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Isaac Lee (2 April 2020). "Penn Museum faculty, students create Wikipedia pages about women to boost representation". The Daily Pennsylvanian. Retrieved 4 April 2020. The students created Wikipedia articles for Deborah A. Thomas, a current Penn Anthropology professor, Sophia Wells Royce Williams, a philanthropist and photographer who was a Penn Museum donor, and Mary Virginia Harris, an artist who contributed to the Museum's gallery. Each article was curated using sources from the Penn Museum, the organizers said.

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There's very little that I'm able to glean from a quick glance at this page, and a deeper skim reveals a lot of this article that should be condensed or cut entirely. The lead is a prime example: this is meant to serve as a concise overview of the subject of the article, not an in-depth history of every job they ever had, followed by a summary of every organization they ever worked at.

As for the sources, 16 of 19 are either articles written by the subject, or bios provided by organizations the subject worked for or is closely associated with. This is not in compliance with WP:NPOV or WP:SECONDARY. Wikieditor19920 (talk) 16:32, 26 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]