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{{Project missing articles}}
Some [[Wikipedia:Wikipedians|Wikipedian]]s have formed a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject|WikiProject]] to better organize the completion of articles found in other encyclopedias but missing from the [[English Wikipedia]]. This is important because to be the most comprehensive encyclopedia on the planet, Wikipedia ought to contain articles on topics that other encyclopedias contain! This is also a good way to counter [[Criticism_of_Wikipedia#Systemic_bias_in_coverage|systemic bias in coverage]]. ''[[:Category:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles participants|Sign up here!]]''

This WikiProject's objectives (see [[#Project goals]]) are different from:
* [[Wikipedia:Requested articles]] - user requested articles
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Intertranswiki|WikiProject Intertranswiki]] - translating content from other Wikipedias

==Project goals==
Although the English Wikipedia is the largest encyclopedia in existence, this does not mean it covers every topic covered by other encyclopedias. '''The main goal of this project is to ensure that Wikipedia has a corresponding article for every article in every other general purpose encyclopedia available,''' including [[WP:Translation|alternative language Wikipedias]]! Since the main goals are very close to completion, secondary lists from outside sources have been added to the project as secondary goals. The main goals of the project should still remain the main focus.

==Progress and status==
This is an ongoing project with over 290 [[:Category:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles participants|members]] contributing to 40+ subprojects (as of mid-2014). While difficult to know the exact contribution the project and its predecessors have made, a conservative estimate of 15,000 articles and 30,000 redirects have been created by its members and other contributors.  Over 200,000 links have been verified and removed so far, about 300 links per day.  A detailed '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Progress|overview of the progress]]''' is available.

==Instructions==
Your aim is to remove a red-link entry from one of the lists by making a new article or by redirecting it to an existing article. For detailed instructions, see below: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles#Guidelines|Guidelines]].

== Lists ==
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|valign="top" colspan=2| <big>'''Main focus'''</big><br>
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'''General topics'''
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/1911 verification|Britannica 1911 verification]] {{small|(init. 22,272)}}
*[[Wikipedia:List of 2007 Macropædia articles|2007 Macropedia articles]] {{small|(init. 699)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Citizendium list of missing articles|Citizendium articles]] {{small|(init. 442)}}
*[[Wikipedia:List of encyclopedia topics|General encyclopedic topics]] {{small|(init. 77,877)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Hot|Hotlist of topics]] {{small|(init. 72,625)}}

'''Specialized hotlists'''
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Hotlist of Art & Architecture|Hotlist of Art & Architecture]] {{small|(init. 13,669)}}<br>
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Hotlist of Electronics|Hotlist of Electronics]] {{small|(init. 392, but inc.)}} (incomplete list)
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Hotlist of History of Ideas|Hotlist of History of Ideas]] {{small|(init. 340)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Hotlist of Mythology & Folklore|Hotlist of Mythology & Folklore]] {{small|(init. 17,346)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Hotlist of Plants|Hotlist of Plants]] {{small|(init. 3,857)}}

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'''Specialized encyc. (Religion)'''
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Catholicism/Catholic Encyclopedia topics|Catholic Encyc. topics]] {{small|(init. 12,502)}}
*[[Wikipedia:Easton's Dictionary topics|Easton's Bible Dictionary]] {{small|(init. 3,964)}}
*[[Wikipedia:Evangelical Dictionary of Theology|Evangelical Dictionary of Theology]] {{small|(init. 855, but inc.)}}
*[[Wikipedia:Encyclopaedia Biblica topics|Encyclopaedia Biblica]] {{small|(init. 6259 and inc.)}}
*[[Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics|Jewish Encyc. topics]] {{small|(init. 15,298)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Encyclopedia of African Religion|Encyclopedia of African Religion]]

'''Specialized encyc.'''
*[[Mathematics Dictionary]]([[:zh:数学辞海|zh]])
*[[User:Vedranf/LZMK-HOL|Croatian Encyclopedia]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Grocer's Encyclopedia|Grocer's Encyclopedia]] {{small|(init. 1,755)}}<br>
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Literary Encyclopedia|Literary Encyclopedia]] {{small|(init. 2,510)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Global Glossary of the Greco-Roman World|Global Glossary of the Greco-Roman World]] {{small|(init. ?? and inc.)}} (incomplete list)
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion|Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion]] {{small|(init. 640)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Encyclopedia of Massachusetts Indians|Encyclopedia of Massachusetts Indians]] {{small|(init. 100)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Encyclopedia of Race and Crime|Encyclopedia of Race and Crime]] {{small|(init. 377)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Encyclopaedia of the Viking Age|Encyclopaedia of the Viking Age]] {{small|(init. 456)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Wrestling Title Histories|Wrestling Title Histories]]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles&oldid=1026370415 Wrestling-Titles.com]
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|valign="top" colspan=2| '''Biographical dictionaries'''
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*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/To-do/Australian Dictionary of Biography|Australian Dictionary of Biography]] {{small|(init. 11,908)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/NZ/Dictionary of New Zealand Biography|Dictionary of New Zealand Biography]] {{small|(init. 3,049)}}
*[[Wikipedia:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board/Dictionary of Canadian Biography|Dictionary of Canadian Biography]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/ADB |Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie]]
*[[wikisource:The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)|The Indian Biographical Dictionary]] 
*[[User:Piotrus/List of Poles|Polish Biographical Dictionary]] {{small|(init. c.25,000)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/DNB Epitome|Concise Dictionary of National Biography]]
**{{small|(init. 30,688, 72% done) 1903 edition, partially wikified}}
**{{small|[[User:Dsp13/DNB journalists|DNB journalists]]}}
**{{small|[[User:Magnus Manske/dnb ws no wp|Missing DNB source]]}}

