub expansions/page overhauls, nearly all of them WiR pages. If you'll excuse a moment of cheesiness, I wanted to say a general thanks to everyone here for all of the infrastructure that so effectively draws in and supports contributors who care about making Wikipedia's coverage fair. The encyclopedia is so much better because this WikiProject is around and active. :) - Astrophobe ( talk) 06:43, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
I accidentally uploaded two too-large versions of File:Joan Micklin Silver.png for Joan Micklin Silver. Any admins watching who can revdel the first two versions of this file as non-fair use because too big? I'm not sure how to request it otherwise. Thanks! AleatoryPonderings ( ???) ( !!!) 07:06, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
Towards the end of significantly expanding an article about the Japanese weapon kusarigama, I was happy to come across a magazine article which stated that women samurai also used the weapon. I thought that the members of this group would be interested in that fact and reading the women samurai article (pages 45 to 48). SL93 ( talk) 02:56, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
The Women in Red Continental Challenge is on.
The Women in Red
Women in Asia contest ran from October 2020 through December 2020. It had 37 active participants.
Winners:
Other statistics
A grand total of 351 articles were created!
The Women in Africa contest | Jan-Feb-Mar 2021 starts now!
-- WomenArtistUpdates ( talk) 02:41, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi, everybody. I'm somewhat new to the group and look forward to creating posts about notable women together. I created my first post on female author Tiffany Reisz in November. But today a user marked it for deletion, claiming there weren't enough independent news sources. I had included 13, which is more than twice the number her male husband, Andrew Shaffer, has in his never-disputed entry. I've since added two more. These sources are NPR, Los Angeles Times, Marie Claire, USA Today - definitely reputable, well-known news outlets here in the US. Yet this entry keeps getting disputed; this is the third challenge it's had. Would one of you mind to take a look, please, and help me figure out what's going on or possibly just approve the entry so it can move out of draftspace hell?
For those interested in lifting up the LGBT community, Reisz is queer, writes about gay characters, and has won a LAMBDA, so there's an added bonus there as well, thanks. Kentuckian in NY ( talk) — Preceding undated comment added 22:41, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
Yeah, there's like 50 sources on the page maybe now? There were 13. Looking at this particular user's talk page, my opinion is she makes deleting entries on female artists her personal hobby, using the same excuse every time.
Espresso Addict, are you maybe able to help me get the page approved? I'll be honest. Fighting this has taken HOURS of my time. If they want to run women off Wikipedia, this is how the d-mn well do it! — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Kentuckian in NY (
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00:32, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
Zetta Elliott was one of the women writers mentioned in What If Our Textbooks Were Black? who did not previously have a Wikipedia page. I have created one for her as part of the Science Fiction Wikiproject. There are many interviews with her listed on her website that have not been referenced, and so far there is little-to-no-material on her community work, her diversity in literature activism, nor on her plays. More respectable new coverage sources would also be good. Netmouse ( talk) 01:41, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
Hello, I recently made an article for the botanist Rosemary Margaret Smith. I need some help sourcing her. Any assistance with the article would be appreciated. Thank you! Thriley ( talk) 08:22, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
Thanks to MarioGom, we now have a list of active WiR members sorted by the date when they joined. (It resulted from problems with our main membership list which changes the "member since" date whenever members edit their "card".) From the total of 1,195, 53 joined in 2015, 101 in 2016, 147 in 2017, 314 in 2018, 304 in 2019 and 276 in 2020. As the list of inactive members had stopped functioning, MarioGom has revived it. Although I have not counted the names, I believe it is similar in length to the active members list. Inactive members are added to the list if they have not been active on Wikipedia for three months. Most of the redlinked inactive members made only one edit on Wikipedia, namely their WiR registration, apparently as a result of suggestions at editathons.-- Ipigott ( talk) 08:52, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
I recently made a page for the 2019 film A Woman's Work: The NFL's Cheerleader Problem and started on a page for the film's director Yu Gu. Any help would be appreciated! Thank you, Thriley ( talk) 03:38, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
Can I interest anyone in improving Marilyn Leask, currently at AfD? She is a researcher in education in the UK, possibly born in Australia. Author/editor of educational textbooks with Routledge. The article was (probably rightly) stubbed during the AfD but does little to demonstrate her significance. There are substantial COI problems in the history. Regards, Espresso Addict ( talk) 04:10, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi all -- I thought I'd provide a quick update of what WikiProject Women in Green got up to in 2020. This past year brought the following:
We have a new set of goals for 2021, including a goal for GA nominations around women's rights (following WiR's lead again!), and we welcome anyone who's interested in contributing to the project. Alanna the Brave ( talk) 19:16, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
In his article "Twitter Wants to Use Wikipedia to Help Determine Who Gets a Blue Checkmark", Stephen Harrison examines the implications of Twitter's use of Wikipedia biographies for establishing notability. Monika Sengul-Jones (linked in the aticle to user:Shameran81) suggests that this could widen the gender gap.-- Ipigott ( talk) 13:05, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
FYI - There was an interesting article on NPR this morning, Where Are The Women?': Uncovering The Lost Works Of Female Renaissance Artists. It focuses on the organization Advancing Women Artists Foundation. -- WomenArtistUpdates ( talk) 17:51, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
Do you remember the first article you wrote and if it was rejected?
