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A quote from Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais; it is taken from the manuscript of Jules Massenet's opera Panurge, in the composer's own hand. It is my greeting of choice for the new year, because it encourages us to live joyfully, and try not to take life too seriously...while quaffing whatever beverage we choose, naturally. This has been a challenging year, to say the least; I hope that 2021 may bring a fresh start, and better days ahead. May the new year bring you joy and peace...and many days of fruitful editing.
You too, Ser Amantio di Nicolao! This has been a crazy year! Wikipedia made it better for me, for sure. I hope your New Year is awesome, too. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 18:06, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi! I see you have a draft for Djmi El Ghalia that hasn't been edited since 2017. I was planning on taking a crack at a page for her, hope that's ok? Thanks! --Bookworm-ce (talk) 02:52, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
Never mind, realized the page exists under the name Elghalia Djimi! Created a redirect instead. --Bookworm-ce (talk) 02:58, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi Megalibrarygirl. Linda Walsh Jenkins certainly seems notable to me, and I thought that biography might interest you. Perhaps you have access to some additional resources? --Rosiestep (talk) 20:13, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
One more that I wanted to bring to your attention, Martha Haines Butt of Virginia, as I think you are still working on suffrage in the U.S. states. MHB is not your typical suffragist. In her early life, she was quite naive and even pretentious about the concepts of individual freedom, equality, justice. Thankfully, with age, she became active in righting wrongs. I think the lesson here, at least for me, was that each woman took a different path to get to the point where she fought for women's suffrage. I guess that's true for a lot of things. --Rosiestep (talk) 22:43, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
Some of the suffragists from Georgia that I ran across were women who also got to suffrage from different viewpoints. Some of those viewpoints I found very repugnant, but it took all kinds to work towards suffrage it seems! Megalibrarygirl (talk) 23:04, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
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Hello! I'm working on a not-yet-published draft of an article about Nellah Massey Bailey for Women in Red, and I came across this article on newspapers.com (it's the one in the top center about Carl N. Craig, with the title that's cut off). Since the title is cut off and didn't make it into the OCR, I'm unable to cite it right now because I don't have a subscription; I was wondering whether you'd be able to make out the title on the full-size version of the page.
Not sure whether it'll work, but thanks in advance (for all you do)! DanCherek (talk) 05:39, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
DanCherek, Hi! sorry for the slowness. It's been a busy weekend for me offline! Here's the link to the Craig article [1]. Here are a few more about Bailey: [2], [3], and [4]. If you need more, I can see if there's anything else, especially if she's ever known other other married names, etc. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 21:56, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
These are fantastic, thank you so much! I can work with these clippings (and OCR) for now. I applied for a WP Newspapers.com account last night, not sure if it'll go through because my account is on the newer side, but we'll see. Thanks again for your help! DanCherek (talk) 22:00, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
DanCherek, You'll love Newspapers.com! It's such an invaluable resource! If you don't get access yet, feel free to reach out for clippings anytime. I think you only need around 500 edits to qualify, so you should be OK. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 22:06, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
Citation questions
Hi User:Megalibrarygirl. Do you know how to included the illustrator in the citation for a children's book? Also, if the publisher is a divison of a major publishing house, do you list the division as the publisher or the major publishing house? I'm doing better with entering info on Wikidata and activating {{authority control}}. Hope all is well with you. Mvitulli (talk) 18:13, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
Mvitulli, I include the illustrator in the field "others." I add translators to that field, too. It doesn't hurt to add additional information like divisions of publishing houses, but I don't think it's necessary. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 19:25, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
February 2021 at Women in Red
Women in Red| February 2021, Volume 7, Issue 2, Numbers 184, 186, 188, 189, 190, 191
--Rosiestep (talk) 14:59, 27 January 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Seeking insight - you helped me in the past
Hello – we communicated a few years back when I was working on submitting an article on Patricia Traxler. We had a good dialogue, so I am thinking you might be able to provide some insight. --- I am attempting to create a draft about a renowned writer / playwright, Marcia Cebulska ...and am struggling a bit due to the intimidation of doing a lot of work just to get all rejected upon submitting the draft. I've started the draft but have not yet submitted. --- Essentially, now, I am relearning the intricacies of creating an article. ----- As well, I am seeing a Wiki Project related to Women Writers. So, I am wondering if this article on Cebulska might be something that could be a part of the project. I realize that you might or might not know about this project but I felt it worth reaching out. --- At this point I am wondering if my initial draft on Cebulska might have too much detail, biography-wise. (I've read that too much info, might cause yellow or red flags.) I've added details about bio, her 2 books and 1 of her many plays - I'm going to continue at this point by adding more plays to the list. --- As well, I have reached out to another person (Brattlegirl) that most recently contributed to the work done on Traxler. --- Thank you! ....for your insight and time in response, as you see fit. Hope all is well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Limestone9 (talk • contribs) 17:07, 25 January 2021 (UTC) --Limestone9 (talk) 15:06, 26 January 2021 (UTC) GG
