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Women in Red January 2025

Women in Red | January 2025, Vol 11, Issue 1, Nos 324, 326, 327, 328, 329 Online events: New: Music (year-long initiative) | Alphabet run A & B | Internet personalities Continuing: #1day1woman (year-long initiative) | Women who died in 2024 Announcements from other communities Celebrate Wikipedia Day on Jan 15, 2025 Participate in #1Lib1Ref Jan 15 – Feb 5, 2025 Tip of the month: Celebrate WiR's 20% achievement by adding {{User:ForsythiaJo/20%Userbox}} to your user page. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter/X

--Lajmmoore (talk 17:52, 28 December 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Logo

Hiya, is there any possibility you could use your image editing skills to make a logo for the "alphabet run" events? Perhaps with the letters A and Z on it, or perhaps a mix of different letters and a silhouette of a runner? I'm sure you have better ideas ... — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 15:25, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

Hi MSGJ. I am going to think about this. I imagine the letters running. Reach may exceed grasp so I need to think about it for awhile. I always like making logos (time permitting) . Best, --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:51, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

I've added an image to Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/331. Please check if you are happy with it — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:37, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

Looks good MSGJ. Thanks!

Women in Red February 2025

Women in Red | February 2025, Vol 11, Issue 2, Nos. 326, 327, 330, 331 Online events: New: Black women | Alphabet run C & D Continuing, year-long initiatives: #1day1woman | Music Announcements from other communities: Wiki Loves Ramadan begins on 25 February - a great opportunity to focus on women from Islamic history Tip of the month: Looking for an image? Sometimes you can find openly licensed ones on Creative Commons search Suggestion: Consider helping to promote women under In the news and On this day on Wikipedia's main page Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter/X

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Note to self - Another editor had a preferred fair use image. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:59, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

Women in Red March 2025

Women in Red | March 2025, Vol 11, Issue 3, Nos. 326, 327, 332, 333, 334 Online events: New: Alphabet run E & F | Artists+Activists | Women of the Arab World Continuing, year-long initiatives: #1day1woman | Music Announcements from other communities: March editathons around the world Celebrate Women 2025 office hour series Tip of the month: You can access the Wikipedia Library if you have made 500+ edits, and 6+ months editing, and 10+ edits in the last 30 days, and No active blocks Moving the needle:[1] 27 Jan 2025: 20.031% of biographies on EN-WP are about women (2,047,793 bios, 410,200 women) 23 Dec 2024: 20.009% (2,041,741 bios, 408,531 women) Thank you if you contributed one or more of the 1,669 articles during this period! Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter/X

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Happy Nowruz

	Happy Nowruz
	Dear @WomenArtistUpdates Wishing you a happy Nowruz, filled with hope, kindness, peace and love. Hounaam (talk) 17:54, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

A fox for you!

For your all-around great work!

Grumpylawnchair (talk) 19:38, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

Thank you Grumpylawnchair! The foxes look like they are having fun. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 00:40, 27 March 2025 (UTC)

Looks like an adult with a pup (idk what baby foxes are called). Grumpylawnchair (talk) 00:42, 27 March 2025 (UTC)

Grumpylawnchair yep, a baby fox is a pup, cub or kit :) --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 00:45, 27 March 2025 (UTC)

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Women in Red April 2025

Women in Red | April 2025, Vol 11, Issue 4, Nos. 326, 327, 335, 336 Online events: New: Alphabet run G & H | Business Continuing, year-long initiatives: #1day1woman | Music Announcements (Events facilitated by others): The European Destubathon – a stub improvement contest/editathon from 1–30 April 2025 Tip of the month: When creating biographies, don't forget to use Template:DEFAULTSORT. Accessible from "Wiki markup" at the foot of the page being edited, it allows categories to be listed under the subject's family name rather than their first or given name. Moving the needle: (statistics available via Humaniki tool) 24 Mar 2025: 20.070% of biographies on EN-WP are about women (2,057,083, 412,857 women) 27 Jan 2025: 20.031% (2,047,793 bios, 410,200 women) Thank you if you contributed one or more of the 2,657 articles during this period! Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest

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note to self- This is a discussion about moving to Commons as it may now be in PD. No action needed.--WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 00:25, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