Interviewed on 6 January by Emily Wong on NPR, Jess Wade reveals three favourites she would include in her pandemic bubble: Sarah Gilbert, Kizzmekia Corbett and Gladys West. Listen or read at One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia.-- Ipigott ( talk) 16:21, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
May I interest anyone in Wesleyan professor Christina Crosby’s entry? One of her publishers has informally announced her passing, though it has not been confirmed; with the kind assistance of Espresso Addict, we have been working on improving it regardless and any interested hands would be very welcome. She has a book on Victorian conceptions of history and women that could do with expert eyes, among other aspects for improvement. Thanks all! Innisfree987 ( talk) 05:50, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
You can check out the AfD here
If anyone wants to take the time to find sources for her. None are provided for the article and though several are found when doing a search I can't really tell if they would be considered reliable so I'm not sure what could be added or not. There is an image of her grave in Wikimedia:Commons if you search for File:Grób Haliny Buyno-Łozy.jpg. Seems such a shame for her article to be deleted even if it must remain a stub. There are no WIR Project templates on her talk page. -- ARoseWolf ( Talk) 21:15, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
Hello! I joined this WikiProject today, and just created my first article for it ( Josephine Dobbs Clement). I've added {{ WIR-00}} to the article's talk page, and wanted to check if there's anything else I should be adding to ensure it's captured by the WikiProject? Just want to be sure that it'll show up on Report bot's metrics, etc. Thank you! — DanCherek ( talk) 00:51, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi, I'm working on the Women in Guyana article and I'm hoping for feedback. It seems like WiR is far more active than other women's interest projects, and it's unfortunate that there's no FA articles for any "Women in _" country, which makes it difficult to build up an article on such a vast subject without any sort of guide. I don't have access to the paywalled journals, so I know as it is it's quite weighted in its current form, but I'd like to be confident that I'm addressing the topic appropriately. Thanks, Estheim ( talk) 12:05, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi. I've created a bio for Roberta Avery. She is the captain of the Brazil women's cricket team and is described as a pioneer of the game in South America. If anyone has access to other sources, esp. those in Portuguese, they would be most welcome. Thanks. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 20:41, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
Innisfree987 has been doing a great job updating Deborah Rhode for WP:ITNRD. I came across an excellent photo which might be in the PD: it's linked from this archived post on an Obama administration site (full-size photo here). I don't immediately see any EXIF info that would indicate who made the photo, but a very high-res image on a US federal website that doesn't (to my knowledge) appear elsewhere certainly seems like it's the work of a federal employee? AleatoryPonderings ( ???) ( !!!) 06:28, 12 January 2021 (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 85 | Archive 86 | Archive 87 | Archive 88 | Archive 89 | Archive 90 | → | Archive 95 |
I happened across this lovely list of Women artists in the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection; posting it here in case anyone finds it to be useful. Possibly ( talk) 00:36, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
One of our priorities for December is women philanthropist (including benefactors). I have noticed that people qualified on Wikidata as benefactors are not included in our current redlist of philosophers (e.g. Marie Peyrat). It would therefore be useful if the list could be extended to include benefactors (Q4887411). As far as I can see, on Wikidata philanthropist (Q12362622) is a subcategory of benefactor (Q4887411) — so perhaps it's simply a matter of substituting wd:Q4887411 for wd:Q12362622. I could do it myself but as I'm really no expert on Wikidata, I'd prefer someone else to take care of it.-- Ipigott ( talk) 10:53, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
Was doing a little bit of research looking for an image of Fannie Salter, and I found this blog post: http://clifford-archive.uslhs.org/2014/03/18/celebrating-womens-history-month/
I think we've got articles on most of the best-known women lighthouse keepers, but there may be some fodder for exploration here for those who find the field of interest. I haven't the time to do much more digging right now, but may return to it at some point later.
