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    Draft:H.W. v. France

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    I've created a draft article on a recent ECHR ruling which has impacts on French law's interpretation of marital rape and divorce. If there is anyone who knows more about this area, I would appreciate if you could give this a look. Thank you in advance! GnocchiFan (talk) 13:11, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    List of your articles that are in Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors, 2025

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    Currently, this project has about ~10 articles in need of some reference cleanup. Basically, some short references created via {{sfn}} and {{harvnb}} and similar templates have missing full citations or have some other problems. This is usually caused by templates misuse or by copy-pasting a short reference from another article without adding the full reference, or because a full reference is not making use of citation templates like {{cite book}} (see Help:CS1) or {{citation}} (see Help:CS2). To easily see which citation is in need of cleanup, you can check these instructions to enable error messages (Svick's script is the simplest to use, but Trappist the monk's script is a bit more refined if you're interested in doing deeper cleanup). See also how to resolve issues.

    These could use some of your attention

    To do
    1. Brighid Nic Gearailt
    2. Fannie Brown Patrick
    3. Katherine Stewart MacPhail
    4. Michelle de Saubonne
    5. National Woman Suffrage Association
    6. Native American fashion
    7. Sudanese nationality law
    8. Women in archaeology
    9. Women's liberation movement
    10. Women's liberation movement in Europe
    11. Diana Trask
    12. Hunter Tylo
    13. Melanie C

    If you could add the full references to those article/fix the problem references, that would be great. Again, the easiest way to deal with those is to install Svick's script per these instructions. If after installing the script, you do not see an error, that means it was either taken care of, or was a false positive, and you don't need to do anything else.

    Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 21:58, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    There are 29 articles listed under the same error category in [1], which is updated weekly and might be a useful page to check if you're looking for things like that to clean up. —David Eppstein (talk) 23:33, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I just picked one at random and fixed Michelle de Saubonne. I didn't use a script; just hovered over the refs to see which ones were missing tooltips. pburka (talk) 00:01, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I fixed Diana Trask using a script. Is there a standard message to give to editors who wrote the articles to let them know that Svick's script is a useful tool if they are using sfns? TSventon (talk) 00:28, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Headbomb do you know what the problem is with Fannie Brown Patrick? It is in the Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors category, but Svick's script doesn't give an error message. I have finished the rest of your list. TSventon (talk) 17:29, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    It was footnote [6], which had an sfnref with quotation marks and a template in it. Probably the error was that the unexpanded template did not match the expanded template in it. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:44, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    You EC'ed with me fixing the very same thing! :P SilverserenC 17:44, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Oops, sorry. It took much more time to figure out (by groveling through the html of the formatted article) than to make the edit. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:45, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Seems David got to it already. There's no standard message, but the one I just gave above I suppose. Or the text in Category:Harv and Sfn template errors. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 19:24, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Terry Ananny draft

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    Hello folks, a new editor @Tryingwithheart (welcome!) got in touch about a draft they'd started for this artis, Terry Ananny which is from one of the redlist (see here) and I'm adding it here so they can benefit from our project's hive mind of experience Lajmmoore (talk) 08:35, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Just noting there is a COI on the user's talk page Lajmmoore (talk) 08:41, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Women in Red February 2025

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    Women in Red | February 2025, Vol 11, Issue 2, Nos. 326, 327, 330, 331


    Online events:

    Announcements from other communities:

    • Wiki Loves Ramadan begins on 25 February - a great opportunity to focus on women from Islamic history

    Tip of the month:

    Suggestion:

    Other ways to participate:

    Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter/X

    --Lajmmoore (talk 08:56, 26 January 2025 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

    Padma Awards 2025

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    The Government of India recently announced the list of Padma Award recipients, and several Indian women have been honored this year. I have added the names of these women, whose Wikipedia articles are yet to be created, to the "WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality". If any editor wishes to create articles about them, they are welcome to do so. Feel free to ping me if you need any assistance. Thank you! Happy Sunday! Baqi:) (talk) 12:31, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Draft:Sophie Victoire Alexandrine de Girardin Vassy

