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Isaac Lee (2 April 2020). "Penn Museum faculty, students create Wikipedia pages about women to boost representation". The Daily Pennsylvanian. Retrieved 4 April 2020. The students created Wikipedia articles for Deborah A. Thomas, a current Penn Anthropology professor, Sophia Wells Royce Williams, a philanthropist and photographer who was a Penn Museum donor, and Mary Virginia Harris, an artist who contributed to the Museum's gallery. Each article was curated using sources from the Penn Museum, the organizers said.

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Multiple areas of this article are excessively long, compared to the rather thin sourcing. GNG is probably met, but it's concerning that many of the sources seem to come from organizations closely associated with the subject (museums that accepted donated works) or contemporaries.

Nonetheless, this article is way too long. The lead needs to be shortened, and I suggest trimming the family section, merging the "criticism of Clara Barton" section with the "friendship w/" section, and trimming both. A new title might be "Relationships with contemporaries." Overall, this article is just way too detailed and provides too in-depth summaries of topics that were mostly only ever covered in primary sources. Wikieditor19920 (talk) 16:38, 26 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Edited article to shorten lead; rationalize organization of sections; and delete extraneous details. CallMeBarcode (talk) 20:31, 28 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]