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1.1 Articles must meet the Equalpedia notability criteria. The content must be transparent, verifiable and supported by sources.

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1.3 After publication, the rights to the articles lie with Equalpedia. Equalpedia makes this knowledge freely available.

2. Comments and changes:

2.1 For registered authors: requested changes are communicated to the Equalpedia editorial team. After review by the Equalpedia editorial team, the changes are made by the editors.

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Guide to structuring articles

With the following outline guide, we want to make it easier to write an article for Equalpedia and, at the same time, ensure that all articles are structured according to a common order and sequence.

 

1. Outline for writing an article about individuals (biographies)

 

  • Basic biographical data
    full name, place/date of birth with sources, summary of key achievements/innovations/activities/professional roles, offices, with regard to Equalpedia’s notability criteria
  • Education, career (Werdegang)
  • Fields of work and their development with regard to Equalpedia’s notability criteria
  • Awards, prizes
  • Memberships, voluntary work
  • Publications
    • Writings, divided into sole authorship, edited volumes, reviews (selection)
    • Curatorial work (selection)
    • Artistic productions (selection)
    • Filmography (selection)
  • Literature about the person
    Secondary/external publications on/about the person: Academic works, studies, articles in (national) media, interviews, etc. (selection)
  • Web links (Weblinks)
    If applicable, own website, links to digitally accessible holdings in libraries, archives and collections, to cooperation partners, etc.
  • References (Einzelnachweise)
    Full citation of the source with page numbers, if applicable web address with date of access

 

2. Outline for writing an article about institutions

 

  • Basic information about the institution
    Summary of key achievements/innovations/activities in the respective subject areas
  • History and founding
    Placement in the social, political and cultural context of contemporary history, with regard to Equalpedia’s notability criteria
  • Fields of work, services, content and their historical development,
    if applicable, self-image/concept (range, areas of responsibility, collecting areas, product range, etc.)
  • Networks and cooperations
  • Organisational structure/funding
    Staffing structure and operational funding model, public funding, etc., if applicable with specific figures
  • Team
    Founders, partners/shareholders, managing directors, persons in leadership positions, boards (associations), by name with roles/fields of work
  • Awards, prizes
  • Publications
    Own publications; where relevant to the topic, also publications by the founders
  • Literature about the organisation/institution/project
    Secondary/external publications on/about the institution:

    • Academic works, studies, articles in (national) media, interviews, etc. (selection)
    • Possibly also more general literature on the general topic of the institution or covering several institutions (selection)
  • Web links
    If applicable, own website, links to digitally accessible holdings in libraries, archives and collections, cooperation partners, etc.
  • References
    Full citation of the sources with page numbers, if applicable web address with date of access

Machine translation: This article was translated automatically from the German original.