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    Morning folks!! I'm looking for some help. Is anybody up for trying to find some extra sources for this draft. I'm trying the find the book mentioned in Ref 7 re: the Cimetière du Père Lachaise article. I found a longer version which I put in the Ext Links section, which is fairly detailed. I had long search yesterday, about 5 hours in Gallica and couldn't see it. I think I found the magazines but not the full yearbook. It must be there somewhere or some other archive but couldn't find it. I did find a couple of small references in IA which I can put in later. But if somebody could find that ref and expand to a full book cite, it would be ideal. I can then mainspace it. scope_creepTalk 08:46, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    I'm tempted to say that there's no obvious reason why this should not be in mainspace, as the subject is long dead and notability does not seem to be an issue. Articles by newer editors are rarely well served by languishing in draftspace; they are likely to receive more eyes in mainspace. I also don't see why an e-copy of the subject's book, while certainly a nice-to-have, is a prerequisite for acceptance? Am I missing something? Espresso Addict (talk) 12:46, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I know, your right and have been thinking about it everyday since I see as its ideal wee history article, on a well known book. Its proper history. I was trying to get the editor more involved in the copyedit aspect but nothings happened. I hoped they would find that Gallica reference, if its even in there. I'll post it today. I'm at a loss to fix it. I wish somebody would fix it for me. scope_creepTalk 09:52, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Mainspace has a few hundred thousand editors who might be able to help :) Espresso Addict (talk) 18:15, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    I need help

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    Hi! Our article about Virginia Christian repeatedly called her a criminal. Turns out she was a mentally disabled and abused child who got executed one day after her 17th birthday, without a fair trial. She worked as a washerwoman to help support her paralyzed mother. I posted some sources on the talkpage, but there are many more. Can someone please take a look at this article? I suck at writing and have the brain of a dehydrated cucumber. Thanks, Polygnotus (talk) 03:05, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    @Polygnotus: I will add it to my todo list and take a look at it, this week. scope_creepTalk 10:41, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Baby fever

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    This subject isn't a biography, but I was looking at my to-do list for stuff I came across before but decided to procrastinate until later. One of those articles is baby fever. It's currently a two sentence stub. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 18:29, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Marianne Faithfull

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    Marianne Faithfull needs some work to make it to recent deaths on the front page. It is always so tragic when someone like her doesn't make it to the front page due to lack of interest in finding citations. Thriley (talk) 19:40, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Writers - Russia

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    Please take a look at this note. I agree with Antanana's recommendation that this list should only contain d:Q159 (Russia), and that there should be separate lists for d:Q15180 (Soviet Union) and d:Q34266 (Russian Empire). However, after trying to edit the redlist at multiple locations over the last 24 hours, while traveling and back at home, I can't edit it (it times out). Assuming that there's consensus for this, (1) would someone please remove d:Q15180 (Soviet Union) and d:Q34266 (Russian Empire) from the Writers-Russia redlist; and (2) would someone who knows how to create redlists please create these? Thank you.

    Rosiestep (talk) 14:42, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    I'll have a crack at this and report back. Oronsay (talk) 19:45, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    The Russian Empire list is 501 names and will have overlaps with Soviet Union. The Soviet one with 1199 names has many overlaps. There are so many writers who have been alive and working as citizens of more than one of the entities, several being of all three. The list for Russia, again, has many overlaps with women of the Soviet era and has 866 names. At this stage, I have only updated the top-of-page buttons on these three lists, while we consider whether the three lists are enough of an improvement to be worthwhile. I watch this page, but please ping me and I will amend the rest of the top-of-page navigation when there is positive feedback. Oronsay (talk) 23:00, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you, Oronsay; I think the splitting into three redlists resolves the issue addressed by Antanana. Shorter lists is a side benefit. Appreciate your speedy actions. --Rosiestep (talk) 00:28, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Good! I'll go ahead with the button updates. Oronsay (talk) 01:06, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Buttons done on all but Poets 2 because it's too big to be able to save, with over 15K names! I'll need to look at coding and work out how best to proceed. Oronsay (talk) 02:08, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    • Rosiestep. I must say I find these distinctions rather confusing. Why do they only apply to writers? I've corrected Russia Empire to Russian Empire in the Redlist infex for Writers by country. Hope this is not a mistake.--Ipigott (talk) 13:14, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Ipigott, this does not apply only to writers. If other redlists exist with the same issue, let's sort that out and make the corrections. P.S. Yes, "Russian Empire" not "Russia Empire". --Rosiestep (talk) 16:14, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Kristina Romanova - my talk page

