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The Misplaced Pages community was deeply saddened in early May to hear of the death of ], also known as SarahSV or Sarah, who began editing in November 2004, and became an integral, respected and influential member of the community. She was foundational in developing many of Misplaced Pages's core policies, including ], ] and ], and drew on her wide range of interests, to write some of Misplaced Pages's finest content. The Misplaced Pages community was deeply saddened in early May to hear of the death of ], also known as SarahSV or Sarah, who began editing in November 2004 and became an integral, respected, and influential member of the community. She was foundational in developing many of Misplaced Pages's core policies, including ], ] and ], and drew on her wide range of interests to write some of Misplaced Pages's finest content.


A prolific contributor, her 177,000-plus edits give insight into the project's often difficult evolution since its early days. In March 2005, she was ] and promoted with a majority of 77 to 1. SarahSV's intelligence, direct manner, broad range of policy knowledge, and lucid writing were highly regarded, and for many years her talkpage was the second-most-watchlisted, after {{noping|Jimbo Wales}}'. Several editors, on learning of her passing, described her on her talk page memorial as "irreplaceable" to Misplaced Pages. Her final edit was made on April 18, 2021. A prolific contributor, her 177,000-plus edits give insight into the project's often difficult evolution since its early days. In March 2005 she was ] and promoted with a majority of 77 to 1. SarahSV's intelligence, direct manner, broad range of policy knowledge, and lucid writing were highly regarded, and for many years her talkpage was the second-most-watchlisted, after {{noping|Jimbo Wales}}'. Several editors, on learning of her passing, described her on her talk page memorial as "irreplaceable" to Misplaced Pages. Her final edit was on April 18, 2021.


==== Policy development ==== ==== Policy development ====
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⚫ SarahSV embraced controversial subjects. In her first week on Misplaced Pages she created the article ], related to the ], which led to her first ]. She was instrumental in establishing ],<ref>. ], April 13, 2008</ref> She helped developed a ] that are today core to the project. After the 2005 ], she played a key role in formulating an early draft of the ] policy, and negotiating community acceptance. She continued to watch over and hone the policy, and made nearly half of all edits to the policy's page.


⚫ SarahSV embraced controversial subjects. In her first week on Misplaced Pages she created the article ], related to the ], which led to her first ]. She was instrumental in establishing ].<ref>. ], April 13, 2008</ref> She helped to develop ] that are at the core of the project. After the 2005 ] she played a key role in formulating an early draft of the ] policy, and in negotiating community acceptance. She continued to watch over and hone the policy, and made nearly half of all edits to the page.
⚫ In 2006, SarahSV proposed that the ] and ] policies be consolidated as ].<ref>"". ], March 21 2007</ref> Although that merger did not gain ] after a vote of 424 supports and 354 opposes, her leadership led to significant improvement of both policies, which have served as templates to similar policies on more than 70 other Wikipedias. In recent years she was active in simplifying, clarifying, and structurally improving the ] guideline and related pages.

⚫ In 2006, SarahSV proposed that the ] and ] policies be consolidated as an ] policy.<ref>"". ], March 21 2007</ref> Although that merger did not gain ] after a vote of 424 supports and 354 opposes, her leadership led to significant improvement of both policies, which have served as templates to similar policies on more than 70 Wikipedias. In recent years she was active in simplifying, clarifying, and structurally improving the ] guideline and related pages.


