WDOY: Quality, Quantity, and Making Small Changes for a Big Difference

One of the things you're asked to do when starting a new Wikipedia project is liaise with other projects that might have overlap with yours.  The DOY Project is currently discussing their standards for who should be included on a day's page.  There's no consensus as of yet, but a comment I found agreement with was that the WDOY project should not link stub articles.  From the Biography Project, a Stub:

Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition. Readers probably see insufficiently developed features of the topic and may not see how the features of the topic are significant.

More info here.

Every Wikipedia page has a talk page. Biography talk pages will show how the article is rated. For example, Linda Christian, the first Bond Girl, has a biography rating Start Class:

Provides some meaningful content, but most readers will need more.   

Providing references to reliable sources should come first; the article also needs substantial improvement in content and organisation[sic]. Also improve the grammar, spelling, writing style and improve the jargon use.

Now when I'm looking around random categories for women to include in the project, I check their talk pages for their quality rating.  If they've not yet been rated, I read their page more thoroughly and make my own decision as to whether to include them.

One of the project participants had a good tip for quality edits:  "Words like "reformer," "activist" aren't enough; added things like 'active in women's suffrage and Anti-Slavery movements.' If we want people to read about them, they need to know why."

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