I remembered this thread as I began my most recent GAC-review, Mona Sax
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Sax. Sure enough, the nominator and main
editor of this article is the same guy who was topic-banned! I only chose
it because I wanted to review an article and it's short. I know almost
nothing about gaming, but not knowing about a topic has never stopped me
from reviewing an article; I tend to choose ones that are at the top of the
queue and to expand my knowledge about stuff I don't know much about.
I was still tempted, though, to fail it on principle, but that would be the
wrong principle. The guy doesn't come across as all that smart; plus,
English isn't his native language and he's using that as an excuse for his
weak prose. (As a second language-user myself, I tend to not accept that
as a reason to be a weak writer, since just because you're a native speaker
of English doesn't mean that you can write well in it, and plenty of
non-native speakers are good writers.) Thus far, we're being polite with
each other, although I must admit that part of me wonders how it'll turn
out and if me being a girl will come into play.
Will keep you informed!
Christine
User: Figureskatingfan
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
Diff of the quoted edit, for reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Anita_Sarkeesiandiff=prevoldid=523584174
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
I think most people here will remember the appalling harassment Anita
Sarkeesian suffered in YouTube and on Wikipedia.
If not, see
http://www.feministfrequency.com/2012/06/harassment-misogyny-and-silencing-on-youtube/
http://www.feministfrequency.com/2012/06/harassment-and-misogyny-via-wikipedia/
So now we have another ANI thread on her biography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#BLP_issues_at_Anita_Sarkeesian
The discussion is whether a chap who made the following comment (among
many others) should be topic-banned from her biography:
---o0o---
Now she has over 4 million views, which is a huge leap (relatively),
despite not publishing any new videos since then - these 3 million new
views, and a big fame (especially among gamers), and the notability (also
on Wikipedia), and the money (from donations), all of it was only due to
the massive trolling response to her trailer video for a Kickstarter
project, which she then *media-savy way used to start a huge moral panic
(a smooth move, I'll admit) instead of just ignoring it, or do things like [
http://www.destructoid.com/bioware-writer-s-vagina-versus-the-internet-06.phtmlcounter-attack
literally using her vagina,
* which is what Hepler did], and so this is what she is best known for
(note: best).
---o0o---
That guy is the most frequent editor of her biography's talk page, having
made over three times more edits to it than the next editor.
http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/Contributors.php?wikilang=enwikifam=.wikipedia.orggrouped=onpage=Talk:Anita_Sarkeesian
The ANI discussion has been running for a week.
Andreas
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