(And I did find the image, too...it's going up in her article shortly. :-) ) -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 18:30, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Talk:Martha G. Welch § Request Edits December 2020.
KnollLane55901 (
talk)
19:11, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
A discussion regarding "What is a fully professional league" based on WP:NFOOTY inclusion criteria (relevant to this project) is going on here:
Input and ideas are welcome. Hmlarson ( talk) 20:55, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
Maria Angélica Ribeiro User:Tetizeraz. Send me a ✉️ ! 01:55, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
Was very surprised to see all the redlinks at List of Living Legends of the American Academy of Nursing, who I believe all pass our notability criteria. HickoryOughtShirt?4 ( talk) 22:26, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
I wanted to check and see what others thought of the notability of this BLP, a state legislative candidate who was not elected. As far as I can tell, it does not meet NPOL and seems to be a case that exemplifies the problems that can crop up with entries on relatively low-profile individuals, because if the entry is kept, it should probably incorporate coverage like this, yet it feels not right to commit that to the encyclopedia about someone who is not really a public figure. Do others see it differently though? (Also, the two main authors of the page have since been blocked for sock puppetry, but maybe that’s neither here nor there.) Thanks for your thoughts. Innisfree987 ( talk) 01:33, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
I just started an article that might be a fun WIR Christmastime DYK if anyone is interested... American singer-songwriter Maura Sullivan wrote the single " Christmas Eve in Washington" in 20 minutes while on WMZQ-FM and it raised $180,000 for charities at the Children's National Hospital and Susan G. Komen for the Cure. TJMSmith ( talk) 21:04, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
Any template geniuses watching this page, by any chance? Katherine Garrison Chapin's papers are housed at the Library of Congress and Georgetown University Library, but I can only get {{ Archival records}} to pull one of those from Wikidata; it seems to get confused if there's more than one instance of P485 to choose from. Not sure if pulling more than one from Wikidata would require changes to the template or if I'm just being dense. AleatoryPonderings ( ???) ( !!!) 21:21, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
@ Ipigott: Hello, I want to submit two articles for Women in Red. They are Draft:Mehak Ali & Draft:Jasmin Walia. However I am unsure about whether they are suitable for publishing. So I am asking you here. In my opinion, both articles meet the 8th criteria of Wikipedia:NSINGER. If you think the articles are OK, can you please publish them so I can submit. Imfarhad7 ( talk) 17:55, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
{{subst:submit/Imfarhad7}}
to a draft or create the draft by the
Wikipedia:Article wizard and then follow the default instructions to submit. Your account now has enough edits and age for you to
move drafts directly to article space, or create pages in article space directly, if you are confident that the topics are notable. —
Bilorv (
talk)
19:58, 21 December 2020 (UTC)Just finished a restoration:
...and would appreciate a bit of help distributing it to articles. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.7% of all FPs 23:38, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
Any Brits out there have access to an archive of The Sunday Times weekly bestseller lists throughout 2020? I've just created Women Don't Owe You Pretty (June 2020) and I have a source that says it was in the top five for ten consecutive weeks by August, but I'd guess that it later continued being part of the list so I want to know the (as of today) number of weeks. I'd also like to mention the specific date range, cite the Times directly and maybe mention peak/entry position. — Bilorv ( talk) 17:39, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
I don't play a very active role in the discussions here, but wanted to say I am grateful for those that do & keep up WiR as a such a lively project. Dsp13 ( talk) 10:59, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi all, I’ve just run across First Lady Edith Wilson’s autobiography My Memoir at DYK and I’m a bit sorry to see how much the entry is focused on book’s lack of historical worth. It’s all sourced, just, it seems unlikely to be the view of women’s historians or cultural historians for that matter—most artifacts have some historical value, it’s just a matter of what they testify to. Of course as it stands this comment is OR on my part. Just thought I’d throw it out there in case someone immersed in the sources might have seen the book referenced. Long shot! Innisfree987 ( talk) 20:44, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
While performing a routine (boring and time consuming) reference search on ProQuest, I stumbled upon a small filler article in the 1929 edition of the Los Angeles Times that mentioned women working as scientists or human computers at the Mount Wilson Observatory (on the same page with forgettable articles about the number of marriage licenses filed in San Diego County and the arrest of a former czarist Russian general for drunk driving).
