Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red

Woman of the day: a new one each day from our women's biographies

Hazel Jones

Hazel Jones

If anyone is looking for a topic to write on, I just uploaded an image of actress Hazel Jones (1896-1974) who is currently a red link. She had a staff written obituary in The New York Times (see https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/14/archives/hazel-jones-dead-stage-actress-79.html); so she clearly is a notable person. Best.4meter4 (talk) 01:32, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

Done Davidindia (talk) 16:35, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

Monica Backström

I've just moved Monica Backström to mainspace. Please have a look to make sure I've not missed anything. Also needs review. Cheers, Cl3phact0 (talk) 10:42, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

Cl3phact0, it looks good generally, I believe that parts of the article were translated from sv Wikipedia, if so that should be acknowledged in an edit summary per Help:Translation.

One oddity was that you translated the title of Svenska konstnärer: biografisk handbok, I have added the Swedish title and used the details of the 1980 edition, as that is available online. TSventon (talk) 12:27, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

Great, thank you. This edit mentions that I pulled some things from sv:wiki, and I mentioned this again here when moving it over from draftspace, but yes, that could've been made more clear. I just added a {{Translated}} template to Talk for good merasure. The draft had been languishing in drfatspace for too long and I may have rushed it into mainspace today. -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 13:03, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

One solution, from Ipigott, is to use an edit summary like inspired by the German article Helene Scheu-Riesz when creating articles like Helene Scheu-Riesz using references from a foreign Wikipedia article. TSventon (talk) 21:11, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

That's certianly better syntax than my "short biographical article originating from Swedish Wikipedia" (which is poorly phrased, somewhat ungrammatical, and possibly inaccurate). In this case, looking back at the edit history, it may actually be that I didn't refer to the Swedish Wikipedia article at all initially (can't recall for certain, although the draft may have been initiated based on the first museum catalogue refs added and wikidata:Q4937214). -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 03:25, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

@Cl3phact0 Your first ref gives her full name, which ought (a) to be in the lead and (b) to be used to make a redirect. And there's a surname page at Backstrom to add her to.

OK, I've added her full name and made a redirect from it. And added her to the surname list while I had her name copied. PamD 23:03, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

Her birth name should be included (lead, section about birth, and infobox) and a redirect from it made. PamD 23:06, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

It's helpful to readers to include "trans-title" in the refs for non-English-language sources. PamD 23:08, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

What's "HKS"? Seems to be Högre konstindustriella skolan, from the Swedish article on Konstfack: needs to be clarified, or removed. PamD 23:21, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

I have expanded HKS per information at the bottom of the SKBL article. TSventon (talk) 12:35, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

I see that WikiData has her birth name wrong! PamD 23:28, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

 Fixed -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 03:01, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

Potential notable women to write about

I am working Wikipedia articles for 2 families that reside in North America. Draft:Hatfield family and Draft:Cadotte Family.

Not gonna lie I put a lot of energy into these articles, I literally drove across the United States by myself to historical societies just to get access to many sources for these 2 families. Then I realized that many individuals for these 2 American families have a lot of stuff to say about them and many of these families members are clearly notable enough for their own Wikipedia articles.

Equaysayway for example has an entire island named after her.

Athanasie is related to Matchekewis.

There is also stuff to say about Devil Anse’s mom and his great grandmother. CycoMa2 (talk) 20:29, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

I wanna be brutally honest with y’all.

I am tired as hell and I want these articles to exist so badly. I put so much energy and time into these drafts and I honestly need help. I am very close to finishing college and I don’t know if I’ll have enough time to work on Wikipedia after I get my degree. CycoMa2 (talk) 20:50, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

Advice: Move the entire content to the talk page and write five sentences with five solid references and a great picture. Don't bother with AfC but attend an on-line editathon like the ones organised on-line by the University of Edinburgh. Writing a successful wir article takes an hour for a newbie. (Longer routes are available, and you are creating one). Victuallers (talk) 09:14, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

How to handle this topic

Hi all, I've been going through and trying to polish some of my old drafts, and keep hitting a wall with this one on a "Miss Paulyon". Basically, she comes up in several books as a lecturer in New York City pre-Civil War. But what I've written up is pretty much all we know about her. It seems like she maybe even only delivered one lecture. I'm so-so on notability here, but think there is a compelling case for because her story continues to be re-told into the 21st century, even if it is brief. Anyone have thoughts on this? I'd like to get a couple of opinions before possibly mainspacing. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 10:51, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

What is her first name? CycoMa2 (talk) 21:20, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

Nevermind it appears her first name is unknown. A source directly said it is unknown.

