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Why was my article sent to draftspace?

I recently had an article sent to draftspace because it "was not ready" and "needed more in-depth coverage with citations from reliable and independent sources in order to show it meets WP:GNG."

I have added two more sources and submitted for approval, but to be honest I am unsure what exactly is the problem given the notability of the person covered by an article is clearly supported by a number of articles in top Slovak media sources focused specifically on the subject of the article.

Any advice would be appreciated. Newklear007 (talk) 08:56, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

@Newklear007: in short, sent to draft because someone thought notability was insufficiently evidenced. You've added two more refs to Draft:Alžbeta Ferencová, and whilst I take the view that she meets WP:N, the sources (to the limited extent I can judge them) are nearer the light & frothy end of the spectrum ... which is perhaps to be expected for a young actor / gameshow person / model / aspiring singer. Wikipedia gets a lot of submissions for subjects in that space, many of which are WP:TOOSOON or are promotional but not really notable. Advice is, don't panic; let's see what the Articles for Creation response is, and, if there are any more press articles on the subject, it would still be worth adding them. --Tagishsimon (talk) 09:48, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

Wincey Willis

I was recently recalling the name Wincey Willis - one I'd heard of, without being familiar with. It seems she was a fixture on TV-am, one of the early (or earliest) British breakfast television shows. I think I read that she was the first woman to present the weather on ITV. I was surprised she had no WP article, but it turns out that her article simply redirects to TV-am. What's more, if you look at the Wincey Willis article history, it appears that her article was created in August 2005, quite early on in WP's history. It lasted for 13 years before an editor first nominated it for deletion, then unilaterally decided to bypass the deletion process and "redirect this to the thing for which she was notable". Surely that the article was created so early on and lasted for such a long time suggests Willis is notable - aside from her own notability as a subject. This version of the article seems to detail her life and career. I'd argue she is notable, as I think many people in Britain of a certain age (say, over 50) would recognise her name. Would anyone like to have a go at recreating the article? I'd be happy to work on it, if so. There's a few sources out there just in an internet search, without even delving into Wiki Library. TrottieTrue (talk) 21:40, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

If you can add some reliable sourcing you can undo the redirect. FloridaArmy (talk) 07:43, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
OK, I've recreated the article. TrottieTrue (talk) 18:09, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

Samantha Henderson

I had found this abandoned user space draft about an author from an inactive user that I wanted to co-opt and hopefully publish one day: User:Vermiculite/Samantha Henderson. BOZ (talk) 17:14, 8 February 2023 (UTC)

Evgenia Citkowitz

Evgenia Citkowitz, the wife of actor Julian Sands, was just redirected to her husband’s article. She’s written two books that have been reviewed in several reliable publications, which I think makes her meet notability as an author. Thriley (talk) 16:33, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

Ah, I see Onel is continuing their redirection of notable, properly sourced articles (with this being a rather egregious one considering the sources that already existed in the article beforehand), along with their "Draftification to Deletion" pipeline method. You can see the direct effect of that from their helpfully compiled Draftify log. G13s everywhere and they even use a script to speed up and automate their draftifications. It's just a method for quiet deletion. I'll take a look in a bit and undo it with additional sources. SilverserenC 21:52, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

I appreciate putting spam articles into draft, but there appear to be a lot of articles that definitely would meet notability with one or two more sources. It would be better to just tag them and leave them in article space. What a waste to see those all get deleted after 6 months in draft space. Thriley (talk) 23:23, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

I totally agree, @Thriley. Several edit-a-thons in Australia last year resulted in many women's bios sent to Draft space, and then, sadly, deleted. Most had ample references and, had they been created by existing editors, the worst they would've faced was, possibly, a notability tag. Not a good experience for new editors or the organisers. Oronsay (talk) 00:41, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
@Oronsay, really sorry to hear that happened. Is there a reason I’m overlooking that you didn’t feel you could move them back to mainspace yourself? My recollection was that anyone could do that; outside the AC limit, I didn’t think AfC was an obligatory process? Innisfree987 (talk) 00:50, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
Thanks, Silver seren for your useful analysis. Just looking at some of the more recent ones from the list cited above, it looks to me as if we should reconsider Draft:Arianna Di Stadio and at least the following attempts at biographies of Black people: Draft:Janae Johnson, Draft:Crystal Valentine and Draft:Victoria Akai. I don't know to what extent such drafts are reworked by their creators but they certainly do not deserve to be deleted.--Ipigott (talk) 09:25, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
I feel like some of those can just be moved back, because they do have proper sourcing already. SilverserenC 00:42, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
I wouldn't accept Arianna Di Stadio, myself. Someone more familiar with neuroscience standards might have a different opinion but it's my impression that an h-index of 20ish is not high for that field. -- asilvering (talk) 02:11, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
AfC isn't obligatory. But if you move them back to mainspace and the AfC mover is sure they were correct, their next step will be to send it to AfD. So a better step if you're not ready to fight for an absent editor's article at AfD but don't want it to get G13'd is probably to submit it to AfC yourself. If it gets declined, you will get a notification on your talk page and you'll be able to find some more sources then. If it gets accepted, great - you saved yourself the AfD effort. -- asilvering (talk) 02:09, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
I don’t think I’d feel right resubmitting to AfC without improvements unless I was already persuaded the page satisfied policy, in which case I’d just move it. That’s just me tho. On the plus side quicker turnaround might mean the other editor might still be here. Innisfree987 (talk) 06:40, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

Midshipman X

Hi! I've run several WikiEdu courses but am not a very active editor myself and have not yet created an article. I work at a maritime university and would like to work with students to create an article for Midshipman X, the pseudonym of USMMA student Hope Hicks, who wrote about being raped during "sea year," causing a long-overdue reckoning about sexual assault and harassment in the maritime industry and at maritime academies. There was significant media coverage, and some governmental action in the U.S., even a project started at the International Maritime Organization. Does the notability being focused on one event seem likely to cause problems? It is also a sensitive topic, and the subject is young. Your advice / support / hard questions are appreciated! Work is planned for Feb. 23. CodornicesCovey (talk) 01:04, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

Hi and welcome @CodornicesCovey. That link is very helpful; the list of sources includes international coverage in highly respected sources. I would recommend starting with a draft but I don’t think you’ll have too much trouble with notability. Good question tho, feel free to pop in any time. We’re happy to help. Innisfree987 (talk) 06:45, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
I've also made a few suggestions about this on CodornicesCovey's talk page. It's good to see she has now become a member of Women in Red.--Ipigott (talk) 09:58, 9 February 2023 (UTC)


Draft:Alice Jacobsen

This entry on an artist who lived in Chicago and featured plasters of the cities architectural works is quite interesting. Its creator struggled to meet Wikipedia standards. Maybe someone can lend a hand? I think it would be to our detriment if the subject is deleted. FloridaArmy (talk) 12:53, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

Women in Red editathon last Friday

Hi! I participated in the Women in Red editathon organised by the University of Edinburgh last Friday. It was lovely meeting engaging editors and learning more about Wikipedia and the Women in Red project. I was able to published a page about Janet Harden by the end of the event. Lots to work on it still, but glad to assist with the project =) Ana-colombo (talk) 10:00, 30 January 2023 (UTC)

