Category talk:Women scientists

Keep or Delete?
After reading the relevant discussion and determining that my comments should be posted here, I believe that
 * 1) The contributions of women to science (and other fields) have long been neglected and even deliberately discounted, and this is something that Wikipedia can and should rectify.
 * 2) Over-categorization can make for a messy structure which doesn't add to the utility of the encyclopedia.
 * 3) It is important not to ghetto-ize minority groups or individuals through classification.

So the questions are begged:
 * 1) Where, in terms of encyclopedia structure, does a list of minority achievers belong with relation to any field of endeavour?
 * 2) What guiding principles are most relevant for determining such a structure?  (I'll do my own research on this, being a relative newbie here.)
 * 3) What new guiding principle(s), if any, is (are) required to address this general issue?

-- Robert Turner 21:09, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Grammar
The term "women scientists" is grammatically atrocious. Can't we make this "female scientists"? I suppose the incorrect use of "women" as an adjective is so firmly entrenched in Wikipedia's categories that this would require a major overhaul, though. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aiwendil42 (talk • contribs) 17:16, 30 April 2006‎ (UTC)
 * This should be "woman scientists". -- Noneofyourbusiness (talk) 02:11, 21 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Agreed: I just saw "List of women neuroscientists" and the error immediately struck me. It should be "woman neuroscientists" (if there's some reason to avoid the perfectly fine word "female"). 2A00:23C5:FE18:2701:6C4F:374E:EF33:BBD7 (talk) 19:20, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

Category:Women astronomers
I think this should be a subcategory here. 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 15:54, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
 * It is, part of the women scientists by field cat.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 16:08, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

How to add a scientist?
I am working on Brenda Milner's page and would like to add her to this list, but not sure what I need to do. sp (talk) 00:43, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
 * seems like this is done. You add categories to the bottom of the page in question.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 16:09, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Diffusing or non-diffusing category?
This category has tags for both diffusing and non-diffusing. It can only be one of the two. But which? Crispulop (talk) 08:27, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
 * It is non-diffusing with regard to its parents, and diffusing with regard to its sub-cats. I think. Confusing, certainly. I wonder how correctly this is maintained. A clearer explanatory note would be good. Johnbod (talk) 14:33, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

Rename?
Shouldn't this be "Female scientists"? No one says "Men scientists", they say "Male scientists".Pontificalibus 08:37, 17 May 2021 (UTC)