Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/47

ODNB[edit]

Is there a list anywhere of people/women who have an entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography but not yet in Wikipedia? Might be another interesting starting point for this editathon. PamD 15:53, 9 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

There is Missing encyclopedic articles/DNB for the older Dictionary of National Biography, its predecessor. --Big_iron (talk) 15:34, 15 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Big iron: Thanks. I've had a look at the list at https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Category:DNB_No_WP. I scanned surnames starting with "P" and spotted only one woman: ""Palmer, Barbara". It turns out that she's already in en Wiki, at Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland , with redirect from Barbara Palmer. Definitely the right lady, as dates match - went by way of Barbara Villiers, as https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Palmer,_Barbara_(DNB00) is a redirect to https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Villiers,_Barbara_(DNB00). I'll try to look at the whole A-Z list looking out for identifiably female names: should be productive. PamD 18:02, 15 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Got as far as "M", and all I found were a handful who were actually redirects to articles, so all OK. PamD 22:17, 15 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]