Welcome @Ana-colombo - it's so lovely to hear from you! Congratulations on the page! I've added a couple of links to it from other pages. Looking forward to seeing more secondary literature on her in it! Happy editing Lajmmoore (talk) 10:34, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi @Lajmmoore, I really appreciate your feedback and help! I plan to work more on it throughout this week. Thanks Ana-colombo (talk) 11:32, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
Welcome @Ana-colombo: I'm a bit of a redirect geek so I've created redirects from a bunch of variations of her name, and added her to the list of name-holders in the Harden page. When looking around I found her connection to Cumbria, and have added a bit about Brathay including as "Further reading" a book - mainly extracts of the diaries perhaps - published by the Brathay Hall Trust. You were possibly going to add it anyway, but having found this stuff I thought I'd add it. Feel free to shuffle it all around and improve on it, of course. I'm pleased to have found a picture of her - her husband's sketch of John Constable drawing her. I wonder whether Constable's drawing exists? I see further that Constable did an oil painting of her - I wonder whether that survived? PamD 13:05, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi @PamD, sorry for taking so long to reply. I really appreciate all the redirects you created for the page and the added content. I haven't had time to work more on it, but I hope to do it soon (maybe in the next editathon event). Her husband did some drawings to complement her wife's journal (I need to add this information to the page). Some of the paintings and drawings are at the National Library of Scotland, but not sure if this particular one would be there. If I find more information about it, I will let you know. Thanks again. Ana-colombo (talk) 16:49, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

Sports coaches categorisation

Hi, tracking back through a revert of Pi bot's edit by @Quesotiotyo: [1], Shanon Hays does seem to be male, but is in Category:Female sports coaches (which is what pi bot picked up on). There doesn't seem to be a corresponding Category:Male sports coaches to recategorise them into. Any thoughts? Mike Peel (talk) 17:45, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

Mike Peel, I have removed Category:Female sports coaches, leaving Hays in Category:American softball coaches. I think the reasoning is that sports coaching is male dominated so there is a subcategory for female sports coaches but not male sports coaches. Are you asking whether there should be a category for male sports coaches? TSventon (talk) 19:31, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
@TSventon: Aren't male/female categorisations here equal now? I found it odd that there wasn't a matching gender category, nor non-binary. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:04, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
Some quick & dirty stats: WP has 372 categories with the string " men ", 11,181 categories with " male ", 6,632 with "women" and 25,994 with "female". So no, probably not equal now :( --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:53, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for these rather surprising figures, Tagishsimon. It's interesting to see that there are four times more categories with "female" than with "women". In this project, there seems to be a general preference for using "women" in the titles, lists and categories we create. This initially appeared grammarticallty incorrect to me as a Brit schooled in the 1950s and 1960s but I now see "women" being used more widely adjectivally, even by users from the UK. The frequency of "female" in categories may result, at least in part, from its use in sports.--Ipigott (talk) 06:56, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
@Mike Peel:, I have now found a guideline at WP:CATGENDER, which agrees with what I said yesterday. If the number of articles about men is much larger than the number of articles about women, it is not surprising if categories about people reflect that. TSventon (talk) 08:58, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

Editha Knocker

I have created an article about Editha Knocker, violinist, teacher, etc. She wasn't actually in red since she had not been linked although she was mentioned in several articles. But anyway she is in blue now. Southdevonian (talk) 11:16, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, Southdevonian. for reviving our memory of a long-forgotten violinist. No obligation for changing red links to blue. The object of the exercise is to cover as many deserving women as possible.--Ipigott (talk) 19:26, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation

Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Law

Tagishsimon, I've been reviewing this list, which you created, a lot recently because one of February's events focuses on Justice. But the page is hard to navigate (e.g., slow) as there are >8,000 names on it. About half of the names have 0 site links. I'm wondering if you'd be comfortable changing the parameters so that only women with at least 1 site link show up on the list? I don't know how to do that or I would. If you're busy with other things, no worries. If you think it's a mistake to remove 0 site link names, no worries, too. Thanks. --Rosiestep (talk) 00:13, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

Yes, that was a grim list; now replaced by 6 lists - lawyers, judges, jurists, with & without sitelinks. --Tagishsimon (talk) 01:05, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
Tagishsimon, Thank you --Rosiestep (talk) 21:29, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
Thank you, @Rosiestep for asking about this and @Tagishsimon for implementing it. All so much better for Justice this month. Oronsay (talk) 00:51, 8 February 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Activists

Tagishsimon, here's another one. I've been reviewing this list because February and March's events include Activists. But the WD redlist is hard to navigate (e.g., slow) as there are >7,000 names on it. About half of the names have 0 site links. If/When you have time, would you please make the same splits as you did to Law? Also, I couldn't sort out which occupation(s) were included in the Activist WD redlist. I thought it would include Wikidata item #Q15253558 (activist) but I didn't see that up at the top. Would appreciate any clarifications and/or more splitting. Thanks! --Rosiestep (talk) 18:47, 8 February 2023 (UTC)

I've implemented a fix for this: but Listeria is currently completely dead (has some sort of login failure) so we'll have to wait for Magnus to fix that. There will now be three lists, Activists, Activist subclasses and Women's rights activists. In addition there were philanthropists of various sorts in the original list, which duplicated coverage at Missing articles by occupation/Philanthropists, so they've been removed.
These three lists, and others in the redlist index, store the occupations in wikidata. So for Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Activist subclasses, the data is in the linked WD item Q116748657#P360. The idea, from three or four years ago, was to move by occupation redlist parameters into wikidata, so that we could produce a Listeria report providing an index of occupations linked to the redlist on which those occupations are found. That's still a good idea, and perhaps if Listeria recovers, we might think about implementing it. --Tagishsimon (talk) 12:33, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
@Rosiestep: That's all done; now 5 lists per Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Redlist index#A. It's still all a bit of a trial, Listeria continuing to be hit & miss as to what it'll error on. --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:18, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
So grateful, Tagishsimon. Thank you. --Rosiestep (talk) 01:37, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

Liechtenstein dialects & Ida Ospelt-Amann

Hello all, I wondered if there was anyone here who knew anything about dialects of Liechtenstein? I started a page for the poet Ida Ospelt-Amann and it's up for a DYK nomination, however the reviewers and I are searching for a bit of a hookier hook and one suggestion was to contextualise her writing in terms of the dialect that she spoke and wrote in? However, I am not having much luck: sources describe her as using the 'Vaduz dialect', but that doesn't seem to be a term that's used in English literature about dialects spoken in Liechtenstein. I wondered if anyone with better access to more German sources than I have found might be able to do some digging? Or if anyone can suggest another hook? Lajmmoore (talk) 16:03, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the problem here, but I think this is just a sentence clarity issue that sent you in the wrong direction? She speaks (from my reading of the article) an Alemannic dialect, the one that is spoken in Vaduz, not "Vaduz dialect". It appears to just be a translation confusion. The de-wiki article says she "is a 'dialect poet' from Vaduz, and is considered one of the most important of Liechtenstein's dialect poets." (Sorry, if there's a usual translation for "Mundartdichter" I'm not aware of it.) -- asilvering (talk) 02:12, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
Yes, Lajmmoore, I am familiar with the dialect spoken in Liechtenstein. When I lived in Austria, I had friends who spoke it. For the DYK hook, I would suggest simply "... that the Liechtenstein poet Ida Ospelt-Amann wrote exclusively in the local Alemanic dialect?" Liechtensteinish or Liechtenstein German closely resembles Schwyzerdütsch or Swiss German. If you are interested, there's a Wikipedia language version devoted to Alemannisch. It contains an article on Ida Ospelt-Amann. Hope this helps.--Ipigott (talk) 07:22, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
Lajmmoore, according to de:Liechtensteinische Mundarten, there do seem to be different dialects in Liechtenstein. Ipigott, does "Ma ka z' Vadoz goh i und us / a Benkli häts vor jedem Huus"[1] translate as "You can go in and out of Vaduz, it has a little bank in front of every house"? TSventon (talk) 08:42, 14 February 2023 (UTC) On reflection, it is probably a little bench not a little bank. TSventon (talk) 08:52, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