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*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Dsp13 List/24|Dictionary of Art History]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/IAU list of deceased members|IAU list of deceased astronomers]]
*[[User:Magnus Manske/Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians|Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians]] {{small|(init. 1976)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/The Guinness Who's Who of Folk Music|The Guinness Who's Who of Folk Music]] {{small|(pub. 1993)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Dsp13 List/4|Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology]]
*[[Wikipedia:MacTutor archive|MacTutor archive bios]] {{small|(init. 1869, phase one complete)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Dsp13 List/16|The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English]] (bio-bibliographical)
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Dsp13 List/27|The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Dsp13 List/9|Dictionary of Literary Biography]] (incomplete)

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'''Other Wikipedias'''
*''[[WP:WikiProject Intertranswiki|WikiProject Intertranswiki]]''
*[[Wikipedia:Featured articles in other languages]]
*[[/de|German Wikipedia]] (2011)
*[[/fr|French Wikipedia]] (2006)
*[[/es|Spanish Wikipedia]] (2007)

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|valign="top" colspan=2| <big>'''Secondary focus'''</big><br>
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'''People'''
*[[Wikipedia:Find-A-Grave famous people|Find-A-Grave famous people]] {{small|(init. 46,698)}}
*[[Wikipedia:Project Gutenberg author list|Project Gutenberg authors]] {{small|(6,004, 50.58% done)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Dsp13 List/26|African writers]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Dsp13 List/20|Scottish illustrators]]
*[[User:Dsp13#People_prominent_in_ODNB_lacking_individual_articles_in_Wikipedia|WorldCat authors]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Open tasks#Articles to be created|Military History]] {{small|(init. 1459)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Guantanamo Bay Detainees|Guantanamo Bay Detainees]] {{small|(init. ~800)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Dsp13 List/10|Artists]] {{small|(init. 58 left)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Piracy/Requested articles|Piracy]] {{small|(init. 429)}}
*[[User:Magnus Manske/Malaria people|Malaria people]] {{small|(init. 33, 30 left)}}
*[[User:P. S. Burton/Svenskt översättarlexikon|Encyclopedia of Swedish Translators]] {{small|(init. ~150, 84 left)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Dsp13 List/6|French philosophers]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Thomson-Reuters most cited scientists|Thompson-Reuters most cited scientists]] {{small|(init. ~6000)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/United States judges and justices|U.S. judges and justices]] {{small|(init. 1,885, 1,122 left)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Padma|Padma awardees]] {{small|(init. 877, 831 left)}}
*[[User:Dsp13/drafts/Mary S. Sigourney Award|Mary S. Sigourney awardees]] {{small|(init. 101, 63 left)}}
*Miscellaneous biographies ([[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Dsp13 List/8|1]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Dsp13 List/12|2]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Dsp13 List/17|3]] [[User:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )/Red list|4]] [[User:Magnus Manske/People list|5]])
*[[User:DragonflySixtyseven/Marquis necrology|Necrology from ''Who's Who in America'' (1901-1902 edition)]]. Note that being in the 1901-1902 Marquis is a ''strong'' indicator of notability, but not a ''definite'' one.  
*[[User:ItsMeGabeProductions/People in Red|People in Red]]

'''Women'''
*''[[WP:WikiProject Women in Red|WikiProject Women in Red]]''
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Dsp13 List/11|Women]]
*[[User:Gobonobo/Gender_Gap_red_list|Gender Gap red list]]
*[[User:T. Anthony/Women in Red|Woman in Red]]
*[[User:Yupik/Redlinks/Indigenous Women|Indigenous Women]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Dsp13 List/16|Women writers]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Dsp13 List/21|Italian women writers]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedia articles/NWHP|National Women's Hall of Fame]] {{small|around 300 in total, 60 left}}
*[[User:Ezlev/Notable Women of Hawaii]]

'''Politicians'''
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/American politicians|American politicians]] {{small|(init. 4,376, 1,112 left)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Canadian politicians|Canadian politicians]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/German politicians|German politicians]] {{small|(init. 900, updated to 4,000)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Misc|Miscellaneous politicians]]  {{small|(init. 1,508)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Members of European Parliament]]
*[[User:Dsp13/List of current members of the National Assembly of Malawi|List of current members of the National Assembly of Malawi]]
*[[User:Dsp13/List of current members of the National Assembly of Botswana|List of current members of the National Assembly of Botswana]]
*[[User:Dominic/Chile politics|Chile politics]]

'''Constant update'''
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Skysmith's list of missing articles|Skysmith's list of missing articles]]
*[[User:West.andrew.g/Popular redlinks]]
* [[User:79lives/79lives's red links]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Quicksilver100|Quicksilver 100]]


'''Publications'''
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals/List of missing journals|Academic journals]] {{small|(init. 12,850)}}
** [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals/Journals cited by Wikipedia/Missing1|cited by WP]] (dynamic)
*[[Wikipedia:List of missing dictionaries|Dictionaries]] {{small|(init. 52)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Dsp13 List/13|Newspapers, magazines, etc.]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/List of US Newspapers|US newspapers]] {{small|(init. 7,363)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/List of notable books|Notable books]] {{small|(init. 6,284)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/List of notable books in Portuguese|Notable books in Portuguese]] {{small|(init. 400)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/List of notable books in Portuguese (Project Gutenberg)|Notable books in Portuguese]] ([[Project Gutenberg]])

'''Education'''
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Colleges and Universities|Colleges and universities]] {{small|(init. 3,593)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/High schools|High schools]] {{small|(over 22,188)}}

'''Biology and medicine'''
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Missing diseases|Diseases]] {{small|(init. 5,619)}}
**[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Cancer dictionary|Cancer topics]] {{small|(init. 5,004)}}
*[[List of MeSH codes|Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)]]  {{small|(init. 22,568)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Genome Glossary|Genome glossary (only 5 left)]]
*[[User:Magnus Manske/More stuff|Reproduction]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/List of notable books on history of medicine|Notable books - History of medicine]] {{small|(init. 376)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Mammals/Missing mammal species|Mammal species]] {{small|(449 species remaining)}}

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'''Movies, music and TV '''
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/British Comedy Guide|British Comedy Guide]] {{small|(init. 1,780)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Hawaii Herald films|Hawaii Herald]]
*Internet Movie Database
**[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Movies|Movies with 1000+ votes]]
**[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Actors|Actors in 100+ movies]]
**[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Directors|Directors of 50+ movies]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Movie Guide|Movie Guide]] {{small|(init. 412)}}
*Movies by topic
**[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Pirate films|Pirate films]] {{small|(init. 92)}}
**[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Samurai films|Samurai films]] {{small|(init. 485)}}
**[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Spaghetti Western films|Spaghetti Western films]] {{small|(init. 341)}}

*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing Music topics|Music Encyc. topics]] {{small|(init. 46,082, 34.1% done)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/List of notable albums|Notable albums]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/List of notable songs|Notable songs]] {{small|(init. 7,028, 80% done)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/List of TV shows|TV shows]] {{small|(init. 10,720)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/List of U.S. television stations|US TV stations]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles/List_of_Australian_TV_shows|Australian TV shows]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles/List_of_UK_TV_shows|UK TV shows]]

'''Geographical'''
*[[Wikipedia:List of missing Africa topics|Africa topics]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Dsp13 List/3|Wanted articles about Africa]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Antarctica|Antarctica geography]] {{small|(init. 14,000, further DAB required)}}
*[[Wikipedia:List of missing Middle Eastern topics|Middle Eastern topics]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Dsp13 List/1|Middle East and North Africa]]
*[[User:Duckduckstop/list of encyclopedia africana articles|List of Encyclopedia Africana articles]]

'''Arts'''
*[[User:Magnus Manske/Your Paintings|Your Paintings]]
*[[User:Ham II/250 paintings|250 missing paintings]] {{small|64 left}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Dsp13 List/23|Decorative arts]]
*[[User:Dax Bane/Photographers|Satoshi Nakamura's list of photographers]]

'''Other lists'''
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/Missing articles]] {{small|(init. 4,942, 9.1% done)}}
*[[Wikipedia:Missing science topics#Mathematics|Planet Math]] {{small|(init. 25,069)}}
*[[Wikipedia:Missing science topics#Computer_science|NIST Algorithms]] {{small|(init. 1,450, 75% done)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Global Names Index|Global Names Index]] {{small|(init. 17,275,622)}} (incomplete list)
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/MadMax List/1|Crime and related]] {{small|(init. 3813, 1749 remaining, 54.1% done)}} 
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/MadMax List/6|American Indian/Winning the West]] {{small|(init. 1732, 307 remaining, 82.3% done)}} 
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/USPTO|Patent/Trademark glossary]] {{small|(init. 527)}}
*[[User:Magnus Manske/Chemicals|Chemicals]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/PDB|PDB molecule of the month]] {{small|(init. 27/150)}}
*[[Wikipedia:List of quizbowl answers|Quiz Bowl answers]] {{small|(init. 1,444)}}
*[[Wikipedia:Stanford Archive answers|Stanford Archive answers]] {{small|(init. 37,159, counted first 10/May/2009)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/MadMax List/24|American and British history]] {{small|(init. 13179, 1353 remaining, 89.7% done)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/MadMax List/21|Slam wrestling]] {{small|(init. 1333, 261 remaining, 80.4% done)}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/MadMax List/10|Civil War/Military history/Bio/WW1]] {{small|(init. 5046, 238 remaining, 95.3% done)}} 
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Dsp13 List/2|International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis]]
*[[User:Dsp13/drafts/The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method|The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method]] 
*[[User:Agne27/French wine project|French wine project]]

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<big>'''Missing women by occupation'''</big><br>
The following lists are compiled and maintained by hand; most are subdivided by country.
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;A
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Academics|Academics]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Activists|Activists]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Anthropologists|Anthropologists]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Archaeologists|Archaeologists]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Architecture|Architecture]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Women artists|Artists]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Aviation|Aviation]]

;B
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/BBC 100 Women redlinks|BBC 100]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Biology|Biology (general)]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Botany|Botany (plant sciences)]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Business|Business]]

;C
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Chemistry|Chemists]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Computer science|Computers]]

;E
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Ecologists|Ecologists]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Educators|Educators]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Engineering|Engineering]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Women entertainers|Entertainers]]

;F
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Feminists|Feminists]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Food and drink|Food and drink]]

;G
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Geographers|Geographers]]

;J
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Jewish women|Jewish women]]

;L
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Labor activists|Labor activists]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Women in leadership|Leadership]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/LBT Women|LGBTQ]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Librarians|Librarians]]

;M
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Women in mathematics|Math]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Medicine|Medicine]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Military|Military]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Women in music|Music]]

;N
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Nursing|Nurses]]

;P
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Paleontology|Paleontologists]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women_in_Red/Photographers|Photographers]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Physics|Physics]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Politics|Politics]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Women in psychology|Psychology]]

;R
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Women in religion|Religion]]

;S
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Science|Science]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Social science|Social science]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Women in social work|Social workers]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Space science|Space science]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Spies|Spies]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Women in sports|Sports]]
**[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Sports/Cricketers|Cricketers]]
**[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Women's football task force/Open tasks#Requested Articles|Football (1)]]
**[[Wikipedia:Requested articles/Sports/Womens association football (soccer)|Football (2)]]

;T
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Women in technology|Technology]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/TED|TED Speakers]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Women travelers|Travelers]]

;V
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Women in video games|Video games]]

;W
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women writers/Missing articles|Writers]]
**[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Journalists|Journalists]]
**[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Novelists|Novelists]]
**[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Playwrights|Playwrights]]
**[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Poets|Poets]]
**[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Youth lit writers|Youth literature writers]]

;Z
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Zoologists|Zoologists]]

;Misc.
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by focus area|Missing articles by focus area]]
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<big>'''Missing women by occupation from Wikidata'''</big><br>
These lists are maintained by the Listeria bot, which draws data from Wikidata. The lists are refreshed daily by the bot, and do not need to be edited. Lists with more than 1500 entries are marked '''(L)''' for large. Individuals are normally found only in a single list, so a 'writer' who is also a 'poet' will be found in the poets list - this in an effort to list as many individuals as possible given a maximum list length of 5000.

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*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Actresses|Actresses]] '''(L)'''
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Archaeologists|Archaeologists]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Architects|Architects]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Artists|Artists]]
*[[Wikipedia:Wikiproject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Aviators|Aviators]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Business|Business]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Choreographers|Choreographers ]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Composers|Composers]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Computer scientists|Computer scientists]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Economists|Economists]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Educators|Educators]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Entertainers|Entertainers]] '''(L)'''
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Food and drink|Food and drink]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Historians|Historians]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Illustrators|Illustrators]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Law|Law]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Military|Military]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Models|Models]] '''(L)'''
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Nurses|Nurses]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Painters|Painters]] '''(L)'''
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Philosophers|Philosophers]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Photographers|Photographers]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Politicians|Politicians]] '''(L)'''
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Psychologists|Psychologists]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Religion|Religion]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Scientists|Scientists]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Sculptors|Sculptors]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Singers|Singers]] '''(L)'''
**[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Opera singers‎|Opera singers‎]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Trade unionists|Trade unionists]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/University teachers|University teachers]]  '''(L)'''
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Writers|Writers]] '''(L)'''
**[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Authors|Authors]] '''(L)'''
**[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Journalists|Journalists]] '''(L)'''
**[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Novelists|Novelists]]
**[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Playwrights|Playwrights]]
**[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Poets|Poets]] '''(L)'''
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/ODNB|Women in the ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'']]

