Agree with Gordo. It would be sensible for event coordinators to get the BBC news piece changed this morning. It would be a lot better to give a link to the on-wiki help.
I have plenty of experience creating biographies, but I still had two new biography stubs for women academics put up for deletion this week. The notability guidelines can be tough and difficult to interpret, even very experienced contributors find ourselves debating the meaning of "impact" and "major" for individual cases.
BTW If anyone is talking to the BBC In Our Time producer or Melvin Bragg himself, they have an archive of photographs for everyone that appears on the radio programme which seem unpublished apart from use on twitter. It would be great to get the archive released to Commons as only half of the people taking part on Melvin's panels have biographies, and even fewer have illustrated biographies. Oh, and IOT seems to make a point of having academically distinguished women on the panels...
Thanks, Fae
On 8 December 2016 at 09:30, Gordon Joly gordon.joly@pobox.com wrote:
On 05/12/16 14:41, Lucy Crompton-Reid wrote:
As I know some of you will already be aware, Wikimedia UK, Women in Red and Wikimedia editors and communities around the world are partnering with BBC 100 Women to raise awareness of the gender gap on Wikipedia, improve coverage of women and encourage women to edit.
Great stuff, but on the BBC News article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38219838
we find
"How to create a new profile on Wikipedia"
This is really about article creation for new biographic entries. If this is a living person, then one of the most difficult starting points for a new editor.
I would think of "new profile" as being a User page.
So, going live with a new article and then facing a rapid deletion request is hardly constructive. No mention of a sandbox.... for example. There should be explicit links to extant help, tutorials and other instruction.
Gordo