The reason I asked to discuss here is to ascertain whether or not there seems to be a different set of notability standards by gender.
I encourage students to contribute to Wikipedia. But when notability is an editor's decision with so many exceptions...how do you encourage? Really, I am careful and if a book by a brilliant woman like Zoe Wicomb causes notability queries..how, on earth, can this gender gap be addressed? Here is Ms. Wicomb's prize announcement at Yale. http://windhamcampbell.org/2013/winner/zo%C3%AB-wicomb On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Pete Forsyth <petefors...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Daniel and Elizabeth Case < > danc...@frontiernet.net> wrote: > >> >> >>> On what basis in Clive Cussler notable? >>> >> That he’s a regular denizen of the bestseller lists in many countries >> who’s had works adapted into major motion pictures (To be honest, I think >> we should say that “all published works by authors who have their >> paperbacks displayed prominently in the racks near the front of bookstores >> at airports are notable [image: Smile]“). >> > > Well, I don't know. I had never heard of Cussler before today (don't spend > a lot of time in airport bookshops), but I did look at a couple of his > novels' Wikipedia articles, and they didn't indicate significance any > better than the October article. (One of them had a single, ephemeral > reference; the other had 7 that seemed pretty thin.) > > I can see how Kathleen would be frustrated by what surely appears from her > perspective to be a double standard. > > Pete > [[User:Peteforsyth]] > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > >
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