Awesome article. Sorry to hear about your troubles with the peanut gallery.
Ryan On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 6:45 PM, Daniel and Elizabeth Case < danc...@frontiernet.net> wrote: > It’s one thing to read about the sort of harsh reactions women get > while editing that discourages them from continuing. > > It’s a second thing to experience it yourself. > > > Late last week I was browsing *Slate* when I read their reprint ( > http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/06/11/lolly_wolly_doodle_brandi_temple_s_north_carolina_children_s_clothing_startup.html) > of this month’s *Inc.* magazine cover story, about a company called Lolly > Wolly Doodle, a children’s clothing company started by Brandi Temple a > woman in North Carolina with no real prior business experience, who had by > her own admission never wanted to be anything more than a trophy wife when > she was younger. She apparently figured out how to sell on Facebook, > something major retailers have failed to do, and she’s now the CEO of a > rapidly-growing company that’s gotten some serious venture-capital funding, > doing over half of its $10 million+ annual business on FB and by their own > lights the largest retailer on that site. > > I checked to see if we had an article on this company. We didn’t, so I > started one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolly_Wolly_Doodle, complete > with an infobox with the company logo and a free image of one of its > dresses I found on Flickr. I reflected as I did so that the reason that > this company had gotten all the media coverage it had in the tech and > business press yet remained off our radar said entirely too much about our > gender gap ... if we had just a few more probably regular editors who also > are avid Pinterest users, I bet, we’d have had at least a stub a long time > ago. > > But, that was all water under the bridge. Or so I thought. > > I nominated it for DYK on Friday. Late today, I get these responses: > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Lolly_Wolly_Doodle&diff=613195333&oldid=612812989 > > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Lolly_Wolly_Doodle&diff=613195754&oldid=613195333 > > They were enough to ruin the good mood I was in following the USA’s World > Cup win over Ghana and our neighbor coming over to invite my wife and I to > her daughter’s graduation party. I have real trouble believing that > Eppstein even read it (“whole paragraphs” are sourced to the company’s own > history on its webpage? Huh? That it’s not neutral and too promotional? > Everything it is sourced and attributed. And that dismissive conclusion > about “story-telling mode about the struggles of the founders to find > their way in the world” Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think a > similarly-written story about a business set up by men would get this level > of criticism. > > Sorry if anyone was bothered by this, but I had to vent. I will be going > into greater detail about why this review was so off base when I request > that someone else review it instead (something I have very rarely done with > all the DYKs I’ve nominated). > > Daniel Case > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > >
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