Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women's History/Archive 11

Disambiguation links on pages tagged by this wikiproject
Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.

A list of the relevant links on pages which fall within the remit of this wikiproject can be found at http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/cgi-bin/topic_points.py?banner=WikiProject_Women%27s_History

Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.&mdash; Rod talk 20:13, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Talk:Josephine Butler
You are invited to comment at Talk:Josephine Butler where there's an issue about naming; the article (which is currently a FA) refers to its female subject by her first name throughout "for simplicity". Any input is welcome.--John (talk) 18:26, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

BBC 100 Women
I've started a discussion on Wikipedia talk:Notability_(people) on whether the women listed on this program are inherently notable. AngusWOOF ( bark  •  sniff ) 18:26, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

New Year's resolution: Write more articles for Women in Red!
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 18:13, 27 December 2017 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Revisiting gendered categories
Wikipedia talk:Categorization -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 23:21, 1 January 2018 (UTC)


 * It is not a !voting proposal or RfC, but a discussion draft, and has already had some constructive feedback (e.g. leading with "ghettoization" of articles was a distraction, as were suggesting statistical differences and reasons for them without providing sources). Seeking input on the overall idea.   — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ &gt;ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ&lt;  02:28, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Gloria Richardson
Can this image be added to the Gloria Richardson article? Bus stop (talk) 00:11, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Merge proposal
It has been proposed that Timeline of feminism be merged into Timeline of second-wave feminism. Seeking your feedback at Talk:Timeline of feminism. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 11:51, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

"Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne", by any other name
I've started a Request for Comment on Talk:Carolina Nairne: How should the article refer to its subject, Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne, after the initial mention of her full name? --GRuban (talk) 18:06, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Sarah Jane Brown move discussion
In case anyone is interested, Talk:Sarah Jane Brown. SarahSV (talk) 20:15, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

International Women's Day Oxford 2018
In case you weren't aware, has created Meetups/UK/International Women's Day Oxford 2018. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 21:15, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

This DYK entry about the life of Chandra Khonnokyoong
If anyone is available to evaluate this DYK entry about the life of Chandra Khonnokyoong, please do. Thank you!-- Farang Rak Tham   (Talk) 10:35, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon in Portland, Oregon: Jewish Women Artists (March 8)
On March 8 (International Women's Day), and as part of the Art+Feminism project, Shoshana Gugenheim and the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education will be hosting a Wikipedia edit-a-thon to create and improve articles about Jewish women artists. Click here for more information. You can also express interest or suggest article to create or improve here. Remote participation is also welcome! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 19:35, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

Emma Portman, Viscountess Portman article
Hi, all. We need people weighing in at Talk:Emma Portman, Viscountess Portman. It's about when Portman dies and therefore the accuracy of the viscountess title. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 19:42, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

Leavitt
Does anyone know how possible or viable it would be to try to install Henrietta Swan Leavitt as an inductee into the National Women's Hall of Fame? Leavitt appears to be one of the more important historical figures in astronomy. Had she not died prematurely of cancer, she may very well have received the Nobel Prize!  Paine Ellsworth   put'r there  01:08, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

Request for assistance
There is a discussion on Talk:Margaret Sanger that failed to attract third-party comments. Your comments are welcome there! Request put down here, as it is listed s in the interest of this WikiProject. The Banner talk 23:51, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Dorothy Hodgkin
Further input would be helpful at Talk:Dorothy_Hodgkin. Jytdog (talk) 13:49, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Featured article candidacy for Cleopatra
I'd like to inform the members of the WikiProject that I have nominated Cleopatra for Featured Article status, after a recently successful Good Article candidacy. If you are interested in making comments or offering suggestions, please feel free to visit the FA candidacy page. Pericles of Athens Talk 14:37, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Reevaluating a Wiki
Hi,

I'm working on the Emilia Lanier Wiki page for a final project in a college level course. Consequently, I have become a huge fan of Emilia Lanier, and I want to make her Wiki the best it can be. I was wondering how and when I could have this group reevaluate it's rating. It's currently a C-Class, and I would really like to bring it up to an A or B-Class.