;Sports
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Sportswomen|Sportswomen]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Athletics|Athletics]]  '''(L)'''
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Badminton|Badminton]]  '''(L)'''
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Basketball|Basketball]]  '''(L)'''
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Biathletes|Biathletes]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Boxers|Boxers]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Cycling|Cycling]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Footballers|Footballers]] '''(L)'''
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Golfers|Golfers]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Handball|Handball]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Ice_Hockey|Ice Hockey]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Judo|Judo]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Rowing|Rowing]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Rugby_Union|Rugby Union]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Sailing (sport)|Sailing (sport)]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Skaters|Skaters]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Skiers|Skiers]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Sprinters|Sprinters]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Swimmers|Swimmers]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Tennis|Tennis]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Table_Tennis|Table Tennis]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Volleyball|Volleyball]] '''(L)'''
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Wrestling|Wrestling]]
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<big>'''Missing women by nationality from Wikidata'''</big><br>
These lists are maintained by the Listeria bot, which draws data from Wikidata. The lists are refreshed daily by the bot, and do not need to be edited.

*Note that '''all African countries''' are included in '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Africa|Africa]]'''
*In addition to separate listings below, there is a combined list for '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Caribbean|the Caribbean islands]]''' and a crowd-sourced list for the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Caribbean|Caribbean]].

[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Afghanistan|Afghanistan]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Albania|Albania]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Argentina|Argentina]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Australia|Australia]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Austria|Austria]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Bahamas|Bahamas]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Bangladesh|Bangladesh]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Bermuda|Bermuda]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Bolivia|Bolivia]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia and Herzegovina]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Brazil|Brazil]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Bulgaria|Bulgaria]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Cambodia|Cambodia]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Canada|Canada]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Chile|Chile]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/China (People's Republic)|China (People's Republic)]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Colombia|Colombia]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Costa Rica|Costa Rica]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Croatia|Croatia]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Cyprus|Cyprus]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Cuba|Cuba]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Czech Republic|Czech Republic]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Denmark|Denmark]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Dominican Republic|Dominican Republic]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Ecuador|Ecuador]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/El Salvador|El Salvador]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Estonia|Estonia]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Finland|Finland]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/France|France]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Germany|Germany]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Greece|Greece]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Guatemala|Guatemala]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Haiti|Haiti]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Honduras|Honduras]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Hong Kong|Hong Kong]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Iceland|Iceland]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/India|India]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Indonesia|Indonesia]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Iran|Iran]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Iraq|Iraq]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles/Ireland|Ireland]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Israel|Israel]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Italy|Italy]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Ivory Coast|Ivory Coast]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Jamaica|Jamaica]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Japan|Japan]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Jordan|Jordan]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Kazakhstan|Kazakhstan]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Kenya|Kenya]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Kosovo|Kosovo]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Kuwait|Kuwait]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Latvia|Latvia]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Lebanon|Lebanon]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Lithuania|Lithuania]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Luxembourg|Luxembourg]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Macedonia|Macedonia]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Malaysia|Malaysia]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Malta|Malta]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Mexico|Mexico]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Moldova|Moldova]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Myanmar|Myanmar]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Nepal|Nepal]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/New Zealand|New Zealand]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Nicaragua|Nicaragua]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Norway|Norway]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Pakistan|Pakistan]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Panama|Panama]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Paraguay|Paraguay]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Peru|Peru]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Philippines|Philippines]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Poland|Poland]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Portugal|Portugal]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Puerto Rico|Puerto Rico]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Russia|Russia]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Saudi Arabia|Saudi Arabia]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Serbia|Serbia]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Singapore|Singapore]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Slovakia|Slovakia]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Slovenia|Slovenia]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/South Korea|South Korea]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Spain|Spain]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Sri Lanka|Sri Lanka]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Sweden|Sweden]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_nationality/Switzerland|Switzerland]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Syria|Syria]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Taiwan|Taiwan]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Trinidad and Tobago|Trinidad and Tobago]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/United Kingdom|United Kingdom]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/United States|United States]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Uruguay|Uruguay]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Uzbekistan|Uzbekistan]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Venezuela|Venezuela]], 
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject/Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Vietnam|Vietnam]], 
Misc: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women/Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality|Miscellaneous by nationality]]

<big>'''By geography, or historical ties to a region'''</big><br>

*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Africa|Africa: all countries (Wikidata)]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/API Women|Asia/Pacific Islands]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Black_history|Black history]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Caribbean|Caribbean Women]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Indigenous Women|Indigenous Women]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Nigeria|Nigerian women]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Polar women|Polar women]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Texas women|Texas]]
*[[User:Tokyogirl79LVA/Virginian women|Virginia]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Wisconsin women|Wisconsin]]
*[[User:Edgars2007/Women from German|Missing articles about women, that are in German Wikipedia, but aren't in English Wikipedia, sorted by iws]]


<big>'''Other'''</big><br>
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women_in_Red/Awards_conferences_and_organizations|Awards and conferences]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Books|Books by women]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Fictional women|Fictional women]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Halls of Fame|Halls of Fame]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Organizations|Organizations]]
* ''add others''
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</center>

==Places==
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Spotlight|Spotlight]]
===Subprojects===
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Distributed indexing|Distributed indexing]] &mdash; to give us access to the several scanned encyclopedias which do not have editable-text lists of entries.

==Guidelines==
{{Active Wiki Fixup Projects}} <!-- edit at [[Template:Active Wiki Fixup Projects]] -->
Your aim is to be able to delete a red-link entry from the lists by redirecting it to an existing article or making a new article. First, pick an entry.

=== Find a matching article ===
* [[m:MediaWiki User's Guide: Searching for pages|Find]] a WP article that's clearly on the same topic as the article from the external source. Make sure the two articles are really about the same thing. If you have any doubt, you can consult online or print encyclopedias to see what they tend to talk about, but remember you are probably reading copyrighted text.
* Click on the red link in one of these lists, and use the resulting edit page to create a WP [[Wikipedia:Redirect|redirect]]. Do so even if the differences between the article names seem trivial (such as differences in capitalization, diacritics, or punctuation), if it seems plausible that someone would search for the other title to find that article. A redirect costs nothing, and it may be useful to a reader some day.
* Other tips:
** You may need to create a [[Wikipedia:disambiguation|disambiguation]] page. For example (not a real example), suppose the external source has an article titled "J. Brown" that is about the WP subject John Brown, and WP also has a James Brown article, or you think that maybe it should one day. You would create a "J. Brown" disambiguation page.
** Does the WP article contain the target information as a subset, and is the subset obvious to the reader? If so, redirect to the WP article. If the subset is not obvious, you may want to write a short article, using the new title, and in it refer directly to the larger WP article. It's not a stub because you aren't looking for it to be expanded; it is more like a disambiguation with only one target.
** For biographies, there are lots of ways to write someone's name, and you may not know what form of the name WP is using. One useful trick is search the target name using the WP search (or a site-limited Google search), as the searches allow for variations in special characters, hyphen use, capitalisation and order of names. Another trick is to look at birth/death categories, such as [[:Category:1816 births]]. Look around the category for possible alternate spellings. In practice, death years are more reliable than birth years, particularly before 1800, but both tend to be unreliable before 1500. If you know basic information about the person - that they were president of a country, for example - try looking to see if they appear in any relevant articles, or on lists of office-holders. Finally, '''for help on how to write biographies, see [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography]].'''
** Redirects exist to help people find articles. If you can't imagine anyone ever searching for that title, consider not creating the redirect. For example, many paper encyclopedias often use "Y, X of" as a title format, but this is to keep related topics together in a medium that doesn't have a search box (a physical book); people looking for an article on [[units of time]] would not search for [[time, units of]] (but they might search for [[time unit]] or [[time units]]).

* Reminder: To redirect a page to another; add this message and nothing else:
:'''<nowiki>#REDIRECT [[Target page]]</nowiki>''', where '''Target page''' is the one to be redirected to.