The following individuals were listed in the article:
I think the information contained in the L.A. Times article could served as the starting point for the creation of several articles (as many as eight) about previously unknown women astronomers working in anonymity in early 20th century Southern California and would make a nice subject for a Women in Science write-a-thon or a Wikipedia in Education writing project. I believe the employment situation at Mount Wilson is similar to that of the Harvard Computers.
The following resources might also be useful:
Who were these persons that time has apparemtly forgotten? How many of these persons are the Rosalind Franklins of their generation? -- 68.50.32.85 ( talk) 00:35, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
On a somewhat related note, I thought I'd mention astronomy researcher Antoinette de Vaucouleurs who worked at Harvard Observatory 1958-1960. For now I just redirected to her husband's page as the two were frequent collaborators. She probably deserves her own page, but their work is closely interlinked. [1] Praemonitus ( talk) 16:04, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
I just made an article for criminal justice reform activist Amy Povah. She is very deserving of an article. It is a work in progress at the moment. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you! Thriley ( talk) 02:49, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi all, can anyone find information about the coder Sheila Elizabeth Whitton? Her article is currently tagged for notability, would be nice to get it resolved one way or another. Eddie891 Talk Work 02:33, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
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-- Megalibrarygirl ( talk) 03:01, 29 December 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging
I recently made an article for the Afghan women's rights activist Freshta Kohistani. She was assasinated on December 24th. Please feel free to help build it out. Thank you. Thriley ( talk) 05:08, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
I just started an article on Kathleen Hicks, the first female nominee for the United States Deputy Secretary of Defense. There are many creative commons YouTube videos [2] that may be a good source for an image of Hicks....at least until an official portrait is produced. It would be great if someone could help do this as I fear my screenshot methods may lose resolution. TJMSmith ( talk) 19:55, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
I am compiling a list of artists, some of whom are in wikidata, but have not had an article written yet. I have seen, but can't find again, examples of the name being linked to wikidata. An example is the Dutch painter Theo Beerendonk. Does anyone here know the "correct" way to do this? Thanks in advance for any assistance. Best, WomenArtistUpdates ( talk) 23:31, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
[[:wikidata:Q21545325|Theo Beerendonk]]
.
AleatoryPonderings (
???) (
!!!)
23:37, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
Wanted to share this bio here: Agitu Ideo Gudeta. She was an impressive Ethiopian refugee who was murdered a few days ago :( Gudeta overcame racist threats and established a successful goat farm using a rare indigenous goat, later becoming a national symbol of environmentalism in Italy. Glad she is no longer red linked, although I wish the circumstances were different. Let's hope for a better 2021. TJMSmith ( talk) 17:32, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi all, I've come upon Elizabeth Carraway Howland, a confederate spy. Any coverage that establishes notability? I'm not seeing it, but hope someone else can find something I'm missing. Eddie891 Talk Work 21:18, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
Hello, I recently made an article for the Malaysian botanist Halijah Ibrahim. I need some help sourcing her. Any assistance with the article would be appreciated. Thank you! Thriley ( talk) 23:49, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
Retied Rear Admiral Margaret G. Kibben has been appointed by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to be the first woman in history to be the Chaplain for the United States House of Representatives. "Margaret Kibben to become first woman to serve as House chaplain". Roll Call. — Maile ( talk) 22:28, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi all
I just published an article about Zhang Zhan, a journalist who has been tortured and sentenced to four years in prison for her work covering the pandemic in Wuhan. I'd really appreciate some help in adding more detail and references.
