User talk:Jesswade88

Moving discussion here
Hi Jess. It seemed sensible to move our conversation over at User_talk:Elenabesley to your talk page. Yes, I like your addition of a note on your user page. That, of course, presupposes that the rather surprised subject of your articles actually know: a) how to find out who it was who created the page about them; b) then how to post a message for you, and also c) that it's a really bad idea to try to edit stuff about themselves.

So, I was trying to suggest that it might not be a bad idea if you were to consider adding a fairly anodyne talk page post on the articles you create. I suspect they might stand more of a chance of seeing something there than wading (no pun intended) through View History to get in touch with you, the page creator. So, assuming you don't make direct contact - academic to academic - how does this sound for an article talk page note?:


 * About this new article
 * This article was created by Jess Wade as part of an effort to increase the representation of my fellow women scientists on Wikipedia. I try to create one article about a notable scientist every day, using good, published sources.
 * If you happen to be the subject of this article and have concerns about its content, please reach out to me on my talk page or by clicking my signature below.
 * It is best if the subject of an article does not try to edit it themselves, especially if they are totally new to editing Wikipedia. This could be seen as a Conflict of Interest (q.v.), but there are lots of other editors willing to assist newcomers to Wikipedia, including myself if I happen to have got anything wrong. Alternatively, we have a friendly help forum for new editors called The Teahouse where you can easily get help and guidance. Signed

You might think I'm making a fuss over nothing, and maybe other subjects don't have the challenges that Elena and I did late last night. But if this does' happen from time to time, perhaps this approach might help everyone a little bit? (I should add that I'm also a Teahouse host, where we do see lots of confused new editors, often trying to write about themselves, though rarely anyone wondering why there was suddenly a Wikipedia article about them, and being totally lost trying to sort things out. Kind regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 23:22, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
 * (dropping in), that sounds like a good suggestion from Nick - I had a brief involvement, before Nick provided a more useful set of advice. I suspect this might be one of the cases where it's not needed 19/20 cases, but will save some problems over time. I actually do see a reasonable number of cases of people (through OTRS) being surprised and confused about being the subject of a Wikipedia article (though time taken to realise has varied wildly), and knowing who to ask about corrections is the single biggest concern. As always, thanks for your articles. Nosebagbear (talk) 23:40, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
 * To clarify, that's not other subjects of your articles Nosebagbear (talk)

DYK for Noni MacDonald
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:01, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Wanjira Mathai
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 23 January 2020 (UTC)

Choice of Nadine Unger images
I found two, and am going with the one in color, but I can see an argument for the other (business suit rather than sundress; isn't posed to center on birthmark), so if you prefer it, I will not object. --GRuban (talk) 17:02, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

Courtesy link
Following on from my suggestion above, this is just a courtesy note to let you know I've written a few words about you at Wikipedia Signpost/2020-01-27/Community view Regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 09:48, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Adminship
Jess, have you ever thought about a run at RfA? After Requests for adminship/Ergo Sum, there seems to be an emerging consensus amongst the community that we should be able to trust experienced and civil content writers with the admin toolset if they want it. In your instance, I would perceive a nomination and potential use of the tools to be similar to Requests for adminship/Megalibrarygirl, and in my view there is enough good will in the community (eg: User talk:Ritchie333/Archive 94) to see this through. For example, you could do something like this restoration as an admin. What do you think? Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  12:49, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
 * I'd probably support such an RfA, but given Jess's chosen area of content work, and some of the deletion discussions that have ensued, I think it's worth keeping in mind that she is likely to be grilled about notability. If she runs in the immediate future, she needs to be prepared for this. Vanamonde (Talk) 16:39, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

February with Women in Red
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Nomination of Kimberly See for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Kimberly See is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Kimberly See until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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DYK for Sheree Atcheson
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DYK for Viviana Gradinaru
— Wug·a·po·des​ 22:14, 4 February 2020 (UTC) 12:02, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia's hierarchy
Hi. I've just been reading the interview with you in New Scientist, and I agree with you when you say: Wikipedia really is a global project, and we’re all working together on this free knowledge. Why then, when some other editor reads a page that they think could do with an extra citation, do they not look for one themselves? I think there are some weird power dynamics going on, with a few individual editors at the top of Wikipedia’s hierarchy who think that they can control what information is valued by the site. I am arguing something similar now at Village pump (policy). Eric Kvaalen (talk) 09:38, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

Verification issues
Please stop posting material to Wikipedia about real people that either doesn't have an inline citation, or cannot be found in the inline citation provided. I have found at least one instance of such in the last three Wikipedia pages you have published, Hickey, Brennecke and Lopez, and others recently too, and I have only been spot checking, these were not comprehensive reviews. Regarding your statements in the media on the matter, while you're entitled to your personal views of what people should be doing with their lives, please note that nobody is expected, much less required, to correct these problems in your editing, and indeed Wikipedia policy expects people who discover them to remove the offending text immediately, for the good of everyone involved, including you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alex Dunbarton (talk • contribs) 16:54, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I guess you're the person whose created a Twitter account similar to your new Wikipedia account to criticise my contributions? If you find anything incorrect in the pages of Hickey, Brennecke or López, please add the [citation required] tag or correct it yourself. All three pages include more citations than the majority Wikipedia articles. It is - of course - difficult to compare these with your own creations, as you seem to have made this account to write comments on my talk page and comment on Clarice Phelps' biography, but I look forward to seeing your input to the encyclopaedia too. Jesswade88 (talk) 19:46, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I will repeat, when someone is publishing information about real people on Wikipedia that either lacks a source or is not given in the source provided, nobody is expected or required to tag it or fix it. The only course of action policy dictates, is immediate removal. Whether or not other articles are worse than what you're producing, is entirely irrelevant. Please confirm that you understand that what I am telling you comes directly from Wikipedia policy, one of the most serious policies they have, written solely to protect everyone involved from harm, otherwise I think I will have no choice but to ask that you be immediately blocked until you do so. Alex Dunbarton (talk) 22:46, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Conflict of interest
Regarding your recent publication of a Wikipedia biography for the COO of the Wikimedia Foundation, please note that conflict of interest goes beyond whether you have met or even know the person. It is about whether a reasonable person could conclude there is enough of a connection or relationship (positive or negative) between yourself and the Foundation to mean you would be unable to write a natural account of one of their employees' lives (and it is immaterial whether you think you can). Consider the opposite case - imagine if Katherine Maher had written your Wikipedia biography - would third parties be confident that it would include any negative information that might have been published about you? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alex Dunbarton (talk • contribs) 17:02, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what you're trying to say. I've met Maher once, the same day I met Uzzell. I have no 'relationship' with either of them, other than I respect them for doing their jobs. I included all biographical information available for Uzzell. The same is true for every scientist/ engineer I write about. But by all means, if you don't feel there's enough 'negative information' included in any of the bios I write, feel free to add it. I realise you've only just started this account to monitor the pages I write, but you can contribute to Wikipedia in more ways than that. Jesswade88 (talk) 19:40, 9 February 2020 (UTC)


 * I'm trying to remind you what conflict of interest is about. It is not just about having met people, it concerns all forms of non-trivial interaction, such as press releases that praise your contribution to Wikipedia, the website they own and exist to promote. But even on that score it is worth noting you haven't simply met them, you were invited to speak before them, which again speaks to the nature of the relationship. Nobody is expected to correct any problems that your conflict of interest may have caused, and it is immaterial if you think you otherwise did a good job. All that matters is the perception of you being the person to write about a Foundation employee, what that says about the likelihood of the relationship influencing the content in ways no reader could ever hope to know without doing the work to write it themselves. And it has already influenced the content in the worst way possible, since by your own admission this biography might never have been written had you not been invited to speak before the very person it is about. You can be 100% sure you have done nothing wrong, and still have done something wrong. That is what conflict of interest is all about. Alex Dunbarton (talk) 22:24, 9 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately, all of us Wikipedia volunteers can't avoid having some conflict of interest with articles about members of the Wikipedia foundation by definition! So unless Jess Wade is secretly Maher's sister in law, or otherwise unusually strongly connected, I think it's fine, per Ignore all rules. --GRuban (talk) 19:54, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
 * While I like Ignore all rules, I don't think this has anything to do with it. All of us who write biographies come into contact with people -either online or in person- whom, after we research them further, we decide to create their biography. Sometimes the subject is a living person and sometimes they are long dead. In this particular case, it appears that Jesswade88 met Uzzell in real life, researched her, found enough WP:RS to sort out that Uzzell meets WP:N, and created the article. All in a day's work, and no rules were broken. BTW, I'm not Jesswade88's secret sister in law, nor Uzzell's or Maher's. --Rosiestep (talk) 21:42, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Agree with Rosiestep. WP:IAR, with which (let it be said that) I feel far from comforrtable, has nothing to do with the objection that was raised about a potential conflict of interest. If COI exists, we cannot simply bypass it through invoking WP:IAR. Now, as far as the substance of the COI allegation is concerned, the Wikipedia entry for Janeen Uzzell, as it stands, shows no sign of favoritism. Let it be said that biographies of members of the Foundation are not off limits for Wikipedia editors; otherwise, there would be no articles at all about any of them. -The Gnome (talk) 09:32, 17 February 2020 (UTC)