Let me check WP:ANYBIO. CycoMa2 (talk) 21:26, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

She appears the meet notability under

The person has made a widely recognized contribution that is part of the enduring historical record in a specific field

due to:

"Paulyon was one of a few African American women who gained wide public attention as lecturers in the years leading up to the American Civil War. Historians, including Kellie Carter Jackson and Leslie M. Alexander, describe Paulyon's decision to leave the United States as a result of her feeling that, despite being free, she could not overcome racial inequities that were engrained in American society." CycoMa2 (talk) 21:29, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

What is the source of this quote? FloridaArmy (talk) 12:53, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

That's from the draft itself Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 13:00, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

Does this woman appear to be notable?

I am working on an article for this woman, Draft:Equaysayway. She basically is the wife of Michel Cadotte, she has an island named after her. As the article currently stands how notable does she appear to be? CycoMa2 (talk) 00:26, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

She is noted in the Madeline Island entry and coverage there could be expanded. Redirecting her names to the history section there where she is discussed in an option if she is not independently notable. FloridaArmy (talk) 12:06, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

CycoMa2, you should find more sources, there are plenty on Google books using her native and English names. Silbernagel's book is independently published, but Tobola's publisher is unknown, so it could be a family publication. Based on articles about European nobility, an article that mainly lists the subject's spouse and relatives is likely to be deleted per WP:NOTGENEALOGY. TSventon (talk) 12:10, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

@TSventon the book compiled by Tobola is a book from Wisconsin Historical Society. I mainly used it as a reference because many history books used it as a reference.

With regards to this comment: “Based on articles about European nobility, an article that mainly lists the subject's spouse and relatives is likely to be deleted per”

Native American Cheifs and chiefs daughters are nothing like European nobility. I believed they acted more similar to how US presidents are.

To be honest I was honestly hoping for her to pass the notability test similar to how Sacagawea managed to pass that test.

I also hope Draft:Athanasie Cadot pass the notability test in the same way. CycoMa2 (talk) 13:37, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

I think at present the article fails WP:NOTGENEALOGY.

Tobola's publisher is unknown according to the University of Wisconsin. If you know the publisher you could add it to the article.

Sacagawea was published in 2005 when standards were different. Also it has multiple sources which suggests that GNG is probably met. TSventon (talk) 13:55, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

@TSventon The book has the publisher in it. It’s just hard to find any websites on this publisher.

Another reason I felt the need to cite this 1974 book was because my dad is a journalist and a veteran who appears to have some influence, so I needed a source that he would had no involvement with since he was born in the 1970s. CycoMa2 (talk) 14:21, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

I finally added the publisher of the book to the article. CycoMa2 (talk) 14:38, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

Request: Article Creation for Raffaella Silvestri

Dear WikiProject Women in Red,

I would like to propose the creation of a Wikipedia article for Raffaella Silvestri, an Italian feminist writer and cultural critic whose work addresses gender, literature, and social issues. Despite her contributions, she currently lacks a dedicated Wikipedia page.