=== Write a new article ===
If there isn't an appropriate WP article, [[Help:Starting_a_new_page|create one]].
* Remember the [[Wikipedia:Copyright FAQ|WP copyright rules]]. You may have just consulted another encyclopedia as part of your search for the matching WP article; don't let that dictate what you write.
* Use the [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names)|WP naming conventions]]. They may differ from other sources in capitalization and in many cases of personal names. If the correct title has diacritics, they should be used.
* If you have chosen a title different from the target title, create a redirect or disambiguation page to the new page, as described above. Even if the only difference between the target title and the new article's title is capitalization, create a redirect. Create other redirects to represent reasonable variations on capitalization, punctuation, and diacritics. ''Redirects are good''.
* You may be able to use material from the [[1911 Encyclopedia Britannica]] directly since it is old enough that it is in the public domain. Be aware that the world has changed a lot in a century, and 1911EB is not so useful for science, ethnography or geography. A great deal more is known from archeology about topics from the ancient world and the middle ages. Interpretations of almost everything in history and literature and the arts and and philosophy and religion have changed.  Most of the social sciences was unknown or just beginning to be known. You may want to place '''<code>{{tl|update-eb}}</code>''' at the top of the article if you are unsure what is outdated. On the other hand, comparison of 1911 and contemporary descriptions of, say, 18th-century French dramatists shows that the 1911 versions are often more informative (but also more old-fashioned in their critical approach) than the versions in modern encyclopedias.  A great deal in even the most static fields has been written in the last 10 years, and more recent people who have studies the different subjects needs to be discussed. Expect a very strong bias towards the British empire, the male sex, and western Europe, and great ignorance of the role of non-European peoples. .  
:And beware: some online versions of the 1911 Britannica are derived from uncorrected optical scans of the printed books, with claimed copyrighted additions mixed in with the original text. In addition, the scanning process is particularly bad at picking up diacritics, so do check spellings of non-English words against other sources. In particular, Greek text is completely mangled into meaningless junk , and non-European names will be differently transcribed. 
* If the article you create is a [[Wikipedia:Stub|stub]] (a short article), please give it the correct [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types|stub tag]]. After all, there is no point in making articles if they are never going to reach a high standard!
* If the same title appears more than once in one of the lists, it's because there are two topics with the same name. To match the coverage, you'll create two new articles (stubs at least) and link them with a disambiguation page.

===Pruning the lists===
You can remove your new article from one of the lists, although it doesn't matter if you don't. Several Wikipedians regularly prune the lists.  If you do remove any articles, be careful and double-check your editing; it is too easy to delete the wrong line, and it is unlikely that anyone will check your work. Also check the article itself, to make sure that it is not a copyright violation or that it doesn't redirect to the wrong topic.  For instance, [[Yaka]] redirected to a sci-fi character, so there was no possibility of redirecting to the ethnic group [[Yaka (ethnic group)|Yaka]].  Remember our goal is to create articles and content so be careful when creating (and checking) redirects to make sure that they are to the same subject.  They should not be "smudged" into something related, just for the sake of knocking another one off the list. Your contributions in all forms are welcome.

If you have done a significant number of deletions, update the count and the "% done".

==Tips==
# Remember to stick to [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions|Wikipedia naming conventions]]!
# Check for alternative capitalization and diacritics. 
# Chinese and Korean use different spellings in Britannica. For Chinese, the main article should use the [[pinyin]] spelling, which is the Wikipedia convention; for Korean, use [[Revised Romanization of Korean]]. Create a redirect from other variants.
# [[Cyrillic languages]] also use various spellings. Check them, and possible [[patronymic]]s (or lack thereof).
# If you look up an article, see if the facts concur. You may even be able to add facts to the Wiki article. Check the birthdates too. Wikipedia may be wrong, but so may the other sources. This is a good way to fact-check basic facts. Check for middle names and initials as well. 
# If the English Wikipedia doesn't have an article, it does not mean that other languages don't. For non-English names and places, you can search in the "home" Wikipedia for the person or topic in question. For proper names which don't need translating, you can check the [http://vs.aka-online.de/globalwpsearch/ Global Wikipedia Search] to find articles in other languages.  Mark it down or, better yet, see if you can find someone to translate it. An automatic translator can be used to get a sense of the article, but care is needed; editing an automatic translation often results in awkward English prose.
# See if you can come up with other ways to classify the articles, so that people with particular interests can find something to write about. For instance, you might want to make a [[User:Skysmith/Missing topics about Biology|Wikipedia:List of missing biology articles]], or a list of cities in China that we need.
# Don't be afraid to ask someone to help by contributing an article in their particular area of interest. That is how we got [[Restoration literature]], which was missing for a very long time. [[Muslim League]] is another example of that.
# One of us often tries to get at least one article on the requested article list on Recent Changes.
# A good place to look for redirects is [http://www.probert-encyclopaedia.co.uk here]. They have all the towns in the U.S. and England. Be careful though--Wikipedia is still missing articles for townships in many states. If they list something as a slang term, you can likely remove it from the list, or possibly include it in Wiktionary.
#Once you have created an article/redirect, leave an edit summary pointing to this project. This is important as it tells reviewers why the article/redirect was made and gains this project some visibility. Suggested edit summary: <code><nowiki>Created as part of the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles|WikiProject Missing articles]]</nowiki></code>

==Participants==
''Sign in on the '''[[:Category:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles participants|Missing encyclopedic articles participants]]''' page.''

==Completed goals==
Note: There might be cases when glancing through the completed projects that certain articles seem to have been left out or not created (e.g. [[Wikipedia:Missing  articles for towns and cities with 100,000 or more inhabitants|Towns and  cities with 100,000 or more inhabitants]]). Contact the person who last edited the project page or added the "complete" banner on the page to find out for the reasoning of why certain articles were not completed or were left out. Accidental omissions could also be a possibility.

