Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Tip of the Month

History

Following discussion on the WiR talk page (see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red/Archive 120#If_Women_in_Red_could_provide_useful_tips), there is a strong suggestion to include a Tip of the Month on the invitation. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 02:25, 13 December 2022 (UTC)

Previous

2022

• December 2022: "Don't forget to search slight spelling variations of your subject's name, like Katherine/Katharine or Elizabeth/Elisabeth, especially for historical subjects". WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 02:25, 13 December 2022 (UTC)

2023

• January: De-orphan and incorporate an article into Wikipedia using the Find Link tool.
• February: Explore Wikipedia for all variations of the woman's name (birth name, married name, re-married name, pen name, nickname)
• March: Mobile phone readers may only see the article "lead" – take some time to make it shine! Include something to keep people reading.
• April: When writing about a book, check WP:NBOOK for notability, then see MOS:NOVEL, WP:NONFICTION or WP:POETRYSTANDARDS for guidance.
• May: Use the Google translate app and camera on your phone to translate text from an article or book
• June: Looking for new red links? Keep an eye out for interesting and notable friends, family, or associates of your last article subject, and re-examine group photos for other women who may still need an article.
• July: Look out for contributors interested in writing about women and invite them to join Women in Red
• August: Read the essay Determining Native American and Indigenous Canadian identities to understand the criteria for status as Native American or Indigenous Canadian.
• September: The books she wrote might be notable, too; learn 5 quick tips about about book articles.
• October: When creating an article, check to see if there is a listing in the sister project Wikidata. If your subject is listed, the Wikidata information can be useful
• November: When translating articles from another language Wikipedia, don't forget to include attribution in your first edit summary.
• December: Avoid copyright problems by rewriting in your own words. You can check any article or draft with Earwig's copyvio detector.

2024

• January: Check out the new navigation on our Women in Red Project home page. .
• February: AllAfrica can now be searched on the ProQuest tab at the WP Library.
• March: When creating a new article, check various spellings, including birth name, married names and pseudonyms, to be sure an article doesn't already exist.
• April: If you run into technical problems, you might find help on our Tools and technical support page
• May:Use open-access references wherever possible, but a paywalled reliable source
  is better than none, particularly for biographies of living people.
• June:Find a Grave is NOT a reliable source (as it is user-generated content). It can be used
  to look for biographical clues.
• July: A foreign language biography does not guarantee notability for English Wikipedia.
  Check the guidelines before you start.
• August:Check your athlete's notability before researching and creating her bio.
• September:Try her pen name when searching for sources, and remember to add her to any of these that apply:
  List of pen names, List of literary initials, and Category:Pseudonymous women writers.
• October: Unsure how to expand a stub article? Take a look at this guidance

Suggestions

Please add to the suggestion list. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 02:25, 13 December 2022 (UTC)

• Newspapers can be accessed by subscription through the WP library for newspapers.com or newspaperarchive.com, but also through free on-line English and other language archives.
• The Internet Archive (archive.org) and HathiTrust (hathitrust.org) have open-access full-text search capability for books and journals.
• Internet Archive Scholar has historic reviews of works by academics and writers.
• Double the lede (and don’t bury it) – why the lede is important
• Reliable sources: Why you shouldn’t cite Findagrave but can still mine it for clues
• Telling their own stories: More than wives, mothers, sisters, daughters
• Women and the problem of “so many names”
• Find her! Add her name to existing articles; add categories in her biography; add Wikiproject templates to her talkpage.
• Biographies of living women: Cautionary tales
• Historical biographies of women: How to look for sources
• Businesswomen and entrepreneurs through an encyclopedic lens
• Who are/were the leaders of national organizations in your field? How about national award winners? That's a great place to start looking for article subjects you'd be well-suited to work on.
• Notable does not always mean admirable; you don't have to like an article's subject to make the article a useful contribution to Wikipedia.
• When you want to add a fact to an article, ask yourself, "how do I know that?" and add a reference too. If you don't have a good reliable source, maybe wait to add that detail, even if you're sure it's true.
• New Tip - Want to find a new insight into a well known historic event? Find the notable women, write their stories. e.g. There WERE women at the battle of Waterloo. Victuallers (talk) 16:24, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
• Don't forget to list redlinks from women's articles you create on the redlists.
• Ensure the subject of your biography also has a Wikidata item
• Looking for an image? Sometimes you can find openly licensed ones at search.creativecommons.org/

Translation tips

I've learned 2 really cool translation tips lately that I thought I'd share. 1) In some google books searches there is an icon that looks like a snipping tool. It actually allows you to select a page and a pop-up then appears which allows translation or copying of text. 2) if you use google translate on your phone, you can interface with your telephone's camera to copy and translate text from an article that has text protection to prevent copying. Used May 2023 I'm not remotely technically oriented, so if I can use these tools, anyone should be able to. SusunW (talk) 18:00, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

Thanks @SusunW, that's great and so handy to know! I have to confess, it's only recently that I discovered that if the page translation icon doesn't automatically appear in the search bar in Google, all you have to do is right click and select "Translate to English". I feel like a case could be made for offering a few such Google translation tips. Cielquiparle (talk) 19:20, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

Cielquiparle I totally agree. I think sometimes, especially with international feminists, good sources exist in other languages and the more tips we can share about how to use them, the better our articles will be. SusunW (talk) 19:33, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

For "international" AfD discussions as well, unfortunately. There are so many bios nominated for deletion where people don't bother to check international sources, let alone cite them. Cielquiparle (talk) 19:45, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

Hadn't even thought of that, but yes, lots of reasons one might need to access translation aps. SusunW (talk) 20:35, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

See also

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Resources
• Wikipedia:Tip of the day