Amanda Burden edits

Hi WomenArtistUpdates, good to meet you. I am employed by Michael Bloomberg and affiliated organizations/individuals; my connection is declared per Wikipedia's policies. I saw your impressive contributions to the encyclopedia, particularly to other women and female urban planners, and I'd be grateful for your help with some changes on Amanda Burden's entry as well. She served as the director of the New York City Department of City Planning and the chair of the City Planning Commission. Her article currently contains some information that is misleading and irrelevant. I posted the edit request on the article Talk page. Look forward to your review and assistance. Thank you, DLARoss (talk) 13:06, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

WiR Women in business logo

Thank you for all your WiR logos -sorry for forgetting to say it more often- and especially for this one. Just love how it looks on the invite: the white on the left side of the monitor intersecting with the white background of the invite. Really eye-catching. --Rosiestep (talk) 14:44, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

Glad you like it! Rosiestep --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 14:21, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

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Women in Red May 2025

Women in Red | May 2025, Vol 11, Issue 5, Nos. 326, 327, 337, 338 Online events: New: Revolutionary women | Alphabet run I & J Continuing, year-long initiatives: #1day1woman | Music Announcements (events facilitated by others): WikiProject Women in Green - a Good Article editathon from 1-31 May 2025 Progress ("moving the needle"): Statistics available via Humaniki tool. Thank you if you contributed one or more of the 1,269 articles during this period! 21 Apr 2025: 20.090% of EN-WP biographies are about women (2,061,363; 414,126 women) 24 Mar 2025: 20.070% (2,057,083 bios; 412,857 women) Tip of the month: Those of you who experience harassment while trying to create or improve articles about women are welcome to bring your problems to our attention on the Women in Red talk page. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest

--Lajmmoore (talk 09:23, 29 April 2025 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Malarkey

Looks like there are some shenanigans happening. Did you see THIS? Also it appears there is coordination happening between two editors: Editor One's original user page, and Editor Two's draft other editor's draft, note the user name of the editor who created the draft, it's the same as the subject of the AfD. And now what may be a sock has appeared on the article at AfD's talk page after the COIN report and after I left an inquiry on Editor One's talk page. Eyes are welcome on the situation, if you are not still watching the AfD. Netherzone (talk) 19:45, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi Netherzone, Yes indeed these SPAs are all up in each other's article. I think we had the article in good shape here. It appears to me that these three users do not understand the basics of editing, RS citations, and notability. I will look for the correct gentle warnings to put on their talk pages. I will also revert the Mater article back to the best version that we both !voted !keep on. We can keep an eye on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#Ahmed_Mater but I am unsure what other notice boards should be notified. Check-user should reveal Profarthist sock, so I guess hold off on that? What do you suggest? I can't tell if I have lost perspective because we spent hours saving the article, only to have it trashed by WP:CIR editors. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 23:21, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

It would be great to remove the newly added unsourced content as well as the content sourced to HuffPost "Contributor", per WP:HUFFPOCON, and the other source that is a self-published book. Both added by Profarthist. My thinking is to wait and see if editing continues before opening a SPI. I'm certain they are related but not sure yet if it's meat or sock. Thank you for keeping your eyes on the situation! Netherzone (talk) 23:39, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

Netherzone, I have reverted the saved article to where it should be IMO. This one has been dinged. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 00:15, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

Did you notice that user AhmedMater had previously disclosed that they had a conflict of interest on Draft:Arif Alnomay, then removed both the AfC template and their statement that I disclose that I have a conflict of interest regarding the subject of this article. Netherzone (talk) 00:23, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

Netherzone, Sigh, I think I need to stay away from AfD for the evening. The end of the semester always irritates me :) --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 00:28, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

Hope you get some good rest! Netherzone (talk) 00:33, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

Netherzone Actually, I put things in perspective by creating a stub for Henriette Cohen. Can you imaging surviving the Holocaust and then living to 101? That is one strong woman. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:54, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

Wowzers, what a strong woman! There's nothing like creating an inspirational article to quell the nonsense. Sleep well, WAU. Netherzone (talk) 02:21, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

Oh, and I also wanted to commend you on your logos. Great work! Netherzone (talk) 02:22, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

Lena Constante portrait

It's from the documentary film "Nebunia capetelor"/"Face Mania" (1997) by Thomas Ciulei. I believe he used it for the official poster. He's screened his films at MoMa & similar venues and is well known in artistic circles.

