Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/To-do List of Australian women artists

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Guidance and artist list for edit-a-thon, Tweed Regional Gallery, Saturday 17 August 2024, 10:00 am – 12:00pm
The National Gallery of Australia, Wikimedia Australia and Tweed Regional Gallery are holding a free edit-a-thon on Saturday 17 August in the Tweed Regional Gallery. Register here or here to take part. The event also has a Dashboard [link] for collecting information on the work done during the edit-a-thon.

The artist list below includes existing articles that need more information added to them or artists or organisations who need to have an article created. Beginners to Wikipedia may want to practise by adding more information to an existing article. For those who are more confident about writing on Wikipedia, you could choose to create a new article. There are detailed instructions in the comments column of the table below.

There are five columns with the headings Artist, WD, Resources, Comments, Username at edit-a-thon.

Artist: The redlinked names show there is no page for that artist or organisation. You can start drafting an article for that artist or organisation in your sandbox. If the name has a bluelink, there is an existing article on Wikipedia, but it might need more information added to it. Only a few of the suggested names might have a connection with or live in the region of Tweed gallery. Artists with known connections to the gallery already have a good quality Wikipedia page, however; some editors may know of other artists from the area they want to write about who are not listed here.

WD: The WD column gives the wikidata item number for the artist. Wikidata is a database providing information and data about a person or a subject. You can click on the number through to wikidata and find more reference sources about the artist. If you are a new editor you don't have to add to the wikidata item, you can just use it as source of information.

Resources: This column provides links to some open access sites where users can find information about the artist to include in her article. If the artist already has an article, you can also refer to the list of references at the bottom of her page. See also lists of online information sources about artists on the Know My Name project page.

Comments: The comments suggest either improvements to be made to existing articles or an article which could be created for an artist. Editors who are new to Wikipedia may want to practise making edits first on the "Add more information" articles. Confident editors may like to start a new article. If you want to write a new article for an artist who is not on the list, please talk to one of the facilitators first to help you assess if the artist is notable enough to have an article according to Wikipedia criteria.


 * If you add information to an existing article, always insert a citation to a reference source after each sentence or exhibition title if it is in a list. See: Citing sources. For examples of citations to references including a reference for each exhibition see: Elizabeth Gower, Polixeni Papapetrou, Marcella Hempel, Rosalie Gascoigne


 * If you start a new article for an artist it is important that you add in enough information in the first paragraphs to show they are notable. See:Notability (people), Notability (people), Manual of Style/Biography. For examples of notability shown in lead paragraphs see: Dorrit Black, Vivienne Binns, Grace Cossington Smith.

Wikipedia policy on Notability/Creative professionals

This guideline applies to authors, editors, journalists, filmmakers, photographers, artists, architects, and other creative professionals. Such a person is notable if:


 * 1) The person is regarded as an important figure or is widely cited by peers or successors; or
 * 2) The person is known for originating a significant new concept, theory, or technique; or
 * 3) The person has created or played a major role in co-creating a significant or well-known work or collective body of work. In addition, such work must have been the primary subject of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews, or of an independent and notable work (for example, a book, film, or television series, but usually not a single episode of a television series); or
 * 4) The person's work (or works) has: (a) become a significant monument, (b) been a substantial part of a significant exhibition, (c) won significant critical attention, or (d) been represented within the permanent collections of several notable galleries or museums.

Username at edit-a-thon: Editors may like to write their username in that column so others know they are making substantial edits to that page.

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General list of Australian women artists (articles to create and improve)
This list is useful for managing focus projects such as Know My Name. The artists on this list may or may not have a Wikipedia article about them. To find a general list of Australian women artists who have Wikipedia articles on the main Wikipedia site, go to List of Australian women artists.

 How to use this list 

Artist: The redlinked names show there is no page for that artist. Users can click on the redlink and go straight to creating a page. Once a page for that artist has been created, the link will become a blue hyperlink to the artist’s Wikipedia page.

WD: The WD column gives the wikidata item number for the artist. Wikidata is a database providing information and data about a person or a subject. Users of this list can click on the number through to wikidata and find more reference sources about the artist. If you are a new editor you don't have to add to the wikidata item, you can just use it as source of information.

Suggested Resources: This column provides links to some open access sites where users can find information about the artist to include in her article. If the artist has a page, you can also refer to the list of references at the bottom of her page. See also lists of online information sources about artists on the Know My Name project page.

Comments: The comments suggest either improvements to be made to existing articles or an article which could be created for an artist. Editors who are new to Wikipedia may want to practise making edits first on the "Add more information" articles. Confident editors may like to start a new article.

Class: Shows the current assessment of the page by other Wikipedia editors. It’s a good idea to work on the pages that are labelled as Stub or Start which means that the article needs more information to be added and other improvements. Pages marked B, C and FA may already be of a fairly high standard.

General list, names highlighted in bold: Some artists and their rows are highlighted in bold. These are artists recommended for editors to expand their pages or create new pages.