Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-08-05/Editorial

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Sorry to steal your thunder, but I've created pages on EvaMarie Lindahl, Helen Frances Gregor and Nadia Khodasevich Léger.

Other well-known and incontrovertibly important but missing female artists are Louise Bourgeois, Sonia Delaunay, Eva Gonzalès, Barbara Hepworth, Berthe Morisot and Bridget Riley. Not included in the list of 100 are the likes of Rachel Whiteread and Elizabeth Thompson (aka Lady Butler).

Some other relevant (if slightly older) links on the lack of recognition for female artists, in terms of reputation, accessions to public collections, and auction prices: [1] [2] [3] Good luck with your editorial. -- Theramin (talk) 00:41, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Last March we run a small edit-a-thon about women and selected randomly 99 names. We looked up generalist encyclopeadias for some background. Only one third of them did appear (combining three differente encyclopedias in English, Spanish and Catalan). And it's not only women that are underrepresented. Any middle quality writer in Spanish or English would end up mentioned in traditional encyclopeadias, but only the very very best writers in, say, Hungarian or Chinese would be even mentioned. Engravers seldom appear, for instance. So we are infact doing a better work than our paper counterparts. B25es (talk) 06:18, 6 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Bridget Riley was the first who occurred to me as i was reading the piece above. Normally I don't hop on these bandwagons but there's an aspect of this that particularly bothers me: when extremely talented women artists are ignored in such a précis, that omission makes them seem marginal even when in fact, in the world of working artists like themselves, they are not. – Athaenara ✉ 20:50, 6 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps better equipped, but when it comes to fighting SPAM Wikipedia fails hopelessly. Lip-service, no action. The Banner talk 06:33, 6 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Did "Taschen require public shaming"? The article does not imply that the "contact" was a public letter, it rather implies that Taschen were very responsive to a private contact.

A hugely under-represented group are second and third rank authors, quite probably especially female. These are not always easy to find reliable sources for - especially those who fall between stools, not old enough that contemporary commentary is public domain and in the scanned archives, not new enough to be Internet original sources.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:15, 6 August 2015 (UTC).[reply]

Last summer we had a WIKI-KIK (Edit-a-thon) around this project in Sweden. EvaMarie and Linda Fagerström hosted the event at Malmö konsthall, and Ditte was one of the participants. /Axel Pettersson (WMSE) (talk) 12:37, 6 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's just a sales-driven list, and rather German-oriented. Also missing (from the list per WP) at just a quick look are Tintoretto, Veronese, George Braque, Anthony van Dyck, Giorgione, any Tiepolo, William Hogarth, David .... Johnbod (talk) 01:57, 7 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

According to Science Heroes, two women (I presume from their first names) have contributed to the measles vaccine and thereby saved the lives of over 100,000,000 people. And yet Wikipedia has no article on either Anna Mitus or Ann Holloway. JRSpriggs (talk) 09:23, 7 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Added here and here. Johnbod (talk) 15:30, 7 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've never heard of those female artists who are supposed to be so great. The ones listed with Frida Kahlo I had heard of, but not the others.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 18:01, 7 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]