Re: [Gendergap] vulgar jokes and sexualized environments on Wikipedia

2011-10-01 Thread carolmooredc
To beef up women's assertiveness so they protest, or to give more power to some authoritarian editors to delete and block reverters, that is the question. Why not do both?? :-) Or just get more assertive female admins. A job I myself shrink at the thought of. I already have enough problems

Re: [Gendergap] vulgar jokes and sexualized environments on Wikipedia

2011-10-01 Thread Fred Bauder
To beef up women's assertiveness so they protest, or to give more power to some authoritarian editors to delete and block reverters, that is the question. Why not do both?? :-) Or just get more assertive female admins. A job I myself shrink at the thought of. I already have enough problems

Re: [Gendergap] vulgar jokes and sexualized environments on Wikipedia

2011-10-01 Thread Fred Bauder
And to think I was strongly criticized for posting about High Noon moments You'd make a fine administrator, and any process that would not do so is broken. Many of us know that and talk freely about it, but we've not been able to get far, or even get up the energy to try. Fred So I've been

[Gendergap] vulgar jokes and sexualized environments on Wikipedia

2011-09-30 Thread Ryan Kaldari
Twice recently I have been reverted for removing vulgar jokes from article talk pages on the English Wikipedia - most recently for removing a joke who's punchline was A woman's anus after she was sodomized!. Although I appreciate the use of humor on Wikipedia, and support the inclusion of

Re: [Gendergap] vulgar jokes and sexualized environments on Wikipedia

2011-09-30 Thread Fred Bauder
Twice recently I have been reverted for removing vulgar jokes from article talk pages on the English Wikipedia - most recently for removing a joke who's punchline was A woman's anus after she was sodomized!. Although I appreciate the use of humor on Wikipedia, and support the inclusion of

Re: [Gendergap] vulgar jokes and sexualized environments on Wikipedia

2011-09-30 Thread Ryan Kaldari
It seems from my experience that WP:RD2 is usually interpreted fairly narrowly, at least in the cases I've tried to use it. Specifically it requires the material to be grossly offensive and excludes 'ordinary' incivility. In the world of Wikipedia, grossly offensive is a pretty high bar it

Re: [Gendergap] vulgar jokes and sexualized environments on Wikipedia

2011-09-30 Thread Fred Bauder
It seems from my experience that WP:RD2 is usually interpreted fairly narrowly, at least in the cases I've tried to use it. Specifically it requires the material to be grossly offensive and excludes 'ordinary' incivility. In the world of Wikipedia, grossly offensive is a pretty high bar it