[Gendergap] Asking Reddit's /r/asktransgender about Wikipedia

2012-05-09 Thread Tom Morris
Earlier today, I posted a thread on Reddit's AskTransgender group asking for feedback on how Wikipedia handles transgender issues, specifically BLP and pronoun issues. http://www.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/tejwl/is_wikipedia_handling_transgender_identity_well/ Feel free to respond

Re: [Gendergap] Asking Reddit's /r/asktransgender about Wikipedia

2012-05-09 Thread Ryan Kaldari
I've found that Wikipedia handles transgender issues fairly well. A good example is the Chaz Bono article. This article is an example of what should be the most problematic case on Wikipedia: A BLP of a transgender person mostly known for being the child of a celebrity. You would expect the

Re: [Gendergap] Asking Reddit's /r/asktransgender about Wikipedia

2012-05-09 Thread Risker
Generally, we do okay. Several of these articles are battlefields, however. You can see the fallout of a current one here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#AndyTheGrump and the history of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Manning and its talk