References

  1. ^ Phaf-Rheinberger, Ineke (2021-01-12). Ricardo Porros Architektur in Vaduz und Havanna (in German). Books on Demand. p. 76. ISBN 978-3-7526-8278-6.
TSventon: I am certainly not fluent in the dialect but can see that it is indeed a little bench. As for different dialects within Liechtenstein itself, the Walser dialect spoken by about 2000 people in Triesenberg is indeed rather different. The majority of the country's inhabitants (i.e. about 35,000) speak Liechtensteinisch (Liechtensteiner-Dütsch) with minor differences mainly in pronunciation from village to village. Sometimes referred to locally as "Vaduzer Mundart" or "Vaduzer Dialekt", it is close to Swiss German and is the dialect used by Ida Ospelt-Amann. If you want more details, you could always try to contact one of our Category:Liechtenstein Wikipedians.--Ipigott (talk) 10:36, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
@Ipigott, @Asilvering, @TSventon thank you so much all for your help! This definitely helps me understand the context much better. I'll go and clarify the article, and then maybe see if I can tweak the DYK. Lajmmoore (talk) 13:37, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

Article: "Visual Gender Biases in Wikipedia: A Systematic Evaluation across the Ten Most Spoken Languages"

Beytía, P.; Agarwal, P.; Redi, M.; Singh, V. K. (1 December 2021). "Visual Gender Biases in Wikipedia: A Systematic Evaluation across the Ten Most Spoken Languages". doi:10.31235/osf.io/59rey.

I just became aware of this article and thought it may interest some of you, particularly Victuallers who leads WiR's awareness initiatives around photos/images in women's biographies. Rosiestep (talk) 17:48, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

Help out with edit-a-thon?

Hi! I run a monthly edit-a-thon for members of the American Society for Microbiology. Our March event (March 3) will focus on women microbiologist biography pages as part of Women's History Month. I was wondering if somebody from the WIR project would be willing to briefly join to talk about what this project is and how our members could get more involved? Please message me if anyone is interested. Thanks! Geoffhunt3 (talk) 21:10, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

Hello @Geoffhunt3 I'm based in the UK, but if it can work with timezones I'd be happy to come and talk about WiR! Lajmmoore (talk) 22:56, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
Good to see you are focusing on women microbiologists, Geoffhunt3. As for explaining and joining the project, you will find basic details on our New members page. You probably have lots of individuals in mind for new articles. If not, you can look though our Wikidata women biologists list for microbiologists. I would be happy to help with any new articles that are created and assist new editors if you can provide links to appropriate pages in connection with your editathon.--Ipigott (talk) 15:14, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
Thanks @Ipigott! I'm still building our list of articles, so I will definitely reference the existing list to see what would be appropriate. I can also let our participants know that you would be willing to provide help if they are interested. Geoffhunt3 (talk) 23:58, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
Thanks! I'll send you an email with the info and you can let me know if that would work. Geoffhunt3 (talk) 23:54, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
It would be easier if you could create a Meetup page where participants can register and where you can maintain a list of new or improved articles, etc. See also Wikipedia:How to run an edit-a-thon for other suggestions.--Ipigott (talk) 07:26, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
That sounds a great initiative, Geoffhunt3! I've put up a wikidata-backed redlinks page for microbiologists: Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Microbiologists. Dsp13 (talk) 12:40, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

Anyone interested in twofers for February?

While researching and writing the article for Bertha McNeill I ran across a list of African-American women who were active in WILPF, in this book (pp 6, 7, 41). Among the red names are: Charlotte Atwood, Thelma Carter, Virginia Collins, Helen Curtis, Erna Prather Harris, Inez Jackson, Thelma Edwards Marshall, Enola Maxwell,[2],[3],[4],[5],[6] Bessie McLaurin,pt 1, pt 2,[7],[8],[9] Sadie Daniels St. Claire, and Mayme Williams. I'm going to start working on Erna Prather Harris, but all of these names should work for our Peace and/or Black women editathons, if anyone is interested. SusunW (talk) 18:35, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

@SusunW Erna Prather Harris would be a threefer, surely, if you count her P for Prather! Excellent choice. PamD 23:39, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
Cool PamD! I will probably finish her tomorrow. I got sidetracked on an Italian peace activist. SusunW (talk) 23:43, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
Finished Harris and I am taking Inez Jackson. SusunW (talk) 17:38, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
I've created Enola Maxwell from those references. SusunW, thank you for researching these the sources, it made this task much easier. Regards, MrsSnoozyTurtle 21:16, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
MrsSnoozyTurtle Cool. Thank you for writing her. I had hoped I'd get around to Bessie McLaurin, but I have visitors coming in a couple of days and it seems unlikely. I posted the sources I dug out for her above, if you're interested. SusunW (talk) 21:48, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

Eliza Bleu

Not too long ago, I created a draft for Draft:Eliza Bleu. She’s a controversial figure, very active on Twitter and close to Elon Musk, who may have misrepresented her life story. I thought an article might be helpful to clarify things. There was a piece out recently in the Daily Beast about her: [10]. I expect more to follow. Thriley (talk) 02:13, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

Hello Thriley. Thank you for the well-written article. I hope you don't mind the changes I made before publishing it? Regards, MrsSnoozyTurtle 22:21, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

@MrsSnoozyTurtle: Thank you! I would appreciate it if everyone keeps close watch on this article. It may receive a lot of disruptive IP edits. Thriley (talk) 23:33, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

Women from Gilgit-Baltistan

Hello all, I came across this list of ground-breaking women from this region of Pakista. I think several are notable, but I've not looked much beyond starting a stub for the region's first woman pilot Amen Aamir! Lajmmoore (talk) 09:19, 19 February 2023 (UTC)

Some possible additions

I've added a few names to the WiR Redlist Index as well as a note on the Talk page, and have some others who may be appropriate to add as well. I'll list these people here in the hope that this is the right thread: Franca Stagi (Italian architect), Mona Morales-Schildt (Swedish designer and glass artist), Ingeborg Kracht-Rams (German photographer, 1931–2022) [11] [12], Maria Cristina Didero (Italian curator and author) [13], Kim Colin (American architect, co-founder, with partner Sam Hecht, Industrial Facility and Future Facility) [14], Gaetanina Calvi (first woman to graduate with an engineering degree from Politecnico di Milano) [15], Emanuela Frattini Magnusson [16], Tatiana Wedenison (first woman to matriculate at Politecnico di Milano) [17], Francesca Picchi (Italian architect, writer, historian, and academic), Marialaura Rossiello Irvine (Italian architect), Johanna Agerman Ross [18] [19] (writer, curator 20th century and contemporary furniture and product design at the V&A), Draft:Marva Griffin [20] (founder SaloneSatellite at the Milan Furniture Fair), Anniina Koivu, and Sabine Marcelis (✔) (some are mentioned/redlinked in existing articles already). Cheers, Cl3phact0 (talk) 18:01, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