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    Please see my talk page: User talk:Maile66#Kristina Romanova I've been asked for assistance, but I don't know how to help on this one. This is beyond my area of experience,so I'm asking if someone here could help this person.— Maile (talk) 18:48, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    CC: User:Astraea2024

    Charlotte Reinagle

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    I picked a name, Charlotte Reinagle, from the C-D redlist and made the mistake of not checking if there was already an entry for them before prepping it as a user draft. There's a redirect on her name going to her father's biog (Philip Reinagle. As she exhibited at the RA in her own right and under her own name, I'm not sure she should be subsumed. There's nothing on the talk page of her father to indicate why she gets subsumed. Before I tinker with a redirect, I wanted to get some second opinions! Does she meet the criteria for her own stub? EEHalli (talk) 19:15, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    With my admin hat on, I think you are nearly there but not quite, EEHalli. You haven't convincingly demonstrated GNG (at best half a paragraph shared with Frances) and there looks to be only one work in a permanent exhibition to count towards WP:ARTIST. On the other hand, generally when there's coverage in ODNB & Grove there is also other coverage to be found elsewhere that they are drawing from, although it can be hard to find. I didn't see a lot more on Google or Gale The Times archive, sadly. Espresso Addict (talk) 00:12, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I don't think the presence of a redirect affects her notability one way or another. Perhaps Victuallers, who created the redirect, could chime in. pburka (talk) 03:49, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    The presence of a redirect does not affect notability, but if there were two Charlotte Reinagles, disambiguation might be needed. EEHalli, you could use WP:RM/T to move the draft to article space if you wanted to add Charlotte Reinagle to the autogenerated list of articles you have written. TSventon (talk) 04:02, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Notability is not effected by the amount of stuff we have on them. There was a claim that everyone in the ODNB was notable which I believe to be true. Pretty much all the women all the in the DNB (in c.2014) and the ODNB (in c. 2022) are included in the en:wiki. (Yes I claim some responsibility for that). Charlotte is notable and this is not affected by the presence of a tennis player with a similar name. A user of en:wiki or ODNB should be able to find her. The ODNB has decided to include them all in the Reinangle family - that is their decision and we could decide to follow their lead. The decision about "her own article" is to do with usability. Would a reader appreciate seeing one article? would they be annoyed that the article is a close clone of her sisters? or would they appreciate seeing discussion of her paintings and style? If I was working on her article then I'd make a judgement and if another editor did the same then I'd try and respect their decision. Oh and well done for working on her biog... she is notable and needs to be included in the en:wiki... but she is a member of an inspiring family. I'd support any reasonable judgment. Victuallers (talk) 09:07, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks @Victuallers. I think I'll see if I can dig more on her rather than the family/sister. I didn't want to do that if there was a good reason not to have a separate page. And, yes, the tennis player muddles the search results! EEHalli (talk) 14:31, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Volunteering

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    Hey everyone, I hope you're all doing well. First of all, I’d like to express my gratitude to my mentor, @ipigott, for welcoming me to the this amazing project—thank you so much for that. Since my semester has just ended, I have some free time and would love to contribute to this project. If there’s any task or service where I can help, please feel free to reach out. I also have skills in graphic design, research, and a strong command of Hindi. Thank you! Baqi:) (talk) 17:56, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    @Jannatulbaqi:: In addition to the priorities on our Events page, you can look for suitable candidates for articles in our Redlist index. See for example Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/India and the section on India in Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality. Hope this helps.--Ipigott (talk) 09:20, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Mary Hoare, Lady Hoare

