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I am interested in the history of science (mainly biology) and surprisingly, Wikipedia tends to be quite weak in its coverage of historic figures, more so if the context is not English or American. Even for contemporary subjects, such simple matters as a freely-licensed portrait can easily be lacking. When I attend public talks by interesting speakers, I make it a point to check and fill any gaps here. I found that contributing even a really poor-quality photo can stimulate (make the subjects cringe and help out) improvement. This should be much easier for the more privileged who are in academia.
One of the effects of working on biographies is that one learns that scientists do not stand on the shoulders of giants to see better but rather by standing atop an enormous mound of largely unknown ants.
This is a working list of various scientists (not necessarily entomologists, but mostly biologists) who have not been covered on the English language Wikipedia.
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Insects/Entomologists
- H. Arnold Lea
- Bobby Clifton Pass
Bibliography of Biographies Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Biography/Biologists
Ornithologists - Wikipedia:WikiProject_Birds/Article_requests/People
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Arthropods/Article_requests
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Birds/Article_requests/Interwiki_gaps
Ornithology history gaps to check
- Wladyslaw Mierzeyewski
- Casimir Szarki
- Jan Marchlewski
- John Haber
- Jerzy Gotzman
- Bolesław Jabłoński
- Włodzimierz Puchalski - photographer, naturalist
- Ludwik Tomiałojć
- Andrzej Kruszewicz Andrzej Grzegorz Kruszewicz (born November 30, 1959 in Białystok )
- Tadeusz Stawarczyk
- Zenon Lewartowski
Sydney Basil-Edwardes (1899 - 2 December 1925, Simla) MBOU, Simla
- Julien Achard (1881-1925)
India related - entomologists etc.
- User:Shyamal/P.V. Isaac
- User:Shyamal/Dhirendra Nath Roy
- User:Shyamal/G.P. Channabasavanna
Ornithologists from Totalitarian times
- Wilfried Przygodda (1916 -1991)
- Boris Mikhailovich Pavlov (1933 - 1994)
- Robert Watson 1916-1984- 229
- Richard Lawrence Edward Ford 1913-1996 231
- Peter William Cribb 1920-1993 232
- John Heath 1922-1987 233
- William West 1836-1920 172
- William Holland 1845-1930 180
- Robert Adkin 1849-1935 186
- Edward Bagwell Purefoy 1868-1960 207
- Leonard Woods Newman 1873-1949 209
- Henry Attfield Leeds 1873-1958 211
- Robert Watson 1916-1984 229
- Richard Lawrence Edward Ford 1913-1996 231
- Peter William Cribb 1920-1993 232
- Andreas Werner Ebmer
- Yan-Ru Wu
- Yoshihiro Hirashima
This is a list of pending entries from the full list extracted from here. A real shame that the anglophone world is so closed - one really has to admire the comprehensiveness of the German Wikipedia in this set... most have now been done, the last few remaining ...
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- John Simonis of Selandia
- Nāgeśa / Nagoji Bhatta
- Pseudo-Petosiris
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