Do you have the right to put it on Wiki? Did you try to find the author? Did you ask for his permission? I very much doubt it.

Anyone can see it's an extraordinary portrait, not just some snapshot taken in a public place. You can't just grab such photos and use them, it's theft. Please do the right thing now. Cheers, Arminden (talk) 21:17, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) Hello Arminden, I'm not @WomenArtistUpdates, but have been familiar with her work here for a number of years, so I'm going to jump into this discussion as I know they are a busy editor. Using photographs under as "fair use" for deceased persons is allowed if it is a historical portrait, and is within fair use specifications (size limitations, used in the article infobox as a means of visual identification for educational purposes, limited use, etc.) Fair use photos should be uploaded to Wikipedia, not to Wikimedia Commons, and it appears WAU has done so. Netherzone (talk) 21:29, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

Thank you. What I know is that Thomas lives in Romania & Germany, so in the EU where copyrights are very strict, that his films are part of his livelyhood, and that he's not giving things away for free. He's not dead, and he's the (c) owner, so I wouldn't bet much on that "fair use" angle. Artists own their work, period. Arminden (talk) 23:27, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi Arminden, I have uploaded the file correctly for fair use on English Wikipedia. It is a small size and you added credit for the the image as a still from the documentary film "Nebunia capetelor" / "Face Mania" (1997) by Thomas Ciulei. Please read Wikipedia:WikiProject Fair use/Fair use rationale. I believe I have the right to put this striking portrait in the English Wikipedia article on Lena Constante. Best, --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 00:25, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi WomenArtistUpdates, and thanks. Actually, it was me who has added the info re. Thomas Ciulei and the film. You have uploaded it w/o any credit whatsoever. As an additional proof, roWiki uses it that way, lacking any credit, as it appeared when you uploaded it. I won't go into copyright legislation, I'm not a lawyer, and most certainly don't trust Wiki as a legal source, but I know for sure that that use is in no way OK, neither legally, nor morally. If you do put more weight on Wiki rules than I do, then please read what Netherzone has written here-above: "Fair use photos should be uploaded to Wikipedia, not to Wikimedia Commons, and it appears WAU has done so." Which isn't my opinion, but his. Cheers, Arminden (talk) 05:21, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

Clarification: WAU has uploaded it properly to Wikipedia. She did not upload to Commons. Netherzone (talk) 07:07, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. That was never my issue. I'll leave it at this. Over & out. Arminden (talk) 08:16, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

Women in Red June 2025

Women in Red | June 2025, Vol 11, Issue 6, Nos. 326, 327, 339, 340 Online events: New: LGBTQ+ | Alphabet run K & L Continuing, year-long initiatives: #1day1woman | Music Announcements: Who are the most overlooked and interesting Women in Red? We've no idea, but we're putting together our list of the 100 most interesting ex-Women in Red. We are creating the list to celebrate 10 years of Women in Red and we hope to present it at Wikimania. We are ignoring the obvious, so do you have a name or subject we should consider? Can you suggest a DYK style hook? If you are shy about editing that page, you are welcome to add ideas and comments on the talk page. The World Destubathon, 16 June - 13 July, 2025 Progress ("moving the needle"): Statistics available via Humaniki tool. Thank you if you contributed one or more of the 1,492 articles during this period! 19 May 2025: 20.114% of EN-WP biographies are about women (2,066,280; 415,618 women) 21 Apr 2025: 20.090% (2,061,363 bios; 414,126 women) Tip of the month: Every language Wikipedia has its own policies regarding notability and reliable sources. Before translating an article from one language Wikipedia into English Wikipedia, research the subject and verify that the translated article will meet English Wikipedia's policy requirements. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest

