Portal talk:Feminism/Archive 1

Underconstruction
I started the talk page and added the tag. This portal was started as a result of discussion at WT:GS. Phyesalis (talk) 03:43, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for starting the talk page and for adding the "underconstruction" tag. --Grrrlriot (talk) 04:14, 21 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I've done a little bit of work. The design coding is quite difficult so I've fumbled around a bit with somethings.  Also I've gone and used the lede from Feminism as the intro here, which although probably not perfect will get the ball rolling on it-- Cailil   talk 20:24, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Cailil! :) I appreciate your work on this portal. --Grrrlriot (talk) 20:29, 28 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I've done a little more to it. It's not looking too bad now.  The Alice Walker, Helene Cixous and the Image are just suggestions to see how the page will look with content here-- Cailil   talk 01:06, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * It's looking a lot better than it was. It's good to test things out. It looks good, so far. --Grrrlriot (talk) 03:36, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * It's looking really good. I'll poke my head in too to work on it. --Lquilter (talk) 15:05, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Subcategory/Task Force of Feminism
If you want more information or if you think you would be interested in participating, Take a look here: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Gender_Studies or stop by my talk page and let me know. Thanks! --Grrrlriot (talk) 02:50, 10 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I've added a red link to a Task force page under "Things To Do" - I'll add a reciprocal link over at the GS portal. What do you think? --Phyesalis (talk) 19:19, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Sounds good to me. --Grrrlriot (talk) 20:40, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

updates
Hi everybody. I've just updated everything. I really do not like making these decisions on my own about on what article, bio and pic is selected. We need to formalize a system where all involved get to have their say on what we selected before the next months starts. With tha in mind could we have nominations for the various selected items please. I'm suggesting Feminist theory for the SA. Mary Robinson-- Cailil  talk 22:22, 4 March 2008 (UTC) Also I'd like to suggest we link "suggest a task" to WikiProject_Gender_Studies/to_do-- Cailil  talk 23:36, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree, We do need a system where we get to have our say in what we select before the next month starts. How do we go about nominations? The SA article Feminist theory sounds like a good idea. Also, The "suggest a task" link is a good idea. --Grrrlriot (talk) 18:40, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Easiest thing to do might be to ask users to sign their nominations and to send out a call for nominations at teh beginning of the last week of each month to the task force members. We could then discuss that month's nominations on the appropriate nomination page or talk page-- Cailil   talk 19:07, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
 * That's a pretty good idea. Maybe have a nominations page that discusses the nominations or could the SA page be used for the discussions? --Grrrlriot (talk) 05:04, 9 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I suppose Portal_talk:Feminism/Selected_article_archive/Nominations Portal_talk:Feminism/Selected_picture_archive/Nominations and Portal_talk:Feminism/Selected_biography_archive/Nominations are the best places to use.-- Cailil  talk 16:36, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Sounds good to me. --Grrrlriot (talk) 19:43, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedians interested in feminism

 * I created the category. I'm trying to get the word out to others about joining the category, so if your interested in feminism, add your name to the category on your userpage. --Grrrlriot (talk) 05:08, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

June 2008 updates
There will live content again tomorrow in the Selected article, biography, and picture areas. Since consensus has been a bit quiet, and the updating dead, I went ahead and chose some already-suggested articles. I've also been doing various bits of housekeeping, which include moving suggested biographies from the SA nominating area to the SB nominating area, cleaning out dead months from the archives, linking nominating pages to one another, and a few other things. -- Yamara  ✉ 06:15, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I also hid the DYK element until we can decide on what to do with it (I think the Technology Portal has a well-functioning DYK we could steal the code from). I suppose one next step is to settle on color schemes and whther we want or need tabs. I've done the Time Portal's scheme and tabs, and am open to ideas. -- Yamara  ✉ 06:31, 31 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Great work Yamara, you've made a lot of improvements to the portal - well done. Personally I like tabs, but do we have the content for them yet?-- Cailil   talk 12:32, 31 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Tabs can just be useful for navigation, too...
 * ...I have just spent all night rescuing Gender equality from the clutches of the ZYGARCHS (and the ill-defined Equalists). I think the portal is a step or two beyond "under construction" so I've given it a basic title... haven't posted it to the Portal lists yet, but I need some sleep... after fighting the ZYGARCHS. Cheers,  Yamara  ✉  11:10, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