@Limestone9: I understand what you are going through. You can definitely add a woman author to Wikipedia: WikiProject Women in Red or even to Wikipedia: WikiProject Women writers. Both are good places to join if you'd like to continue adding similar articles. As long as you have enough reliable sources, your article should stand the test of time. If you need help retrieving or finding sources, I can help, too. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:21, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
@Megalibrarygirl: -- Thank you for the response. Could you perhaps take a look at my developing draft of Marcia Cebulska to see if I am on the correct path or not? If so, let me know if I need to provide you the link. --Limestone9 (talk) 15:04, 27 January 2021 (UTC)GG
Introducing myself, offering help
Hi Megalibrarygirl -- I'm a librarian and a pretty new Wikipedia editor. However, I am also a lover of research and discovering new things that catch my fancy. I am a professional researcher and an instructional librarian, and have been finding my specialty on Wikipedia bending towards sourcing when individuals are less-covered in traditionally recognized sources in Wikipedia. So, just wanted to reach out and say "hi" and that I would love to lend a hand with WomeninRed work if ever you need some backup/extra hands in your role as Librarian-in-residence. Thank you, Oughtta Be Otters (talk) 03:48, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
Oughtta Be Otters, hello and nice to meet you! Be sure you post on our talkpage and you may be interested in joining [Wikimedia and Libraries User Group]. What's your specialty? I'm a public services librarian, but we have all kinds of librarians and archivists involved. Glad to have you on board! :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 04:56, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
Megalibrarygirl, I started (in the 1990s) as a corporate librarian - a corporate researcher - where I learned to value precision, accuracy, and quality in my sources but I also learned that traditional definitions of quality and authority tended to leave out important information and act as gatekeepers to protect power and privilege of certain voices. The more I saw how much trouble other people had navigating information, the more I explored instruction. I am now an instructional librarian, and even more concerned about how power dynamics around "authority" lead us to miss important information.
And, I adore our librarian community! Looking forward to "meeting" more librarian Wikipedians.
Also, please clarify which talk page you mean by: "Be sure you post on our talkpage."
SusunW, women's nationality is a subject I could certainly stand to learn more about by helping out. Checking that you mean legal definitions of individual identities and citizenship with regards to marriage law and so forth? Pleased to lend a hand. Though I am especially interested in underrepresentation in the US, I have recently taken an unexpected detour and have been writing about notable women in Papua New Guinea (though the page that got me started is in week 2 of discussion for AfD at the moment). Still -- tell me more! We can move this discussion to my talk page if that helps. Oughtta Be Otters (talk) 18:38, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
Oughtta Be Ottershere is a description of what I am working on and if you flip from the talk page to the "user page" you will see the very rough draft that is the working doc. Very complex situation. I am currently looking for two obscure references, which I'll post on your page. I have no expectation that I will find them, but it's worth a try. Truly any help is appreciated as there are 191 countries to evaluate. o.0 SusunW (talk) 19:13, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
Anne Laura Clarke
Hi, Megalibrarygirl! I just came across this article about an under-documented, innovative American lecturer from the early 19th century named Anne Laura Clark. Have you heard of her? I looked her up because I was looking at an 1828 review by John Neal of her lectures in Portland, Maine that year. Looks to me like she deserves a Wikipedia article, which I might write myself at some point, but it would take me a while to get to it. I thought I would bring it up with you given your interests to see if you wanted to write it first. What do you think? --Dugan Murphy (talk) 23:33, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
Miss Clarke's Historical Lectures cardDugan Murphy, Looks interesting! There's certainly more sources on her, too: obit, and an online collection. I'd be happy to help you with it, but I'm also working on a draft of a New Mexico suff and then I'm doing Women's suffrage in Colorado. But let me know when you start and I can certainly help! I also uploaded a sign for one of her lectures to Commons. I think John Neal was a very interesting person and it's so interesting he has so many connections to these amazing women. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:48, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
Rad. Thanks for sharing those links! Those magic lantern slides are awesome. I'll let you know when I get something started. If you end up getting to it first, do ping me about it.
Totally off topic, but since I'm writing on your talk page anyway: a while ago I went searching for a photograph of Melusina Fay Peirce (who debated with Neal about suffrage circa 1869) that Wikimedia Commons guidelines would allow me to add to her article, but I couldn't find one that I could trace to an old, public domain publication, so I added one of her book covers instead. If you have a better handle on Commons licensing or know of a photo of her from a public domain publication, I invite you to add it. I found photos of her here and here, and I think one or two other places. --Dugan Murphy (talk) 20:31, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
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