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About this list

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This is a list of honorees recognized by the Boston Black Women Lead project, available as a "redlist" (inspired by the Women in Red WikiProject) for possible creation of new articles.

How to use this list

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Here's an overview of the steps you'll want to take. More detailed instructions about each step are also provided below.

  1. Start by looking for additional sources of information about these subjects. Whenever you find something, add it as a link or a citation next to the person's name in the list.
  2. Once someone has several sources, start a draft article. Make sure at least one of the sources is published, independent, and in-depth. Use our provided article template and fill in details from the sources, making sure to cite your work.
  3. Submit your draft for review. An experienced Wikipedian will evaluate it, and either publish it or provide feedback. This will likely take several weeks, so in the mean time, consider working on the next biography!

Looking for sources

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[Fill in a list of suggestions -- newspapers, archives, BPL resources, oral histories...]

Some common sources of information that should be avoided on Wikipedia are:

  • "Find a Grave" and similar online memorials with "user-generated content" (obituaries published in newspapers are OK)
  • Social media posts, including YouTube (also "user-generated")
  • The personal website, LinkedIn, blog, etc, of the honoree (these are not "independent")

Starting a draft

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  1. Click on a name in red and follow the prompts to start new draft article.
  2. Copy-paste the contents of Draft:BWL Template into the draft, including the big box at the top that says "Draft article not currently submitted for review." (Leave that box alone the whole time you work.)
  3. Save your work any time you want by clicking "publish changes". (This won't add it as an official Wikipedia article, so it's safe to "publish" unfinished work.)
  4. At the end of every sentence, include at least one citation showing where someone can check that information. Follow these instructions for adding the citations. (Or, if you're using the "source code" editor, these instructions.)

Don't worry about trying to write something that's super long, or makes the person sound as incredible as possible. Encyclopedias are concise and a little dry; you're just trying to get the facts across and let them speak for themselves. One good paragraph is enough for the article to be submitted for review. You can find a lot more writing advice in the "Your first article" guide.

Finishing and submitting a draft

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Some things to check when you're deciding if something is ready to review:

  • Is there at least one source cited that is published, independent, and focused primarily on this person rather than Black Women Lead as a project?
  • Is the writing concise, factual, and "encyclopedic" in tone? (Rather than sounding like a news story or blurb?)
  • Have all the placeholders been filled in or removed?

When you're happy with it, you can stop ignoring the big gray box at the top of the article. Within the box at the bottom is a blue button, "Submit the draft for review!" Click it and follow the prompts, and an experienced Wikipedian will take a look and publish it if it's ready.

The reviewer may decide that the article is not ready to be published -- most of the time, the solution is to add citations to new sources (rather than trying to write a longer or more glowing article). It's possible that more sources won't exist yet, due to systemic bias that under-represents Black women. In these cases, Wikipedia has to "lag behind" the rest of society, and the Black Women Lead project will aim to fill the gaps more directly by supporting the publication of biographical information elsewhere.

Honorees without articles

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2023 Honorees

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Nellie Brown Mitchell Eva Mitchell Tulaine Marshal Montgomery Sister Virginia Morrison Susan Paul Ann Hobson Pilot Mattie B. Powell Rep. Ayanna Pressley Florence Price Lucy Terry Prince Deborah Prothrow-Stith MD Glendora McIlwain Putnam JD Leah Randolph Patricia Ann Raynor Florida Ruffin Ridley Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin Shirley Shillingford Lisa Simmons Gloria Smith Muriel Snowden Maude Trotter Steward Maria W. Stewart Belinda Sutton Susie King Taylor Andrea L. Taylor Joan Wallace-Benjamin Ph.D Karen Holmes Ward Frances Ellen Watkins Georgette Watson Dorothy West

Honorees with articles

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2023 Honorees

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References

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