P:FEM now redirects to the portal. -- Yamara  ✉ 16:40, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for all the work you have done to the portal, Yamara! :) It looks GREAT! Sorry for not replying or working on the portal, I haven't been online much lately. Portal:Feminism is looking better than it was. Thanks again! --Grrrlriot (talk) 00:47, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Gender equality is one of this project's central concepts. It was AWOL.
Sorry for sounding a little wacky there above, I've had sleep now. Essentially, variations on Gender equality had been hijacked six or so months ago by redirects to both Zygarchy and Equalism, and had actually begun to affect the conversation across the internet.

This is bad news, as these terms have nothing behind them but ill-defined assertions. I've rarely been embarrassed for Wikipedia, but this is one of those moments where the site's power was left in the hands of POV/OR mischief-makers.

"Zygarchy" is a made-up word that would never meet the WP:NEO standard if anyone had caught it. It has never meant "rule of two genders" before someone asserted it on Wikipedia. There are a couple hundred blogs out there crowing about the "new word they'd learned" while learning less than zero about notable, verifiable internationally-established gender policy. (Somewhat ominously, "zygarchy" is an obscure but genuine term for an ancient military formation involving two chariots. I think the chariots were used to run infantry over... or to cut them down with a chain between them...)

"Equalism" has been used by notable sources and scholars-- but never consistently. There was some effort to use it to refer to communism in the fifties, anarchism at various points, and some among the Facebook crowd seem to like it better than "feminism"; one news citation in Sweden counts it as a subset of feminism. That is to say, it's a semantic game: There is no "-ism" there, just a desire for one, a moving target without a developed philosophy behind it. I've redirected it to a far more notable article, Egalitarianism.

Nearly every instance of a wikilink to Gender equality had been piped to Equalism. That's what last night was all about for me: finding and removing the plumbing from this phantasm.

I've reestablished the Gender equality article with cites to the UN and an external link to the World Bank. I've added it to the various gender studies and feminism templates. This is one of this project's central concepts, and we really have to watch these pages. Cheers,  Yamara  ✉ 21:43, 1 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Well done for catching that Yamara - I've added it to my watchlist as well-- Cailil  talk 21:57, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I need to put Gender equality on my watchlist too. Thanks for letting us know! --Grrrlriot (talk) 00:49, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Feminism By Country
I think it would be a good idea to have feminism by countries. I noticed that a few countries already have their own feminism page. What do you think? Here is a sample of what I'm talking about: User:Grrrlriot/Sandbox --Grrrlriot (talk) 21:47, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Just a quick question Grrrlriot how would this relate to the "Women in ..." articles (ie Women in Iran or Women in Pakistan or Women in Ethiopia)?- Cailil  talk 22:00, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I suppose the "Women in..." articles and the "Feminism in..." articles could be the same thing. --Grrrlriot (talk) 22:07, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Maybe working them through Women%27s_history would help unify the two groups of articles and give them a parent article? What do you think? A sub-category of Category:Women could be made for category:women's history.-- Cailil   talk 22:11, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * What do you mean exactly? Are you saying that the "Women in..." articles could be categorized into category:women's history? How about the articles that are called "Feminism in...", should they go there too? --Grrrlriot (talk) 22:22, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes but that might mean some rewriting and merging. Many of these articles in both groups are recording similar things and have many areas of overlap - that said we could do it so that summaries of, for example, Feminism in Egypt are placed in Women in Egypt - this way we also keep a list of "feminism in" articles and could link them to History of feminism and/or Feminism and of course at teh portal-- Cailil   talk 22:55, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I think I get what your saying now. Since both are similar, we can merge and/or rewrite some of the articles. Like you said, for example, the article Feminism in Egypt could be placed on the Women in Egypt article. I totally agree with you on that...if that's what your saying. Are you saying that some of the "Feminism in..." articles could be place on the History of feminism article as well? I know that there is already a category called Category:Feminism by country, so that could be of use as well. Also, The "Women in..." articles are under the Category:Women by nationality, perhaps that could be of use too or we could merge the 2 categories. What do you think? Also, I played in my Sandbox3 as well, with this. (See also the Sandbox for the other one that I played with.) Do you think a Feminism and culture would be useful? If so, could the "Feminism in..." articles go there? --Grrrlriot (talk) 00:26, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Basically I think you've caught my drift. Regarding Category:Women by nationality it has another purpose - as the parent category for categories like Category:French women so I wouldn't merge the categories - just use both for the moment.  About culture it depends on what use of the word you mean, for example do you mean culture as in "the arts" (which I think there should be enough material for an article) or culture as in civilization (which might overlap with feminism by country)?  Personally I think grouping these articles around Women's history makes the most sense. As regards the lists - which is not my strongest suit - I'd suggest you make sure they follow WP:LIST and get some advice from WikiProject Lists before moving them into the mainspace - but your work is looking promising to me-- Cailil   talk 12:45, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok, we'll use both categories for the moment. I guess your right about Feminism and culture, it would overlap with the feminism by country thing. How would we go about grouping the articles around Women's history? Which lists are you talking about? I am assuming that your saying merge Feminism in Egypt with Women in Egypt, etc. --Grrrlriot (talk) 16:57, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Suggestions for August 2008 conetnt
I'd like to thank Durova for her suggestions of the Selected pictures. I was just wondering does anybody have any suggestions for the selected bio and selected article? I'd personally suggest Bracha L. Ettinger or Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick for th bio and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman for the article-- Cailil  talk 20:55, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Reformat in progress
I am going to reformat this portal to rotate randomly with a set number of selections (hopefully only WP:GA and WP:FA content) as opposed to by Month/Year. I have found that the Month/Year format tends to eventually lead to inactivity and redlinks in the portal (as there are currently). Cirt (talk) 17:31, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