PS: Adding a few more (and some ref links above): Charlotte Stockdale (British stylist) [21], Adriana Botti Monti (Italian art director) [22], Katarzyna Krakowiak, and Laura Martínez de Guereñu. Also, please do let me know if there is a better place to put these suggestions. Thank you, Cl3phact0 (talk) 12:17, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
PPS: Two more: Beatrice Leanza [23] (Italian curator critic, author, lecturer and museum director) and Camille Elston [24] (American artist and writer).
PPPS: Adding one two more: Éva Gyarmathy[25], Brit Dyrnes (✔). (Please let me know if this is not the right place to add these names.) Cl3phact0 (talk) 18:39, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
Thank you, Cl3phact0, for suggesting these women as potential subjects for biographies. It is indeed useful to have them here, particularly if you can add their occupation or why you think they are important. I usually leave articles about English speakers and those based in English-speaking countries to our army of English-speaking collaborators but I might well cover some of the others, especially the Norwegian Brit Dyrnes. You might also consider adding them to appropriate crowd-sourced red lists such as Museum people, Crafts or simply Art. Then there's always the all purpose Missing articles by nationality. Finally, you might like to create User:Cl3phacto/Missing women where you can keep these and any others you find. If you arrange them by occupation and/or nationality, you could then easily add names to any appropriate events that come up in our monthly priorities. Please let me know if you need any help. Happy editing!--Ipigott (talk) 07:17, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
Thank you, Ipigott. I will gladly add brief notes to make it more evident why I've added these women (the links that are included with some were intended to serve this purpose — though I see how this might've been made clearer). Also, I do keep a (somewhat jumbled) list of these and other missing articles (see "Drafts" tab my userspace if you wish), though as-is, it's more of a personal aide-mémoire than something that would be of much use to others (note to self: probably ought to tidy-up userspace before inviting anyone over for a visit). Appreciate your help. -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 14:01, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
Sounds good, Cl3phact0. You'll see Brit Dyrnes is no longer a red link. Thanks for bringing her to my attention.--Ipigott (talk) 14:11, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
Yes, I noticed! You're quick. -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 14:16, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
Thank you, MrsSnoozyTurtle, for publishing the Sabine Marcelis article! (If a reviewer is available to look at the Talk page, that would be welcome too.) Cheers, Cl3phact0 (talk) 11:45, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
Hello Cl3phact0. You're most welcome. Regards, MrsSnoozyTurtle 22:51, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
As this thread seems to be making a modest contribution to the WiR project (two new articles as of this date), I'll keep adding to it: Morag Myerscough RDI [26] (British artist and designer); Sarah Rottenberg [27] (American academic); Elena Salmistraro [28] (Italian artist and designer); Amneris Latis (Italian art director); Lora Lamm [fr] (Swiss graphic artist); Ikko Yokoyama (Japanese curator, M+ museum, Hong Kong); Ionna Vautrin [29] [30] (French artist, illustrator, and designer); Najla El Zein [31] [32] (Lebanese artist and designer); Onorina Tomasin-Brion (Italian entrepreneur, co-founder of Brionvega); Alba Cappellieri [33][34] (Curator, professor at Politechnico di Milano, President of Milano Fashion Institute). -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 11:24, 19 February 2023 (UTC)

Riley Black

A friend of mine who writes about science mentioned the paleontology writer Riley Black in one of her newsletters the other day. We have an article about one of her books - The Last Days of the Dinosaurs - but none on her (although I see there is a redirect). I'd look at starting one, but science is really not my wheelhouse (as I've said before on here, never have I worked as hard as I did to earn that C in freshman-year geology), and I wouldn't know where to begin. But I suspect there's enough material out there to create an article, if anyone would like to take a stab at it. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 15:57, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

Good find, Ser Amantio di Nicolao. There's an informative introduction here and her dinosaurs book has received lots of critical reviews. But this is not really my area of interest either and I rarely start articles about English speakers.--Ipigott (talk) 10:13, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 Completed. There is probably much more to cover here, possibly including works under her former name. Regards, MrsSnoozyTurtle 21:50, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
@MrsSnoozyTurtle: I suspect as much, but unfortunately I haven't had the wherewithal for some time to do the digging. I'll try to get some more together soon - meantime, thanks very much for this. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 18:44, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
See also: Scientific American and Smithsonian Magazine. -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 19:22, 19 February 2023 (UTC)

Draft:Linda G. Mills

This draft was submitted by an IP and although very likely notable as the newly named president of New York University, I declined it because it only had one source and a couple short sentences. Dropping a note here in case anyone is interested in expanding it and getting it into mainspace. S0091 (talk) 17:07, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

 Done It looks like this has now been published, thanks to additions by yourself and Jtbknyc. Regards, MrsSnoozyTurtle 08:09, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

Draft:Rosanna Duncan Lamb Revere

I saw this article Draft:Rosanna Duncan Lamb Revere was returned to draft space. It appears promising. Thriley (talk) 18:46, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

How is that not mainspace ready already? SilverserenC 05:21, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
Now in mainspace.--Ipigott (talk) 08:30, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Ursula Barry, Ireland

I started a biography article Draft:Ursula Barry. IMO this should be acceptable as stub per WP:PROF and WP:AUTHOR since her work seem to be widely refereed by other authors.

Barry seems to be an author since before pre-internet times and some sources may be available off line or in Irish language. Can some one help out. Thanks

Bookku (talk) 07:17, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

This profile at UCD might be useful and should probably be in the article as an External link as {{official website}}. PamD 08:35, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Our metrics

The graph on our Metrics page is no longer very inspiring. Since August 2021, it has been steadily falling off. I realize this may have resulted in part from the fact that we are no longer adding anything manually and in part by the general reduction in the number of new articles on Wikipedia (see Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia). While it may be useful for our own purposes to monitor the number of new biographies each month, it seems to me it would be more inspiring for those viewing our metrics page if we had a graph showing how the proportion of women's biographies has increased over the years, from 15.5% when we started to almost 19.5% today. Would anyone be interested in creating a new graph based on figures such as those in the editing comments on updates to our main WiR page showing the proportion of women's biographies in comparison with the total number of biographies on the EN wiki? Thanks to Rosiestep, we apparently started keeping records on 14 June 2016 when we were at 16.28%. Someone, perhaps Maximilianklein or Victuallers, may be able to provide data for our first year, i.e. from July 2015. But before we go ahead with any adaptations, it would be good to hear what others think about it and whether anyone has other suggestions on how we present progress on the project.--Ipigott (talk) 10:08, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

Before we do that, I'd be interested in resetting all of the monthly metrics pages to remove redirects & DAB pages - but also, unfortunately, the hand-added non-biography articles - such that we get, for the first time, a true indication of the editing trend. By way of example, yesterday I blanked November 2017 - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Metrics/November_2017&oldid=1138586357 - when it was showing 4692 articles; ReportBot has regenerated it without redirects &c, and it now shows 4275 articles - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Metrics/November_2017&oldid=1139905686 ... so that's about a 9% reduction. I suspect the older a metric page is, the more redirects and DABs it'll have in it, because there has been longer for the community to decide to move articles, and/or create DABs under a title which was previously occupied by an article. Thoughts?--Tagishsimon (talk) 14:06, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
It would indeed be interesting to have a more accurate view of these metrics by ensuring that those for each month are compiled on the same basis. I should however point out that when the project started, we were very keen to emphasize that we were not just encouraging better coverage of women's biographies but of all articles about women and their works, including organizations, overviews of involvement in different sectors of activity and pertinent lists. It would be pity if records of these in earlier years are simply deleted. I wonder if it would be possible to list them separately while nevertheless trying to provide a better record of the biographical metrics. I certainly agree that redirects do not deserve to be included. Any idea how long it will take to sort this out?--Ipigott (talk) 06:53, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
Saving the hand-added non-biog articles will take a great deal more work than resetting the page (which involves merely deleting all of the articles listed on a page). It looks like there is a viable-ish method using petscan to list all of these non-biog articles, so a method exists, albeit possibly tedious. There is also a small possibility that we could get the metrics code amended so that it a) removes redirects and dabs and b) includes in the list of articles any article which has a WiR template on the talk page. I've asked someone who has knowledge of the code whether they'd be interested in looking at, at least for the redirect & dab task; but should there be anyone here with sufficient fu, the current code for Reports bot is at https://github.com/harej/reports_bot and the code for the metrics task is at https://github.com/harej/reports_bot/blob/master/tasks/metrics.py . So let's see what that brings & I'll maybe play some more with petscan. --Tagishsimon (talk) 16:07, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
I certainly don't want to cause any unnecessary trouble. One easy way of dealing with the non bios would simply be to include something referring back to the history. Then anyone interested could turn up the old stats.--Ipigott (talk) 20:35, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
I've extracted all of the non-biogs (based on petscan and/or wikidata thinking that the listed article is a) not a Q5 'human' b) not a redirect c) not a DAB page - the report, for one month, is https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=23903359 ). So that gives us: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, & 2022. I've also saved a Metric count before Feb 2023 reset, listing the counts as of today (and remembering to revert Nov '17 before doing all of the above).
So by my calculation, we're now in a position to blank all of the metrics pages without losing any data, and in a position to compare before & after counts. And we can decide in the fullness of time what to so with the non-biography lists. --Tagishsimon (talk) 02:27, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for listing all these so quickly. Although there are a considerable number of non-bios, etc., I'm not sure their removal would have a significant effect on the graph. Are you now able to produce a new graph based on biographies alone? If so, it would be interesting to see if it reflects a better overall picture.--Ipigott (talk) 06:53, 19 February 2023 (UTC)