Italy has a rich literary tradition; however, the representation of Italian women writers on Wikipedia is notably limited as I have seen living in Italy for 8 months. This underrepresentation reflects broader patterns in media and cultural institutions, where women's voices are often marginalized, but this seems to be true especially in Italy. As a scholar and translator, I struggle to find female poets from the 1900's whose work was at some point published and written about. arxiv.org

Italy's literary canon has historically favored male authors, with female writers receiving less recognition and fewer literary awards. A 2022 article discussed how Italian women writers have rarely won major literary prizes, such as the Strega Prize, and their works are often less translated and less visible internationally . lithub.com +1 lareviewofbooks.org +1

Creating an article for Raffaella Silvestri would not only acknowledge her individual contributions but also help address the systemic gender disparities in Italian literary representation. There are many sources that provide verifiable information about her career and contributions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/22/opinion/a-ray-of-literary-hope-on-italian-tv.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/22/opinion/a-ray-of-literary-hope-on-italian-tv.html

Profile: https://www.rsi.ch/rete-due/programmi/cultura/mixtape/Milano-Mumbai--1564601.htmlhttps://www.rsi.ch/rete-due/programmi/cultura/mixtape/Milano-Mumbai--1564601.html

Silvestri, Raffaella. Author profile and publications. Il Foglio. https://www.ilfoglio.it/autori/raffaella-silvestri

Review - L’inserto culturale di Il Foglio. Contributions by Raffaella Silvestri. https://www.ilfoglio.it/review

Domani Editoriale. Articles and essays by Raffaella Silvestri. https://www.editorialedomani.it/autori/raffaella-silvestri

Elle Italia. Cultural criticism and essays by Silvestri. https://www.elle.com/it/autori/raffaella-silvestri

I appreciate your consideration of this request and look forward to your guidance on the next steps.

Best regards, ItalianWomenWriters — Preceding unsigned comment added by ItalianWomenWriters (talk • contribs) 11:47, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

Hello ItalianWomenWriters. As the founder of WikiProject Women Writers, I am happy to meet you. I empathize with the situation that you address regarding Italian women writers. Unfortunately, much of what you mention is true of women writers from other countries, too.

Regarding this person in particular, Raffaella Silvestri, when I google her from California (my home), the first search page shows websites that are not considered to be reliable sources, such as Instagram, Substack, About.me, rafellasilvestri.com, Amazon.com, Goodreads.com, etc. Perhaps biographical information exists in the links that you provide, but I couldn't access this author profile on ilfoglio.it, this profile on rsi.ch, or this link on nytimes.com. Regarding The New York Times, I did my own search and found this opinion piece written by Rafaella, but I didn't find any articles about her. Maybe other editors will have better luck?

In the meantime, I created a Wikidata item for her, which will ensure that she is included on the Women in Red list of Italian women writers who don't have a page on English Wikipedia and Women in Red list of women critics who don't have a page on English Wikipedia (these lists are periodically updated by a bot). If she doesn't meet the policy requirements of English Wikipedia today, she may in the future, so in this way, we haven't lost her name. --Rosiestep (talk) 13:27, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

Hi Rosiestep,

Thank you for your thoughtful reply and for creating the Wikidata entry, I really appreciate your support! I’ve checked and replaced some broken links with updated URLs to ensure better access to sources.

To follow up on sourcing, here are several stronger references to help establish notability for Raffaella Silvestri, an Italian novelist and cultural critic with a notable gender studies perspective.

Author profile and essays:

Il Foglio Review (digital cultural platform of Il Foglio): https://review.ilfoglio.it/autore/raffaella-silvestri/

Includes a biography and many essays, plus references to her novels La distanza da Helsinki (2014) and La fragilità delle certezze (2017).

Featured profile:

RSI (Swiss Public Broadcasting) cultural program Mixtape (RSI Rete Due): https://www.rsi.ch/rete-due/programmi/cultura/mixtape/Milano-Mumbai--1564601.html

An independent radio interview/profile introducing Silvestri as a novelist and cultural figure.

Authored content:

Elle Italia print edition column (Signora o Signorina): https://www.elle.com/it/author/240587/raffaella-silvestri/

Independent coverage:

Critical review of La fragilità delle certezze in La Lettura (Corriere della Sera, March 19, 2017) by critic Ermanno Paccagnini, engaging seriously with her work.

Numerous brief mentions in Corriere della Sera archives related to literary events and cultural activities.

