Wikipedia's overwhelmingly male user-editors began the bizarre forced
gender migration on Tuesday
The New York Times::
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/wikipedias-sexism-toward-female-novelists.html
This is to do with categorisation (the article refers to categories,
but then refers to pages when those 'pages' are in fact dynamic
listings generated on the fly).
One place to raise this would be:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Categorization
It is also worth reading this:
What subcategories would American men novelists go into? of course women
would also go into them. By centuries would be one set of subcategories;
and genre: mystery, western, adventure, fantasy, etc.
Hard to see this as a deliberate slight.
Fred
Wikipedia's overwhelmingly male user-editors
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
What subcategories would American men novelists go into? of course women
would also go into them. By centuries would be one set of subcategories;
and genre: mystery, western, adventure, fantasy, etc.
Hard to see this
That doesn't necessarily follow. Surely female American novelists should
appear in both categories.
On 25 Apr 2013 23:14, Sarah slimvir...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net
wrote:
What subcategories would American men novelists go into? of
The thing is that if someone is in a subcategory they are then taken out
of the category. So, if the subcategories are applied, nearly everyone
should be removed from the higher category such as American novelist.
Obviously this was not thought through well. If there is to be a female
novelist