List of articles
I'm working on the list of FAs for the portal and I was wondering what we want to consider "feminism". For example, do we want to include all biographies of women or just women who had some association with any kind of feminism? Awadewit (talk) 16:35, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Personally I'd go for the stricter definition: women associated with feminism-- Cailil  talk 16:42, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I will try to be restrictive, then. I will put a little sentence after each article so that people don't have to click on them to see why they are relevant. Awadewit (talk) 19:09, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Color layout
I changed the color layout using Portal:Box-header/2, let me know what you think. Other options are at Portal:Box-header, User:RichardF/Palettes/Portals, and User:RichardF/Palettes. Cirt (talk) 23:17, 6 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm definitely against pink. I thought blue was great, but if we don't want to signal "masculine" with blue, how about green? (H150) Awadewit (talk) 00:11, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Changed to H150, green. I really like this one. Cirt (talk) 02:48, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Selected anniversaries
I started a new subsection for the portal: Each month should have one free-use image, and (5) entries total highlighting an interesting date related to feminism/women's history. You can see a completed version of this model at Portal:Russia/Selected anniversaries.
 * Portal:Feminism/Selected anniversaries

The months of August and September are already completed, so we just have to fill in the rest of the months. Cheers, Cirt (talk) 03:38, 7 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I've started working on this. Awadewit (talk) 10:38, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Looks good so far. Don't forget to put in a relevant free-use image for each month, related to one of the date-entries. Or else I can just go back and do that, that is a relatively easy part. Cirt (talk) 12:26, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I was going to do that at the end. Awadewit (talk) 12:57, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Either way, no prob. Cirt (talk) 13:01, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
 * If you know of good popular culture facts, please add them. The facts are starting to resemble my interests - politics and history! Awadewit (talk) 13:17, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I've got about seven months done, although I'm not sure about the diversity of facts. Awadewit (talk) 16:29, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. Just some copyediting now. Awadewit (talk) 22:46, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

I think it looks excellent. Thanks so much for working on this. Cirt (talk) 23:08, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm done with that for the moment. Awadewit (talk) 18:13, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Yea, I am almost ready to send the portal for a peer review - just one more subsection to create/add. Cirt (talk) 20:23, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Let me know if I can help and alert me when it is up for PR. Awadewit (talk) 20:29, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Will do. :) Cirt (talk) 20:31, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Featured content
New subsection, not yet added to the portal main page itself yet, see: The Featured articles list will have to be a merge of a list of the biographies and general articles, sorted alphabetically. I think we should just use blue links in a straight list format and not for the list of WP:FPs, because there are too many for gallery display on the Main Page. Cirt (talk) 22:44, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Portal:Feminism/Featured content