 * The relationship Wade has with the Foundation goes far beyond what any ordinary Wilipedia editor has likely experienced, and simply having met someone does not create a conflict of interest. Although rather obviously if biographies here are being written because an editor meets someone and is personally impressed by them, you would be concerned about potential bias, but that would still not be because a conflict of interest existed, it would just be poor decision making in general. Alex Dunbarton (talk) 22:36, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Alex Dunbarton was indefinitely blocked by Joe Roe, since apparently every single one of his edits was an attack on Jess Wade. (Which is generally not advised.) --GRuban (talk) 18:06, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

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Italics.
Hi, Jess. We don't use italics for quotations. Wikipedias in other countries might, but the English-language one does not do so. Best wishes. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 22:37, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi BeenAroundAWhile, thanks for letting me know! Jesswade88 (talk) 22:39, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Cristina Alberini
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J. David Jentsch has been nominated for Did You Know

 * Any objection if I flipped the photo in that article? It looks like a selfie taken in a mirror, and the t-shirt text SCIENTIST is clearly reversed. --GRuban (talk) 18:58, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Eh, being bold. If you disagree, say. --GRuban (talk) 21:54, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi GRuban, great to hear from you! I think it would be good to flip. Jesswade88 (talk) 22:07, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Cristina Alberini
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Precious
You are recipient no. 2356 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:06, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Clarice Phelps
— Maile (talk) 00:02, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Making you aware
FYI, I have had to block an editor for harassing and making implicit threats against you. See Talk:Clarice Phelps for the background. Given the nature of what was posted, I thought you should be aware this had occurred. I would have send you this note, which you should feel free to remove, by e-mail but I do not believe you have your e-mail enabled. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 11:20, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Authorlinks
Hi Jess. Just to let you know... I've just updated the link you made in the Bonnie Henry article as follows:
 * last2=McGeer|first2=Allison|authorlink2=Allison McGee

(It looks clearer in Source view.) Doing this adds the link but maintains the original citation information intact. It can be adapted to editorlink1, where the person is listed as an editor, too. Oronsay (talk) 07:00, 7 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi Oronsay, thanks for letting me know! I've just used this for the first time. Jesswade88 (talk) 10:54, 10 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Good job! Just checked the links... perfect. Oronsay (talk) 20:10, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Release photo of Kelly Ramirez-Donders?
We've got a link to 500 Women Scientists in DYK, but no images. I looked around, and saw a photo of one of the founders in your Twitter feed! https://twitter.com/jesswade/status/1100829068956700672/photo/1 It's great, since she's even wearing an appropriate T-Shirt. Would you be so good as to either upload it to Wikimedia Commons or put a "I release this image under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" in the Twitter description and I'll do it?

I'd have sent this request to you by email, but as Newyorkbrad writes above, your email isn't enabled. Which makes the "... send me an e-mail ..." on your user page slightly problematic. --GRuban (talk) 14:48, 22 April 2020 (UTC)


 * D'oh! RE: e-mail, I've corrected that now :-). I've uploaded the picture of Kelly and added to the 500ws page! Jesswade88 (talk) 19:09, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
 * --GRuban (talk) 14:47, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

EarnTheNecklace.com as a source
Hi Jesswade88. I noticed that you recently used EarnTheNecklace.com as a source for biographical information in Paula Reid. While there hasn't been as much discussion as I would like about the source, the general consensus as expressed at WP:RSN is that it does not meet the reliable sourcing criteria for the inclusion of personal information in such articles. I've gone ahead and removed it. If you disagree, let's discuss it. Thanks.--Hipal/Ronz (talk) 16:23, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/J. David Jentsch
Jesswade88, the editor who nominated this article at DYK, Achaea, hasn't edited on Wikipedia since April 4, and that was only a single edit; they haven't been active since March 19. Might you be willing to look at the review and respond to the issues raised there? If we can't get some sort of progress, the nomination may have to be closed. Thank you very much for anything you can do. BlueMoonset (talk) 14:35, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

DYK for J. David Jentsch
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fast.ai article
Hi, I noticed you're the original author of the article Rachel Thomas (academic). I just finished writing a page for fast.ai and it's already up for deletion :( Am I wrong to think that fast.ai by itself could have its own page? Or do you think the tone is just wrong? I didn't mean to make it "promotional" because I'm not in any way involved in fast.ai... Is there any chance you could help me out rewriting the article so it's more suitable? I would be kind of gutted that my first article here would be immediately deleted. Thanks! Paritalo (talk) 17:57, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

Sexism and racism at Wikipedia?
Maybe you were upset in the aftermath of AfD/Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman, but was it really necessary to slander characterize Wikipedia as being "rife with sexism and racism"? Especially since those two or more individuals with newly created accounts that came from whatever underbellies of the internet to start the AfD can hardly be considered as representative of the Wikipedia community. --bender235 (talk) 17:42, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
 * It might not be how the core community sees itself. However with Wikipedia being an inherently open platform in which anyone can participate, anyone can be part of the community. They have at least been blocked. Richard Nevell (talk) 18:42, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
 * In that case, if anything, it would have been called for the point out how Wikipedia's principles and collective decision-making prevailed over attempted hostile takeover by actors driven by whatever -ism you want to ascribe their motives to. Rather than decrying a suspected racist and sexist cabal that holds sway over Wikipedia. --bender235 (talk) 19:22, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
 * It isn't up to you or me to decide how someone reacts to sexism and racism. As for cabals, I think that interpretation of the tweet is a reach, to say the least. Richard Nevell (talk) 20:00, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Well, pardon me, but as someone who has been part of this project for over 15 years I take offense if the Wikipedia community as a whole (not some individuals, but everyone) is described as "rife with sexism and racism". Wikipedia is an open and continuous project, and if there are people, regions, or topics that are not sufficiently covered, everybody is invited to fill that gap. But don't make it sound like you have to fight sexism and other oppression by the incumbents to do so. --bender235 (talk) 20:08, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
 * An invitation to fill the gap is no invitation at all if we do not cultivate a healthy community. That includes confronting discrimination. Richard Nevell (talk) 20:18, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Again, where is this supposed discrimination? In the AfD above that triggered the Twitter rant to which I am responding, the sexism and/or racism came from outside the Wikipedia community. And in the end, for the most part, our established process of discussion and deliberation worked. So why slander the very project and community that ultimately upheld its principles? I found it uncalled for. --bender235 (talk) 20:28, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
 * You are welcome to discuss structural inequalities on my talk page, but let's stop clogging up this page. You have made your opinion quite clear. Richard Nevell (talk) 20:32, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
 * You're very welcome not to follow me on Twitter bender235. Jesswade88 (talk) 13:56, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I actually wasn't to begin with. I was just monitoring Twitter because of the recent increase in WP:VOTESTACKING, and happened to come across your tweet. Normally I wouldn't care about statements like this, but it was disheartening to see such an (at least IMHO) unjustified generalization from someone who I've noticed as a long-time contributor of high-quality articles. --bender235 (talk) 17:52, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

Notability of science communicators
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Rhea Boyd Wiki Page
The intro to the biography ends with an incomplete sentence: "Boyd is a popular science communicator, making use of " You appear to be the original author; can you complete the thought? I wasn't able to find the missing part in the history. Thanks! --Kewalsh (talk) 02:39, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi Kewalsh, done, sorry! What an error. Jesswade88 (talk) 18:34, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

Rohin Francis image and article
So my quixotic quest to illustrate your articles continues. Normally I just look for already free images, but in this case, the subject seemed particularly Internet savvy, with both active YouTube and Flickr accounts, so when I couldn't find an already released image I decided to write him and ask for one. And after a bit of time (seems that he's a bit busy just now as a medical person, have no idea why that would be) he agreed! https://www.medlifecrisis.co.uk/post/check-it-out-i-m-on-wikipedia-and-i-didn-t-even-make-the-page-myself Thought you would be interested, and hopefully pleased. --GRuban (talk) 13:11, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Sarafina Nance: AfD
Dear Jesswade88

I accept that I might be wrong in tagging the article about Sarafina Nance for deletion, but I believe the matter should have been solved with a discussion on the talk page, and not by simple edit with removal and Ad Homimen attacks with false claims. This is not very polite and there is no reason for that. Guilherme Moura Paredes (talk) 20:39, 2 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi Guilherme Moura Paredes, Yes, you were wrong. There are criteria for Academic notability (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(academics)). Nance easily passes the GNG criteria. It's not very polite to tag pages in the way that you did, you could easily have started a section on the Talk page. Jesswade88 (talk) 12:44, 3 July 2020 (UTC)