I’m happy to provide PDFs of archived Corriere della Sera articles (in Italian) with English summaries if helpful.

Additional references:

Interview in GILT Magazine: https://www.giltmagazine.it/interview/raffaella-silvestri-passioni-progetti-giovane-autrice/

Review on LeUltime20: https://leultime20.it/la-distanza-da-helsinki-di-raffaella-silvestri/

Feminist mention on Lucy Sulla Cultura: https://lucysullacultura.com/le-scrittrici-lo-spazio-se-lo-devono-ancora-conquistare/

Debut novel interview/reviews: https://librangolo.altervista.org/intervista-11-raffaella-silvestri/

Author profile on Domani: https://www.editorialedomani.it/autore/raffaella-silvestri-ugbwew97

Muck Rack profile confirming her contributions to major outlets: https://muckrack.com/raffaella-silvestri

Would you consider reviewing her eligibility again with these sources? I’m happy to translate or summarize Italian content for verification.

I appreciate the Women in Red project and your efforts to raise visibility for women writers worldwide. Thanks again for engaging!

Warmly,

ItalianWomenWriters ItalianWomenWriters (talk) 17:11, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

• Hi ItalianWomenWriters. I'm happy that you found the information to be useful. I rarely create biographies of living people, so I wouldn't take this on myself. Perhaps someone else would be interested in doing so, or in collaborating with you on it... we are all volunteers. If by some chance you are the subject of the article, or closely related to Raffaella, or being paid to make this request, then please review these informational pages before creating/editing the subject's biography: conflict of interest and autobiography. Hope this is helpful. P.S. I couldn't find Raffaella's biography on Italian Wikipedia; does it exist there? --Rosiestep (talk) 18:02, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

  Hi Rosie,

  Thank you again for your thoughtful and generous reply.

  I’m not Raffaella Silvestri, nor am I being paid to make this request. This inquiry came out of a broader conversation I had with her around the visibility of Italian women writers, especially in comparison to their French or Spanish counterparts.

  When looking for 20th-century POETS to translate and bring to new audiences, it’s often possible to find some trace of recognition — however minor — for French or Spanish writers that allows for a rediscovery. With Italian women poets, that recognition is often entirely absent during their lifetime, which makes recovery work so much more difficult.

  We spoke about even well known figures like Goliarda Sapienza, who died without seeing L’arte della gioia published, and whose work only resurfaced thanks to international interest. In that context, the absence of documentation — even basic biographical entries — becomes a major obstacle.

  I came across Silvestri’s cultural criticism while researching contemporary Italian writing and found it especially insightful — her work is deeply informed by questions of gender and cultural visibility, which resonate with the broader issues I’ve been exploring. I don't think she has an Italian Wikipedia page either.

  I completely understand the COI and autobiography guidelines, and I’m new to all this — I wouldn’t be able to write the page myself at this point. But I’d be grateful if someone more experienced might consider taking a look, or even collaborating on it. I’d be happy to help however I can, including providing reliable sources or English summaries.

  Warmly,

  ItalianWomenWriters ItalianWomenWriters (talk) 19:54, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification, ItalianWomenWriters. I've crossposted a link at WikiProject Women Writers to extend the visibility of this conversation. --Rosiestep (talk) 00:04, 9 June 2025 (UTC)

Blanche Davenport

Could I please have some help with Draft:Blanche Davenport about a silent era American film actress? FloridaArmy (talk) 12:02, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

She may have just nicked the name but there were lots of UK/US actors named Davenport from the same family. Fanny Vining Davenport may offer a clue. Victuallers (talk) 09:05, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

Leading Ladies of Entertainment for FLC

Hey everyone! I have nominated Leading Ladies of Entertainment for FLC. I'd appreciate any comments. Erick (talk) 20:18, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

Unsourced women

If you fancy getting involved in upgrading existing articles on women, there is Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles/Backlog drives/June 2025 which aims to reduce the number of unsourced articles in the encyclopedia to a mere 50,000 by the end of June. Upgrading articles on women makes them less vulnerable to future threats of deletion, and it feels good to chip in to a general project like this.

