Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/375

Here are some links that can help you identify articles to work on, and feel free to add more:

• Orphaned articles about women artists
• Orphaned articles about women scientists
• Orphaned articles about women writers
• Orphaned articles about women's history
• Orphaned articles in the LGBTQ+ women category (also relevant to the LGBTQ+ women event)

Please note: For any link you add, please make sure that it is helpful to the reader, meaningful, and supported by the text.

There are several practical ways to de-orphan articles:

• Add links from related articles: Identify existing articles where the subject is relevant and add a wikilink in the body text. For example, you could try articles about organisations or institutions she was associated with, articles about people she worked with, or articles about events she was connected to.

• Add her name to relevant lists: For example, are there lists of alumni for the school(s) she attended, or lists of notable people who were born or resided in the same place as her? Are there lists of award or honours recipients you could add her to? Could you add her birth or death date to lists of events that happened in a particular year in a particular place (e.g. 1900 in New Zealand)?
  • There's a Category:Lists of women by occupation and nationality, specifically Category:Lists of women artists by nationality and Category:Lists of women writers by nationality, that may help with two of the four lists of Orphaned articles above.

• Link her name if she appears as an author: use the "Author-link=" field in a reference which uses a citation template.

• Adding her name to the relevant surname page (or making a redirect from her surname if she's the only name-holder): This helps the reader who only knows a surname, and reminds people that there are Janes and Georginas in among all the Johns and Georges. For examples of a surname page, see Hanson (surname), List of people with surname Miller or List of people with surname Peña. (But although this is really important, it doesn't count as "de-orphaning", as surname pages are excluded from the criteria.)

• Check she really is an orphan: Go to the drop-down Tools menu and choose What links here. Then, in the Namespace box, select (Article) so that just mainspace articles will be listed. Press Go to execute the search. In some cases, incoming links may already exist. If so, you can remove the orphan tag and move on.

(If you can think of any more ideas or tips, please feel free to add them!)

• Note that there are Criteria defining the links which count as "de-orphaning", so although it's important to add a woman to disambiguation pages and surname lists, and to make redirects from other forms of her name, her book titles, etc, she will still be tagged and listed as an "orphan" after you add these - but her visibility will be increased and the encyclopedia will be improved!

• Please add this category to the image if you're uploading it to Commons: Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2026

Did You Know features

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged or categorized (e.g. Category:WikiProject Women in Red meetup 375 articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

• ... that each chapter of the 2005 chick lit romantic comedy novel The Thing About Jane Spring begins with a quote from a Doris Day film? (2008-06-06)

Event resources

• Please add Category:Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2026 to any media you upload to Commons.
• Invitation: WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/2026
• Editathon banner for talk pages: Template:WikiProject Women in Red - {{WIR|375}}