Wikipedia:WikiProject Women/Transclude

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Writing

For those who like to write, you can create, expand or improve articles. For general guidelines for writing biographies, there are several resources, such as the Women in Red's Primer for creating women's biographies, Manual of style for biographies, writing about women (a helpful essay), the biographies of living persons policy, and the notability guideline for biographies.

Creating articles that will survive an Article for Deletion review requires that, at minimum, the new article cite several reliable sources such as published books and major newspapers and magazines, and that the text not be copied directly from another website or another source. If there is already an article about a woman or a woman's work, you can expand the article by adding information. To avoid having your added sentences "reverted" (removed), you should provide a reliable source for any information or claim that is likely to be challenged. You do not have to provide a source for "The capital of France is Paris", but a statement about an award that a woman won or a scientific achievement she made should usually be sourced.

Another task for editors who want to reduce gender bias on Wikipedia is to review articles about women to look for biased writing, such as text that defines women primarily in terms of their relationship to other people. An article about a woman scientist should begin more like this:

Susan Trang (1900–1980) was a Canadian astronomer. She is known for her series of comet discoveries in the 1930s, her books on astrophysics and for winning the Nebula Award in 1975.

Instead of:

Susan Trang (1900–1980) was a Canadian astronomer. She was the daughter of scientist [name of father], the wife of [name of husband], the noted [name of profession] and the mother of [name of adult child], the well-known [child's profession].

The essay "Writing About Women" covers these matters in more detail.

Non-writing tasks

There are a lot of non-writing tasks which need attention too, such as tagging the talk pages of relevant articles with project banners associated with sister and daughter projects, assessing article quality on talk pages, improving biography categorization at Category:Women by occupation, and adding reliable sources to existing articles, particularly for articles about women or their work that are proposed for deletion. (In some cases, a handful of reliable, high-quality sources can save an article from being deleted.) Other non-writing tasks include adding categories to articles (an article about a woman engineer may be categorized under Canadian engineers, but there may be other categories that she could fit into, such as Canadian professors, Canadian authors or Canadian inventors); adding images of women or their works or creations to articles (see adding images essay); and wiki-linking terms and names within the article. (If you link men in a woman's article, it is good practice to go to the men's articles and ensure that the woman is linked in those articles as well.)

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Questions?

If you have questions about these tasks or editing in general, leave a note on our talk page or stop by the Teahouse where there are hosts standing by to answer questions from newer editors.

Selected Articles - show another

Official portrait, 2010

Angela Dorothea Merkel (German: [aŋˈɡeːla doʁoˈteːa ˈmɛʁkl̩] ^ⓘ; née Kasner; born 17 July 1954) is a retired German politician and chemist who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 and was the first woman to hold that office. She previously served as Leader of the Opposition from 2002 to 2005 and as Leader of the Christian Democratic Union from 2000 to 2018. During her chancellorship, Merkel was frequently referred to as the de facto leader of the European Union (EU) and the most powerful woman in the world. Beginning in 2016, she was often described as the leader of the free world. (Full article...)

How are we organized?

WikiProject Women has a loose affiliation with many other WikiProjects, Task Forces, and a User Group; check out our Affiliates navigation box for a list of them. WikiProject Women has several departments, including article creation, article improvement, DYK? articles, and events. They are described in more detail on this page and if you follow their links.

Featured articles

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Women/Featured Articles for a complete list of articles on women which have reached Featured Article status.

Good articles

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Women/Good Articles for a list of over 1000 articles on women which have reached Good Article status.

List

See Category:List-Class WikiProject Women articles for a List of Women articles.

Gallery

Image 1Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, European Union.
Image 2A village girl, Palangan, Kurdistan, Iran.
Image 3Mother Teresa - Leader of Missionaries of Charity, Calcutta.
Image 4Mamokgethi Phakeng is a South African professor of mathematics education.
Image 5Joan of Arc a heroine of France.
Image 6WSPU leaders Annie Kenney (left) and Christabel Pankhurst.
Image 7Eve and Virgin Mary.
Image 8Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II of United Kingdom.
Image 9Cleopatra, the last Pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt.
Image 10K. K. Shailaja is an Indian politician and former Minister of Health and Social Welfare of the State of Kerala.
Image 11Ariana Grande - American singer, songwriter, and actress.
Image 12Aung San Suu Kyi -Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1991).
Image 13Serena Williams, Tennis Star, won 23 major in the Open Era.