 * I don't fully see things the same way as you do. It is part of wikipedia's core values to be bold, even if mistakes are made, with no offense being caused or bad manners intendend by such mistakes. It is also asked that experienced editors, such as yourself, be civil and polite to less experienced ones, guiding them as they improve, and that users be cordial to each other, another one of wikipedia's core values, which I am sure you know and cherish. Please take that into consideration and be kinder in the future, as I am sure you would like to have the same courtesy extented to you. Guilherme Moura Paredes (talk) 19:37, 3 July 2020 (UTC)


 * You've been editing longer than me – you're more 'experienced'. It's a bit strange to me that nominating Nance for deletion is almost your only contribution to Wikipedia this year. I'm not sure we're on the same page RE: core values.Jesswade88 (talk) 20:33, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of Sarafina Nance for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Sarafina Nance is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Sarafina Nance until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Take Note List (talk) 17:27, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I am so sorry. What is it with people threatened by articles about women scientists? Don't worry, this one will be a keep. --GRuban (talk) 18:00, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

Query about source for Jennifer Kurinczuk
Hi Jess, I am Hollie, Jennifer Kurinczuk's daughter. Thank you so much for making her a wiki page! (I had been planning on making her one for ages and had never gotten round to doing it, so I was so happy to see it when I looked her up recently!) She and I were wondering what the source of your original private life was i.e. the information about her being married to Paul Burton and having boy girl twins, if you can remember - I appreciate it was a while ago!! Neither of us can think where this information was published online. It is true that she does have boy girl twins, but she and my dad are no longer married (so I have changed the wording on this to reflect that) I am still unable to find an appropriate source online to back this up other than from her daughter Hollie Burton's mouth haha. It's just interesting that it was possible for someone to find out this information without her being aware of it online.

Anyway,

Thanks again! Hollie Ozzieburton (talk) 00:58, 9 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi Ozzieburton! I found the reference to the twins here: https://www.diversityprojects.ox.ac.uk/wis/meet/8, and the husband (so sorry!) here: https://www.mja.com.au/journal/1998/169/11/tvw-telethon-institute-child-health-research. I hope that you are well! Let me know if you come across any other legendary women scientists who need Wiki pages. Jesswade88 (talk) 11:06, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi Jesswage88, Ah! thank you so much for sharing this with me. Absolutely no worries re the marriage issue haha! we both just thought it was funny. Suggestions for future wiki pages: My PhD Supervisor Fiona Alderdice is a really amazing woman scientist and is a professor in the same dept as my mum, she is also the editor in chief of the journal of reproductive and infant psychology. I also think Fiona Challacombe would be a good shout, she is basically the UK queen of maternal Obsessive compulsive disorder (what my research is in, so I may be a little bit biased haha) They are both two very influential women in their fields. Hollie Ozzieburton (talk) 13:51, 9 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi Jess, I haven't checked their notability for Wikipedia, but have found Fiona Alderdice on Wikidata Q43728723, including ORCID ID which gives heaps of pubs. Fiona Challacombe is also on Wikidata Q58458315 with some employment details and, again, ORCID ID with more. Oronsay (talk) 20:41, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Featuring your work on Wikipedia's front page: DYKs
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September Women in Red edithons
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DVIDS and other us government public domain images
I notice you used the image page https://www.dvidshub.net/image/2984578/montford-point-marine-receives-congressional-gold-medal as a source in Ernest J. Harris, but didn't add the actual image itself. You could, you know; it's clearly marked PUBLIC DOMAIN on that page. An image taken by an employee of the US Federal government in the course of their duties is public domain, even if it isn't marked like this one is. I mean - I do generally try to follow up and add images to your articles, and I did in this case, but just in case I don't. Adding an image isn't a requirement or anything, and your work is still very valuable even without them, thank you, but many people do think having an image noticeably improves an article. Sometimes looking for a free licensed image is hard, but in some cases like this it's pretty straight forward. --GRuban (talk) 12:11, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Just noting in case you're unaware, but if you have registered a free DVIDS account, you can batch download entire galleries. (Though it would be nice if we had a DVIDS2Commons script given that it's one of the largest repositories of public domain images on the internet.)  G M G  talk  13:04, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Woo! That is wonderful. Not only did I not know that, I didn't even realize there was a gallery of images for this subject. Come here to impart an item of knowledge ... gain an item of knowledge instead. Cast your bread upon on the waters indeed. Thank you, GMG! --GRuban (talk) 14:53, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks!
Hi Jesswade88! I just wanted to take a moment to say that you're awesome and your work here is incredible. You truly are a wiki-role model!-- Gen. Quon   (Talk)  12:39, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated
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October editathons from Women in Red
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Kathleen Collins (scientist) may combine multiple people
You should follow up on the article talk page and/or Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard. As I've said before, when people become famous they really should change their name to something uncommon, for our convenience. Maybe Kathoblepas. Or The Scientist Formerly Known As Kathleen Collins. --GRuban (talk) 15:08, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Marion Koopmans
Hello jess, thank you for starting the wikipedia article on Marion Koopmans, who has a great impact as virologist, as epidemiologist (she seems not to use this name, but much of her work in the last decades is infectious disease epidemiology) and perhaps even more as a science manager. She was missing, of course. I did some minor edits in the article, and i gave some comments on its talk page (this is work in progress). Could You please have a look on my edits and talk contribs? One more question concerning the article: A sentence in the article says "... the Versatile Emerging infectious disease Observatory (VEO), that will study how changes in environmental and travel will impact the risk of infectious diseases". I am not sure about grammar in English language, but the word "environmental" rised/caught my attention/suspicion. I thought it is an adjective and i expected a noun following it. Perhaps i am wrong about this, i don't know. --Himbeerbläuling (talk) 14:40, 24 October 2020 (UTC)


 * still ongoing. --Himbeerbläuling (talk) 14:34, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

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Your draft article, Draft:Sarah Pett


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December with Women in Red
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Your draft article, Draft:Kimberly Manning


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Two Women in Red (?)
Hi Jesswade88, two women for whom i did not find an Wikipedia article:

(1) (former?) Ambassador Sabine Nölke from Canada. A source Google does not know is A Letter to (the coalition for the) international criminal court, where she is named as cc-receiver. I am not sure whether i understand correctly, but she seems to be in a highly responsible position. As far as i know the elections at the ICC are a current event, and she might be named in newspaper articles. Maybe she is out of Your primary scope of writing interest, but i hope You know the adequate Wikipedia authors.

(2) Yayuan Liu, scientist working on electrochemistry, energy storage and conversion, and on nanomaterials. Her name appears in the references to the Wikipedia article Solid-state electrolyte, reference no. 50 in the october 21st 2020 version. I guess that Your profession is sufficiently near to hers to make You one of the 1%, perhaps 0.1% best-prepared Wikipedians to write her article. Do Your best: She is a (Science) Communication Lab Fellow, which means she has a clear opinion of style and quality in writing. She was a student of Yi Cui (scientist). My native German wikipedia makes a lot ado about ... GS h-indexes. (I think they are neither nothing nor the ultimate truth about a scientist, but they are something in between). Yayuan Liu's is given here.

--Himbeerbläuling (talk) 14:26, 5 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Added Info: Sabine Nölke leads the committee for the election of the prosecutor, which aims to get an unanimous decision. The court's publications indicate that this is really hard work, and we have to wait for the results whether the committee succeeds. --Himbeerbläuling (talk) 13:04, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

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Amy Charkowski image
Hand or no hand?

I know, you're usually too busy to answer such a trivial detail. But I have hope! --GRuban (talk) 15:09, 16 December 2020 (UTC)


 * GRuban hero, as usual! I like the one you have chosen with the hand. Jesswade88 (talk) 19:35, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Allison Briscoe-Smith


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Adi Utarini
Nice work on the article :) I nominated it here Template:Did you know nominations/Adi Utarini so that it might appear in Wikipedia's Main Page for a day if approved. HaEr48 (talk) 21:17, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

A New Year With Women in Red!
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Re-creation of page for Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford that was deleted by Cayabi
Jesswade88,

I see that you specialize in creating pages for minority and women scientists. I had previously created a page for Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford which was live from December 2018- October 2020. It was taken down by cayabi who stated that it was a copyright violation. This was unfortunate because the material that I developed for this page was later used by other sites and not vice versa.

So, now we have a great physician scientist without a page. Would you consider creating this on her behalf as you have more experience than I.

