Re: [Wiki-research-l] Requesting access to deleted pages for research purposes

Hi Mackenie, You may be correct in either or both of your hypotheses, but you might also want to check out two other related ones. 1 Some academic institutions may have an element of misogyny in their HR policies, leading to such situations as an academic becoming notable for their work to the point where they merit a Wikipedia article, before they become a full professor. 2 In Wikipedia's drive to address the gender skew in our content, we may have some editors creating articles on women who don't yet meet our notability criteria. Such articles are of course highly likely to be deleted. There is another way to approach this, check primary and secondary sources to see how Wikipedia compares against them. For example, we have articles on every female Fellow of the Royal Society, and we achieved that almost a decade ago. I don't know if we yet have articles on all the blokes.. I expect we have articles on every Nobel Prize Winner by now, but there will be less well known awards and lists of people in STEM. One problem in looking at deletion discussions is that they don't always say what the person is known for, and so you can have confusion between multiple people of the same name. I was once asked to restore a deleted article so that someone could look at what was there and see if they could make a clearer case re the notability of that eminent diplomat. After looking at the deleted article, I told them not to start from the deleted bit, and if it was the same person, to emphasise their subsequent career as a diplomat, rather than their adolescent career as a "pro skateboarder". So in order to find the articles on deleted female scientists, you either need a list of deleted female scientists, or to check a lot of other articles to find which are scientists. Hope that's useful WSC On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 at 00:17, Stuart A. Yeates <syeates(a)gmail.com> wrote: