Frankly, I don't know why this is a "feminist" issue; rather than an issue of common sense.
It is not a finite list, and for the vast majority of people on the list, being a vegetarian is hardly responsible for even the smallest piece of their notability; it is an arbitrary piece of trivia for most of them. Take http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Lagarde for example, her vegetarianism is but an afterthought in her biography, yet she is being placed as the most prominent vegetarian in that article. I would argue that this is taking the whole "feminist" issue to its most illogical and extreme. And it is open to "western bias". Take the number of Indians on the list, for example. There are only TWENTY Indians on the list. If we transplant the 31% of Indians who are vegetarians (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism_by_country#India) to this list, 31% of subjects of Indian biographical articles should be placed in this article (all things considered same-same). And if we did want to use the "lead photo" to depict a truly known vegetarian, one could ask why Gandhi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi#Vegetarianism_and_food) has been relegated to below several people whom the average person has never heard of (with the likely exception of Natalie Portman and Martina Navratilova). This is a precise example of said western bias in action. The common sense approach would ask, why do we need a [[List of vegetarians]] in the first place, when [[:Category:Vegetarians]] would be a much better way to handle such infinite lists. I appreciate that people want to remove an over-the-top amount of adult entertainers from the list, and rightly so, but again I fear that the bigger picture has yet again been missed, and people are looking at things from the wrong perspective. Cheers, Russavia On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 10:23 PM, Sarah <slimvir...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Sarah <slimvir...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> It's a good question. Why is it humoured? > > > > It doesn't look like you're going to get an answer. > > So, in the absence of an answer, why do other contributors here think the > sort of nonsense Sarah has had to deal with a [[Talk:List of vegetarians]] is > humoured? > > What could the WMF do to address it that it isn't doing right now? > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