Here is a link to the content that was included in the initial page: https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Fatima_Cody_Stanford Here is some other information: https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/fatima-cody-stanford

A link to her full CV and site is here: https://scholar.harvard.edu/fatimacodystanford/home CV: https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/fatimacodystanford/files/fcs_cv_11.20_revised_0.pdf

Thanks so much for your consideration Sebdubois77 (talk) 05:13, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of Yayuan Liu for deletion
Hello Jesswade, thought I'd notify you about Articles for deletion/Yayuan Liu – Thjarkur (talk) 12:11, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of Joy Lim Arthur for deletion
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Use of Cite Q
Greetings. I wanted to suggest, if you've not considered it already, that you consider using Cite Q as a way to generate your citations. If the referenced work is in Wikidata, you'll easily generate a link to the work, include relevant identifiers like ads bibcode and DOI, but it will also provide a link to authors' wikipedia article when/if they exist. Admittedly, the way the template adds author names isn't perfect - it reflects as published in the reference. Thank you. Trilotat (talk) 13:48, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Example from a recent article you've created generates:


 * Hi Trilotat, that's amazing, thanks! Jesswade88 (talk) 19:49, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Request
Hi, Jesswade88. Wikipedia needs an article about Alia J. Crum. I think she studies the placebo effect. My time is spoken for soon so am making a request. Best wishes, -SusanLesch (talk) 22:15, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Fortunately we already have one at Alia Crum. -SusanLesch (talk) 19:01, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Adi Utarini
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 00:01, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Loeske Kruuk image
I've normally been fairly bold in sticking free licensed images on your articles, from some pretty good ones, even if I do say so myself, to some ... not quite as good ones, let's say ... but I've finally reached one that I'm not sure of. Black and white, grainy, looking down, and at dinner rather than at a chalkboard or laboratory. And yet, not actually insulting, and fairly identifiable - a user looking at this picture could probably tell her among a dozen fellow scientists she happened to be sharing a stage with. What do you think, worth adding, or not? --GRuban (talk) 05:04, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Hello! I love you sticking pictures on my articles. :). I agree with your critique, that photo is inappropriate.Jesswade88 (talk) 07:42, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

Congratulations
Congratulations! With 15,252 total views (and 1,271 views per hour), your hook on Adi Utarini is one of the most viewed DYK hooks this month. Accordingly, it has been placed in the list at DYKSTATS January. Keep up the great work! Cbl62 (talk) 19:21, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

Thank you
Thanks for the pubic role you’ve taken in promoting women editors and content on Wikipedia. I’m very sorry you’re met with hostility even in spaces that ostensibly share that goal; please know it does not represent all of us. Innisfree987 (talk) 23:45, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of Lisa Jones (scientist) for deletion
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Joseph Johnson III
What was your source for the claim "He was only the second Black physicist to complete their doctoral degree at Yale."? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Barnes VQ (talk • contribs) 20:24, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi Barnes VQ, I found it here: https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/updates/johnson.cfm. Please update if incorrect? Jesswade88 (talk) 21:00, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

I have fixed your mistake. Please be more careful. You should not be casually mixing terms like Black and African-American in contexts where they are not likely to be synonymous. And you should be keeping track of where you get your information from, and you should be including that as a reference at time of publication. As I understand it, Wikipedia has crystal clear rules about this sort of thing, even though, strictly speaking, it has absolutely no liability for your mistakes, sadly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Barnes VQ (talk • contribs) 00:36, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Just to be clear, you didn't fix my mistake. You incorrectly added an inline citation. The prize nomination I linked to above was already referenced several times on the biography. I've moved it to the correct place now. Maybe learn how to edit before insulting how other's edit? Jesswade88 (talk) 06:54, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

In your haste to insult me, you appear to have got even more confused than you were before. I added a plain text mention of the APS obituary, because that's where you said this information comes from, which appears to be correct. Yes, I didn't add a link, because I don't know how to. Thank you for pointing out how much of a dummy I am. But rather than add the link yourself, you just replaced my correct mention of the obituary, with an entirely irrelevant link to the prize page. I don't know why, but your mention if it above as if it were the correct link, when it isn't, suggests you simply didn't take enough care in how you went about supposedly teaching me a lesson in how to edit. I have undone your mistake, using my stupid as a frog dumb old plain text methods. Having the biography half right, as opposed to a hundred percent wrong, is I presume, a good way to edit here, no? If you know how to properly add the link, by all means, don't wait for me to figure out how to do it. I probably won't be able to put my learning to practical use however, because apparently I did something wrong when I came across your mistake and attempted to fix it, and I am going to be blocked for daring to fix your mistaken fix of my pretty good first attempt at editing a Wikipedia page, correcting a mistake. Your mistake. No, don't thank me. Oh, you didn't! Not like I did it for free, is it? Oh yes, that's right, I did. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Barnes VQ (talk • contribs) 10:17, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Marilyn Comrie
As with Johnson, I have been unable to locate the reference for "She moved to the University of Central Lancashire to complete a postgraduate diploma in radio and television." Do you recall where that information might have come from?

While you're searching, please could you also reflect on why it is you might be making this sort of mistake, at this sort of frequency (on a sample of two, you are doing it 100% of the time you hit "publish").

Please check your next article thoroughly before publishing, lest you be three for three. However long it is that you typically spend proof-reading them, I would suggest at the very least, doubling it. At least until you get a handle on the true nature and scale of the problem and have made suitable adjustments (since I cannot believe you would consciously accept having such a high error rate). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Barnes VQ (talk • contribs) 02:41, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Are you going to identify where this information came from, or are you just going to wait me out and hope I get blocked for daring to bother you with all my pesky questions? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Barnes VQ (talk • contribs) 10:20, 25 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Barnes VQ blocked indefinitely for harassment.  Acroterion   (talk)   12:27, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Afd for Lisa Jones
As the original creator of the article, I wanted to direct your attention to Articles for deletion/Lisa Jones (scientist). There is currently a rather large discussion going on about this article and your thoughts would be appreciated. Best regards --hroest

Announcement: LSHTM Women in Health lecture and more
Hi Jesswade88, maybe this is interesting for you, or maybe you know some interested wikipedian. Seems to need accounts on platforms namely Zoom and / or Collaborate. My poor English will not suffice to follow a lecture in realtime. Wikipedia has a poor stub about her: Ayoade Olatunbosun-Alakija. --Himbeerbläuling (talk) 17:17, 4 March 2021 (UTC) --Himbeerbläuling (talk) 17:18, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Lisa Jones (scientist)
Hi How are you? I came across this Afd this afternoon when it was pointed out by an editor's comment, in another Afd, for an academic at Articles for deletion/Jothydev Kesavadev. In the discussion of the Afd, there seems to be a double standard being applied. Such a double standard is anathema to both the letter and spirit of Wikipedia. There is a lot of muddled thinking in the Afd. There are really no rational arguments in keep section. Is affirmative action mean muddying the whole body, diluting everything to serve one group. It has to be fair and laudable. So I'm planning or more accurately thinking of taking it back to Afd at the weekend. If it does get deleted, you will go through a damascene conversion, resulting in better, more solidly notable articles as a result.  scope_creep Talk  16:22, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:00, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Good to see this, Gerda. I'm sitting here having written a whole one article for International Women's Day, and pleased that Dr Wade is still churning them out like clockwork. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  22:49, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

Shelly Peyton
Hi, Jess. You ended the lead paragraph for Shelly Peyton with a partially written sentence. I am not sure where you were going with it. Trilotat (talk) 00:55, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

Pernille Bjørn
I've just come across Award-winning professor writes forgotten women into tech-history on the research undertaken by Pernille Bjørn in Copenhagen. As her views seem so similar to yours, I wondered whether it would be useful for the two of you to collaborate (if you are not already doing so). I also wondered whether it would be useful to write a Wikipedia article about Pernille but am a bit worried about notability. See also the related article about Mette Marie Kowalski: [https://uniavisen.dk/en/wikipedia-is-a-man-and-hes-a-bit-narrow-minded/ According to a new master's thesis the online encyclopedia is not quite as democratic and objective as you might imagine. Women and people of other genders drown in a sea of biographical articles about men.]--Ipigott (talk) 13:02, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Otegha Uwagba
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April editathons from Women in Red
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Your draft article, Draft:Otegha Uwagba


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May 2021 at Women in Red
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Monica Gandhi
Hello, Jesswade88,

I was watching the PBS News Hour and they had this doctor/scientist on to discuss disparities in COVID-19 vaccine distribution and was curious if Wikipedia had an article on her and it does! Thank you for writing it! Liz Read! Talk! 23:23, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

Claudia Sahm
Editor MenciusMoldbug (talk | contribs) keeps trying to add the number of peer-reviewed publications to the header of Claudia Sahm. It reads as if the intent is to denigrate Sahm's expertise, since Sahm has been influential, in part through research that doesn't make it into peer-reviewed publications (such as Fed Notes), and in any case, I think a count of publications ought to go in the research section of the page, not in the page header. I've reverted it twice and I know a third reversion is not permitted. Since you started the page, can you get involved?--EAWH (talk) 15:27, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

New Suggestion
Hi Jess, I suggest as a new for your "People collection" to create a Wikipage for:

Nanthia Suthana. She is Assistant Professor in Neurosurgery here at UCLA and does some amazing work with single unit recordings in humans in virtual realty and the real world. She has published some amazing results over the past couple of months.

