Talk:International Council of Women

Council of Women: US and International
It's a little hard to follow the history and links between the US and International organizations, specially their origins. Could someone help clarify? Maineshepp (talk) 16:51, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

List of presidents
The article need a proper list of the presidents of the organisation. Its current list is incomplete:


 * 1) Lady Aberdeen (Scotland) 1893-99
 * 2) May Wright Sewall (United States) 1899-1904
 * 3) Lady Aberdeen (Scotland) 1904–20
 * 4) Pauline Chaponnière-Chaix (Switzerland) 1920-22
 * 5) Lady Aberdeen (Scotland) 1922–36
 * 6) Baroness Marthe Boël (Belgium) 1936-47

Please feel free to complete the list!--Aciram (talk) 16:54, 12 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Dr. Marie Akwe (Cameroon) 1982 to 1994 152.130.7.130 (talk) 16:29, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

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New Templates
What's the purpose of this edit?

Is the ICW now just a sub-article for these two women? Or will all other prominent figures of the ICW get their template into this article as well? --Enyavar (talk) 11:36, 15 November 2018 (UTC)


 * That is what these templates do, transcluding a collection of links into articles, situation normal afaik. Please ping me if there is a discussion on the transclusion of arbitrary assemblages of links into main, because I would prefer they did not, but do not see anything out of the ordinary in this sort of listy-factoidal-categorization boxlets that propagate out from each other in this particular article. cygnis insignis 12:51, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I know that open-themed usage of templates is not forbidden here in en-WP, but I do have concerns.
 * All presidents of ICW could also receive such a Template, which then would be listed here; and each of these presidents had several vice-presidents and other important staff who often were no less important in the women's movement (I'm still sorry that I have not listed the vice-presidents accordingly in the list here). So, once we have a template for each of these women's leaders who already have an article, we could build a wall of at least 30 templates from person-related templates alone. Another 70 templates can be generated from the member organizations of ICW and their related information. And an ICW template as well, which again lists all presidents, vice presidents, and member organizations. Sure, they could all be nested a few times, but what's the point of being able to directly navigate from ICW to Theodore Stanton or United States ten-dollar bill?
 * my worries are behind this link
 * ... and so on. While I would fully understand the reason to include each of the above templates in the US-president article, I don't get why every women's right activist should be included into Women's suffrage through their template. Currently, there are only four templates on that page, randomly chosen out of hundreds and thousands of relevant activists. --Enyavar (talk) 15:40, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Why did you stop, readers of this page may want more article links on American presidents, now that it has been mentioned. This sort of content exists outside of core policy of content creation, and is then transcluded alongside properly created content. Who decides when it has gone to far, I'm not sure. you can only propose they be deleted. Doing it on an article by article basis is simple or complicated, remove them as failing N, NPOV, or OR or join in the fun of editors and template creators deciding that for themselves. I only care about their impact on the 'what links here' tool, which is made useless by template cruft. Apologies that I don't have a subtle solution, just a simple one. cygnis insignis 05:56, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Well, yeah sorry, I hid the presidents behind a versionlink. I will try to ignore them for some more years, maybe something will change eventually. You are right, the all-important what-links-here tool is near-impossible to use in en-WP, sadly. I have no idea how people manage proper link management here. Maybe someone finally makes an exclusion-filter for templates. --Enyavar (talk) 09:59, 16 November 2018 (UTC)