Best, CarefulCatBird (talk) 18:37, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Since the article falls in the purview of WikiProject Women writers, you might ping who created that project, but note that she is off-wiki until April 27. SusunW (talk) 14:49, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi and thank you for improving this article. According to ORES, it's now at B class, so I made the upgrade on the talkpage. Hope you continue to work on the Emilia Lanier article and/or other women writers after you complete your course. Also, please feel free to ping me anytime with questions. I'd be happy to collaborate with you. Happy editing! (hi ; greetings from Belgrade, Serbia!) --Rosiestep (talk) 17:07, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Hey hope you are enjoying your time and eating lots of cevapi—OMG I love that stuff. Thanks for helping with the article ;) SusunW (talk) 17:12, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi and ! Thanks so much for all of your help! I'm having fun working on the Lanier project, but I've also decided I need to work on the "Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum" article. "Salve Dues" was Lanier's only published work, and the article was basically a table of contents when I began editing. I was wondering, when you  regraded the Lanier article, did you regrade it for all of the WikiProjects it was under? I'm asking on behalf of my professor. I also wanted to know so I could decide who to contact to reevaluate the "Salve Deus" article. Thanks again! CarefulCatBird (talk) 22:12, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi . Regarding the Emilia Lanier article, I upgraded the class to B for all the WikiProjects with this edit using the ORES tool for evaluation. I just took a look at the Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum article, and as ORES predicts the "Permanent link" of the current version is now at "C" level, I upgraded that article with this edit. So happy you are working on these! --Rosiestep (talk) 02:36, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Women in Red June Editathons
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:15, 29 May 2018 (UTC) via MassMessaging

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
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Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  11:02, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Women in Green – call for participants
Hello all – I'd like to invite you to join Women in Green, WikiProject Women's article improvement department. The department has not been an active project in the past, but we are now working on kickstarting new collaborative work between editors to improve existing articles about women and women's works. If this sounds like something you're interested in, please add your name to Women in Green's list of active participants! You can check out more details of our discussions so far on the Women in Green talk page, plus our collaboration proposal here. Alanna the Brave (talk) 23:49, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

Bimbo
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Talk:Bimbo. A permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 16:41, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

Wiki Women in Red - a proposed User Group
Having worked for 2 years editing articles for Women In Red, a group of organizers have concluded that sourcing is one of the biggest hurdles in creating articles on women and non-binary genders. Though it is true that a lot of sourcing simply doesn’t exist, it is also true that there are sources, but we have no access to them. As these groups did not typically become subjects for academic study until the 1970s, many of the sources are not on line or are behind paywalls. Failure to include women and non-binary people in the encyclopedia presents a one-dimensional view of society and history. To address those issues, we are forming a new User Group aimed at referencing and support for like-minded groups and would appreciate your input or input from your supporters in our organizational process. See link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Women_in_Red MauraWen (talk) 09:14, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

Requesting article re-assessment: Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers
Hi folks -- The entry for Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers is listed as a high-importance, stub-quality article. Others and I have put some effort into improving the article in the last few months, and I hope it now passes muster for a higher rating on the quality scale. Could I request that someone less biased than I have a look at the article to re-assess its quality? Thanks! Kenirwin/ (talk) 13:37, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

Women in World War II
The original text was mostly about active participation of Women in WWII. I believe that women as vicitms and spies should be also described. I have partilaly rewritten the section about Poland. Many sections aren't started yet.Xx236 (talk) 10:18, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

New Page: Muslim Women in Sport
I am planning to create a new page that will discuss Muslim women's sports participation, as well as barriers they face. Does anyone have any suggestions about what subjects and topics to include? Rjpg12 (talk) 14:28, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

FAR
I have nominated Elaine Paige for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 02:05, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Paleolithic Goddess
http://profblanchardclass.blogspot.com/2011/02/prehistoric-art.html

So, I'm trying to decipher just exactly how much damage Llewellyn Press has done to Modern Wicca by constantly infusing new age nonsense in to it. I'm looking for a page referencing the Paleolithic 'Venus' and her probable relationship to the original Goddess worship which predates Baal worship as the world's oldest organized religion.. and how this original Goddess relates to Lilith, Gaia and other archetypal goddesses in the various pantheons.

I've got nothing. Zero, zip, zilch. I found two disambiguation pages on 'the Great Goddess' (which ought to be 'the Goddess - capitol G') and 'Goddess Worship'. Oh, and some academic twits decided to disenfranchise Lilith's legends in to their separate Pantheons, so you can no longer reference them all in one place.

Is this information mislabeled somewhere?? It seems like an AWFUL lot of missing data to simply not exist.