Stephanie Ann White. She is Prof at UCLA investigating social learning using songbirds. If you 'investigate' her you find that I do have a conflict here as I am her husband. Still I do think her works is terrific!

Both these women deserve a lot more visibility for their amazing work.

Love what you are doing, do not go away!

23.241.28.252 (talk) 01:07, 8 June 2021 (UTC)Felix Schweizer

Lorraine Whitmarsh lacuna
"Whitmarsh was an undergraduate As a graduate student, Whitmarsh studied psychology" I think you left out something. (And more than just a period. I mean, sure, she was likely an undergraduate before becoming a graduate student, but they kind of all were, right? Surely you meant to say more than that.) --GRuban (talk) 14:48, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of Delores Robinson for deletion
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Nomination of Sophie Pender for deletion
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 * Don't particularly like starting AfDs, but since somebody else disagrees with my BLP concerns, this seems the best option for the moment. <b style="color:#7F007F">Ritchie333</b> <sup style="color:#7F007F">(talk) <sup style="color:#7F007F">(cont)  10:02, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

Why this article in the publications list?
Greetings. The first article in Catherine Freitag Clarke select publications doesn't reflect authorship by the Clarke. The link from the title takes you to an author's manuscript, but DOI provided sends you to the article's final form (but not by Clarke). Not sure if I'm misunderstanding. Trilotat (talk) 06:50, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Please discuss an article at its talk page, namely Talk:Catherine Freitag Clarke. That allows other editors to follow and to find any explanations in the future. If wanted, you can ping an editor from that talk page, see WP:NOTIFY. Johnuniq (talk) 07:06, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Done. Trilotat (talk) 07:15, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Lindy Cameron
 Schwede 66  12:03, 21 July 2021 (UTC)

August Editathons from Women in Red
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Nomination for Dr. Christopher Carr
Like to nominate a page for Dr. Christopher Carr. He is doing a lot of work at our institution around diversity, equity, and inclusion. He is especially involved in STEM. Former Senior Program Director and Chief Academic Officer at the National Society of Black Engineers and Program Manager for Diversity Outreach at the American Society for Engineering Education. He now serves as the Chief Diversity Officer and Associate Dean for Outreach & Inclusive Learning at George Mason University's College of Engineering & Computing.

He is a recipient of the 2020 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity Rising Star in Diversity Award. He was just elevated the Chair of the Minorities in Engineering Division of the American Society for Engineering Education.

He has lead faculty diversity efforts in STEM through the Academic & Research Leadership Network, he was an active participant in the Computer Science for All Initiative with the Obama White House and the Office of Science & Technology Policy. He has facilitated workshops with NSBE, ASEE, Tennessee College of Applied Technology Crump, the Tennessee Association of Student Success & Retention, the National Conference for Community & Justice, Harmony KC, and William Morris Endeavors.

Links: https://www2.gmu.edu/news/2021-08/mason-lighting-way-christopher-carr https://volgenau.gmu.edu/news/2021-02/mason-engineerings-christopher-carr-receives-rising-star-diversity-award https://diverseeducation.com/article/154068/ https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2020/11/06/director-year-chris-carr-sweetgreen-rei-hilton.html https://www2.gmu.edu/news/2021-04/mason-launches-ttip-thematic-initiative-grow-multidisciplinary-teams-diverse-faculty https://www2.gmu.edu/profiles/ccarr21 https://patch.com/virginia/lorton/george-mason-university-mason-lighting-way-christopher-carr


 * Hello, I agree, he looks fantastic. I'm worried about him fulfilling notability criteria, and just citing pages from his own institution won't fly. I will wait until his PhD dissertation is published and keep him on my 'to-make' list. Jesswade88 (talk) 19:11, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Wikimania
Thanks Jess, for agreeing to be on the Women in Red Panel on the 15th at Wikimania. Can you check your emails for latest info? Roger aka Victuallers (talk) 11:43, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Wikimania practical thank-you by translation
Hi Jess,

I enjoyed your talk today at the end of Wikimania, and was inspired to translate Gladys West to af:Gladys West. Keep up the great work! --Slashme (talk) 22:35, 17 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Great presentation, Jess! Really motivating. Those who missed it can view it on YouTube: Science and storytelling: Why who we talk about matters. Also good to hear you've now created 1,416 biographies - all quite substantial - in the relatively short time you've been with us.--Ipigott (talk) 09:12, 18 August 2021 (UTC)


 * This was indeed a very inspiring talk! Thank you very much for that. And I'm really impressed about the number and the quality of your contributions to Wikipedia. --Dick Bos (talk) 09:25, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021
Hello ,

Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.

Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our  Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but  there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.

At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.

There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software. Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described here. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. Sent to 827 users. 04:31, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of Michael Johnson (scientist) for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Michael Johnson (scientist) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Michael Johnson (scientist) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.  DGG ( talk ) 09:58, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of Joana D'Arc Félix de Souza for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Joana D'Arc Félix de Souza is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Joana D'Arc Félix de Souza until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.  DGG ( talk ) 20:21, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

Suggestion for Asian/American/European female designers inclusion.
Suggested names: Lily Song, Punya Raja , Sophia Chang , Sarah Abbasi. Teresasunshine2345 (talk) 08:23, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Susan Bernal
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:52, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Eva Olsson (scientist)
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

bio article help?
Hi there, I am an editor not often involved with biographies, besides historic architects related to places listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Somehow I got started on an article about Florian Krammer (currently a redlink), a colleague of Viviana Simon whom you wrote a nice article about. I guess because I must have seen him in the news, about Covid vaccine work before a vaccine was available, and I thought it was important or useful for Wikipedia to be providing public info on Covid-related sources in the news. Could you possibly please take a look at Draft:Florian Krammer, and see if you could clean it up to be a stub, at least, in mainspace? It looks to me like he is Wikipedia-notable, but I don't know much about bio article standards for scientists. An article about him would link to Viviana Simon and possibly others in your stated interest area, but mainly I am just asking you to consider helping to get something more out relating to Covid and flu vaccinations which are or should be of great interest to everyone. --Doncram (talk) 09:34, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Sherita Hill Golden
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:03, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

Mary Lister McCammon
Good evening,

I found the article on my aunt (I'm John Lister, my father was her brother) entirely by accident. May I ask what prompted you to create this entry? If you're not comfortable sharing information publicly, please e-mail me at jhlister@gmail.com. Thank you

Jhlister (talk) 02:16, 6 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Don't wish to speak for Jess, but this presentation should give you a very good understanding of why she wants to write about the topics she does, and hopefully you'll be able to see her enthusiasm and dedication coming through. <b style="color:#7F007F">Ritchie333</b> <sup style="color:#7F007F">(talk) <sup style="color:#7F007F">(cont)  10:44, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Liza Comita page
Hi Jesswade88! I admire your work and on Wikipedia and hope you're doing well! I was editing one of the pages you created, Liza Comita, and I believe the last sentence in the lead was left unfinished mid-sentence. I just wanted to let you know in case you wanted to add to it. Best, Coolcactus04 (talk) 17:17, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

Can't hurt to ask you to ask
Hello! Awhile back I started Isabel Thomas. Now, according to the article Whizz Pop Bang, you have a sort of connection, perhaps you've even met or communicated at some point.

If so, could you ask her if she's willing to upload (or have the photographer upload) a WP-usable picture of herself (previously unpublished etc etc) on Commons? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:51, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

January 2022 with Women in Red
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:02, 28 December 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Suggestion
Sneha Revanur - AI ethics, Encode Justice (encodejustice.org) Cnn, etc "LOS ANGELES (Thomson Reuters Foundation) -Sneha Revanur, a 16-year-old student from California, is on a mission to do for digital rights what Greta Thunberg’s movement has done for the climate fight - put young activists on the front lines." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.42.192.43 (talk) 20:27, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

February with Women in Red
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 15:10, 31 January 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Thank you & a suggestion
Hi, just wanted to say a big thank you for your project and vision in representing women from ethnic and other minorities (including LGBTQ+) communities. Its incredibly important to have this representation. I have a suggestion for a page for a scientist: https://www.wrh.ox.ac.uk/team/michelle-fernandes — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gozazara22 (talk • contribs) 10:37, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Jamie Paik


A tag has been placed on Jamie Paik requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person, a group of people, an individual animal, an organization (band, club, company, etc.), web content, or an organized event that does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the.