WP:PetScan is a brilliant tool using which you can intersect Category:All articles lacking sources with Category:Women to see a list of 1957 articles which may or may not be about women although one of their categories is in a hierarchy with women at the top, One of the first listed is a male castrati singer, another is a railway station which might be in a category hierarchy going back to Queen Victoria, and so on. Or you can be more specific: again, the categorisation tree produces some very weird results, where the 19 hits for "African women" include Svendsen Peninsula (I can't see how!)

But in amongst all the false hits, there are articles listed which are about women and need proper sources. If you want to take part in the project, and appear on their leaderboard, all you need to do is sign up and then include "#JUN25" at the start of your edit summary - no need to register each article or jump through any hoops about length etc. But even if you ignore the project, it seems a useful thing to chip away at, improving the quality of the representation of women in the encyclopedia! PamD 08:36, 9 June 2025 (UTC)

For the interested, if any, Svendsen Peninsula is in a subcategory of Category:Queen Elizabeth Islands, which is a subcategory of Category:Elizabeth II, which is a subcategory of Category:Queens regnant in Africa. TSventon (talk) 08:54, 9 June 2025 (UTC)

Of course - obvious! I got as far as QE islands, but didn't follow further up the tree. Congratulations, Sherlock. PamD 09:29, 9 June 2025 (UTC)

@PamD:, could you link the unsourced women PetScan report? TSventon (talk) 09:01, 9 June 2025 (UTC)

No, it doesn't seem to form a link. Just go to https://petscan.wmcloud.org/ and put the two categories into the "Categories box" (no need to include "Category:"), click "Intersection", choose a number of levels (10 produces 1955, 7 gives 1401), and click "Do it"! I don't know quite how the "Negative categories" works, but adding "Sportspeople" got an error message about "Too many placeholders", while adding "Tennis" reduced the 7-level hits from 1401 to 1219! PamD 09:28, 9 June 2025 (UTC)

@TSventon and PamD: You can link directly to the intersection by copying the link to the PSID: https://petscan.wmcloud.org/?psid=35898964 Seems we're already brought it down by more than 100 articles over the last week, so very nice work! --Grnrchst (talk) 10:47, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

Women Do News/Wikimedia NYC edit-a-thon in July

Hello friends at Women in Red. If you are local to NYC, please join Women Do News and Wikimedia NYC for an in-person edit-a-thon Thursday, July 17th from 5pm to 8pm at Prime Produce, for an evening of editing and updating Wikipedia pages to raise the visibility of women, women-identified and non-binary journalists. There will be in-person writing and editing support from experienced Wikipedia editors, as well as refreshments and prizes. Sign up here, and please say hi if you make it.

Ejgertz (talk) 22:35, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

Destubathon

The World Destubathon is on, and one of the main goals of the event is to expand stubs about women (with a $100 prize for most expanded!). According to PetScan, there are hundreds of thousands of stubs about women (out of 3,897,373 stubs in total), so there's plenty to work on. This month, if you come across a short article about a woman that you think could do with more information, consider giving it some TLC! --Grnrchst (talk) 16:17, 19 June 2025 (UTC)

The WMF would like to buy you books

Toadspike wrote: There's a new pilot program open at Wikipedia:Resource support pilot, where editors can submit requests for the WMF to buy sources for them. Polygnotus (talk) 00:48, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

WP:MILHIST is going to have a field day with that. :P Silverseren^C 00:50, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

As will pretty much every WikiProject putting an above-average amount of effort in FAs. ミラP@Miraclepine 02:17, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

What is an "FA"? --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 15:19, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

WomenArtistUpdates, you will have noticed that every wikipedia editor is (unreasonably) expected to know (almost) every wikipedia abbreviation. WP:FA means Wikipedia:Featured article. TSventon (talk) 15:28, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

Thanks TSventon! I was clueless with no context for the abbreviation :) --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 15:47, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

The World Destubathon - Women's articles destubbed

Hi everyone, I have only recently learnt about The World Destubathon, which is a general stub elimination and article improvement contest. The contest is open till 13 July and there are cash prizes which can be used to buy resources for further Wikipedia research.

