Talk:Maria Dalle Donne

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There are several proposed changes and updates that should be made to Maria Dalle Donne’s Wikipedia page. First of all, most all Wikipedia pages have titles and sub-sections; for example a general background highlighting the person, Early Life and Education, Marriages and Children, Academic Career, major life mile stones, Political and Religious Views, Death, contributions etc… Even though there doesn’t appear to be much information regarding Maria Dalle Donna, her page should at least have the breakdown as other pages.

Maria Dalle Donne’s page is so sparse. For a women who published three scientific papers, there is hardly any details regarding its content, conclusions, and impacts. Many other scientists have their papers name, content, and impact described in detail with links to the paper or other works it influenced. Donne’s page simply says that she published three papers and there is a brief description of the general content. For example, one paper “focused on midwifery and the care of newborns,” detailing nothing further of what her findings, point of view, or impact was regarding this subject. I am intrigued of what her contributions were. Are there sources that provide her published papers or reviews/summaries of her work? For example, Albert Einstein wrote the Annus Mirabilis Papers, which is listed under the Wikipedia search “Albert Einstein,” and there is the ability to click on the “Annus Mirabilis Papers” which leads to another Wikipedia page documented thorough detail of the papers, its history, its contents, awards, impacts, results etc…

I am very interested to learn more about Donne’s upbringing, family and history. I am intrigued to how an individual grew up, what were influencing and intriguing subjects and people for the person. For example, Albert Einstein has backgrounds on his parents, his religious upbringing, early schooling, time-line of early events and anecdotes of his intellectual brilliance. Donne’s page has none of these. If there are no records of such things regarding Donne, then there is not much we can edit, however I must believe there are experts, other references and reports that would have more than 100 words regarding a brilliant physician that made significant findings like Donne.

In the “talk” section, all wiki-projects for Donne are ranked at “low priority.” The Wikipedia community should be embellishing these underrepresented persons in STEM fields profiles and make them more known, rather than continuously hounding on already famous and well known STEM profiles. The Wikipedia community should bring more persons like Donne out of the shadows and highlight their contributions to mankind.