User talk:Ruthc0718

This user is a student editor in Florida_International_University/2021_Narratives_of_Medicine,_Health_and_Healing_(Spring_2021) .

This user is a student editor in Florida_International_University/History_of_Medicine_through_Art_-_Women_in_Red_Biographies_(Fall) .

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Ruthc0718, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:14, 28 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You have an overdue training assignment.[edit]

Please complete the assigned training modules. --Castelamfr (talk) 21:03, 4 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Incomplete DYK nomination[edit]

Hello! Your submission of Template:Did you know nominations/Beatrice Wiafe Addai at the Did You Know nominations page is not complete; if you would like to continue, please link the nomination to the nominations page as described in step 3 of the nomination procedure. If you do not want to continue with the nomination, tag the nomination page with {{db-g7}}, or ask a DYK admin. Thank you. DYKHousekeepingBot (talk) 10:19, 14 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I've declined this because the article isn't currently live. I do see that it's in your sandbox at User:Ruthc0718/sandbox, however there are some issues to the draft that would stand in the way of it passing DYK (did you know) criteria.

The first is that the article doesn't have enough sourcing to establish how Addai meets notability guidelines. The coverage here is all primary, meaning that it's content that was put out by Addai or by people or organizations/etc with whom or which she's affiliated. What you need here are things like coverage of Addai in places like newspapers or scholarly and academic journals. Brief mentions in passing or articles where she's brought in to comment upon a topic are typically not going to establish notability.

Keep in mind that although she's won awards, not all awards are considered to be noteworthy by Wikipedia's guidelines - the best way to establish how the awards are major is to look for coverage of the award and of Addai winning it, as well as who is granting the award. Local awards or ones put out by non-notable organizations or groups are unlikely to give notability, whereas something put out by an extremely notable and important organization like say, the Royal Academy of Sciences, would be considered notable. Part of the issue with awards is that there are often very many in a given field, so Wikipedia tends to consider only the most notable as the ones that will give partial or complete notability.

Sad to say, women are typically not covered as much in the media, particularly women of color or ones outside of the US or Europe. People in the field of medicine as a whole are also typically undercovered by the media unless they're extremely well known personalities. Offhand I'm not certain that Addai has enough coverage to establish notability, which is frustrating to say the least given how much she's clearly accomplished. It's sort of par for the course, unfortunately. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 06:45, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]