Thanks
John Cummings ( talk) 00:56, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
Would there be any interest in a complementary effort to add bios of close relatives of "notables" (as WP defines notability) to the " Bio Spore" section of Wikispore? This could include for example, children and parents, and perhaps most significantly, spouses. Since a great number of people in "structurally notable" positions (such as elected officials at various levels) have historically been men, that would be an opportunity to focus on their wives. These women may not have been notable in their own standing (again, per my understanding of WP's definition) but may have done interesting things that bear mentioning outside the context of a sentence or two (if that) in their husbands' WP articles. Wikispore's bio section seems to be ideally suited for such articles. (One could also see Wikispore bios on husbands of notable women, of course.) I'd just add that in my understanding, the "Bio Spore" is not a " minor league" or "below A-list" platform, but rather a place to explore other dimensions of notability, and recognizing that people we deem "notable" achieve such status in a nexus of family support from individuals who are worth knowing about in their own right.-- A12n ( talk) 17:58, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
Just finished my last 1day1woman 2020 page a bit ahead of schedule — 299 brand new pages and 67 stub expansions/page overhauls, nearly all of them WiR pages. If you'll excuse a moment of cheesiness, I wanted to say a general thanks to everyone here for all of the infrastructure that so effectively draws in and supports contributors who care about making Wikipedia's coverage fair. The encyclopedia is so much better because this WikiProject is around and active. :) - Astrophobe ( talk) 06:43, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
I accidentally uploaded two too-large versions of File:Joan Micklin Silver.png for Joan Micklin Silver. Any admins watching who can revdel the first two versions of this file as non-fair use because too big? I'm not sure how to request it otherwise. Thanks! AleatoryPonderings ( ???) ( !!!) 07:06, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
Towards the end of significantly expanding an article about the Japanese weapon kusarigama, I was happy to come across a magazine article which stated that women samurai also used the weapon. I thought that the members of this group would be interested in that fact and reading the women samurai article (pages 45 to 48). SL93 ( talk) 02:56, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
The Women in Red Continental Challenge is on.
The Women in Red
Women in Asia contest ran from October 2020 through December 2020. It had 37 active participants.
Winners:
Other statistics
A grand total of 351 articles were created!
The Women in Africa contest | Jan-Feb-Mar 2021 starts now!
-- WomenArtistUpdates ( talk) 02:41, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi, everybody. I'm somewhat new to the group and look forward to creating posts about notable women together. I created my first post on female author Tiffany Reisz in November. But today a user marked it for deletion, claiming there weren't enough independent news sources. I had included 13, which is more than twice the number her male husband, Andrew Shaffer, has in his never-disputed entry. I've since added two more. These sources are NPR, Los Angeles Times, Marie Claire, USA Today - definitely reputable, well-known news outlets here in the US. Yet this entry keeps getting disputed; this is the third challenge it's had. Would one of you mind to take a look, please, and help me figure out what's going on or possibly just approve the entry so it can move out of draftspace hell?
For those interested in lifting up the LGBT community, Reisz is queer, writes about gay characters, and has won a LAMBDA, so there's an added bonus there as well, thanks. Kentuckian in NY ( talk) — Preceding undated comment added 22:41, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
Yeah, there's like 50 sources on the page maybe now? There were 13. Looking at this particular user's talk page, my opinion is she makes deleting entries on female artists her personal hobby, using the same excuse every time.
