Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's History/Resources

Here are links to resources of use to participants in WikiProject Women's History. See the page footer for a host of useful links to policies, guidelines, and tools.

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Women's history

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Please add useful links to reference materials in our scope here.

Online databases

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The following sources are sufficiently reliable to use as references, and may be of use:

For new Wikipedians

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Useful references

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    • Conflict of interest
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  • Citing sources How to format citations.
  • Categorization Guidance on the proper use of the categorization function in Wikipedia.

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Care and feeding of WikiProjects

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