Re: [Gendergap] Article for deletion Fanny Imlay

2012-05-24 Thread Pharos
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:59 PM, David Goodman dgge...@gmail.com wrote: The argument for Savage was that an exception should be made for bibliographies, discographies, and so forth, where we would do better to provide complete  coverage since it quite easy to do something which can well be

Re: [Gendergap] Article for deletion Fanny Imlay

2012-05-23 Thread David Goodman
The argument for Savage was that an exception should be made for bibliographies, discographies, and so forth, where we would do better to provide complete coverage since it quite easy to do something which can well be crowd-sourced, fits in with our basic mission, is appropriate to do in

Re: [Gendergap] Article for deletion Fanny Imlay

2012-05-16 Thread Thomas Morton
Been there. Done that. It isn't only women's topics. Because Justin Bieber is unpopular and actively disliked by some people, (Though I guess you could argue this example relates to a topic of interest to many young girls) there was an attempt to merge

Re: [Gendergap] Article for deletion Fanny Imlay

2012-05-15 Thread Sarah Stierch
On 5/15/12 11:50 AM, Christine Meyer wrote: I thought that I'd bring an AfD discussion to the attention of this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Fanny_Imlay#Fanny_Imlay It really is ridiculous that this discussion is even happening, and is yet another example

Re: [Gendergap] Article for deletion Fanny Imlay

2012-05-15 Thread Carol Moore DC
On 5/15/2012 12:47 PM, Nathan wrote: It was a tactical deletion request. I find that to be a pretty silly maneuver, personally, particularly as the nominators never do a very good job as devil's advocate. If jbmurray didn't think the article should be deleted, he should not have wasted his own

Re: [Gendergap] Article for deletion Fanny Imlay

2012-05-15 Thread Ryan Kaldari
Too bad she wasn't nominated for any porn awards, then she would be clearly notable.[1] As it stands, she only has 1 biography and a couple hundred years of scholarly commentary, so it seems like a borderline case to me./sarcasm 1.

Re: [Gendergap] Article for deletion Fanny Imlay

2012-05-15 Thread Laura Hale
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:08 AM, Daniel and Elizabeth Case danc...@frontiernet.net wrote: This happened to another article I contributed to that reached FA status, as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:New_York_State_Route_32/Archive_1#Question It really came down to “yes, it’s

Re: [Gendergap] Article for deletion Fanny Imlay

2012-05-15 Thread Nathan
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Laura Hale la...@fanhistory.com wrote: Been there. Done that. It isn't only women's topics. Because Justin Bieber is unpopular and actively disliked by some people, (Though I guess you could argue this example relates to a topic of interest to many young

Re: [Gendergap] Article for deletion Fanny Imlay

2012-05-15 Thread Lady of Shalott
I have to say that I think a topic such as Imlay, with literally centuries of scholarship is not really comparable to the recentism that is an article on a Twitter account, whether Bieber's or Gaga's. LadyofShalott/ Aleta Turner On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Gendergap] Article for deletion Fanny Imlay

2012-05-15 Thread Laura Hale
From a gender gap perspective of bringing in new female contributors, I would argue that Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga are much more important than Imlay because Gaga and Bieber are of interest to and more accessible to a greater audience than Imlay's article is. I would further argue that it is a

Re: [Gendergap] Article for deletion Fanny Imlay

2012-05-15 Thread Sarah Stierch
On 5/15/12 6:35 PM, Laura Hale wrote: From a gender gap perspective of bringing in new female contributors, I would argue that Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga are much more important than Imlay because Gaga and Bieber are of interest to and more accessible to a greater audience than Imlay's

Re: [Gendergap] Article for deletion Fanny Imlay

2012-05-15 Thread John Vandenberg
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/15/12 6:35 PM, Laura Hale wrote: From a gender gap perspective of bringing in new female contributors,  I would argue that Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga are much more important than Imlay because Gaga and Bieber