I've blanked 2015 & 2016, with the exception of one month, missed done. Here are the old & new counts & reductions as percent. The 2015 to 2022 non-biog tables, above, are missing non-biogs wherein the article has been moved to a new title after being added to the metrics; I've gone through by hand and re-added these for a couple of months; will probably continue for the rest of the files at a slow pace. I suspect we might lose fictional characters added to metrics lists and later renamed, but I'll see if I can locate those. Will add a column for the number of non-biog items to a later version of the table below, so that we can see what impact they're having done.

Month Year Old count New Count Diff % Non biogs
removed 		% of old
count 		Dab & Redir
removed 		% of old
count
Jul 2015 1695 1476 219 12.92% 84 4.96% 135 7.96%
Aug 2015 2233 1815 418 18.72% 235 10.52% 183 8.20%
Sep 2015 1796 1454 342 19.04% 178 9.91% 164 9.13%
Oct 2015 2190 1712 478 21.83% 252 11.51% 226 10.32%
Nov 2015 2062 1667 395 19.16% 167 8.10% 228 11.06%
Dec 2015 1801 1435 366 20.32% 154 8.55% 212 11.77%
Jan 2016 2009 1577 432 21.50% 186 9.26% 246 12.24%
Feb 2016 2598 2149 449 17.28% 131 5.04% 318 12.24%
Mar 2016 3199 2440 759 23.73% 257 8.03% 502 15.69%
Apr 2016 2126 1621 505 23.75% 168 7.90% 337 15.85%
May 2016 2381 1891 490 20.58% 222 9.32% 268 11.26%
Jun 2016 1641 1445 196 11.94% 18 1.10% 178 10.85%
Jul 2016 2031 1777 254 12.51% 71 3.50% 183 9.01%
Aug 2016 2875 2500 375 13.04% 103 3.58% 272 9.46%
Sep 2016 2359 2051 308 13.06% 127 5.38% 181 7.67%
Oct 2016 2890 2569 321 11.11% 84 2.91% 237 8.20%
Nov 2016 2351 2001 350 14.89% 116 4.93% 234 9.95%
Dec 2016 2103 1846 257 12.22% 97 4.61% 160 7.61%
Total 40340 33426 6914 17.14% 2650 6.57% 4264 10.57%

--Tagishsimon (talk) 13:49, 19 February 2023 (UTC) & 14:54, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

  • Interesting results. Reductions of over 20% in a given month are of course significant. If I am not mistaken, the graph we now have on the main metrics page takes account of the adjustments you have made for 2015 and 2016 but not for subsequent years. The figures for 2016 seem however to quite a bit better than those for 2022: 23,867 vs 19,163. After adjustments, it looks to me as if the monthly figures will continue to be pretty good until 2021 when for some reason they started to decrease in September and have not improved since. Sooner or later, I think it would be useful to explain the adjustments you have made on the metrics talk page.--Ipigott (talk) 15:30, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
It would be interesting to compare the cleaned up WiR statistics with those in Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia. Probably article creation generally and by WiR was boosted in 2020 and 2021 by the Covid pandemic and and has decreased since then. TSventon (talk) 09:58, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

WP articles added versus WiR Metrics

Here, per TSventon, a quick & dirty WP articles per month count (divided by 10, to get the two lines to roughly overlay eachother) versus WiR metric counts (based on the old, pre-adjusted counts). Graphical design is my passion.

Per Ipigott's great decline of 2021 concern - WiR perhaps should not be too worried.--Tagishsimon (talk) 15:20, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

WP articles divided by 10 versus Women in Red articles 2015-2023
WP articles divided by 10 versus Women in Red articles 2015-2023
Wir Twitter makes the point that WiR new articles are 10% of WP new articles, which I'd not actually noticed despite it obviously being the case. Statistics is my other passion. --Tagishsimon (talk) 17:58, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
  • As I suspected, TSventon's beautiful presentation reveals that new women's biographies have recently decreased at a rate similar to that of all new articles in the EN Wikipedia. It also shows that enthusiasm for covering women's biographies was particularly effective from July 1917 until around September 2021 when it seems to have significantly decreased. What it does not show is how the proportion of women's biographies increased from 15.5% in mid-2015 to 19.5% today. I wonder if it would be possible to include this progression too (or to present two sets of graphs illustrating both trends).--Ipigott (talk) 21:31, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
That should be Tagishsimon's beautiful presentation... TSventon (talk) 21:42, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
  • It is indeed interesting to see not only that women's biographies represent about 10% of all Wikipedia's new articles but that they have followed the general trend for Wikipedia articles particularly closely since the beginning of 2022.
In addition to our own monthly metrics, on our main WiR page we have also been recording the proportion of new women's biographies each month as compared to the total number of new biographies. In January 2022, the proportion was 19.107%, increasing to 19.427% by January 2023. If my calculations are correct, this means that there was an average increase of 0.027% per month in 2022. We might therefore expect the proportion to rise to around 19.75% by January 2024. Unless we introduce additional incentives, we cannot really expect to reach 20% until around October 2024. In earlier years, it took us about a year to gain an increase of one percentage point. It now seems to be taking us about three years. Are we happy with this rate of progress?--Ipigott (talk) 10:36, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

There is some slowing down of the women as percentile of human biogs. In the lower chart, doubling rate is shown in quarters based on growth in the 6 months preceding the data point. --Tagishsimon (talk) 13:18, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Articles divided by 10 versus Women in Red articles vs percent women in WP - 2016-2022
Articles divided by 10 versus Women in Red articles vs percent women in WP - 2016-2022
Articles divided by 10 versus Women in Red articles vs percent women in WP versus doubling rate in quarters - 2016-2022
Articles divided by 10 versus Women in Red articles vs percent women in WP versus doubling rate in quarters - 2016-2022
I'd make the mathematical observation, that if the relative weekly addition of articles is consistent in volume and stable at, say, 30% women, 70% men; and the base on which the m/f ratio is calculated is growing week by week, then we would expect the rate of change in the m/f ratio to slow, because each week's increment is a smaller proportion of the overall count. As it is, the overall edit rate is slowing slightly, which exacerbates the issue. To retain the same rate of change in the m/f ratio, the volume of articles added each week would have to grow, or else the ratio would have to change. Roughly, there were 4m articles when we started measuring statistics properly and now there are 6.6m (and presumably the number of human articles scale in proportion with that). A consistent increment of, say, 10k articles represents 0.25% of the 4m figure, 0.15% of the 6.6m figure. That is not worlds away from what we're seeing. The figure we should probably be tracking is the incremental m/f ratio per time period. I'll see what I can do there, sometime. --Tagishsimon (talk) 13:59, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
  • Very interesting observations, Tagishsimon, and no doubt you are now well on your way to a PhD! I'm afraid I don't really understand the green "doubling rate" in your last graph but it seems to me it would be useful to include either this or the previous graph on our metrics page (or at least on its talk page) with explanations. Or would you prefer to wait until you have undertaken further analyses?--Ipigott (talk) 08:55, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
Does anyone have any idea why new articles decline so abruptly starting in the second half of 2021? I don't find "we've already created all the obvious articles" to be compelling, since it's such a sharp dropoff. -- asilvering (talk) 15:22, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia shows a general decline in the number of new articles created each year going back to before 2015. This was interrupted by an increase in new articles in 2020 and 2021, probably due to the effect of the Covid pandemic, followed by a decline in 2022. As the global statistics are annual, the decline probably resumed in late 2021. The discussion above suggests that WiR articles track the total number of articles created fairly closely and would also have been affected by the beginning and ending of Covid lockdowns. TSventon (talk) 15:37, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
Ahhh of course, I didn't think of the covid boom. So, a return to normal, not a true decline. -- asilvering (talk) 15:39, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Draft:Clara Day