SarahSV was subjected to extensive harassment, stalking, and misogyny, both on- and off-wiki, particularly in the early years of her Misplaced Pages career. Her experiences helped to inform the community's policies on ], ], and the use of external attack sites. Over time, many of these principles have been incorporated into both Wikimedia Foundation and broader Wikimedia community policies; the current draft of the ] reflects many principles she championed. SarahSV was subjected to extensive harassment, stalking, and misogyny, both on- and off-wiki, particularly in the early years of her Misplaced Pages career. Her experiences helped to inform the community's policies on ], ], and the use of external attack sites. Over time, many of these principles have been incorporated into both Wikimedia Foundation and broader Wikimedia community policies; the current draft of the ] reflects many principles she championed.
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====Creation of the Gender Gap Task Force ==== ====Creation of the Gender Gap Task Force ====
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Since her early years at Misplaced Pages, SarahSV actively sought to highlight and counter systemic bias, and to reduce the gender gap. In May 2013 she formed the ]<ref>"". ], May 7, 2013</ref> to gather information on existing editorial and content gaps and to reduce them by encouraging new editors and related content development. The Task Force's core has grown to more than 170 editors who work closely with other WikiProjects when promoting content drives. Since her first years at Misplaced Pages, SarahSV actively sought to highlight and counter systemic bias and to reduce the gender gap. In May 2013 she formed the ]<ref>"". ], May 7, 2013</ref> to gather information on the gender gap among both editors and content, and to reduce these by encouraging new editors and content development. The Task Force has grown to more than 170 editors who work closely with other WikiProjects when promoting content drives.


SarahSV participated on the Gender Gap Mailing List, promoted editing salons focused on relevant subjects, wrote and improved articles about women, and authored the essay ]. Of particular note, she brought the ] article to ] status in 2014. The article was described by the late ] as covering "a difficult and challenging topic", and as "an important contribution to Misplaced Pages". ] agreed, congratulating her "fortitude in tackling such a difficult and yet important subject". On February 6, 2015, on the ], it appeared on Misplaced Pages's homepage as ]. The article was later recognized by the community with a ]. SarahSV participated on the Gender Gap Mailing List, promoted editing salons focused on relevant subjects, wrote and improved articles about women, and authored the essay ]. Of particular note, she brought ] to ] status in 2014. The article was described by the late ] as covering "a difficult and challenging topic", and as "an important contribution to Misplaced Pages". ] agreed, congratulating her "fortitude in tackling such a difficult and yet important subject". On February 6, 2015, on the ], it appeared on Misplaced Pages's homepage as ]. The article was later recognized by the community with a ].


==== Featured and other article work ==== ==== Featured and other article work ====
{{see also|User:SlimVirgin/Articles}} {{see also|User:SlimVirgin/Articles}}


SarahSV was a meticulous researcher, an expert at evaluating sources, and a clear and concise writer. She had eclectic interests and worked on a ]—including justice, race relations, philosophy, literature, human and animal rights, the Holocaust, religion and faith, current events, and conspiracy theories. She was greatly respected in the ] community, where the quality of her nominations set new standards, was active on FAC talk, and made important contributions to setting and improving standards for featured articles. She was a lucid, facts-based, and demanding reviewer, that many found intimidating because of her unbending efforts to establish correct use of sources. A consensus is that her guidance was always constructive: on reviewing one biography, she advised editors to "bring out some of the colour, things that make him three-dimensional for the reader ... bring him to life". SarahSV was a meticulous researcher, an expert at evaluating sources, and a clear and concise writer. She had eclectic interests and worked on ]—including justice, race relations, philosophy, literature, human and animal rights, the Holocaust, religion and faith, current events, and conspiracy theories. She was greatly respected in the ] community, where she made important contributions to setting and improving standards for featured articles, not least through the quality of her nominations. She was an eloquent, facts-based, and demanding FAC reviewer, and many nominators found her insistence on the correct use of sources intimidating. A consensus is that her guidance was always constructive: on reviewing one biography, she advised editors to "bring out some of the colour, things that make him three-dimensional for the reader ... bring him to life".


She brought ] to featured-article status in December 2004, followed in 2006 by three further featured articles: ], ], and ]'s book '']''. She nominated ] in 2007 as a collaboration with other editors. In 2009, she successfully nominated ], ], and ], followed a year later by the ] and ]. In 2014 she was part of a collaboration that brought ] to FA status. She brought ] to featured-article status in December 2004, followed in 2006 by three further featured articles: ], ], and ]'s book '']''. She nominated ] in 2007 as a collaboration with other editors. In 2009 she successfully nominated ], ], and ], followed a year later by the ] and ]. In 2014 she was part of a collaboration that brought ] to FA status.