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    I recently created this page while seeing it in one of this WikiProject's watchlists. It seems to have two duplicate items on Wikidata (the original, unlinked and a newly-created one). If anyone here can help merge the newly-created one onto the original I'd appreciate it? (I have done it before on Wikidata but can't remember the correct process). Thank you in advance! GnocchiFan (talk) 02:56, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    GnocchiFan, done. The easiest way to merge items on Wikidata is the merge gadget, see d:Help:Merge#Gadget. TSventon (talk) 03:18, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you, much appreciated! GnocchiFan (talk) 03:49, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    GnocchiFan, if you know there is a Wikidata item you can link your new article to it when you publish it by editing the Wikipedia section of the Wikidata item, otherwise a bot may create a new item. This isn't vital, as the items can be merged later. TSventon (talk) 10:00, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Lena Larsson (singer)

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    I just created Anna Karolina Larsson. It seems like the main topic for her usual name "Lena Larsson" is an interior designer who seems to be very notable. Deb (talk) 09:41, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    @Deb, you could, if you wish, move the page to the name you used as heading for this topic, rather than it being a redirect. In the meantime, I have added a {{This}} template to the Lena Larsson page to aid discovery of the singer's page. That will need to be amended if you decide to move the page. Oronsay (talk) 17:46, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I know I could have; I just wasn't sure what to do for the best. Furthermore, I have since discovered that there's another Anna Karolina Larsson on the Swedish Wikipedia, who is a writer! Deb (talk) 18:42, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    When newbies ask for help while on their phones

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    Ipigott brings up an interesting observation on my talkpage here regarding providing newbies who are seeking "how to edit" help while on their phones. Do any of you have some links or other info you share that are specifically designed for mobile-device newbies? Thanks. -- Rosiestep (talk) 13:21, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    This might be of interest to Balance person.--Ipigott (talk) 08:50, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Rosiestep (talk) and -Ipigott (talk) Dear Both, I am delighted to know about Newbie Central and will use it myself for sure! But I am afraid I am not adept at mobile phones in any part of my life. And I do all my editing on my PC in Visual Editor. Sorry I can't help. Thanks for all you do. Balance person (talk) 09:05, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Hiya, Cullen328! Do you still edit on your smartphone and if so, any words of wisdom or links you might share that can be passed on to newbies trying to edit via their phones? --Rosiestep (talk) 21:10, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Hello, Rosiestep. Yes, I still do about 99% of my editing by smartphone and have made over 100,000 smartphone edits. Nearly ten years ago, I wrote User:Cullen328/Smartphone editing and I still stand by my advice there. I have written Good articles, became an administrator in 2017 and have made over 11,000 advice edits to the Teahouse on my smartphone. My #1 advice to anyone is to use the misnamed "desktop" site on your phone, because it is fully functional on modern smartphones. On the other hand, the mobile sites and the various apps still have major shortcomings after all these years that act as impediments to collaborative editing. Cullen328 (talk) 21:45, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks, Cullen328. Makes sense to me ... even for reading. --Rosiestep (talk) 00:09, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks also from me, Cullen328 for these interesting comments. I note however that in your essay User:Cullen328/Smartphone editing you state that for serious editing you still use the desktop version (apparently on a laptop or standalone computer). I wonder if you could recommend any guidelines which explain how the desktop version can be invoked on a mobile phone, iPad or similar. It seems to me this would be a useful option for many recent users. You might also consider updating your essay to cover desktop editing on mobiles.--Ipigott (talk) 08:58, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Ipigott, the only time I use a desktop computer is when I am editing very large graphic files, or when my phone battery is almost dead. My essay already says If a Google search inadvertently takes me to the mobile site, I usually scroll to the bottom and switch to the desktop site. The design of the mobile site makes it difficult for most users to find the desktop site. As far as I know, scrolling to the very bottom is the only option. Cullen328 (talk) 09:12, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Ipigott, I'm at WikiCredCon this weekend. Will ask around. --Rosiestep (talk) 21:10, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Vandalism at Mervat Seif el-Din

