Talk:Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship

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I'm just going to say right here that this is why I continually despair of the Wikipedia. The 'notability' policy is one that raises the bar for marginalized groups and issues. The 'verifiability' policy is so broad as to be meaningless. A scholarly society's membership, whether it's a hundred or ten thousand, can only be verified through the society's own records. Since the SMFS holds it annual meeting at a conference notable enough for its own Wikipedia article (the International Congress on Medieval Studies), and sponsors sessions there and at two other specifically medieval conferences with their own Wikipedia articles the International Medieval Congress and Medieval Academy of America, AND is an affiliate of two major scholarly societies, the Modern Language Association and the American Historical Association, AND publishes a peer-reviewed journal whose articles are regularly cited in scholarly works -- not to mention on the Wikipedia, where there are also articles on individual feminist scholars who belong to SMFS and/or have contributed to its journal -- it seems absurd to have to prove it's 'notable'. The evidence exists in the Wikipedia itself, even if the society's basic information does not suffice per se. ex-JHK (talk) 16:03, 13 May 2014 (UTC)