Wikipedia:WikiProject Feminism/Lead sentences needing improvement
These are the lead sentences most in need of improvement (as determined by a script). Generated 14 November 2015.
Title | Score | Lead sentence |
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Wu Zetian | 1108 | Wu Zetian (simplified Chinese: 武则天; traditional Chinese: 武則天; pinyin: Wǔ Zétiān; Wade–Giles: Wu3 Tse2-t'ien1, February 17, 624 – December 16, 705), also known as Wu Zhao (Wu Chao; Chinese: 武曌; pinyin: Wǔ Zhào; Wade–Giles: Wu3 Chao4), Wu Hou (Chinese: 武后; pinyin: Wǔ Hòu; Wade–Giles: Wu3 Hou4) and during the later Tang dynasty as Tian Hou (天后), referred to in English as Empress Consort Wu or by the deprecated term "Empress Wu", was a Chinese sovereign who ruled unofficially as Empress and later, officially as Emperor of China (皇帝) during the brief Zhou dynasty (周, 690-705), which interrupted the Tang dynasty (618–690 & 705–907). |
Qiu Jin | 902 | Qiu Jin (Chinese: 秋瑾; pinyin: Qiū Jǐn; Wade–Giles: Ch'iu Chin; November 8, 1875 – July 15, 1907), courtesy names Xuanqing (Chinese: 璿卿; pinyin: Xuánqīng) and Jingxiong (simplified Chinese: 竞雄; traditional Chinese: 競雄; pinyin: Jìngxióng), sobriquet Jianhu Nüxia (simplified Chinese: 鉴湖女侠; traditional Chinese: 鑑湖女俠; pinyin: Jiànhú Nǚxiá; literally: "Woman Knight of Mirror Lake"), was a Chinese revolutionary, feminist and writer. |
Caroline Fourest | 543 | Caroline Fourest (born September 19, 1975 in Aix-en-Provence) is a French feminist writer, documentary director, journalist, columnist (every Saturday in Le Monde until 14 July 2012), radio presenter (every Monday on the France Culture public radio channel), editor of the magazine ProChoix ("antiracist" and "secularist"), and author of Frère Tariq ("Brother Tariq"), a critical look at the works of Muslim intellectual Tariq Ramadan. |
Maureen Milgram Forrest | 414 | Maureen Milgram Forrest, (also known as Lillian Maureen Bernice Forrest) (born 1 February 1938, London, England; died 1 March 2013, Victoria, British Columbia) was the founder chair LeicesterHERday Trust, Leicester, and the original project director for the BRIT (British Recording Industry Trust) School of the Performing Arts and Technology in Croydon, London. |
Mahvash | 396 | Mahvash (née Akram, Persian: مهوش), (birth 1920 in Borujerd, Iran - death 1961 in Arak, Iran) also known as Banu Mahvash (English: Lady Mahvash) and Ma'sumeh Azizi Borujerdi, she was nicknamed by her fans as Akram Ābgūshtī (nicknamed in Persian after a lamb stew that was once a staple for poor Iranians). |
Aisha Taymur | 382 | Aisha Taymur (Arabic: عائشة تيمور; full name: Aisha E'ismat Taymur or Aisha 'Esmat al-Taymuriyya, Arabic: عائشة عصمت تيمور or Arabic: عائشة التيمورية) (1840-1902) was a notable Egyptian social activist, poet, novelist, and feminist. |
Assemblywomen | 363 | Aristophanes' Ecclesiazusae (Greek: Ἐκκλησιάζουσαι Ekklesiazousai; translated as Assemblywomen, Congresswomen, Women in Parliament, Women in Power, and A Parliament of Women) is a play dating from 391 BC which is similar in theme to Lysistrata in that a large portion of the comedy comes from women involving themselves in politics. |
Fifth Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance | 336 | Fifth Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (also, First Quinquennial International Woman Suffrage Alliance Meeting; sometimes referred to by historians as Fourth Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance) was held in London, England on April 26 through May 1, 1909. |
Leah | 327 | Leah (Hebrew: לֵאָה, Modern Le'a, Tiberian Lēʼā ISO 259-3 Leˀa; Syriac: ܠܝܐ La'ya; from 𒀖 𒀖 littu Akkadian for cow), as described in the Hebrew Bible, is the first of the two concurrent wives of the Hebrew patriarch Jacob and mother of six sons whose descendants became some of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, along with one daughter, Dinah. |
Thesmophoriazusae | 317 | Thesmophoriazusae (Greek: Θεσμοφοριάζουσαι Thesmophoriazousai; meaning Women Celebrating the Festival of the Thesmophoria, sometimes also called The Poet and the Women) is one of eleven surviving plays by the master of Old Comedy, the Athenian playwright Aristophanes. |
Armonía Somers | 313 | Armonía Liropeya Etchepare Locino (also, Armonía Etchepare de Henestrosa; better known by the pseudonym, Armonía Somers sometimes spelled Armonía Sommers; 7 October 1914 – 1 March 1994) was a Uruguayan feminist, pedagogue, novelist and short story writer. |