There is a sub-heading in the page on 'Women's articles destubbed', and I wanted to confirm about any priorities for womxn's stub articles. I saw from the instructions that within Category:All stub articles, I can filter by topic: Women = 70,653 results. Is there another method or priority stubs from WiR please?

Thank you! SunnyBoi (talk) 02:43, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

Malawi news

Plans are continuing for a Malawi based wikiproject and we are in a phase where we are gaining project partners. We are talking to universities, parliamentary groups, charities, Rotaries and Churches. Wikimedia UK are in support and the main focus is in Malawi and Scotland. I'm mentioning it here again as we tell people that we have Women in Red's support (and that impresses them!) which we don't want to take for granted. Our redlist has grown by over 500 and several groups are intending to change their image licensing policy to add to the couple who have changed so far. New images are being made available. When we have a quorate group of supporters then we'll be back to tell you more. Thanks for listening. Catherine Chavula and Roger aka Victuallers (talk) 11:51, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

100 Women

The list of 100 Interesting Women has been drafted here. At the moment there are about 115. Do feel free to add more but in time we will triage it back to 100. If you remember a woman that you found amazing (who is hardly known about) then add her to the list. If we have mentioned a leading WIR editor but not you or your mate then edit them in. I don't know how many people should be credited for creating these articles but it must be 100s and may well be 1,000s - I aim to create a list. Thank you. Roger aka Victuallers (talk) 11:51, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

Wikimania

We put together a proposal to present a talk at Wikimania about Women in Red. About our ten years of being a multi-gendered group trying to fix Wikipedia's gender gap (with some success). We were not accepted. We have been offered a slot at a pre-conference Wikimedia Women meeting. Failing to get a Wikimania slot is a tad disappointing, (and we seem to have been mis-categorised as a group of women editors). It is what it is, but it's much less than we expected. Victuallers (talk) 11:51, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

Victuallers, I am sorry the paper did not get an official slot at Wikimania. I hope the very interesting list can be incorporated into our 10th anniversary. My suggestion is to move the page into Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Essays section. We can link it to a dedicated July event page like we created for the 8th anniversary Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/274. If all moves along we could create a QR code and possibly create stickers or buttons to distribute at wikimania. I am not attending but am willing to do tasks remotely. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 15:17, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

@Victuallers: Sorry to hear your proposal was not accepted, Roger, but in a way I am not surprised. Trends in recent months have increasingly turned away from support for woman's achievements, especially for some of our major concerns such as Black women. Fortunately developments such as these are normally limited in time and impact. Let us simply be proud of all we have achieved to date and keep the ball rolling ever more quickly towards our goals. I agree it would be good to present our achievements in an inspiring essay which could be widely distributed to our supporting communities. I would love to help out more vigorously but unfortunately my editing time is increasingly limited as a result of demanding family responsibilities but if you think there is anything specific I could contribute, please let me know.--Ipigott (talk) 16:14, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

Congratulations User:Jesswade88, SPIE Fellow

WIR member Jess Wade was recently elected as an SPIE Fellow [1]. Her accomplishments as a Wikipedian and advocate for gender equity in STEM are famous but her accomplishments as an academic and scholar are significant and notable too! Congratulations, Jess! —David Eppstein (talk) 01:13, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

And for the ignorant but curious, like me: "SPIE (formerly the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers, later the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers) is an international not-for-profit professional society for optics and photonics technology.", to quote the lead of its article! PamD 07:06, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

That article doesn't actually mention its fellows, though we have a category for them. Someone might like to fix that? (No time today myself). PamD 07:10, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

But congratulations, @Jesswade88, anyway! PamD 07:11, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

What a joy it is to see that others also recognise how clever she is... and she's a very nice person too! This has Made-my-morning. Victuallers (talk) 08:57, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

This is certainly a significant achievement. Well done, Jess!--Ipigott (talk) 16:57, 21 June 2025 (UTC)