I salute your efforts at expanding Wikipedia content. But this one fails to meet notability requirements of Wikipedia. So I have marked it for speedy deletion. -Mad Maths (talk) 14:53, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

March editathons
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:37, 27 February 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging

STATUS list
Hello Jess. I have edited one of your recent articles on people named in the 2022 STATUS list. You have stated that those individuals are "definitive". That adjective is claimed by STAT to apply to the list itself: The most definitive accounting of leaders and influencers in the life sciences, and does not assert that those persons are themselves "definitive". It is more accurate to describe them as "leaders" and "influencers".

Kablammo (talk) 13:05, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi Kablammo! Thanks so much. I didn't know how to describe the list. Jesswade88 (talk) 16:32, 28 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the note Jess. I don't think we can describe the list itself as "definitive" as we don't have an independent reliable source that says that. It is a fact that STAT has called these women leaders or influencers. Regards, Kablammo (talk) 18:16, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

April Editathons from Women in Red
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 22:45, 22 March 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging

May Women in Red events
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:53, 30 April 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging

DYK
I nominated an article that you wrote for DYK at Template:Did you know nominations/Tlaleng Mofokeng. SL93 (talk) 23:26, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

edit-a-thon
Hi Jess! I see you like to make bio pages for women and minority researchers. We are working on creating an edit-a-thon to create bio pages for presenters at our conference (https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Journal_of_Clinical_Child_and_Adolescent_Psychology_Future_Directions_Forum_(JCCAP_FDF)#Further_information), many of whom are women and minorities. We actually came across you from Dr. Uddin's page, as she is a reoccurring presenter at our conference. We would love to connect with you about this! If you are interested please feel free to email me at ncharamut@hgaps.org. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ncharamut (talk • contribs) 23:34, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Prineha Narang


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DYK nomination of Tlaleng Mofokeng
Hello! Your submission of Tlaleng Mofokeng at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Bruxton (talk) 04:00, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Tlaleng Mofokeng
—Kusma (talk) 00:03, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022
Hello ,

At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.

Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.

In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently Special:ListUsers/patroller New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.

This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.

If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing on their talk page.

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Wondwossen Abebe Gebreyes
Thank you so much for creating my wikipedia page. Much appreciated. Let me know if ok and happy to send you my biography, pertinent references and profile photo in case if you have time to further update my page. Thank you much, WAG — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wondwossen Abebe Gebreyes (talk • contribs) 21:33, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

June events from Women in Red
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Dr. Kathleen Lavoie
Hi Jesswade88,

I didn't really know who to contact about this and I kept seeing your name starting pages for women scientists. First of all, your cause is amazing, thank you for doing what you do. I noticed you created the page for Diana Northup, a cave-focused microbiologist of note from UNM. I was on this page because my mother-in-law, Dr. Kathleen Lavoie, passed away recently, and I was searching for some information for a display my wife and I are going to make for her memorial service (a map with pins for every location she traveled for her research).

Long story short, I'd love to see Kathleen have a wikipedia page like Diana's, who was a close colleague of Kathy's and of (in my probably poor estimation) similar accomplishment. I am not an experienced editor, so I was hoping to enlist you! I have direct access to Kathy's family, laptop, CV, etc. and would love to help in this endeavor. It's possible it is grief speaking, but it feels like her impact should be recorded far more than it is. If not, then why the hell did I spend a week in a cave counting crickets with her? :-)

Please let me know if you're interested, preferably by email as I can't say I check my wikipedia account too often. If providing my email is against the rules, sorry! Feel free to delete.

Thank you,

Steven GreaterSteven (talk) 15:17, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Samantha Yammine


The article Samantha Yammine has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "This article has had a notability tag for 16 months, and no improvements have been made. Article presents as a resume, and while it does have a large amount of sources, the vast majority were written by the subject of the article."

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Concern regarding Draft:Kathryn Brown (scientist)
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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 12:05, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Sonya Legg
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:02, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

Your recent interview
Hi there, Jess. I enjoyed reading Jess Wade on Wikipedia and work-life balance. As a former EU official who worked for many years with universities on international research projects, I especially appreciated your views on the high fees EU scientists now have to pay to attend UK universities. As for Wikipedia, even if Wade-opedia doesn't get off the ground, I was wondering if it would not be useful for you to create a user page on something like "Deserving scientists not meeting Wikipedia requirements". Simply listing them with a short summary of their achievements may offer opportunities for wider attention by the press. That, in turn, could contribute to their general notability. In any case, it would be interesting to know which budding scientists you have in mind. Such a list might also help to overcome some of our unreasonable acceptance procedures.--Ipigott (talk) 10:52, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022
Hello ,

At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000 at the end of May.
 * Backlog status

Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.

In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).

While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).

A backlog reduction drive, coordinated by buidhe and Zippybonzo, will be held from July 1 to July 31. Sign up here. Barnstars will be awarded.
 * Backlog drive

Many new articles on schools are being created by new users in developing and/or non-English-speaking countries. The authors are probably not even aware of Wikipedia's projects and policy pages. WP:WPSCH/AG has some excellent advice and resources specifically written for these users. Reviewers could consider providing such first-time article creators with a link to it while also mentioning that not all schools pass the GNG and that elementary schools are almost certainly not notable.
 * TIP – New school articles

There is a new template available,, to show the current backlog. You can place it on your user or talk page as a reminder:
 * Misc

There has been significant discussion at WP:VPP recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.


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Women in Red in July 2022
--Lajmmoore (talk) 15:47, 27 June 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging

NPP July 2022 backlog drive is on!
(t &#183; c)  buidhe  20:25, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

biography for Menno de Winther from Amsterdam!
Writing a biography for Menno would be cool 194.171.29.12 (talk) 10:55, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

I might write such an article when I have some free time but would you mind sharing some sources about her? As a starting point for me? &mdash; Python Drink (talk) 16:40, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Women in Red August 2022
--Lajmmoore (talk) 10:59, 29 July 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging

New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022
Hello ,

After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators and, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to who led with 880 points. See this page for further details.
 * Backlog status

Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the other 600 reviewers to do more! Please try to do at least one a day.


 * Coordination: and  have taken on some of the coordination tasks. Please let them know if you are interested in helping out.  will be handling recognition, and will be retroactively awarding the annual barnstars that have not been issued for a few years.


 * Open letter to the WMF: The Page Curation software needs urgent attention. There are dozens of bug fixes and enhancements that are stalled (listed at Suggested improvements). We have written a letter to be sent to the WMF and we encourage as many patrollers as possible to sign it here. We are also in negotiation with the Board of Trustees to press for assistance. Better software will make the active reviewers we have more productive.


 * TIP - Reviewing by subject: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages by their most familiar subjects can do so from the regularly updated sorted topic list.


 * New reviewers: The NPP School is being underused. The learning curve for NPP is quite steep, but a detailed and easy-to-read tutorial exists, and the Curation Tool's many features are fully described and illustrated on the updated page here.


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NPP message
Hi ,

For those who may have missed it in our last newsletter, here's a quick reminder to see the letter we have drafted, and if you support it, do please go ahead and sign it. If you already signed, thanks. Also, if you haven't noticed, the backlog has been trending up lately; all reviews are greatly appreciated.
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Women in Red in September 2022
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October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive
(t &#183; c)  buidhe  21:16, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

Women in Red October 2022
--Lajmmoore (talk) 14:59, 29 September 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging

I found your Wikipedia page from this Nas Daily video
Here’s the link. The video from Nas Daily. This section is from Bas. Bassie f (talk) 23:27, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

Help with finding non (visibly) white British scientist
Hi Jesse, I’m work in a UK national organisation where they have recently made an award list named after deceased scientists who are British and linked to metrology. The list have a very good gender balance but with zero non (visibly) white British scientists. I raised the issue but was told that they didn’t find any and ask me to recommend some if I know. To be honest, I am not from the UK, and as many, I know more US scientists than even africans. I would really appreciate if you can help. Abdo2905 (talk) 04:53, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

Hannah Ritchie
... had been on my watchlist for a while as an article I'd hoped someone would create. Thanks for doing it! Clayoquot (talk &#124; contribs) 21:54, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm late to this party, but yes thank you! I'd noticed the need for a page about Hannah Ritchie in investigating gendered link bias on WP vital articles. (I'm currently adding links to your page about her... ~200 remaining to add!) Dsp13 (talk) 09:55, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

Hello
Hello, Jess. I was reading the post on today.com about your noble efforts. Please contact me if you are researching and writing about any women scientists who are into geophysical sciences. RPSkokie (talk) 12:59, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
Legend.

