Wikipedia talk:NMAI Native American Women Edit-a-thon

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Just announced this event to a couple WikiProjects and several users who contributed to Native art articles. Is it okay if we add our own suggestions for articles to the project page? Ahalenia (talk) 19:28, 24 March 2021 (UTC)Ahalenia

Article Suggestion - Barbadian Lokono

The Lokono page has a large section devoted to someone called "Princess Marian" that's pretty undue weight for the article, but if she's notable, would belong on her own page. It's sourced to an author that seems like a username/editorial, but if there's a decent RS out there, it would be an easy spin-out.

If this is useful for this edit-a-thon, I might be able to come up with some other ideas for indigenous women of Guyana. Cheers, Estheim (talk) 11:48, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

I've been considering an article on the Red Thread Women's Development Organisation which works in Guyana where there's 10% Amerindian population. They do research, outreach, and sometimes theirs is the only data on women's issues, so they're often cited by international organizations. They're without-a-doubt notable, but I just haven't gotten around to article creation (and I personally prefer improving content over making articles). Red Thread would be a great topic for a newbie, imo. Cheers, Estheim (talk) 14:52, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

Both of these are great ideas! Talking to the organizer, their scope reflects that of NMAI, so this event covered Indigenous peoples of the Americas, not just US. You can add those articles to the list of "Articles to create" on the project page and add your name as a participant :) Ahalenia (talk) 15:45, 26 March 2021 (UTC)Ahalenia

Missing notable Alaska Native women

• Adelheid Hermann — Alaska Legislature, Alaska Pacific University
• Brenda Itta — Alaska Legislature, Alaskool, New York Times, University of Alaska Fairbanks
• Grace A. Johnson — Alaska Legislature, other source material may be found at Ancestry website
• Irene Nicholia — Alaska Legislature, plus Doyon, Limited may have pointers to additional sources in their archives (her husband is one of their executives)
• Kay Wallis — Alaska Legislature

That's a start with subjects of obvious notability. I haven't the time right now to go through the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame list and separate the obviously notable from those whose notability is questionable. The most glaring omission is Katie John. An attempt at an article was started at Draft:Katie John, but draftspace was designed to be blatantly anti-collaborative. Perhaps you may be interested in retrieving it through WP:REFUND and trying again. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 07:08, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

I added these women to the main project space. Please correct any errors in their cultural/tribal affiliations! Ahalenia (talk) 15:41, 1 April 2021 (UTC)Ahalenia

Pop Wea

I nominated Pop Wea for deletion because there are no published, secondary sources about her. She simply isn't notable. Even Ancestry.com (which, of course, is unusable since it only produces primary documents) yields no results. Ahalenia (talk) 00:11, 2 April 2021 (UTC)Ahalenia