Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/New York Times/Overlooked

WiR redlist index: Overlooked

Welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR). Our objective is to turn red links into blue ones. Our scope is women's biographies, women's works, and women's issues, broadly construed. This list of red links is intended to serve as a basis for creating new articles on the English Wikipedia. Please note however that the red links on this list may well not be suitable as the basis for an article. All new articles must satisfy Wikipedia's notability criteria with reliable independent sources.

About

Welcome New York Times readers! If you've read its "Overlooked" series on remarkable women omitted from the obituary pages of the Times over the last century and a half (published on International Women's Day 2018), here you can find their Wikipedia articles and a similar effort to fill in the gaps on Wikipedia.

This page is a joint effort of Wikimedia District of Columbia, a regional Wikipedia outreach group, and Women in Red, a worldwide project to turn "red links" (also known as missing Wikipedia articles) about women into "blue links" (or put another way, adding Wikipedia articles about women we ourselves have overlooked).

Only 19% of biographies on Wikipedia are about women! Why not read and edit one of the articles below? Or here's some help on how to create new biographical articles.

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  Ida B. Wells
  Pioneering African-American journalist who reported on lynchings
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  Qiu Jin
  Chinese feminist martyr who fought against foot binding and the patriarchy
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  Mary Ewing Outerbridge
  The woman who introduced tennis to America
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  Diane Arbus
  Photographer who chronicled the marginalized and surreal
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  Marsha P. Johnson
  New York activist and drag performer known as "The Mayor of Christopher Street"
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  Sylvia Plath
  Iconic poet and author of The Bell Jar
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  Henrietta Lacks
  African-American woman whose cells - used without her consent - became the first immortal cell line and a source of invaluable medical research
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  Madhubala
  Known as "The Venus of Indian Cinema"
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  Emily Warren Roebling
  Responsible for completing the Brooklyn Bridge
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  Nella Larsen
  Novelist who was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance
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  Ada Lovelace
  Mathematician regarded as the world's first computer programmer
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  Margaret Abbott
  Golfer who never knew she became the first American woman to win at the Olympics
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  Belkis Ayón
  Cuban printmaker whose work explored Afro-Cuban mysticism
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  Charlotte Brontë
  Dear reader, you know her as the author of the classic novel Jane Eyre
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  Lillias Campbell Davidson
  Novelist and founder of the first women's cycling organization
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  Alison Hargreaves
  Conqueror of Everest, solo without oxygen, in 1995
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  Ruth Wakefield
  Inventor of the chocolate chip cookie
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  Yu Gwan-sun
  Korean independence activist
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  Bessie Stringfield
  The motorcycle queen of Miami
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  Lin Huiyin
  The first female architect in modern China
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  Harriot Daley
  The US Capitol's first telephone operator
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  Maria Bochkareva
  Russian WWI solider who led the Women's Battalion of Death
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  Grandma Gatewood
  First woman to hike the Appalachian Trail solo
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  Bette Nesmith Graham
  Inventor of Liquid Paper
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  Beatrice Tinsley
  Astronomer who explored the formation of galaxies
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  Edmonia Lewis