Wikipedia:100 DC Women
Rules
Create new articles relating to women in the greater Washington DC region. 2,000 characters and 200 words minimum, with sources, during May 2022. Lists do not qualify.
- The contest is limited to articles on the English language Wikipedia.
- The article is newly created by you (i.e. not expanding stubs) between May 1, 2022 0:00 and May 31, 2022 23:59 (UTC).
- The article should be at least 2,000 characters and at least 200 words in length. (excluding infobox, templates, etc.)
- The article must fulfill Wikipedia notability criteria.
- The article must have sufficient references; doubtful or controversial statements in the article should be verifiable by the citation(s) listed in that article.
- The article may be translated from another language Wikipedia, but it must not be purely machine translated and should be properly copy edited.
- There must be no major problems with the article (no copyright violations, questions of notability, etc.)
- For the purposes of this contest, the greater Washington DC region consists of the District of Columbia and the present-day US states of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. The scope is purely geographical and articles can involve any point in time or history.
- Articles do not need to be biographies. They can deal with any aspect of women in the greater Washington DC region at any point in time.
- Judges will have the final say whether or not articles meet the above criteria.
- Judges, board members, and employees of Wikimedia District of Columbia may participate but are not eligible for prizes or awards.
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- Constance Tom Noguchi
- Adelaide Steele Baylor
- Sister Marie Majella Berg
- Betty Gough
- Meredith Peruzzi
- Catherine Fischer
- Edna P. Amidon
- Gertrude Clarke Whittall
- Evelyn Weigold Crane
- Myrtis Coltharp
- Edwilda Gustava Allen Isaac
- Ellen Wetherald Ahrens
- Margaret L. Plunkett
- Marion Tully Dimick
- Jennifer Park Stout
- Sueyeun Juliette Lee
- Elizabeth Hurdon
- Annie Latham Bartlett
- Alice Overbey Taylor
- Sophie Gooding Rose Meredith
- Emma Miller Bolenius
- Sallie Webster Dorsey
- Emalea Pusey Warner
- Mary Ellen Pollard Clarke
- Mary Hoover Aiken
- Maryland College for Women
- Marion Bartlett Thurber
- Vera Gilbride Davis
- Mary Mayo Crenshaw
- Sharon Hovey Wilkin
- Dorothy Rouse Bottom
- Dorothea Dutcher Buck
- Anne Bahlke
- Jenny Johnson (poet)
- Edith Clark Cowles
- Florence Peterson Kendall
- Alice Manicur
- Caroline Hallowell Miller
- Mary Bentley Thomas
- Pauline Waddington Holme
- Doriane Lambelet Coleman
- Hilda P. Holme
- Lillian Mayfield Wright
- Anne Burton Jeffers
- Zenobia Gilpin
- Ida Mae Thompson
- Jessie Fremont Easton Townsend
- Ella B. Ensor Wilson
- Sarah Johnson Cocke
- Florence Garrettson Spooner
- Mary Morris Hall Lockwood
- Zipporah Michelbacher Cohen
- Janet Stuart Oldershaw Durham
- Karin Orvis
Organizers and judges
Lists of suggestions and missing articles
Note: Any new articles must meet Wikipedia notability criteria. A suggestion for a missing article does not guarantee that the subject meets that criteria.
- WMDC's list of suggestions for missing biographies - click on the red link for each name to start a pre-formatted draft article
- Lists of missing articles at Wikiproject Women in Red
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_dictionary/Dictionary_of_Virginia_Biography_(WD)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_dictionary/e-WV (e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_education/US_-_American
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_education/US_-_Gallaudet
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_education/US_-_Georgetown
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_education/US_-_GWU
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_education/US_-_Howard
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_education/US_-_UM_-CP
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_education/US_-_UVA
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Washington_Post
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_education/US_-_JHU