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Improve and expand article

You can help with improving existing biographies about Women on Wikipedia. These improvements can include:

• More relevant information that expands the article with information suitable for a biography.
• More references to trustworthy sources.
• Improved language.
• Added images.

Instructions

Step 1: Find an article to improve:

You can explore articles about women by:

• occupation,
• nationality

Step 2: Add the information:

1. Find a suitable reference online or in a book and click on the article 'edit'.
2. Click 'Edit' at the top of the article, if you see code click to switch to the Visual Editor.
3. Write the information you want to add to Wikipedia in your own words (don't just copy someone else's work).
4. Add the reference to the end of the sentence.
5. Click 'Publish changes', say what you did in the summary and if you like it add the tag #WIKIGAP.

How to add links

All pages on Wikipedia should be linked together:

1. Find a page you want to add links to.
2. Find words in the page that could link to other articles.
3. Click 'Edit' at the top of the article, if you see code click to switch to the Visual Editor.
4. Add links to the other articles, you don't have to link every mention of a word, only the first one.
5. Click 'Publish changes', say what you did in the summary and if you like it include the tag #WikiGap.

Add images

You can help improve the quality of an article by adding images to it.

1. Find an article you want to add an image to.
2. Check if the same article has an image on any other language versions.
3. Click 'Edit' at the top of the article (if you see code click to switch to the Visual Editor).
4. Add an image
5. Click 'Publish changes', say what you did in the summary and if you like it include the tag #WikiGap.