In general, creating articles are very difficult. The
learning curve is
steep, and it may be best to have people expand/improve articles instead of
creating them.
From,
Emily
On Mar 12, 2016 11:48 AM, "Ryan Kaldari" <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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(a)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/U…
For example, see comments here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Risa_Horowitz
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