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    There's been some vandalism on this page, but the present revert doesn't go back to the last stable version & I wondered if an admin here might be able to revert it to this older version and possibly semi-protect it? Many thanks Lajmmoore (talk) 17:57, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    @Lajmmoore: Bit late to the party (as when am I not?), and it looks like the immediate issue has passed. But I've protected it for three weeks regardless - hopefully that will be enough to squelch the issue. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 06:29, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Peruvian Women Scientist Campaign

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    Hello Dear members of Women in Red. It is a pleasure to greet you. I am contacting you because I am currently leading a campaign to create biographical articles about Peruvian women scientists from Peru. I am part of a project called WiAcción Perú, Ecology, Gender and Culture, in which we seek to generate content about our country related to these 3 thematic areas, mainly in Wikipedia in Spanish and Wikimedia Commons. For this campaign we have partnered with the Council of Science and Technology of our country as well as with the Peruvian-British cultural association that teaches English in our country. We want to give as much visibility as possible to the pages we manage to publish of Peruvian women scientists. For this we have called university students and British students to generate articles in Wikipedia. The former will create the articles in Spanish and the latter in English. In this way, in the case of the English students, they will have the opportunity to learn more about women scientists from their country and also to exercise the English language they are studying. Since we edit primarily in Spanish, we would like to know if you would be interested in supporting us in this campaign by reviewing drafts of articles generated on the English Wikipedia and/or providing virtual training to English language students. We have scheduled a series of trainings for students so that the articles generated comply with Wikipedia's notability policies. We remain at your disposal to share more details, in case you are interested in participating. In the meantime, we share with you the link to the campaign in meta. We thank you in advance and congratulate you for the great work you are doing for the visibility of women in Wikipedia. Yhhue91 (talk) 23:22, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    @Yhhue91: I might be able to assist with this. Nick Number (talk) 00:21, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you so much for your reply, Nick Number! I've sent you message on your talk page. Best Yhhue91 (talk) 17:11, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Sounds like a great project! I'm down to help with copyediting/formatting drafts. :) ForsythiaJo (talk) 01:44, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    That would be really helpful @ForsythiaJo. Thanks for your generosity. We hope to have some drafts around the first week of March. All if them will be available on the meta page. Best. Yhhue91 (talk) 17:15, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Dr. Zureena Desai

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    I've been working on the article John Blacking, which has introduced a Woman in Red Zureena Desai. I gather the bots will find this potential article. Here are some references: [1][2] [3][4] and the url, a BBC video describing the incident: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct5yq3

    As you can see the subject is a rather sensitive one. I am unsure if Desai has other notability other than to this unfortunate incident. Also note that Desai is the daughter of Amina Desai who was imprisoned for several years for anti-apartheid activities. Indeed, there is ample evidence that the South African government at the time was less interested in the "immorality" of Blacking and Desai than in Blacking's ongoing anti-apartheid activities at the University of Witwatersrand.

    It seems to me this is the place to post such notes, apologies if not. I thought the above notes and thoughts would be useful in getting the Zureena Desai article started. My aim is to expand the description of the incident in the John Blacking article. So it also may be that that is sufficient, and perhaps a separate Zureena Desai article is not necessary; I appreciate the sentiments of this noble project, however. Bdushaw (talk) 21:08, 13 February 2025 (UTC) and Bdushaw (talk) 21:15, 13 February 2025 (UTC) Bdushaw (talk) 21:15, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    References

    1. ^ Booyens, H (8 June 2024). "Dr Zureena Desai speaks for the first time about humiliation of Immorality Act". Independent Online (IOL).
    2. ^ "South Africa Couple Face Race Law Charges". The Canberra Times. 29 March 1969. p. 6. Retrieved 13 February 2025 – via Trove.
    3. ^ "'Immorality' in South Africa". San Francisco Chronicle. 10 April 1969.
    4. ^ Tshiki, Nonkoliso Andiswa (22 August 2023). "Using Primary Sources to Explore How Courts Punished Interracial Sex in Apartheid South Africa". Gale Libguides.

    Is anyone planning to run large online events around International Womens Day?

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    Hi all

    Does anyone know of any large online editing/training events being run around International Womens Day? I'm not sure if there is a list somewhere?

    Thanks

    John Cummings (talk) 11:19, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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