Is this subject notable? FloridaArmy (talk) 22:07, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

The article could be improved through some of the links listed here.--Ipigott (talk) 06:46, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

Leads

Annie Pike Greenwood

Afternoon Folks!! I've had Annie Pike Greenwood on my todo list for about 10 years now and still no article. Chronicler of her time on her farm as a wifey and teacher in Hazelton, Idaho, in "We Sagebrush Folks". Pure distilled American history and still no article. scope_creepTalk 13:39, 19 February 2023 (UTC)

She seemed to have wrote for the The Atlantic. scope_creepTalk 01:13, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
I have real life stuff happening, but OMG, who isn't interested in a story that starts "Annie Pike was born in the Utah Territorial Insane Asylum…"? More [35],[36],[37],[38],[39],[40],[41],[42],[43]. Hope these help someone write it. SusunW (talk) 05:21, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
Annie Pike Greenwood came up on my radar a couple of years ago when I was working on Greenwood, Idaho, but I got distracted by other stuff before I got around to writing an article on her. This might be the excuse I need to write her article. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 05:45, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
@TheCatalyst31 You've got 8 days to include her in this month's "O-P" alphabet drive under "P for Pike", if that helps as another excuse! PamD 08:05, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
As an American author she needs a good-sized article. scope_creepTalk 13:17, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
@Scope creep As compared to what nationalities who don't? PamD 13:54, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
All of them really. All authors needs a decent-sized article, so they're motivations can be examined. I'm definently a fan of larger better detailed articles. scope_creepTalk 14:08, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
@Scope creep @TheCatalyst31 I think that rather than let someone stay as a red link until an extensive article is written, it's worth starting a solid little stub with good solid references. Just a couple of sentences with enough to show a decent assertion of notability, and some quality sources. They can then be put into categories, added to surname list pages, given useful incoming redirects, and appear in Wikidata, all of which leave the subject better represented than the previous void. The reader looking for that person will find something useful, and be offered links to follow to find out more. But then I know a lot of editors take a different approach and don't offer anything into mainspace until it's a really good well-fleshed-out article. Ah, I see that she's already in Wikidata, though not in any Wikipedias. PamD 14:25, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
Tempted to make a start, but must get on with some RL stuff. Here are a couple of refs which may or may not be among the list above:
Have fun, someone. PamD 14:49, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
There are now a couple of Annie Pike red links, waiting for a redirect to this forthcoming article. Her husband Charles O. Greenwood might have had an article as an Idaho stae senator, but hasn't, so could usefully be a redirect to her once she appears. PamD 14:58, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
I just started an article at Annie Pike Greenwood. It's longer than a stub, but I'm sure it still has room to grow, so feel free to expand it if you can. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 00:53, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
Great! I redirected the draft to the article and also her book title. FloridaArmy (talk) 16:49, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

Mariola Grażyna Antczak

While doing WP:NPP, I came across Mariola Grażyna Antczak, Polish librarian, which has a deletion tag. After adding the authority control template, all her identifiers popped up. There's a long history of journal publications. Maybe someone else wants to take a look at this one? P.S. She has a Polish Wikipedia article. Rosiestep (talk) 17:47, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

Maybe the issue is that Polish Wikipedia has a different notability minimum for scientists. Generally, anyone with Polish habilitation is considered automatically notable enough. The author of this article may have seen that there is already one in Polish, so they assumed the person also notable enough for other Wikipedias.
As to awards, Antczak won the "Librarian of the Year" award from the Polish School Librarian Association, two awards from the president of her university and a Voivodeship Marshal award. That's all I'm seeing for now. GiantBroccoli (talk) 10:04, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
Thanks, GiantBroccoli! --Rosiestep (talk) 15:44, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

Tribeca Festival Award, Venice Film Festival award, VFF juror, second-tier order

Seems notable per WP:ANYBIO and WP:FILMMAKER. —Alalch E. 21:47, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

Possibly but the first block of references don't support it. scope_creepTalk 12:41, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

Women in Red March 2023

Women in Red Mar 2023, Vol 9, Iss 3, Nos 251, 252, 258, 259, 260, 261


Online events:

See also:

Tip of the month:

  • Mobile phone readers may only see the article "lead" – take some time to make it shine!
    Include something to keep people reading.

Other ways to participate:

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--Lajmmoore (talk) 12:51, 26 February 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Draft:Sachiyo Ito

I saw that Draft:Sachiyo Ito has been rejected numerous times, but appears to me to meet GNG. Thriley (talk) 19:30, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

Considerable improvements have been made to the article since it was last rejected and I've now moved it to mainspace. If she has taken on American citizenship, the Japanese categories should be supplemented with American ones.--Ipigott (talk) 07:44, 25 February 2023 (UTC)
I was surprised to see this is back to draft. There's a discussion on the article's talk page.--Ipigott (talk) 16:59, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

WiR relevant article up for deletion Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gurkiran Kaur Sidhu

An article relevant to the project is being considered for deletion. CT55555(talk) 01:46, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

Miren Agur Meabe

Hi, could someone help me please with the article on Miren Agur Meabe, which I published today? It got tagged with notability tag, but I'm stumped as to why. The subject has received a number of awards, including the National Poetry Prize given by the Spanish Ministry of Culture (and was the first winner to receive it for poetry written in Basque). Additionally, the ref for this prize is from El País (an article about her, not just a passing mention), so prime example of national coverage; the win was also covered other major media. Meabe also has a bio in the Basque Encyclopaedia, but that probably wouldn't be treated as a "country's standard national biographical dictionary" per WP:ANYBIO. There are at least two more awards she's received which I could add to the article and I added a wikilink to one of the other awards she's received but maybe the issue is the way I wrote the article? GiantBroccoli (talk) 15:58, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

It looks ok to me, I must say, but more refs, especially to reviews of her books, would do no harm. The tagger is in Pakistan, so it is unlikely they can read Spanish, let alone Basque. Johnbod (talk) 16:42, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
I can't speak Basque either, I wrote the article based on English and Spanish sources. Someone else just reviewed the article and removed the tag, but I'll see later if I can add some more refs. GiantBroccoli (talk) 16:50, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
I've fleshed out the bibliography section and added a couple of refs. There's plenty more out there to add though. SilverserenC 23:48, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
Thank you for helping! I see that some of the works on the list are in Spanish, so they are translations of her work from Basque. According to Spanish Wikipedia she did some of the translations herself and they came out the same year as the Basque originals, so it is all quite confusing to figure out. GiantBroccoli (talk) 10:43, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

