I find it disappointing that so many of the Art and Feminism editathons end up focusing almost exclusively on creating new articles for artists at the hosting institution. Not only does this lead to a high percentage of the articles being deleted, but it's a waste of a huge opportunity to create and expand articles about artists and artworks with unquestionable notability and high encyclopedic value.

I have no doubt that many of the Art and Feminism articles that are nominated for deletion are nominated due to gender bias (as some of them seem rather trivial to find sources for and improve), but many of them are also legitimately on the notability borderline. At all of the Art and Feminism editathons that I've volunteered at, I've discouraged people from creating articles about people they knew personally, and encouraged them to use the lists at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Tasks instead. If you are helping to run an Art and Feminism editathon, I would also suggest doing this, as it provides more value for Wikipedia and leads to fewer deletions. I would also like to encourage everyone to edit the lists at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Tasks and help keep them full of good suggestions. Editathons are a great tool for addressing the gendergap, and I would hate for them to get a reputation for just being self-promotional events.

On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Carol Moore dc <carolmooredc@verizon.net> wrote:

Someone should write a letter to the editor of the those 5 or 6 publications that came in my google alerts on the topic of the edit a thon. (Search news google to find them.)  And of course deal with the few legtimate complaints and the trolls with nonsense complaints.

On 3/12/2016 10:17 AM, Neotarf wrote:

All the articles created at Regina ArtAndFeminism event have been
tagged.   Ten of them have been submitted for deletion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Regina/ArtAndFeminism_2016/University_of_Regina

For example, see comments here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Risa_Horowitz

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