 * I believe that is done. Awadewit (talk) 00:14, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Wow, great work! I added that subsection into the portal page page, just want to add a few more selections and then off for a peer review shortly. Cirt (talk) 00:26, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Image check on featured articles

 * Baby Gender Mentor needs a free image for the portal
 * We can use this. Awadewit (talk) 01:43, 9 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Image:Clarke_sepia.jpg - Probably should be deleted
 * Rebecca Helferich Clarke needs a good free image
 * This has been added to the article. Awadewit (talk) 02:01, 9 August 2008 (UTC)


 * But I'm a Cheerleader needs a free image
 * This has been added to the article. Awadewit (talk) 02:08, 9 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Fun Home needs a free image
 * Perhaps Image:Saitta_House_Dyker_Heights.JPG (a Victorian home). Durova Charge! 00:01, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Added Fitzgerald house. Awadewit (talk) 00:04, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Bette Davis - It is not clear if any of these images are really in the PD - Durova is looking into this
 * Image:Hdpoet.jpg - This tag needs to be fixed
 * Image:ElizabethBowes-Lyon.jpg - Is this PD only in Canada? - This is fine
 * Madlax needs a free image
 * The Penelopiad needs a free image
 * This added to article. Awadewit (talk) 17:54, 10 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Prostitution in the People's Republic of China needs a free image
 * This lame flag has been added. Awadewit (talk) 18:00, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

We'll need to work on this list. Awadewit (talk) 00:52, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
 * The Supremes needs a free image
 * Image:Frederick Douglass HomestowerDetroit.jpg the housing project where the original members came from. Durova Charge! 00:14, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Good point, thanks for bringing this to our attention. Cirt (talk) 01:00, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I'd like for us to have all these minor outstanding issues resolved before going for a peer review, if possible. Cirt (talk) 01:05, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
 * We might write to the author of Fun Home and to the founder of the Tahirih Justice Center, but I'm at a loss for the rest at the moment. Awadewit (talk) 23:19, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Okay, keep me posted. I shall try to get on updating the above with the images you provided. (Of course, feel free to do so yourself if you want.) Heh, this is that easygoing language you spoke of referring to non-controversial talkpages, lol. Cirt (talk) 23:47, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Portal peer review
This portal has had a portal peer review which is at Portal peer review/Feminism/archive1. Cirt (talk) 21:20, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Portal:Feminism
Portal:Feminism is now a featured portal. Great! :) Thanks everyone for making this happen! -- Grrrlriot (♠ ♣ ♦ ♥ †) 17:55, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Woman, "The Grandmothers", Herstory and Feminism


