Over the past decade, over 4,100 sea turtles — averaging to more than a turtle a day — have been sucked into the St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant on Hutchinson Island in Florida,resulting in injuries and even deaths. The federal government is stepping in to install mesh grates — but even that won’t be enough.
Cool Chicks from History has posted lists of women missing from Wikipedia and women who should have longer pages on Wikipedia. Dozens of new articles have been created based on these lists.
Below is a new list of women who deserve Wikipedia pages or better Wikipedia pages. If you are interested in learning how to edit Wikipedia articles, there is a tutorial here. There is also a place for friendly Wikipedia help here.
Louisa Adams (US First Lady) has a Wikipedia page, but it should be expanded. She left behind extensive writings which were published in 2011. They should be discussed in greater detail on Wikipedia. Congress adjourned on the day of her funeral so that members could attend and this was the first time a First Lady was so honored.
Khunying Ram Phrommobon Bunyaprasop (Thai lawyer) does not have a Wikipedia page.
Marie-Louise Carven (French fashion designer) has a Wikipedia page, but it is in need of expansion. The current page links to good sources, but the page should have more detail and be divided up into biography/life, career, and awards. It should also be mentioned that Marie-Louise was a Holocaust rescuer and she should be listed here.
Orapin Chaikarn (Thai Member of Parliament) does not have a Wikipedia page.
Caterina Cybo (Italian noble) has an Italian Wikipedia page, but no English language Wikipedia page.
Acha of Deira (Ancient English princess)does not have a Wikipedia page, but she is mentioned on the pages of her relatives: 1, 2, 3. More information: 1, 2, 3
Marjorie M. Whiteman (US lawyer) has a German language Wikipedia page, but no English language page. She is also mentioned on the Ohio Women’s Hall of Fame page. More information: 1, 2, 3
Madeline Wookey (South African lawyer) does not have a Wikipedia page. More information: 1, 2
Francisca Pizarro Yupanqui (Incan) does not have an English language Wikipedia page, but she has a Spanish language Wikipedia page.
Kay Zufall (US) should be mentioned on the Play-Doh Wikipedia page. Currently the page says “[McVicker] subsequently discovered that the wallpaper cleaner was being used by nursery school children to make Christmas ornaments.” Actually, his sister-in-law Kay Zufall gave him the suggestion after reading a newspaper article and trying the product in her own classroom.
National Association of Colored Graduate Nursesdissolved in 1951, but it should have a Wikipedia page. The organization was founded by Martha Minerva Franklin (listed above) and Estelle Massey Osborne (also listed above) later served as president. More information: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Women in Law should have a Wikipedia list similar to this or this. This Library of Congress blog post would be a good starting point. Most of the women mentioned either have Wikipedia pages or are listed above.
Women in Pharmacy should also have some kind of Wikipedia list, but there doesn’t even seem to be a pharmacist category on Wikipedia. Some names as a starting point: Ella P. Stewart and Cora Dow. Susan Hayhurst, Anna Louise James, and
Elizabeth Gooking Greenleaf could all be added if they had Wikipedia pages.
How Baltimore millennial Destiny Watford saved her neighborhood from environmental disaster.
In 2010, when Destiny Watford was 14 years old, New York-based energy firm Energy Answers International got a permit from the state of Maryland to build a massive trash incinerator in Curtis Bay, the South Baltimore neighborhood where Watford and her family lived.
The incinerator would have spewed a boatload of toxic pollutants — including mercury, lead and nitrogen dioxide — that have causal links to lung damage and other respiratory problems.
Curtis Bay already ranked among the 10 worst zip codes in the nation for toxic air pollutants emitted from stationary facilities between 2005 and 2009.
Enter Watford and a dedicated group of young activists: In partnership with local advocates, at age 16 Watford and fellow students at nearby Benjamin Franklin High School launched a grassroots campaign to stop the incinerator from being constructed.
Using a combination of public art, theater and educational events, they convinced 22 local governments, school systems and nonprofit institutions to back out of their agreements with Energy Answers, from whom the groups had committed to buy energy generated by the yet-to-be-constructed plant.
“Fighting the incinerator was an act of survival,” Watford said. “I live in Curtis Bay, my family, my nephews, my brothers and sisters all live in Curtis Bay. It’s an act of survival because we already have some of worst air pollution in Maryland and the nation.”
The City of Chennai on the eastern coast of India is, by population, the 4th largest urban area in the country and the 36th largest urban area in the world. Like the rest of the city, its airport has undergone major expansion over the past 15 years. However, as of right now, that airport is a lake.
