Hi Kathleen,
I suppose you are writing about this revision (or thereabouts):
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=October_(novel)direction=nextoldid=617753940
A notability tag is not a Scarlet A: it is merely a sign that the
notability of the topic hasn't been sufficiently asserted.
The
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 7:46 PM, Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com wrote:
If you're looking to have the students engage with Wikipedia's systemic
bias, I think it might be more worthwhile to have them evaluate existing
deletion debates (and similar discussions) -- rather than having them
She's an African woman. She's won Yale's big prize. She is notable except
this guy thought she wasn't.The I LOVE THIS book site mean to show she also
had a general appeal.
I see how they expect so much more to justify notability for a woman of
color than a male author of potboilers.
It's
She's an African woman. She's won Yale's big prize.
Which, as I’ve noted, wasn’t even mentioned in the article at the time the tag
was placed.
She is notable except this guy thought she wasn't.
The placing of the tag doesn’t mean (necessarily) that he doubted her
notability, as Jodi just
