Category talk:Women scientists

Keep or Delete?

After reading the relevant discussion and determining that my comments should be posted here, I believe that

1. The contributions of women to science (and other fields) have long been neglected and even deliberately discounted, and this is something that Wikipedia can and should rectify.
2. Over-categorization can make for a messy structure which doesn't add to the utility of the encyclopedia.
3. It is important not to ghetto-ize minority groups or individuals through classification.

So the questions are begged:

1. Where, in terms of encyclopedia structure, does a list of minority achievers belong with relation to any field of endeavour?
2. What guiding principles are most relevant for determining such a structure? (I'll do my own research on this, being a relative newbie here.)
3. What new guiding principle(s), if any, is (are) required to address this general issue?

-- Robert Turner 21:09, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Grammar

The term "women scientists" is grammatically atrocious. Can't we make this "female scientists"? I suppose the incorrect use of "women" as an adjective is so firmly entrenched in Wikipedia's categories that this would require a major overhaul, though. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aiwendil42 (talk • contribs) 17:16, 30 April 2006‎ (UTC)

This should be "woman scientists". -- Noneofyourbusiness (talk) 02:11, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Agreed: I just saw "List of women neuroscientists" and the error immediately struck me. It should be "woman neuroscientists" (if there's some reason to avoid the perfectly fine word "female"). 2A00:23C5:FE18:2701:6C4F:374E:EF33:BBD7 (talk) 19:20, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

Category:Women astronomers

I think this should be a subcategory here. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 15:54, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

It is, part of the women scientists by field cat.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 16:08, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

How to add a scientist?

I am working on Brenda Milner's page and would like to add her to this list, but not sure what I need to do. sp (talk) 00:43, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

seems like this is done. You add categories to the bottom of the page in question.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 16:09, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Diffusing or non-diffusing category?

This category has tags for both diffusing and non-diffusing. It can only be one of the two. But which? Crispulop (talk) 08:27, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

It is non-diffusing with regard to its parents, and diffusing with regard to its sub-cats. I think. Confusing, certainly. I wonder how correctly this is maintained. A clearer explanatory note would be good. Johnbod (talk) 14:33, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

Rename?

Shouldn't this be "Female scientists"? No one says "Men scientists", they say "Male scientists".----Pontificalibus 08:37, 17 May 2021 (UTC)