SarahSV's editing history shows the breadth and depth of her focus. She uploaded almost 3000 files, created 4174 pages, and edited over 22,000. She edited twelve pages more than 1000 times. When working on articles intended for ] or featured status, she often expanded related articles such as ], ], and ]. Other articles on typically difficult subject matter that can be in large part credited to her, include ], ], the ], the ], and ]. She was continuing her work on the Holocaust and the ] until her last edits in late-April 2021. SarahSV's editing reveals a focus of great breadth and depth. She uploaded almost 3000 files, created 4174 pages, and edited more than 22,000 articles; twelve pages she edited more than 1000 times. When working to achieve ] or featured status, she often expanded related articles, such as ], ], and ]. Other articles on typically difficult subjects that can in large part be credited to her include ], ], the ], the ], and ]. She was continuing her work on the Holocaust and the ] until her last edits in late April 2021.


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The Misplaced Pages community was deeply saddened in early May to hear of the death of SlimVirgin, also known as SarahSV or Sarah, who began editing in November 2004 and became an integral, respected, and influential member of the community. She was foundational in developing many of Misplaced Pages's core policies, including biographies of living persons, no original research and verifiability, and drew on her wide range of interests to write some of Misplaced Pages's finest content.

A prolific contributor, her 177,000-plus edits give insight into the project's often difficult evolution since its early days. In March 2005 she was nominated for adminship and promoted with a majority of 77 to 1. SarahSV's intelligence, direct manner, broad range of policy knowledge, and lucid writing were highly regarded, and for many years her talkpage was the second-most-watchlisted, after Jimbo Wales'. Several editors, on learning of her passing, described her on her talk page memorial as "irreplaceable" to Misplaced Pages. Her final edit was on April 18, 2021.

Policy development

SarahSV embraced controversial subjects. In her first week on Misplaced Pages she created the article Death of Jeremiah Duggan, related to the LaRouche movement, which led to her first arbitration case. She was instrumental in establishing verifiability, not truth. She helped to develop a number of policies that are at the core of the project. After the 2005 Seigenthaler biography incident she played a key role in formulating an early draft of the biographies of living persons policy, and in negotiating community acceptance. She continued to watch over and hone the policy, and made nearly half of all edits to the page.

In 2006, SarahSV proposed that the verifiability and no original research policies be consolidated as an attribution policy. Although that merger did not gain consensus after a vote of 424 supports and 354 opposes, her leadership led to significant improvement of both policies, which have served as templates to similar policies on more than 70 Wikipedias. In recent years she was active in simplifying, clarifying, and structurally improving the conflict of interest guideline and related pages.

SarahSV was subjected to extensive harassment, stalking, and misogyny, both on- and off-wiki, particularly in the early years of her Misplaced Pages career. Her experiences helped to inform the community's policies on personal attacks, harassment, and the use of external attack sites. Over time, many of these principles have been incorporated into both Wikimedia Foundation and broader Wikimedia community policies; the current draft of the Wikimedia community universal code of conduct reflects many principles she championed.

Creation of the Gender Gap Task Force

Image from the Gender Gap Task Force

Since her first years at Misplaced Pages, SarahSV actively sought to highlight and counter systemic bias and to reduce the gender gap. In May 2013 she formed the Gender Gap Task Force to gather information on the gender gap among both editors and content, and to reduce these by encouraging new editors and content development. The Task Force has grown to more than 170 editors who work closely with other WikiProjects when promoting content drives.

SarahSV participated on the Gender Gap Mailing List, promoted editing salons focused on relevant subjects, wrote and improved articles about women, and authored the essay Writing about women. Of particular note, she brought Female genital mutilation to featured article status in 2014. The article was described by the late Brianboulton as covering "a difficult and challenging topic", and as "an important contribution to Misplaced Pages". J Milburn agreed, congratulating her "fortitude in tackling such a difficult and yet important subject". On February 6, 2015, on the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, it appeared on Misplaced Pages's homepage as Today's featured article. The article was later recognized by the community with a Million Award.