Wondrous, Exciting! This Feminism Portal! I've only been trying my hand at Wikipedia editing for a couple of weeks ... and have only begun to find my way to the gender-balanced (or balancing) editors and projects. Looking for guidance, and have some questions to ask, as to where are the articles on Woman and Herstory ... the recent ten thousand years of it ... discussed in thousands of printed books and magazine articles. Is it absent from Wikipedia? Not politically correct? Why only 'Feminism' portals, task forces, and articles, which seemingly are only focusing on shallow and political and contemporary history, for the last few hundreds of years? I love feminism, yet observe that at Wikipedia and elsewhere it is, again, not focused on the woman's legacy, wisdom, tradition, herstory ... however we want to name it. So I am looking for the appropriate places to begin a dialog, and find some colleagues and guides, as to how to find or create the great integrity of woman's oral, intangible, essential (equal) wisdom and knowledge-place in history and herstory. Pre-written history and contemporary with the last five thousand years or so of written history. As the indigenous grandmothers are drawing attention to worldwide, it is the (equal) role and participation and CREATION of women that is essential to the health and continuity and survival of humanity and our "Mother Earth". I have no doubt that the founders and administrators of Wikipedia, not to mention the editors, have the same interest ... just that like all of us they have suffered under the ignorance and provincial and 'patriarchal' legacy of the past. Which past is behind us now. So how do we generate a 'today', a 2009, of a Wikipedia which is healthy, balanced and thus beautiful? The 'Western' 'scientific' topical categorization of all knowledge, used here at Wikipedia, blocks 99 percent of access to Wikipedia -- to the subjects which are NOT anthropology, NOT religion, NOT science, NOT politics, NOT history, etc. -- but rather are a subject list by culture, by tribe, by ethnic group. Can we find, or create, such a list at Wikipedia (cf the World Heritage List []? Is this the correct Portal to bring up this subject? Suggestions, guidance, any- and every-one? for all our sacred relations, Millennium Twain (talk) 14:09, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Gender Studies would be a more appropriate place to discuss this stuff, this talk page is only to discuss this portal itself. Cirt (talk) 14:11, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi! :) Thanks for your interest in this portal! Can you send me an email about this, Millennium Twain? grrrlsvomitcandy@NOSPAMhotmail.com Just remove "nospam" from the email address. We can discuss this further through emails, since Wikipedia is not a forum. -- Grrrlriot (♠ ♣ ♦ ♥ †) 18:53, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Template photo
Why is the image for feminism "Migrant Mother?" The first thing that makes me think of is economic depression, not feminism. Wouldn't there be a more suitable choice for this portal? 24.31.165.240 (talk) 20:29, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
 * The featured picture rotates through a series of different pictures - so it isn't using it as the emblem of feminism - just as 'featured' content-- Cailil  talk 01:26, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Apologies I was confused about which photo of the igrant mother you were referring to - point taken and the image has been reverted-- Cailil  talk 23:36, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Speedy Delete
This is nothing but Misandarist nonsense. --Street Scholar (talk) 14:44, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
 * We are not speedy deleting a featured portal because you don't like it. --Gimme danger (talk) 14:53, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Street Scholar, I will have you know that feminism is NOT misandarist. Apparently, you've heard too much negativity and lies about feminism. Feminism to me, is all about women's rights and having the same rights as men. If feminism is so misandrist, why are there more men than women editing this portal? Please get your facts straight before dissing a movement you know nothing about. Anybody have any articles or such that should be added to this portal? -- Grrrlriot (♠ ♣ ♦ ♥ †) 04:24, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Gender based violence
Why don't you rename the page "Violence against women" in "gender based violence"? This is the correct definition because "is a manifestation of historically unequal power relations between men and women, which have led to domination over and discrimination against women by men and to the prevention of the full advancement of women, and that violence against women is one of the crucial social mechanisms by which women are forced into a subordinate position compared with men " (...), Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, United Nations -General Assembly dic. 1993 --151.50.177.40 (talk) 22:02, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Gender-Based Violence: A Price Too High
 * WHO: "Gender-based violence"
 * "Can you name 16 forms of gender-based violence?"
 * "Gender Based violence", Developing Gender Statistics Training Video; United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
 * Ley Integral contra la violencia de género
 * This page is only for discussion of the portal. You'd be better off at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Gender Studies. Cirt (talk) 03:22, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Ok. Done. sorry but my english is so "slow"! --151.50.177.40 (talk) 17:08, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
 * No worries. Cirt (talk) 17:28, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Does anyone else disagree with this title: Sarah Brown (wife of Gordon Brown)?
On the Talk page I've just said it is sexist and patronising beyond belief to have this title, because it suggests that this women is only definable by reference to her husband. Can you please leave your thoughts to have this moved to an alternate title? Thanks,  Wik idea  15:23, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
 * This page is only for discussion of the portal. You'd be better off at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Gender Studies. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 18:36, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Gender roles in Eastern Europe after Communism
Is this legit? Is it notable? If it is, please fix it. Either way, go to the AfD and comment. Bearian (talk)
 * This page is only for discussion of the portal. You'd be better off at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Gender Studies. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 18:36, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Some considerations about Feminism treatison on Wikipedia on the template talk page
Template talk: Feminism sidebar

