Talk:Michigan Women's Hall of Fame

January 2016 update
As of this posting, this list celebrates it's 11th year on Wikipedia. At 295 names and started by an IP editor on January 7, 2005, this was the first Women's Hall of Fame list done on Wikipedia. I don't know if it's the longest. Ohio Women's Hall of Fame was started by an IP editor on August 25, 2005, and while I haven't counted the entries, it looks equally as large as this one.

I've gone through this list thoroughly to add the 2015 inductees, correcting mis-spelling on names, adding dates of inductees who have died since being added. I reconfigured each name from using Template:Sort to Template:Sortname, because the latter is actually the more appropriate one for names in a table.

A column for citations has been added, which is a lot nicer and more useful than any tagging. Using Featured Lists as a guideline on how this should be formatted, they seem to like the citation column, and they're a good guideline on any list. I know we need more citations on this, and I know it's a good idea to have citations from more than one source (i.e. the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame). That said, I've noticed lists have achieved Featured status without every entry in a table having a citation. So, I think how many citations are needed on a list, or anywhere else, is moving target. At Wikipedia, you can argue both sides of any issue and find a guideline to back you up.

One thing significant, is that I changed the list of entries in the edit window to alphabetical. The table is sortable, so the reader can have it any way they want. But trying to edit a particular name or names in the edit window, when the list has been built by adding the annual group of names at the bottom (or top), is almost impossible. It's just visually one big glut of names in no order. What I did, was to spend several days working in multiple sandboxes to get some kind of order, just to be able to verify the names against that at the MWHoF home page.

My hat is tipped to all those editors who went before me to keep up this list, most recently who has been working on this list and a few others for years. — Maile (talk) 00:40, 14 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Oh, yeah. One more thing.  This is the kind of thing perhaps only a computer nerd would do.  I went word by word, space by space, to eliminate all those little extra white spaces.  I think AWB will do that, but I haven't figured out how to get AWB to do it.  And in reworking the table the way I did, it also eliminated about half the piping to achieve the same thing.  All that piping and white space adds a lot to the size of an article. Nerds R Us. — Maile  (talk) 00:48, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

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2019 update
What's new:


 * Adding Women in Red project to the above header. WIR exists to turn red links into blue, expanding the coverage of women on Wikipedia.


 * New method when adding nominations is Alpha within Year, rather than just a straight alphabetical listing. In that way, each new group of inductees can just be dropped into the top of the list, rather than the hassle of trying to interweave individual names into the entire list. Viewers can always sort by names or other columns.

Anybody can edit. Anybody can update. Happy editing. — Maile (talk) 23:44, 10 February 2019 (UTC)


 * We currently have 317 names on this list, updated through the 2017 inductees. The 2018 inductees have not yet been announced.  The Michigan Women's Hall of Fame has been averaging 10 inductees per year. — Maile  (talk) 00:53, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

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Page move? Michigan Women's Hall of Fame
The below conversation is copied from WP:WIR.diff

Michigan Women's Hall of Fame, asking for advice here instead of the article talk page. Hardly anybody looks at that talk page. Anyone watching it would be more likely to see something here. This would be IMO a non-controversial move, but I would like feedback before I do it. The Michigan Women's HoF changed its website and its name. Their old Hall of Fame URL seems to have been usurped. Their new website and name is MichiganWomenForward. Does anyone here have advice or objections if I move our article list and its navbox, to the new name? I'd leave redirects to both. — Maile (talk) 17:45, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, When I look at the new website it looks to me like the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame still exists, but the data is kept on the MichiganWomenForward website. My opinion is to keep the wiki article where it is. Especially as there is a template for Michigan Women's Hall of Fame. I am more concerned that all the existing links out to the the old site are now dead :( Keep me posted on any organized effort to update the articles on the inductees. I'll be looking through for any articles I may have written and update along the way. Best, WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 00:29, 28 August 2020 (UTC)


 * OK, thanks. Happy to leave it as is; less work for me. — Maile  (talk) 00:33, 28 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Another good reason not to move it is that many of the U.S. states have hall of fame pages using the same format. See Category:Women's halls of fame and/or Women's Hall of Fame.--Ipigott (talk) 09:36, 28 August 2020 (UTC)


 * For documentation purposes, I'm copying this thread to Talk:Michigan Women's Hall of Fame. — Maile (talk) 13:50, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

I updated the refs for Ardeth Platte and Margaret Kirchner Stevenson to use the new URLs at miwf.org/timeline/firstname-lastname (replacing http://www.michiganwomen.org/Inductee_PDFs%20New/Lastname_Firstname.pdf, all of which are now dead links after michiganwomen.org was taken by a domain squatter). Perhaps someone who is a better wizard with Wikipedia bots can do a broader replacement throughout the table. Gnuish (talk) 22:42, 21 December 2020 (UTC)