Espresso Addict, are you maybe able to help me get the page approved? I'll be honest. Fighting this has taken HOURS of my time. If they want to run women off Wikipedia, this is how the d-mn well do it! — Preceding
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Zetta Elliott was one of the women writers mentioned in What If Our Textbooks Were Black? who did not previously have a Wikipedia page. I have created one for her as part of the Science Fiction Wikiproject. There are many interviews with her listed on her website that have not been referenced, and so far there is little-to-no-material on her community work, her diversity in literature activism, nor on her plays. More respectable new coverage sources would also be good. Netmouse ( talk) 01:41, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
Hello, I recently made an article for the botanist Rosemary Margaret Smith. I need some help sourcing her. Any assistance with the article would be appreciated. Thank you! Thriley ( talk) 08:22, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
Thanks to MarioGom, we now have a list of active WiR members sorted by the date when they joined. (It resulted from problems with our main membership list which changes the "member since" date whenever members edit their "card".) From the total of 1,195, 53 joined in 2015, 101 in 2016, 147 in 2017, 314 in 2018, 304 in 2019 and 276 in 2020. As the list of inactive members had stopped functioning, MarioGom has revived it. Although I have not counted the names, I believe it is similar in length to the active members list. Inactive members are added to the list if they have not been active on Wikipedia for three months. Most of the redlinked inactive members made only one edit on Wikipedia, namely their WiR registration, apparently as a result of suggestions at editathons.-- Ipigott ( talk) 08:52, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
I recently made a page for the 2019 film A Woman's Work: The NFL's Cheerleader Problem and started on a page for the film's director Yu Gu. Any help would be appreciated! Thank you, Thriley ( talk) 03:38, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
Can I interest anyone in improving Marilyn Leask, currently at AfD? She is a researcher in education in the UK, possibly born in Australia. Author/editor of educational textbooks with Routledge. The article was (probably rightly) stubbed during the AfD but does little to demonstrate her significance. There are substantial COI problems in the history. Regards, Espresso Addict ( talk) 04:10, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi all -- I thought I'd provide a quick update of what WikiProject Women in Green got up to in 2020. This past year brought the following:
We have a new set of goals for 2021, including a goal for GA nominations around women's rights (following WiR's lead again!), and we welcome anyone who's interested in contributing to the project. Alanna the Brave ( talk) 19:16, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
In his article "Twitter Wants to Use Wikipedia to Help Determine Who Gets a Blue Checkmark", Stephen Harrison examines the implications of Twitter's use of Wikipedia biographies for establishing notability. Monika Sengul-Jones (linked in the aticle to user:Shameran81) suggests that this could widen the gender gap.-- Ipigott ( talk) 13:05, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
FYI - There was an interesting article on NPR this morning, Where Are The Women?': Uncovering The Lost Works Of Female Renaissance Artists. It focuses on the organization Advancing Women Artists Foundation. -- WomenArtistUpdates ( talk) 17:51, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
Do you remember the first article you wrote and if it was rejected?
Interviewed on 6 January by Emily Wong on NPR, Jess Wade reveals three favourites she would include in her pandemic bubble: Sarah Gilbert, Kizzmekia Corbett and Gladys West. Listen or read at One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia.-- Ipigott ( talk) 16:21, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
May I interest anyone in Wesleyan professor Christina Crosby’s entry? One of her publishers has informally announced her passing, though it has not been confirmed; with the kind assistance of Espresso Addict, we have been working on improving it regardless and any interested hands would be very welcome. She has a book on Victorian conceptions of history and women that could do with expert eyes, among other aspects for improvement. Thanks all! Innisfree987 ( talk) 05:50, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
You can check out the AfD here
If anyone wants to take the time to find sources for her. None are provided for the article and though several are found when doing a search I can't really tell if they would be considered reliable so I'm not sure what could be added or not. There is an image of her grave in Wikimedia:Commons if you search for File:Grób Haliny Buyno-Łozy.jpg. Seems such a shame for her article to be deleted even if it must remain a stub. There are no WIR Project templates on her talk page. -- ARoseWolf ( Talk) 21:15, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
Hello! I joined this WikiProject today, and just created my first article for it ( Josephine Dobbs Clement). I've added {{ WIR-00}} to the article's talk page, and wanted to check if there's anything else I should be adding to ensure it's captured by the WikiProject? Just want to be sure that it'll show up on Report bot's metrics, etc. Thank you! — DanCherek ( talk) 00:51, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi, I'm working on the Women in Guyana article and I'm hoping for feedback. It seems like WiR is far more active than other women's interest projects, and it's unfortunate that there's no FA articles for any "Women in _" country, which makes it difficult to build up an article on such a vast subject without any sort of guide. I don't have access to the paywalled journals, so I know as it is it's quite weighted in its current form, but I'd like to be confident that I'm addressing the topic appropriately. Thanks, Estheim ( talk) 12:05, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi. I've created a bio for Roberta Avery. She is the captain of the Brazil women's cricket team and is described as a pioneer of the game in South America. If anyone has access to other sources, esp. those in Portuguese, they would be most welcome. Thanks. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 20:41, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
Innisfree987 has been doing a great job updating Deborah Rhode for WP:ITNRD. I came across an excellent photo which might be in the PD: it's linked from this archived post on an Obama administration site (full-size photo here). I don't immediately see any EXIF info that would indicate who made the photo, but a very high-res image on a US federal website that doesn't (to my knowledge) appear elsewhere certainly seems like it's the work of a federal employee? AleatoryPonderings ( ???) ( !!!) 06:28, 12 January 2021 (UTC)