Is there an article on "vaginal fistula"? I would look it up myself, but I'm at work :)
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Nathan <nawr...@gmail.com> wrote: > It could just as easily be argued the other way, I think. It's > presumptuous and perhaps insulting to purport to create a biography on a > person, under her own name, while merely recounting a single tragic > occurrence in her life. Since there is often not enough verifiable > information to create a biography, it makes some sense to not assert that > Wikipedia is doing so. Moreover... It's generally bad practice to apply > principles of search engine optimization to editing an encyclopedia. > > And as for fistula... That article isn't great, I agree. However, vaginal > fistulas are not the only or even the most common use of that term. Even in > medicine, they are a subset of the broader phenomena. > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Neotarf <neot...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Articles about women are getting lost. Lost that is, to Google searches. >> >> For the last two days, Afghanistan has been exploding in demonstrations >> over Farkhunda, a Kabul woman who was beaten to death and torched by a mob. >> Even though every major news source has done a piece on her, I can't find >> an article for her yet in Wikipedia. When it does get written, and finally >> starts showing up in the search engines, what will it say? "Farkhunda", the >> logical search term? Or more likely, the more common format: "the >> murder/lynching/battering/victimization/humiliation of [insert woman's name >> here]". >> >> >> For quite some time, the article for Ozgecan Aslan was hidden from >> Google searches as well, because due to the English Wikipedia's unique >> naming conventions, the article was called "Murder of Özgecan Aslan". >> >> >> Maybe it's time to reconsider naming articles about women for the >> horrible things that were done to them, and give them the simple dignity of >> their own names. I'm not sure the victimization narrative is the right one >> anyhow. The Farkhunda story seems to be about her death becoming a >> rallying point for the way women are treated in Afghanistan, much as Aslan >> was in Turkey. >> >> >> What else? Iraqi lawyer Samira Salih al-Nuaimi still comes up 6th in a >> Google search, *after* the entry for the Daily Mail, because of the >> idiosyncratic spelling of her name in the article title. But at least you >> can find her (very, very short) article now. >> >> >> And since I've already written this much, the article on fistula >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fistula>, a problem for a huge number of >> girls in parts of the Global South, is not very well explained. Compare >> Female >> genital mutilation or even Women's rights in 2014 >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_rights_in_2014&redirect=no>. >> (thx, SV). Also reference the short article on Fatimata Touré >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatimata_Tour%C3%A9>, whose group in Mali >> works against fistula. >> >> >> Note: for Farkhunda, see Twitter photos >> https://twitter.com/hashtag/Farkhunda?src=hash and WaPo http:// >> www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/03/23/afghan-woman-beaten-to-death-for-a-crime-she-didnt-commit-becomes-a-rallying-point-for-activists/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gendergap mailing list >> Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org >> To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please >> visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please > visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >
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