User:BessieMaelstrom

Hey there. I'm a writer by trade, in various categories, especially theatre, poetry, games. Also an activist and advocate of best practice in my fields, and as a feminist.

I'm an experienced professional stage and event manager. I have a postgraduate degree in writing for theatre, and have designed and led full HE courses accredited by notable universities. My career, and academic study, have given me a measure of expertise in the abstract notion of collaborative creativity and work made by collective.

I love specificity, and accuracy, and inclusivity, and lists, and understanding, and grammar. I have a tendency to be a Collector, which I try to counter by being a Gatherer. Other stuff to which I feel connected is in my Userboxes. These are all things that will likely influence my contributions to Wikipedia.

Here is my Wikipedia To Do List of places you can or will find me. (Please do edit this to point me at useful references that connect to these things, to help me avoid redoing work that has already been achieved.) I'm sometimes in one of the IRC channels, especially gender-gap.

WP:N

 * WP:N ref 'notable' vs 'noted'. Moved to -->
 * The Village Pump: Clarifying common practice ref inclusion. Led to -->
 * Notability Workshop <-- active
 * (User:GhostInTheMachine - possible Request An Article Wizard?) Discussion now open here. <-- active

WP:SNG

 * For Theatre
 * NB: WP:AUTHOR

Bearing Witness

 * WP:V ref bearing witness
 * Ref Old Man Murray
 * Ref OMM Talk

Copyright ref Titles

 * Ref Talk:Four Past Midnight - Wikipedia's naming policies should be absolute about respecting copyright if authored titles are used as the title of a page - at the very least, for authors whose work is still in copyright governed by a country signed up to the Berne Convention. (Formatting)
 * Discussion here <-- active

Plays

 * Ref Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (books) on whether a play is a book <-- active
 * Book coverage does not specify plays anywhere, but does specify not applying to librettos
 * Music criteria does specify librettists but needs to pay more regard to bookwriters, unless bookwriters and playwrights should be included under books
 * Theatre's inclusion in the main list of topics

Projects

 * Women In Red and Women In Green as well as anything that can contribute to countering the Gender bias on Wikipedia
 * esp ref possible causes
 * Wikipedian in Residence
 * Writing about women
 * WikiProject Countering systemic bias/Gender gap task force
 * The subject of canvassing and how it connects to gender imbalance on Wikipedia and in other Wiki projects
 * Use of the term 'actress' and 'patroness' (ref Madame de Pompadour)
 * Mary Mphonda

New articles

 * Slung Low / Alan Lane
 * Sarah-Jane Rawlings
 * Musical Theatre Network / James Hadley
 * Jenny Harmon-Scott
 * Emma Belle Gibson Sykes
 * Stephanie Dale (A Time to Keep)
 * Page requests

Articles that need some caretaking

 * Poet - needs at least one of the pictures/examples to be of a female poet
 * Lyricist - needs correction ref terms etc
 * Georgia Stitt - just needs to be written better <-- active
 * A Time to Keep
 * Jukebox musical - clarify ref 'catalogue' vs 'jukebox' musicals

Spoken Articles

 * (intention to contribute)

Previous

 * 2020-05 Re-proposed moving page to official title Woman Suffrage Procession <-- page moved
 * 2020-05 Re-proposed capitalising the word 'past' in Four Past Midnight <-- page moved