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Please help
Can you help fix the on-uppmmanship on Wikipedia? Every article concerning people and their relations seems to have a "but someone did it better" tilt. It's if the articles are written like:

"Agatha Christie was a world famous detective novelist, awarded many international prizes and acclaimed by critics and academics; but to a lesser degree than Arthur Conan Doyle. Her many Hercule Poriot novels were well received by critics and the public; though Arthur Conan Doyle's works were better received and more highly regarded."

This makes Wikipedia unworkable as including modern reliable sources into an existing article is met with a wave of sealioning and dismissing any new reliable scientific journal papers as not scientific consensus. That's not progressive and drives Wikipedia contributors away.

Given that method, the Feathered_dinosaur page would not make it into Wikipedia until decades after the scientific research is published.

I edit a page, add reliable sourced materials, scientific citations and direct quotes in the talk page for those changes. Spend an hour doing it to improve the article, and a knee jerk edit revert with no explanation or with not "scientific consensus" reason. Provide multiple rounds of supporting scientific resources and then a "closed not productive" by a Wikipedia user to dismiss the information from the Wikipedia page. Into that conversation will be brought multiple persons favoring the existing topic's tilt, claiming Wikipedia consensus like a 4 chan raid.

NPOV fading rapidly from many Wikipedia subject areas. All of the scientific resources may be reliable for a topic, just the ones that do not agree with the tilt of the Wikipedia topic are excluded. All RS, so all good, right? Excluding RS that don't follow the Wikipedia top is not NPOV.

That leaves persons genuinely wanting to contribute facing a titled topic a short visit and eventual stoppage from contributing to Wikipedia.

It takes 5 or fewer Wikipedians to block just about any change to an article that does not fit the current tilt of the article. 2600:1700:D591:5F10:A0AF:9519:3F35:5893 (talk) 22:17, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

The real problem...
The real problem with WP's "notability" constraints isn't with a person being un-noticed, but rather that WP puts a handful of people in charge to decide if a person is notable at all. This must change, and it would also make your job somewhat "easier" because you wouldn't have to fight for an article to remain. A true democratization of WP is needed. Plain and simple. 2604:2D80:7C84:EE00:E5:81B2:67FB:9933 (talk) 22:45, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

Page creation barnstar
I believe you richly earned a barnstar. Would you be interested in an wp:RfA? 142.157.228.3 (talk) 23:34, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022
Hello , Much has happened since the last newsletter over two months ago. The open letter finished with 444 signatures. The letter was sent to several dozen people at the WMF, and we have heard that it is being discussed but there has been no official reply. A related article appears in the current issue of The Signpost. If you haven't seen it, you should, including the readers' comment section.

Awards: Barnstars were given for the past several years (thanks to ), and we are now all caught up. The 2021 cup went to for leading with 26,525 article reviews during 2021. To encourage moderate activity, a new "Iron" level barnstar is awarded annually for reviewing 360 articles ("one-a-day"), and 100 reviews earns the "Standard" NPP barnstar. About 90 reviewers received barnstars for each of the years 2018 to 2021 (including the new awards that were given retroactively). All awards issued for every year are listed on the Awards page. Check out the new Hall of Fame also. Software news: and  have connected with WMF developers who can review and approve patches, so they have been able to fix some bugs, and make other improvements to the Page Curation software. You can see everything that has been fixed recently here. The reviewer report has also been improved. Suggestions:
 * There is much enthusiasm over the low backlog, but remember that the "quality and depth of patrolling are more important than speed".
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Backlog: Saving the best for last: From a July low of 8,500, the backlog climbed back to 11,000 in August and then reversed in September dropping to below 6,000 and continued falling with the October backlog drive to under 1,000, a level not seen in over four years. Keep in mind that there are 2,000 new articles every week, so the number of reviews is far higher than the backlog reduction. To keep the backlog under a thousand, we have to keep reviewing at about half the recent rate!


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Congrats on this Post article: — RCraig09 (talk) 17:05, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

Ha, this morning you were celebrated on NPR, and now, late in the evening, on Stephanie Ruhle's show on MSNBC. Awesome! Congratulations! Drmies (talk) 03:55, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

I saw your story on Stephanie Ruhle's show, too. I wrote to say congratulations and keep up the good work. PrinceArchelaus (talk) 04:24, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

Your Counsel on my 1st Wiki Article
Good morning, Jess - 

I just learned of you through a feature on MSNBC's "11th Hour" and felt like my first attempted Wiki article would fall within your area of expertise. As it turns out, I have attempted to write my first Wikipedia article on a woman academician, author, and expert on bleeding edge artificial intelligence research (click here for the draft article). I started following the career of Dr. Malinowska years ago and have felt that she would be ideal to feature with a Wikipedia article. Given how prolific that you’ve been with authoring Wiki articles, can you provide any recommendations on getting my article published? Thank you in advance for sharing your expert counsel, and I will look forward to your response. Wikibaker (talk) 05:24, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Wikibaker, what the draft needs is secondary sources. Newspaper/magazine articles, book reviews, scholarly book reviews, etc. Good luck, Drmies (talk) 14:20, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
 * @Drmies Great feedback - I will follow through accordingly, and many thanks for sharing your expertise. Wikibaker (talk) 05:17, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Sure thing, . I'll put the link in here more explicitly, Draft:Ania Malinowska, so that perhaps other users can assist. Best thing to do, and this is what I do for academics, is hit JSTOR and look for reviews of their publications. I think that's how I got this edit. Take care, Drmies (talk) 14:44, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Upadate: I could not find reviews in JSTOR for any of her books, sorry, and the last one is too recent for that, but there are other places to look for reviews of academic publications. Drmies (talk) 14:48, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

Kudos
The NBC piece was very nice. Please keep up the good work. Toddst1 (talk) 06:05, 19 October 2022 (UTC)


 * And those in the Washington Post and SheThePeople. I have included all three on Women in Red. Great publicity for this month's focus on Women in STEM. Some amazingly good photos of you too.--Ipigott (talk) 09:21, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
 * You've been in the media a lot recently. I'm starting to wonder if you're planning to run for office or something ;) Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:10, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!
I second this! I read about you in the Washington Post. Thanks, and keep up the good work! PRRfan (talk) 16:31, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

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 * Hello, Jesswade88,
 * Moving this article to Draft space wasn't the best idea. It's been moved back to main space and the PROD tag has been removed. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 01:28, 30 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi Liz,
 * What can I do? Jesswade88 (talk) 20:42, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
 * You can nominate the article for deletion and it may possibly be deleted under the WP:BLPREQUESTDELETE policy. –– FormalDude  (talk)  08:18, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

Tony Mitton
Hello I am having difficulty establishing notablity of a childrens poet See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Tony_Mitton The notablity of some of the awards have been queried. Since you’ve worked on other children's poets any advice you could give would be appreciated. Many thanks dz Dz3 (talk) 17:29, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

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Radio
Hey - listening to you on the radio right now - good job, really inspiring. Must have been an interesting experience. Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether) 10:34, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Yay, thanks Girth Summit ! It was pretty surreal, given the rest of the show. Hope you're keeping safe and well and having a great holiday season. Jesswade88 (talk) 19:30, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I thought you really made the case, both for what you do, and for editing Wikipedia in general. I'm hoping that you'll have made a few good people think 'maybe that's something I could get involved with' - fingers crossed! Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  19:42, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

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Your draft article, Draft:Sabine Maier


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I need help uploading a biography for a scientist who has won several prices and now is working at UCLA
Please advise me how to upload the biography, I have the links about his prizes and work Irenegutie (talk) 03:25, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

Page suggestion - Helen Taylor - theory of cognitive evolution researcher
Hello Jess,

Please consider Dr Helen Taylor for a page?

Disclosure: I know her personally.

She is researching a theory about the evolution of complementary cognition. She proposes that in adapting to enormous environmental upheavals over hundreds of thousands of years, humans evolved to specialise in different but complementary forms of thinking, so groups of people with different thinking styles work together as a collective brain. The theory tells that evolution has resulted in brain architectures such as dyslexic, autistic or synesthesic, which benefit communities with their less common thinking styles.

https://complementarycognition.co.uk/

https://complementarycognition.co.uk/2021/06/complementary-cognition-press-release/

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/developmental-dyslexia-essential-to-human-adaptive-success-study-argues

Jim Rokos (talk) 11:52, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

RNZ interview
Greetings from New Zealand, or kia ora as we say. Awesome interview on Radio New Zealand just now. Very much enjoyed listening to it. I'm currently having my own "project about scientists" on Wikidata, with this spreadsheet tracking progress. It's a list of nearly 150 students who have either completed a BBiomedSc(Hons) or PhD at the University of Otago, their theses, and their academic supervisors. My project ties in with the New Zealand Thesis Project.

