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If you are having trouble with references or accessing a reference behind a paywall, feel free to contact the Librarian in Residence, Megalibrarygirl. She is also able to reach out to other librarians in her network to help you with your references. The Librarian in Residence is also happy to do reference clean-up. You can either email her, or post on her talk page. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 18:47, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

• List of Women's history books in Megalibrarygirl's personal collection
• Catalog of books from Megalibrarygirl's local library

Help essays

Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Essays

How-to essays

• Writing women into the encyclopedia
• Primer for creating women's biographies
• Ten simple rules for creating women's biographies
• Writing about women
• Writing about women and their works

Specialty biographies

• Rodeo biographies on Wikipedia
• Women in computing on Wikipedia

Other topics

• Primer for AfD, AfC and PROD
• How to facilitate a Wikipedia edit-a-thon

Women in Red's Tip of the Month

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Tip of the Month

Help resources

• Research resources from Art+Feminism
• Resources from WikiProject Military history
• Resources from Women in technology
• Resources from Women in Jewish History
• Resources from Whose Knowledge, a worldwide project that works "to center the knowledge of marginalized communities" online.

• Decolonizing Our Stories and Knowledges
• Tranformative Practices for Building Community Knowledges
• Uploading images

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Gender identity

Help tools

See also: Wikipedia:Gadget and Wikipedia:User scripts/List

• Wikipedia:Citation expander – Easily fill, cleanup and expand citations with User:Citation bot.
  • Works very well for journal citations, see User:Citation bot/use and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-08-01/Tips and tricks
• User:Headbomb/unreliable – Detect and highlight unreliable sources.
• User:Trappist the monk/HarvErrors – Highlight problems and potential problems when using Harvard citations templates like {{harvnb}} and others. To only flag problems, replace User:Trappist the monk/HarvErrors.js with User:Svick/HarvErrors.js.
• Wikipedia Gender Bias Detector, a tool that scans Wikipedia biographies of women for common gender bias patterns.

Biographical dictionaries

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Biographical resources

• Fully-accessible biographical dictionaries
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Redlist index#Dictionaries and other reference works

External links

Resources to help contributors write Wikipedia articles. Add to this list!

• Dictionary of African Biography
• Singapore Digital Newspaper Archive (National Library Board)
• Jewish Women's Archive
• She Source
• Kvinfo: Danish feminists
• The History of Nordic Women's Literature
• A Celebration of Women Writers
• Women and Social Movements, International – 1840 to Present
• Evaluating Information Sources
• Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
• Magyar Lexikon, Hungarian-language biographical dictionary with plenty of women articles in it.
• Friedman, Ann. "Queens of Nonfiction: 56 Women Writers Everyone Should Read," The Cut – New York Magazine. April 2016. (As noted by author, list of in-depth articles reported by (mostly white, mostly American) journalists between 1960–2016.
• DMOZ – Society: People: Women: Science and Technology (DMOZ)
• "women scientists" at DuckDuckGo (DuckDuckGo)
• Passing On
• Australian Women's History Network Scholarly Research Blog VIDA
• Perfume Drinker’s directory of digitized women’s magazines on fashion, textiles and design

Books

• Majher, Patricia (2011). Ladies of the Lights: Michigan Women in the U.S. Lighthouse Service. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-02801-6 – via Project MUSE.
• Roces, Mina (2012). Women's Movements and the Filipina: 1986–2008. University of Hawai'i Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-6121-6 – via Project MUSE.
• Schneider, Karen (2015). Loving Arms: British Women Writing the Second World War. The University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-6134-1 – via Project MUSE.
• Hautzinger, Sarah (2007). Violence in the City of Women: Police and Batterers in Bahia, Brazil. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-94115-1 – via Project MUSE.
• Aldama, Arturo J.; Sandoval, Chela; Garcia, Peter J. (2012). Performing the US Latina and Latino Borderlands. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-00877-0 – via Project MUSE.