Help? Crogonint (talk) 05:57, 22 September 2018 (UTC)


 * As far as I can tell, the closest thing to what you're looking for is Great Goddess hypothesis. It's not as detailed as you'd probably like it to be, though. Alephb (talk) 02:03, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

Get ready for November with Women in Red!
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 18:40, 14 October 2018 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Featured quality source review RFC
Editors in this WikiProject may be interested in the featured quality source review RFC that has been ongoing. It would change the featured article candidate process (FAC) so that source reviews would need to occur prior to any other reviews for FAC. Your comments are appreciated. --IznoRepeat (talk) 21:50, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

Ida Tarbell GAN
Hello all. I've reviewed Ida Tarbell at GAN and found it's pretty close to good but the original nominator appears to be on a wikibreak. Planning to leave it open for another seven days if someone else wants to take a crack. see here. —Ed!(talk) 22:24, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

Gender feminism merge discussion
Input is requested for a discussion at Talk:Gender feminism as to whether the contents of Gender feminism should be merged into other existing articles, and if so, whether the page should become a redirect or disambiguation page. Thank you. –Sangdeboeuf (talk) 02:47, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

Discussion re: lead image at Woman
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Woman. Your input would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Levivich  04:51, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

Ella Grasso
Feb 5 is the 38th anniversary of CT Gov. Ella Grasso's passing. "She was the first woman elected to this office and the first woman to be elected governor of a U.S. state without having been the spouse or widow of a former governor." I am very sad that Ella Grasso is a mere start-class biography considering her long public service and large amount of sources available. Moreover, she was a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient. Jehochman Talk 13:37, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I like working on articles for American women in government, so I've gone ahead and made some basic changes. I would rate the article as a C. I don't know how much more I will do on this one, but if anyone is interested in collaborating on this article, please let me know. Knope7 (talk) 03:58, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I’m generally interested in articles on Connecticut history. I am also working on Planet Nine which is a current WP:FAC. Once that’s done I could focus on Ella Grasso’s biography. Jehochman Talk 06:29, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

Importance
Apparently your assessment needed list does not cover articles with a missing importance. My DIY attempt failed unsurprisingly, but born 1950 and first female bass guitar rock star might be in scope for your project. –84.46.52.217 (talk) 05:37, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Well, no. That is because the category is purely for those pages where class is blank or absent. The equivalent category that shows where importance is blank or absent is, and that is where Talk:Suzi Quatro presently appears, since by  which set importance to a blank. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 21:23, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I missed the critical addition of importance in the edit history and didn't know (or forgot) this Unknown-importance category magic. Hopefully c will be reassessed when the importance is determined. –84.46.53.94 (talk) 08:30, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Please add Woman of the Year (disambiguation) to some watchlist(s), it was in a seriously silly state. –84.46.52.2 (talk) 21:04, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

WP 1.0 Bot Beta
Hello! Your WikiProject has been selected to participate in the WP 1.0 Bot rewrite beta. This means that, starting in the next few days or weeks, your assessment tables will be updated using code in the new bot, codenamed Lucky. You can read more about this change on the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team page. Thanks! audiodude (talk) 05:39, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

Spanish women in the Civil War
Hi. I am trying to work on a series of articles about Spanish women in the Spanish Civil War so I can more easily identify more notable women where articles can be written, and, because unlike some wars (See World War II), women's involvement in this war is almost non-existent. It also seems very important given the upcoming elections, where on both the left and right, the role of women in Spain has become an issue. I am not as familiar with the topic as I would like to be, and I have not really written broad general articles of this sort in quite some time. If anyone can assist in editing articles with me on my user space until the whole series is ready to go, that would be appreciated. (Or is it better to mainspace them even if the whole series is not mainspace ready? Thoughts?) The ones that are feel almost publish ready that could use a second or third look include:
 * Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista (POUM)
 * Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
 * Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT)
 * Federación Anarquista Ibérica (FAI)
 * Nationalist women
 * Women's suffrage
 * Milicianas
 * Feminists
 * Communists

Any assistance appreciated. --LauraHale (talk) 10:10, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

Women's History vs. Women
After figuring out the secrets of on talk pages and a quick sanity check (WFM) I wonder why Grace Jones born 1948 is covered by the Women project, while Suzi Quatro born 1950 is covered by this project. Is that as it should be, e.g., nobody cares as long as it is not less and not more than one of both projects, and the historic person is still alive and kicking? That will replace my answered question, at most one stupid question  makes perfect sense for me. –84.46.53.128 (talk) 10:21, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!
A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
 * – Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

May you join this month's editathons from WiR!
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:16, 27 April 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging

June events with WIR
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:41, 22 May 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Elizabeth L. Gardner up for deletion
Women Airforce Service Pilots. WW II pilot. 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 11:47, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

Notice of discussion about Jemima Wilkinson
Hello, a discussion is taking place at Talk:Jemima Wilkinson. As the article has < 30 watchers, I am notifying this and other wikiprojects which may have an interest. -sche (talk) 22:34, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

July events from Women in Red!
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:39, 25 June 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Defining/relaying the concept of "woman" at the Woman article
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Talk:Woman. A permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 20:48, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

A related RfC has commenced: Talk:Woman. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 03:54, 11 July 2019 (UTC)