The Korean PhD student So-Young Moon (문소영 is her name in Korean, I believe) is proving a steep challenge. This seems to be a reasonably common name, I have no knowledge of Korean, and a neurologist of that name has a rather high profile. Would you know of any speakers of Korean who could possibly give me a hand with this one?  Schwede 66  21:58, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

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Clarice Phelps
Hi! I'm just wondering if you think this article published by CNN exaggerates Phelps' role in the discovery of Element 117? YoPienso (talk) 23:46, 11 February 2023 (UTC)


 * P.S. Please note I'm not suggesting you or Wikipedia is exaggerating her role.
 * You're mentioned in that article: And she was acknowledged by Chapman, a science historian, and British physicist Jess Wade, who has written over a thousand Wikipedia biographies about women and minority scientists, as the first Black woman involved in the discovery of a new element. YoPienso (talk) 05:28, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

Women in Red March 2023
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Can you assist us in writing a Wiki Page?
Hi Jess! I found you on Wiki and was wondering if you would have any interest in helping us create and author page? I attempted to reach you via email, however it is not activated on Wiki. I will also send you a message on Twitter. -Nevada NevadaGray (talk) 18:19, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

Radio
Hey - heard you on the radio again this morning while on my way for a walk in the North York Moors for a walk with the dog. Always a pleasure to hear you bigging up the project, and thanks for everything you do here. Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether) 21:52, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

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Suggestion: Alex Lascarides
Thank you for all your work! I would like to suggest a page for Alex Lascarides, who is Professor of Semantics at the University of Edinburgh. She recently became a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: https://rse.org.uk/fellowship/professor-alex-lascarides/ Freelance Intellectual (talk) 17:25, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

Women in Red May 2023
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And that one is now closed too. Will there be a third next month? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:19, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

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A. Eugene Washington
Hi Jesswade88, I noticed you created Dr. Eugene Washington's Wikipedia biography and wanted your thoughts on my sandbox. I kept everything you had on the biography and added additional content, references, and selected publications. I have a COI with Dr. Washington, so I'd appreciate your input on the suggested additions. Thanks in advance!--Chefmikesf (talk) 15:38, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

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Page Suggestion: Oladis Troconis de Rincón (research scientist) and Brendy Rincón Troconis (assistant professor) in the field of corrosion
Oladis Troconis de Rincón - founder, former Director, and current advisor of Centro de Estudios de Corrosion at the University of Zulia (LUZ) in Venezuela and currently Visiting Scientist at The University of Texas at San Antonio.

Recently, AMPP (The Association for Materials Protection and Performance) named an award after her (Oladis Troconis de Rincón Field Applied Technology Award - https://www.ampp.org/membership/member-resources/awards/oladis-troconis-de-rincn-field-applied-technology-award). https://www.materialsperformance.com/news/2022/09/new-ampp-awards-program-honors-member-achievements

Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9cFhGkMAAAAJ&hl=en AMPP Podcast: https://ampp.podbean.com/e/corrosion-journal-meet-oladis-troconis-de-rincon/ Current Lab Website: https://ceid.utsa.edu/brincontroconis/staff/

- Brendy Rincón Troconis Received AMPP award for Early Career Excellence Award: https://www.ampp.org/membership/member-resources/awards/2023-award-recipients https://klesse.utsa.edu/news/2023/04/12-ampp-rincon-troconis.html

Recipient of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s (NASEM) Early Career Research Fellowship through the Offshore Energy Safety track of their Gulf Research Program. https://klesse.utsa.edu/news/2022/01/brendy-rincon-troconis-recognized-with-early-career-research-fellowship.html

Interview: https://inspenet.com/video-tv/interview-brendy-rincon-ampp2023/

Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JstfCoVn5w0C Current Lab Website: https://ceid.utsa.edu/brincontroconis/staff/ NoeticSoul (talk) 00:10, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

Pages to be Reviewed
Hey Jess, I have a couple of pages to be reviewed. Wondering if you would mind taking a look. The first is Leon Zwier. Thank you. Whitemancanjump23 (talk) 09:05, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

Could you take a look?
We have an article on Helen Rees – quite rightly, as this old Lancet profile shows for starters. Sadly, while doing a little clean-up and welcoming an editor, I've found it was created and recently expanded by someone who works for her, and it shows. Fearing I'd overdo it if I tried to tone it down, I remembered reading that someone has a very well-honed sense of what to do and why. Would you like to take a look? NebY (talk) 17:37, 13 September 2023 (UTC)

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Your contributions
I’ve just been looking at your work (following your Guardian interview) and wanted to say thank you for impressive contributions. Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 06:12, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

Jess Wade article image
When you get a moment, could you drop by Talk:Jess_Wade and say which of two (or even three) images you like better for your article? Thanks much. --GRuban (talk) 20:47, 6 October 2023 (UTC)


 * ? In fact, there is a related conversation at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Jess_Wade_-_2017.jpg where the current open mouth purple star image is up for deletion, because people don't believe the Wikimedia Foundation that you released it under CC-BY-SA, or that you had the right to release it, or both. Prithee, good Dr, could you please, please, pretty please, with sugar on top, weigh in there? --GRuban (talk) 20:11, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

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Thanks for your brilliant work
Admired by our french newspaper https://www.liberation.fr/lifestyle/hightech/pour-visibiliser-les-femmes-scientifiques-jess-wade-ecrit-leur-histoire-sur-wikipedia-20231102_XD37OQCUN5GLDPS55R3AGQ6B54/ even harder in french-speaking environnements where contributors are scarce.. and in medical field we are too few.. Started a french speaking research sharing, tool sharing project https://www.wikonsult.org/index.php?title=Accueil with little success as to now, but it helped to update and ugrade a fex tools for fr.wp such as https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod%C3%A8le:Infobox_Maladie and https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod%C3%A8le:ICPC2 thanks for your inspirational work Yves.bertin (talk) 10:18, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

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Came across this new page in RTRC, a quick review seems to pass WP:Academic and WP:GNG. Great to see more notable women on Wikipedia! Props to you! PD Slessor (talk) 07:24, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

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Giant thank you!
You are on a great noble mission to get female scientists more widely recognized! I am so grateful for your efforts! I did a ton of media work during the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure that women infectious disease epidemiologists were visible in the media during the response and seen as trusted voices. https://www.linkedin.com/in/pia-macdonald-phd-mph-cph-3a91a446 148.168.216.180 (talk) 23:35, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

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Elisabeth FitzHugh page - thanks!
Hi, thanks a lot for adding the page for my mother, Elisabeth FitzHugh. I made a few edits to it and will add some more soon. Will fitzhugh (talk) 02:18, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Inside Science
You were very good on Inside Science on BBC Radio 4 on 8 February 2024 - and I say that as a male Wikipedian! Have a good International Day of Women and Girls in Science Day. YTKJ (talk) 18:12, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

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Source for Mary Ross Bell birth/death dates?
I wanted to let you know I've opened a discussion on Mary Ross Bell's Talk page re: her birth/death dates. I've been trying to detangle her from being combined elsewhere with my grandmother, a different Mary Bell, who was a poet vs. a physicist. I believe the matching birth/death dates in this record and on Wikidata are the culprit. Obviously if they're correct then they have citations added and be left as is. I'm focusing my detangling on the actual places where it's happening, but I was surprised that there is no citation and I am suspicious that perhaps they got conflated when you were creating the article. I can't find anything online mentioning her birth or an obituary for her. Do you happen to know where you got those dates? Ruthbrarian (talk) 20:41, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

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Women in Red May 2024
--Lajmmoore (talk 06:17, 28 April 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Not quite a scientist, but...
I would like to nominate lawyer/law professor/pianist/writer/conductor Simona Grossi for consideration for a Wikipedia page. I know you write for women scientists and engineers, so I humbly ask where I could redirect this request (or if I could even write it myself!)

She is one of the most amazing people I know of. Her five titles (maybe there's even more, who knows?) say enough. She started an orchestra and conducts it!

Thanks in advance :) Kreilly2529 (talk) 07:18, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

One more female scientist to add
What about an article about Dr. Catherine Bollard, current president of the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cell Therapy/past president of the International Society for Cell and Gene Therapy? R3000.tmc (talk) 17:02, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

CS1 error on Noreen Goldman
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Women in Red June 2024
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Updating a page
Hi Jess - I think you wrote the Wikipedia page about me.. It needs some updating. Do you have an email address I could use to send you some info? Thanks. Samantha Job 2A00:23C8:C10E:6001:49F2:DF8D:8496:605D (talk) 17:38, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I am not Jesswade88 but I noticed your comment. We do not ask people to display their email addresses at Wikipedia because there are a lot of strange people on the internet. You should be able to simply state what is wanted here. If something confidential is needed, please create an account (see WP:ACCOUNT) and include your email address. When that is done and you are logged on as registered user, you will see "Email this user" in the sidebar on this page. Clicking that allows you to send an email. Questions can be asked at WP:Teahouse. Johnuniq (talk) 01:18, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

CS1 error on Judy Cha
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