ListeriaBot in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023

In the upcoming ommunity Wishlist Survey 2023, there are two proposals to fix the ListeriaBot issues. I encourage everyone to support both, once the voting stage starts:

Best, MarioGom (talk) 15:20, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up MarioGom. Please keep us posted. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 17:50, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
The trouble is that the WMF is very slow to respond to things. A basic attribution bug in MediaViewer has been known about and sat unfixed for 9 years. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.2% of all FPs. Currently celebrating his 600th FP! 18:14, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
The voting is now open for the Community Wishlist Survey 2023. The two proposals have been merged into one proposal. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 17:46, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
Direct link to this proposal: m:Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Bots and gadgets/A more performant bot to replace ListeriaBot. MarioGom (talk) 12:24, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
It's been suggested to me on Telegram that we add the ListeriaBot issue to Phabricator as it might be worked on at the May Hackathon. I'm clueless how to deal with Phabricator. Pinging a few who might be able to help with this. @Gamaliel, MarioGom, and Tagishsimon. Thanks. --Rosiestep (talk) 17:52, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

Celebrate Women

Our March events are listed here: meta:Celebrate Women/Events. We may get questions... and maybe some new members! Rosiestep (talk) 13:56, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

Rosiestep: The events page is a good idea. I see it simply replaces last year's meta:Celebrate Women/Events/2022. It is however a bit confusing to see that events are being posted both on the basic meta:Celebrate Women page and on the new Events page. If you click on "Look for an event that you want to take part in..." you are not directed to the new page. Perhaps in collaboration with Meta this can be sorted out. (cc Eric Luth (WMSE), Astinson (WMF), Anthere).--Ipigott (talk) 07:23, 25 February 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for noticing this, Ipigott; good question. I also asked in the Wikiwomen Telegram channel where much of this is being coordinated. --Rosiestep (talk) 13:26, 25 February 2023 (UTC)
It looks like it has been fixed because I see no problem right now... We will add the WLW event in the next two days... Anthere (talk) 18:35, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

Julie Ann Dawson

Does anyone have any additional sources to improve Draft:Julie Ann Dawson for this author? BOZ (talk) 16:46, 8 February 2023 (UTC)

Merge to Bards and Sages Quarterly? FloridaArmy (talk) 22:44, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

Redlists for Art+Activism

While checking and updating the crowd-sourced and Wikidata-based redlists for next month's Art+Activism I found the following:

  • There are two WD lists of photographers: One is Photographers (Wikidata stand-alone) and the other included with the Photographers CS list.
  • There's a problem with the WD Feminists list which returns an error when I try to update it via Listeria.
  • The Cartoonists WD list has a memory limitations template for Listeria updating.

I'm aware that @Tagishsimon was able to improve some Activists and other redlists for WIR and was in discussion with @Rosiestep earlier this month. Any chance of more help with these queries, please? Oronsay (talk) 02:44, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Also, less important, the Wikidata Artists list is 15,007 names. Although it was updated on 16 Feb, perhaps it should be pruned in some way? Oronsay (talk) 02:47, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
Ah. I'll have a look. Still not a great fan of the current implementation of Listeria :( --Tagishsimon (talk) 11:36, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
I appreciate whatever help you are able to provide, @Tagishsimon. Oronsay (talk) 19:05, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

Another one that would benefit from splitting is Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Cartoonists, created in 2017 by Ipigott; now 3,597 items. Includes cartoonists, comics artists, and mangaka. There's a maintenance tag at the top of the redlist that says, "Due to memory limitations of the Listeria tool, this list currently unable to automatically update. Please consider changing the parameters or breaking it into smaller lists." (I can't sort out when it was added to that page or by whom.) Hoping Gamaliel (who also worked on the list) or Tagishsimon might be available to assist with the splitting. Thanks. --Rosiestep (talk) 00:18, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

I remember fondly the collaboration that a number of us did at WikiConference North America 2018 to get this list working in the first place. It's a shame that Listeria can no longer handle lists of this length. Anyone have any ideas about how to split this up. Mangaka could be a separate list, of course, but that would still leave us with a large group to subdivide. Gamaliel (talk) 15:08, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
What I find surprising is that ListeriaBot was running smoothly on this until September 2021. I simply can't understand why new restrictions have been introduced. If there's no other solution, we might consider creating two lists, one with site links and the other without. I don't know how feasible this would be.--Ipigott (talk) 09:35, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

Carole W. Troxler

This draft on an emerita professor and author who has written on some interesting subjects in North Carolina was declined. If anyone can help or has suggestions I would appreciate it. Thanks! FloridaArmy (talk) 03:30, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

@FloridaArmy, did you already exhaust Google Scholar for reviews of her books? Innisfree987 (talk) 04:29, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
@FloridaArmy Source re George includes "He and his wife, Carole Watterson Troxler, an accomplished scholar and professor emerita of history at Elon, were honored with the Christopher Crittenden Memorial Award from the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association and the Federation of North Carolina Historical Societies for lifetime contributions to the advancement of North Carolina history.", which you don't mention, and a room on campus being named after the pair of them. Several of the refs are inadequately formatted : "Author"? Check for typos, especially in lead phrase. PamD 06:37, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
@FloridaArmy And, looking again, please remember to give her nationality in lead sentence: it's an international encyclopedia, so it can't be assumed that everyone is American unless otherwise specified. PamD 08:36, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
@FloridaArmy: I added a review, so probably half-way there to WP:NAUTHOR. There is likely more. scope_creepTalk 16:17, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

Draft:Death of Lisa Edwards

I just made Draft:Death of Lisa Edwards. Any help with expansion would be appreciated. Thriley (talk) 21:23, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

@Thriley: Although sad, what makes this a notable event, instead of just news which may well be forgotten about quite soon? What is the lasting implications that makes the event noteworthy? Unless this can be demonstrated, it will probably not survive an AfD, which could happen based on the article currently. Either the person or event has to be demonstrated as notable, and I don't see either being so. Bungle (talk • contribs) 17:22, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
I dont see how it can be notable either. scope_creepTalk
There is a rather chilling quote about this unfortunate incident from today's Washington Post:
As Edwards continued her pleas for help that morning, one officer called them “an act.” He told her all he wanted to do was get some “coffee and oatmeal,” saying it was “the Lord’s day.” Another jokingly offered her a cigarette while she waited to be given her inhaler.
Sad way to be remembered, noteworthy on not. -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 14:26, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

Session proposals for Wikimania 2023

History buffs will recall that Women in Red was founded in 2016 at Wikimania Mexico City during a session regarding "content gender gap". Wikimania 2023 will convene this August in Singapore and online. Yesterday, the Wikimania Programs Committee (for transparency, I'm on it), announced a call for session proposals and I hope you consider drafting one! Submissions are accepted from Tuesday, February 28 until Tuesday, March 28, 2023. There are different session types, themes, and program tracks to consider. More info here:

Have questions? Need help? Ping me. :) --Rosiestep (talk) 16:54, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

Women in Religion Meet-up

Hi everyone, Women in Religion WikiProject is conducting an edit-athon on March 8 10am - 12pm CST. For more information, go here: Wikipedia:Meetup/Women in Religion March2023. Both experienced and newbie editors welcome! No background in religion required, just a desire to see more bios about women created. Best, Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 22:19, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

Thanks Figureskatingfan for keeping us informed of this virtual meeting. It may be a good idea to update your meetup page to reflect the fact that biographies of women have now reached 19.5% (rather than 18%) of all biographies. You might like to add sections on "Participants" and "New or expanded articles" so that we can provide any necessary assistance. I'll not be participating in the Zoom tie up but would be happy to support any new contributors. Happy editing!--Ipigott (talk) 09:23, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
Hi Ipigott, thanks for the assistance and offer of support. I have just followed your suggestions and made the changes you recommend to our meet-up page. Regrets that you're unable to attend; perhaps next time. ;) Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 18:07, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

