Re: [Gendergap] They want to delete First Ladies now?

It would be valuable to have a list of cases of suspicious (and non-suspicious) deletion requests for pages about women (or any targeted group). If such lists existed, one could likely automatically detect future suspicious cases and alert interested parties about the requests. (Of course, if

Re: [Gendergap] They want to delete First Ladies now?

the participation of women within Wikimedia projects. Subject: Re: [Gendergap] They want to delete First Ladies now? Thanks for that! I have always wondered about that myself. On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 5:49 AM, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote: Well, in fairness, Nell Arthur was

Re: [Gendergap] They want to delete First Ladies now?

Thanks for that! I have always wondered about that myself. On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 5:49 AM, Risker wrote: > Well, in fairness, Nell Arthur was never the U.S. First Lady because she > died before her husband became president. > > On the other hand, anyone can remove a PROD,

Re: [Gendergap] They want to delete First Ladies now?

Well, in fairness, Nell Arthur was never the U.S. First Lady because she died before her husband became president. On the other hand, anyone can remove a PROD, and based on what's in the article, it was a good call to do so. A few years ago, I did a bit of review on the likelihood that something

Re: [Gendergap] They want to delete First Ladies now?

Way back when there was a study, probably up on the Wikimedia gender gap page, indicating it was a bigger problem on sex and gender related articles. On 1/6/2017 11:53 AM, Jonathan Cardy wrote: Deletionism is a longstanding problem on Wikipedia, I don't know if there is a gender skew to the

Re: [Gendergap] They want to delete First Ladies now?

On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 11:11 AM, Carol Moore dc wrote: > These guys don't even bother to do a little info search to see if the > person might have lots of interesting RS info about them. Indeed. This one is plainly saying "I can't work up any interest in doing

Re: [Gendergap] They want to delete First Ladies now?

These guys don't even bother to do a little info search to see if the person might have lots of interesting RS info about them. On 1/6/2017 9:52 AM, Johanna-Hypatia Cybeleia wrote: It was a bit of a shock to see on Nell Arthur 's page an imminent

[Gendergap] They want to delete First Ladies now?

It was a bit of a shock to see on Nell Arthur 's page an imminent threat of deletion. I wouldn't have thought an article on a First Lady could be so vulnerable. Somebody is claiming that she has no notability just for being married to the vice president