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Women in Red July 2025

Women in Red | July 2025, Vol 11, Issue 7, Nos. 326, 327, 341, 342, 343 Online events: New: Alphabet run M & N | Women in Red turns 10 | Kenya Continuing, year-long initiatives: #1day1woman | Music Announcements: The World Destubathon, 16 June - 13 July 2025 Progress ("moving the needle"): Statistics available via Humaniki tool. Thank you if you contributed one or more of the 1,514 articles during this period! 19 May 2025: 20.114% of EN-WP biographies are about women (2,066,280 bios; 415,618 women) 23 Jun 2025: 20.130% (2,072,236 bios; 417,132 women) Tip of the month: A nuanced article is more useful than a shiny pedestal. Readers can find hope in your subject's survival or achievements, but they can also learn from your subject's mistakes and limitations. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest

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Contrast

Hi, just to let you know that I have added a "contrast" column to the table on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red/events to show if the background colour meets the required contrast ratio in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. You'll see that most pass easily, but there are a couple of non-conforming colour choices. Hope this helps for future events — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:40, 30 June 2025 (UTC)

Thanks MSGJ! I will absolutely use this in the future. Great feature. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 15:56, 1 July 2025 (UTC)

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Women in Red August 2025

Women in Red | August 2025, Vol 11, Issue 8, Nos. 326, 327, 344, 345, 346 Online events: New: Alphabet run O & P | Indigenous women | Film and stage Continuing, year-long initiatives: #1day1woman | Music Announcements: Wikipedia:Developing Countries WikiContest runs 1 July 2025 until 30 September 2025 Tip of the month: Read the essay Determining Native American and Indigenous Canadian identities to understand the criteria for status as Native American or Indigenous Canadian Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest

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Women in Red September 2025

Women in Red | September 2025, Vol 11, Issue 9, Nos. 326, 327, 347, 348, 349 Recognized as the most active, topic-based WikiProject by human changes. Online events: New: Alphabet run Q & R | Women writers & their works | Microstates Continuing, year-long initiatives: #1day1woman | Music Announcements: Wikipedia:Developing Countries WikiContest runs 1 July 2025 until 30 September 2025 Tip of the Month: Researching historical women writers who used pseudonyms requires careful investigation across multiple sources, as many women adopted pen names to avoid gender bias and judgment (e.g., being labeled a bluestocking) and, ultimately, to get published. Progress ("moving the needle"): The WikiProject Women in Red homepage is usually updated weekly, using the Humaniki tool. Sadly, Humaniki has been out of action since 23 June. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest

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John Ferry

Hallo, I'm puzzled by this edit as 3 of the 4 directorships are verified in the refs. I think we can use Companies House OK for directorships, just not for dates of birth. (But the person appears non-notable, and the creating editor looks surprisingly near-competent for their first and only edits, so I'll be happy to see it deleted at AfD eventually). PamD 11:53, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi PamD, You are correct that the references DO provide verification. Thank you for reverting! A quick check looked like a generic landing page with multiple John Ferry's listed.

I think I came back from my wiki break to soon. I am still too irritated by the shenanigans of editors to AGF. Really, overwriting a Dab page on a first edit!. Outrageous. I need to go back to break status :) --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 14:35, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

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• note to self - replaced with younger fair use image. (not as flattering IMO) --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:03, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

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Hi, hope you're doing well. Do you know if there is a template which produces "Ipigott, Rosiestep, Lajmmoore, CT55555, Victuallers, Cielquiparle, SusunW, Chocmilk03, Penny Richards, Silver seren, PamD, Curbon7, MSGJ, TheResilientEngineer, Grnrchst, TSventon, Oronsay and all WIR helpers", and if so can I remove my name from it? I am happy to continue helping whenever you need anything but it seems the new system has now bedded in, so perhaps I don't need all these pings. Thanks — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:04, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi MSGJ, Nope, no template :) I think whoever sends out the group ping just copies from the previous group ping. You may never get off of the list! I am doing December, so I will leave you off the pings I send towards the end of November and hope that resolves the issue. However, I may contact you directly when I make the new #1day1woman initiative 2026 at the end of December.

You may notice that I am backing off from the coordinating portion myself. I find I can make the pages for the annual events and set meet-ups easy-peasy from Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/events. The rest of the stuff can just roll out as others wish. Making the new pages takes me about 30 minutes with your template. Thank you for sticking with us on this. I agree that the new system is in place. Best, --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 23:09, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

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note to self - oops. uploaded in September 2017. Looks like I ran afoul of a commercial source. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:26, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

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note to self - replace with better image. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 17:20, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

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