Emilio - thanks for the reminder of that excellent page! On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Jane Darnell <jane...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a theory that it is much more difficult to create bios of females > in whatever category due to the systemic academic bias aginst including > women's biographies in the list of "reliable sources" mostly used in > Wikipedia. I would be especially interested in comparison of male-female > ration of bios in established dictionaries of biography and how these > compare to Wikipedia, and of those, how many such bios were previously > deleted on Wikipedia and recreated. > Agreed. I think one of the most effective ways to counter this sort of systemic bias is to find dictionaries of biography & encyclopedic histories of women and digitize them / make them available to editors. Those sources often do exist, though they are less commonly known or available online. We have a decent reason for them to relicense those works, especially if we can more actively help with the digitization as a result. It would be a small but precise blow against systemic bias to say "the following areas have historical & reporting bias; so we make extra effort to find and recognize additional sources, and vary criteria in inverse proportion to that bias". Sam
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