Wikipedia:100 DC Women
Rules
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Create new articles relating to women in the greater Washington DC region. 2,000 characters and 200 words minimum, with sources, during May 2022. Lists do not qualify.
- The contest is limited to articles on the English language Wikipedia.
- The article is newly created by you (i.e. not expanding stubs) between May 1, 2022 0:00 and May 31, 2022 23:59 (UTC).
- The article should be at least 2,000 characters and at least 200 words in length. (excluding infobox, templates, etc.)
- The article must fulfill Wikipedia notability criteria.
- The article must have sufficient references; doubtful or controversial statements in the article should be verifiable by the citation(s) listed in that article.
- The article may be translated from another language Wikipedia, but it must not be purely machine translated and should be properly copy edited.
- There must be no major problems with the article (no copyright violations, questions of notability, etc.)
- For the purposes of this contest, the greater Washington DC region consists of the District of Columbia and the present-day US states of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. The scope is purely geographical and articles can involve any point in time or history.
- Articles do not need to be biographies. They can deal with any aspect of women in the greater Washington DC region at any point in time.
- Judges will have the final say whether or not articles meet the above criteria.
- Judges, board members, and employees of Wikimedia District of Columbia may participate but are not eligible for prizes or awards.
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- Constance Tom Noguchi
- Adelaide Steele Baylor
- Sister Marie Majella Berg
- Betty Gough
- Meredith Peruzzi
- Catherine Fischer
- Edna P. Amidon
- Gertrude Clarke Whittall
- Evelyn Weigold Crane
- Myrtis Coltharp
- Edwilda Gustava Allen Isaac
- Ellen Wetherald Ahrens
- Margaret L. Plunkett
- Marion Tully Dimick
- Jennifer Park Stout
- Sueyeun Juliette Lee
- Elizabeth Hurdon
- Annie Latham Bartlett
- Alice Overbey Taylor
- Sophie Gooding Rose Meredith
- Emma Miller Bolenius
- Sallie Webster Dorsey
- Emalea Pusey Warner
- Mary Ellen Pollard Clarke
- Mary Hoover Aiken
- Maryland College for Women
- Marion Bartlett Thurber
- Vera Gilbride Davis
- Mary Mayo Crenshaw
- Sharon Hovey Wilkin
- Dorothy Rouse Bottom
- Dorothea Dutcher Buck
- Anne Bahlke
- Jenny Johnson (poet)
- Edith Clark Cowles
- Florence Peterson Kendall
- Alice Manicur
- Caroline Hallowell Miller
- Mary Bentley Thomas
- Pauline Waddington Holme
- Doriane Lambelet Coleman
- Hilda P. Holme
- Lillian Mayfield Wright
- Anne Burton Jeffers
- Zenobia Gilpin
- Ida Mae Thompson
- Jessie Fremont Easton Townsend
- Ella B. Ensor Wilson
- Sarah Johnson Cocke
- Florence Garrettson Spooner
- Mary Morris Hall Lockwood
- Zipporah Michelbacher Cohen
- Janet Stuart Oldershaw Durham
- Karin Orvis
Organizers and judges
Lists of suggestions and missing articles
Note: Any new articles must meet Wikipedia notability criteria. A suggestion for a missing article does not guarantee that the subject meets that criteria.
- WMDC's list of suggestions for missing biographies - click on the red link for each name to start a pre-formatted draft article
- Lists of missing articles at Wikiproject Women in Red
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_dictionary/Dictionary_of_Virginia_Biography_(WD)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_dictionary/e-WV (e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_education/US_-_American
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_education/US_-_Gallaudet
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_education/US_-_Georgetown
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_education/US_-_GWU
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_education/US_-_Howard
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_education/US_-_UM_-CP
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_education/US_-_UVA
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Washington_Post
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_education/US_-_JHU