*<s>[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Canadian politicians 2|Canadian provincial politicians]]</s> <small>December 20, 2012</small>
*<s>[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/American politicians/Governors|American governors]]</s> <small>July 17, 2012</small>
*<s>[[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Australia/To-do/Dictionary_of_Australian_Biography|Dictionary of Australian Biography]]</s> <small>June 6, 2012</small>
*<s>[[/Australian politicians|Australian politicians]]  <small>(init. 373)</small></s><small>April 4, 2012</small>
*<s>[[/List of encyclopedia topics X Music|List of encyclopedia topics X Music]]  <small>(init. 161)</small></s><small>February 7, 2012</small>
*<s>[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/GeneralxHotlist|General&times;Hotlist]] <small>(init. 977)</small></s><small>February 25, 2011</small>
*<s>[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/List of notable companies|Notable companies]] </s><small>November 12, 2010</small>
*<s>[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/List of thinkers on education|List of thinkers on education]] </s><small>23 August, 2010</small>
*<s>[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/English Lit Bio Dict|English Lit Biographical Dictionary]]</s> <small>22 April, 2010</small>
* <s>[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/biographies|Online Book Initiative biographies]]</s> <small>23 April, 2009</small>
* <s>[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/List of notable films|Notable films]]</s> <small>March 12, 2009</small>
* <s>[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/1919 Bartlett's Quotations|1919 Bartlett's Quotations]]</s> <small>November 30, 2008</small>
* <s>[[Wikipedia:Missing articles for towns and cities with 100,000 or more inhabitants|Towns and cities with 100,000 or more inhabitants]]</s> <small>July 15, 2008</small>
* <s>[[Wikipedia:Gardening for the Million topics|Gardening for the Million]]</s> <small> June 20, 2007</small>
* <s>[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Top list|Top list]] </s> <small> March 30, 2007</small>
* <s>[[User:Brian0918/Black history biographies|Britannica's Black History biographies]]</s> <small> March 20, 2007</small>
* <s>[[Wikipedia:1911 Encyclopedia topics|1911 Britannica topics]]</s> <small> Feb 27, 2006</small>
* <s>[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/1911xCatholic|1911&times;Catholic]] </s> <small> Feb 10, 2006</small>
* <s>[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/2004xEncarta|2004&times;Encarta]] </s> <small> Jan 4, 2006</small>
* <s>[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/1911xMusic|1911&times;Music]] </s> <small>Dec 19, 2005</small>
* <s>[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/1911xLoET|1911&times;List of encyc. topics]]</s>  <small>Nov 24, 2005</small>
* <s>[[Wikipedia:Nuttall Encyclopedia topics|Nuttall Encyclopedia topics]] </s> <small>Nov 10, 2005</small>
* <s> [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/1911x2004|1911&times;2004]]</s> <small> Oct 23, 2005</small>
* <s> [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/1911xHotlist|1911&times;Hotlist topics]]</s>  <small>Oct 20, 2005</small>
* <s>[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/GutenbergxMisc|Gutenberg authors&times;misc.]]</s>  <small>~ Oct 15, 2005</small>
* <s>[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/1911xBiographies|1911&times;Biographies]]</s>  <small>~Sep 15, 2005</small>
* <s>[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/1911xNuttall|Missing articles in 1911 ''and'' Nuttall]]</s>  <small>Aug 9, 2005</small>
* <s>[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/1911x2004xNuttall|Missing articles in 1911 ''and'' 2004 ''and'' Nuttall]]</s> <small>Jul 28, 2005</small>

==Useful article-writing resources==
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange]]
*[[Wikipedia:Public domain resources]]
*Your local library

==Tools==
*[http://tools.wmflabs.org/tb-dev/MEA/  Missing Encyclopedic Articles] - toolserver page which reports articles with many inter-language links that lack a corresponding article in a given language.

==See also==
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Most wanted|Most wanted]] - list of red links appearing on multiple lists. Last updated Jan. 2014
* [[List of long biographical articles on Rees's Cyclopaedia]]
* [[List of Rees's Cyclopædia articles]]
* [[User:Emijrp/All Human Knowledge]]

===Other WikiProjects===
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Intertranswiki]]
* [[Wikipedia:Requested articles]]
* [[:Category:Wikipedia red link lists]]
* [[:Category:Wikipedia missing topics]]
* [[Wikipedia:Most-wanted articles]]
* [[Wikipedia:Most-missed articles]] <small> 2008 list, 244 remaining </small>
* [[Wikipedia:Articles requested for more than a year]]
* [[Wikipedia:One featured article per quarter]]
* [[Wikipedia:Templates with red links]]
* [[Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement]]
* [[Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/5]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery]]
* [[Wikipedia:Status of FOLDOC import]]

==External watchlist==
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[[Category:Wikipedia WikiProjects|Missing encyclopedic articles]]
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