 So who can we add to Wikipedia? On Wikipedia, we can't just add anyone. They have to be notable in some way. And sometimes this requires quite a lot of research in advance. We also need to make sure that there's no conflict of interest, like we covered in chapter 3. But in this chapter, we'll be looking at what makes someone notable to be added to Wikipedia. And it's important to know, because it can stop our pages being removed down the track after all that hard work. For someone to be considered notable, they must be broadly recognised somehow in their communities. Perhaps through prizes and awards, leadership positions, and or maybe research contributions. But there are a lot of notable women out there who aren't included on Wikipedia. In fact, as of 2022, just 20% of the 1.8 million articles on English Wikipedia are about women. That's just 350,000. One of the reasons for this is that it's much harder to make the case for no debility for women, because they're in our media less, they win less awards, they're elected less, they hide into senior roles less, and they're less present in our national collections in art galleries and libraries, and in our journals too. Staggeringly, only around 10% of editors on Wikipedia identify as women. And this affects the kind of information that's being added and the kind of conversations that we're having as well. And systemic bias plays out in all kinds of different ways, not just about gender, but about all kinds of underrepresented groups as well. Some of the ways that gender equity is being addressed is through awesome initiatives and campaigns, like art and feminism and women in red. And what that means is that when there's a link on Wikipedia that doesn't link through to an article, that link appears in red. And when it does link through to an article, because that article exists, the link turns blue. So women in red is a symbolic or kind of metaphorical way of describing the missing women of Wikipedia. And these campaigns encourage people to add more women to Wikipedia each year. So when you're preparing to add someone to Wikipedia, you need to make sure that they're notable and that you have all the references ready to make that case for notability. Often issues arise not because the subject isn't themselves notable, but because of how the page has been written. So it's super important that you make your case strongly to ensure that your page is not taken down or removed. In order to establish notability, Wikipedia asks that contributors cite significant, published, reliable, secondary sources that are entirely independent of the topic. That includes newspapers, books, magazines, journals, television and radio documentaries, sources with editorial oversight and a good reputation for fact-checking and accuracy. And this means avoiding unreliable sources, so not using blogs, forum posts, and of course no social media or self-published sources, as this could be a conflict of interest. So we avoid the subject's own website too, or their social media or their press releases. And it is generally better to add just a few strong reliable sources than around 20 that might just mention your subject in passing. Too many of those can distract from the really reliable sources in the mix and can mean that your page is flagged as not notable. So these are some of the things you need to think about before adding someone to Wikipedia and some of the research that you might need to do in advance. But we'll go over this more in the next chapter about creating a new page.