Featured and other article work

See also: User:SlimVirgin/Articles

SarahSV was a meticulous researcher, an expert at evaluating sources, and a clear and concise writer. She had eclectic interests and worked on a broad range of topics—including justice, race relations, philosophy, literature, human and animal rights, the Holocaust, religion and faith, current events, and conspiracy theories. She was greatly respected in the FAC community, where she made important contributions to setting and improving standards for featured articles, not least through the quality of her nominations. She was an eloquent, facts-based, and demanding FAC reviewer, and many nominators found her insistence on the correct use of sources intimidating. A consensus is that her guidance was always constructive: on reviewing one biography, she advised editors to "bring out some of the colour, things that make him three-dimensional for the reader ... bring him to life".

She brought Bernard Williams to featured-article status in December 2004, followed in 2006 by three further featured articles: Joel Brand, Rudolph Vrba, and Elie Wiesel's book Night. She nominated Brown Dog Affair in 2007 as a collaboration with other editors. In 2009 she successfully nominated Abu Nidal, Stanley Green, and Marshalsea, followed a year later by the Killing of Muhammad al-Durrah and Death of Ian Tomlinson. In 2014 she was part of a collaboration that brought Ezra Pound to FA status.

SarahSV's editing reveals a focus of great breadth and depth. She uploaded almost 3000 files, created 4174 pages, and edited more than 22,000 articles; twelve pages she edited more than 1000 times. When working to achieve good article or featured status, she often expanded related articles, such as the Holocaust, Rudolf Vrba, and Christian Science. Other articles on typically difficult subjects that can in large part be credited to her include veganism, Bad Pharma, the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal, the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, and Chelsea Manning. She was continuing her work on the Holocaust and the Auschwitz concentration camp until her last edits in late April 2021.

An honest woman here lies at rest,
As e’er God with Her image blest:
The friend of all, the friend of truth;
The friend of age, and guide of youth:
Few hearts like hers, with virtue warm’d,
Few heads with knowledge so inform’d:
If there’s another world, she lives in bliss;
If there is none, she made the best of this.

adapted from Robert Burns, Epitaph on My Own Friend

Citations

  1. created page. Misplaced Pages:Verifiability, not truth, April 13, 2008
  2. "it's fine as it is". Misplaced Pages:Attribution/Poll, March 21 2007
  3. "creating page". Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Countering systemic bias/Gender gap task force, May 7, 2013


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    • Thank you for having this obituary in The Signpost. Several amazing editors have died this year and it's a great loss for the project. Thanks for reminding us about some of SarahSV's contributions. Liz 20:37, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
    • Thanks to all who contributed to this obituary in Sarah's memory. Her spirit shines on, and not just through her momentous accomplishments. El_C 00:28, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
    • Don't get me wrong, I appreciate this. I just find it a bit too late. --Firestar464 (talk) 03:46, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
    • Oh, that's sad news! I never had the pleasure to work with her, but if we indeed owe Misplaced Pages:Verifiability, not truth to her, then for that alone I salute her. Although such a prolific editor can not be replaced, I feel like her legacy will live on in the work she did, and the policies that we follow. Thanks for the obituary. --LordPeterII (talk) 12:48, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
    • She did so much to help make Wiki what it is today. Thank you, SV, for everything. XFalcon2004x (talk) 13:45, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
    • I'm sorry to hear this. From my early interaction with SlimVirgin I liked her. Springee (talk) 02:35, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
    • This is very sad to hear. One way to honor her memory would be to help at WikiProject Women as there is still a huge gender gap on Misplaced Pages. –Gladamas (talk · contribs) 07:13, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
    • A great loss to everyone. She was a giant! She was very supportive! What a wonderful person. She will be sorely missed. Rest in peace, from your friend, IZAK (talk) 08:47, 23 November 2021 (UTC)
    • Very sorry to belatedly learn this sad news. May she rest in peace. She will be sadly missed. A few years ago I found myself having to briefly try to offer info to a feminist newbie on the pitfalls liable to be encountered if she wanted to survive as a female and feminist in Misplaced Pages (not so long after some leading feminist editors had got booted out), an area about which as a male I inevitably know almost nothing, but it was then just a simple matter of pointing her in Sarah's direction. If I ever have to do the same again, it will probably require me to do some Original Research to find out in whose direction such a newbie should now be pointed. Tlhslobus (talk) 21:00, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
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