Community bulletin board

It looks like Women in Red's spot on the Wikipedia:Community bulletin board hasn't been updated for a while. I don't know what the process is for organizing WiR events (which is why I'm hesitant to update it myself), but it might be a good idea to make a note somewhere that it should be updated when the events change. As of now, it still lists the 2022 year-long events, and it still lists the October Alphabet Run (which links to the July event when you click on it). Thebiguglyalien (talk) 00:16, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

Thanks Thebiguglyalien! I updated the bulletin board, swapping out the old info for a link to our Events page that is reliably kept up-to-date. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 02:53, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
It would also be useful to update Wikipedia:Contests, mentioning in particular the current Feminism and Folklore contest, at least in connection with Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/259 and perhaps Wikipedia:Feminism and Folklore 2023. Perhaps Gamaliel or ZI Jony could handle this.--Ipigott (talk) 07:09, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month

See here on meta. You might like to find a Ukrainian woman artist or activist with initial Q or R, to write about to tick two of our boxes and also contribute to their project this month? I had coincidentally started on my Vera Roik twofer stub before getting a notification about this event, so I've listed her in their page as a gesture of support, although the article is as yet too short to get me any points in their system even if I was interested in doing so! PamD 08:43, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

Ah, I see Penny Richards is there already with a proper article at Leah Rachel Yoffie! PamD 08:46, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
Yes! Yoffie was on my own to-do list of American folklorists; it was a bonus to learn that she was born in Dnipro.Penny Richards (talk) 15:32, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

Katherine L. Knight, professor and dept chair, past president of national association

I created Katherine_L._Knight in response to her listing here but worry that notability may be questioned and any additional enhancements would be welcomed. — soupvector (talk) 21:49, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

It appears that she passes multiple WP:PROF notability criteria (reasonable case for #C1, #C2, #C3, and #C6). I wouldn't worry much about being taken to an AfD; I'm pretty sure the article would be kept if that happened. —David Eppstein (talk) 22:14, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
Agreed. I added another independent source from a quick search, no doubt there is more out there if anyone would like to further improve the article. Regards, MrsSnoozyTurtle 02:41, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

Leah Adler article review?

Hello! I have literally never edited or created a Wikipedia article before but after watching the film The Fabelmans I was surprised to learn that Leah Adler, mother of Steven Spielberg, didn't have her own page. I could be off base and perhaps these are better additions to Spielberg's own page, but I put together this short article tonight. Would love any review, feedback, or advice on improving it and getting it approved. There's definitely more out there on her influence on him and his films and I suspect more to be said if The Fabelman's wins more awards this season, but I put together what I had time for this event. Thanks!


Draft:Leah Adler Hellotaylor (talk) 02:03, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Women and cycling in Islam

...is one of the many suggested titles for the article currently known as Bicycling in Islam. Please weigh in on the article Talk page if this topic is of interest. (For context, there is also a related discussion on the DYK Talk page.) Cielquiparle (talk) 08:39, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Marianne Karth, traffic safety activist

I created a draft for Marianne Karth a while ago. Are there any major sources out there that I’m missing? Thriley (talk) 11:35, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

French Feminist Mariette Teisserenc (fr)

Hello, not sure this is the place for it... but if someone can help me out regulate the following frennch page admissibility or any advice... I would be very tanksful !Olmathie(talk) — Preceding undated comment added 15:00, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Hi there, Olmathie. If you want advice about the French-language article, you should ask here.--Ipigott (talk) 16:17, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Mass GA delisting of articles by User Doug Coldwell

During my reviewing of unassessed articles tagged WikiProject Women and WikiProject Women's History, I have today come across a considerable number of those created by Doug Coldwell which had lost their GA quality assessment. On looking into the reason for this, I discovered that Coldwell was first blocked following a warning on his user page by Fram on 8 September 2022. This led to blocking for disruptive edits on 24 October 2022. On 30 January 2023, he was indefinitely banned as a sock puppet and was refused access to his talk page. Unfortunately, despite successive attempts by Dr. Blofeld and others to encourage Coldwell to respond specifically to the reasons why he had been blocked (essentially for copyright problems) he was not prepared to do so but (on the basis of his talk page comments) he was ready to revise any GA article for which specific problems could be presented. This offer was not accepted. As a result, all the 200 or so GAs he has created over the years are now being delisted. The Women's History articles which were delisted on 25/26 February include Elizabeth Timothy, Cone sisters, Effie Maud Aldrich Morrison, Jane Aitken, Eugenia Tucker Fitzgerald, Gertrude Hull, Caroline Reboux, Eleonora de Cisneros and Elizabeth Plankinton. This is just the first batch as there are several other women's biographies on the remaining list of Coldwell's GAs. As several members of Women in Red have been involved in the improvement or the GA assessemt of Coldwell's articles, it might be possible to restore their GA status. Although I don't usually work much on articles about Americans, I've looked through a few of these and they certainly appear to deserve promotion, perhaps after more careful checking of any copyright problems.--Ipigott (talk) 12:27, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

As well as copyright violation concerns some have expressed, the other apparent concern relates to WP:V, specifically as many sources offered are offline sources and harder to validate. I did 2 GA reviews for DC written articles (not WiR) and am making an effort on one of these to ensure all citations can be verified (whether by finding a digitalised/online alternate or personally checking and validating the prose against the source material). I am sure a fair few now (or to-be delisted) could regain GA status if it can be demonstrated that all the prose is verified and correct (and of course, not WP:CV). Bungle (talk • contribs) 12:50, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
Yeah, it's hard to fix up his articles, because there's often copyvios that have to be fixed, but also sources that have to be replaced because they don't contain the content they are being used for. Every single reference has to be checked for accuracy. And if it's an offline source, it's that much more difficult. SilverserenC 16:49, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
Jane Aitken is slated for deletion as copyvio. Following procedure, I started a rewrite from scratch. I think there is enough in the sources I found, particularly the biographical dictionary from 1971, to rebuild a decent article, but I don't know when I'll have time for that. Anyone is welcome to swoop in. XOR'easter (talk) 15:19, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
The rewrite is now live. XOR'easter (talk) 19:10, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Cathy Whims

Over at Talk:Cathy Whims, I've asked about a possible GA co-nom if any project members are interested. Thanks! ---Another Believer (Talk) 19:31, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

I believe User:Grand'mere Eugene intends to help, but other eyes and improvements are also welcome. Or, if anyone can find a freely licensed image to add to the infobox (I've tried!), that'd be much appreciated! ---Another Believer (Talk) 16:43, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
I added one from Flickr. Nick Number (talk) 20:42, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
Wonderful! Thank you so much! I had tried a search there, but clearly you did a better job. Much appreciated! ---Another Believer (Talk) 20:43, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

Update: User:Grand'mere Eugene and I have co-nominated the article for Good status. Last call for any article improvements or talk page comments! Thanks, ---Another Believer (Talk) 19:36, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

Just want to put a woman on your radar

Today I encountered our article on Betty Pack, who was a charming, young, sex-positive, good-looking, adulterous, highly intelligent woman with at least one abortion and probably a child out of wedlock. She was also, by all accounts, a bona fide hero of Allied espionage during World War II. I've done a little tidying up of her article but I would to have some more female editors aware of her and working on telling her story in a way that is misogyny-conscious, if that makes sense. I'll circle back to her later when I have more time for a deep dive on WWII sexpionage but just wanted to flag her for all your attention. Cheers jengod (talk) 23:11, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

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