Mormegil 87.20.75.93 (talk) 23:01, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
 * This page is only for discussion of the portal. You'd be better off at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Gender Studies. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 03:09, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Looking for suggestions on a Masculism portal
From the history, it appears that this Feminism portal began as a Task Force on Gender Studies in 2008, and then grew to it's own project in 2010, and has flourished since then. I think it would be cool if that success could be emulated in a communal project to document things that might be labelled masculism and activism related to male rights. I am wondering since people here would be experienced in this if there could be pointers and if these could be sibling-type communities. Ranze (talk) 08:37, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
 * First you'd want to check if there's an existing WikiProject for this, and if not, think about gathering interest for one. It's an interesting idea. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 08:39, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
 * There's already a men's rights portal. Gobōnobō  + c 20:55, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Ah, quite, thank you for pointing that out, most fascinating. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 21:02, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Recommend for removal
Moved from Portal talk:Feminism/to do -- John of Reading (talk) 07:25, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

Recommend for removal. Feminism has become a polarizing topic that has become associated with censorship. Promoting this ideology so heavily on an open source information sharing site makes the information therein appear to be biased. The benefit of Wikipedia as an open source web reference is that users can share information as long as it is properly researched and vetted. The tenets of feminism too quickly assume victimhood and social stigmatization without the proper and complete research to support those views. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pencilsketcher (talk • contribs) 20:45, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Encyclopedic coverage of a topic is not the same as promotion. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:25, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Agree with, above. Cheers, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 15:01, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Agree with, above, cheers, --C.Koltzenburg (talk) 18:26, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks,, much appreciated. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 18:56, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
 * same,, --C.Koltzenburg (talk) 18:48, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

Women warriors and wonder woman
I found this great book about the earliest (and the most inspiring) Wonder Woman comics, with a lot of additional information on historical women warriors; if anyone's interested. Dahia-Al-Kahina could use a page, given she captured Carthage. Bullets and Bracelets (talk) 21:55, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks, -- Good suggestion for WP:WikiProject Feminism. This is the page for maintaining the portal about the subject. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 00:00, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Women by century?
We have an article about Women in Europe, but it cuts the information by country and I am looking for an article about Women by time period. Do we have something that focuses on "Women in the 10th century" or something similar?-- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom  06:15, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Not that I know of, but you can use Wikidata to look them up. Kaldari (talk) 07:22, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

Re-organization of WikiProject Women
There currently is a discussion about the future organization of WikiProject Women and several other women-related Wikiprojects and taskforces at the above link. Some aspects may be of interests to editors of this project and your participation in the discussion would be appreciated. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 12:42, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the notification. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 16:51, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

Notice from the Portals WikiProject
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As of May 2nd, 2018, membership is at 60 editors, and growing. You are welcome to join us.

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Notice for requesting to participate in gender equality related page moves
A page move discussion is going on here, Talk:2023 Cricket World Cup. Inviting to all interested editors here who are well experienced in gender equality and feminsim related subjects and if they use their insights to put their views in the dicussion. A similar discussion was happened last year for changing ICC T20 World Cup to ICC Men's T20 World Cup here In brief, ICC the governing world cricketing body has changed all their tournaments' names in gender specific way recently like ICC Men's Cricket World Cup (previously Cricket World Cup) or 2023 ICC Men's Cricket World Cup (instead of 2023 Cricket World Cup) and has been well recognised by major cricketing websites along with news sites (RS). I think participation of more experienced editors from here would be dynamic in argument and counter argument an drefuting. Thank you. Drat8sub (talk) 20:54, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

If you don't have anything to write about! : )
Hi! I've just added a section on recent developments in the field of critique of political economy. Where certain authors have utilized a more feminist point of view. Someone here might want to extend this section, and might know more about it than I do! If that's the case, please come check it out :)

Kind regards,

Pauloroboto

Pauloroboto (talk) 11:38, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

Category "Individualist Feminist"
A Wikipedia author from german Wikipeda recently went into the topic of feminism and flooded the category Individualist feminists with arbitrary women who he believed are "individual feminists" based on his made up definition of individualist feminism which was not grounded in literature at all. (mostly celebrities or pron actors / directors where he believed that sex positive feminism is synonymous with individual feminism, e.g. ) You may want to check that category again and remove any entries that do not actually belong there. TheRandomIP (talk) 14:07, 26 February 2023 (UTC)