Yes, I get that part. I'm actually rather surprised by that, but then again I don't know Sarah well enough to understand her perspective.
Risker/Anne On 21 January 2013 21:42, Katherine Casey <[email protected]>wrote: > While I mostly agree with your take about the judgment being shown around > this article, Risker, it bears noting that Sarah seems more than happy to > have the article - indeed, she's contributing sources to it to make sure it > stays kept. > > -Fluff > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Risker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I find my thoughts about this heading in so many different directions, >> I'm not really sure where to start. >> >> Of all the people on Wikipedia, I would have thought that people on this >> list would be intensely aware of the hazards of having a biographical >> article about oneself on Wikipedia, particularly one that will likely be >> little-watched, and for whom huge numbers of editors will have significant >> conflicts of interest in editing. This is particularly true of articles >> about women, it seems, and especially women of borderline notability. This >> is a target painted on Sarah's back. She may not realise it yet, but >> having spent a good chunk of the last several years dealing with "vandals >> and trolls", she's a really juicy target. >> >> Indeed, one could easily say that the creator of this article had a >> significant conflict of interest in writing an article about someone who is >> an advisor to the author's non-profit, AND who has made significant edits >> to the author's article. Imagine if Jimmy Wales went around writing >> biographical articles about the WMF Board's advisory council members - we >> all know what digestive products would hit the oscillating ventilator. (Of >> course, the major variable is the quality of writing - I am happy to grant >> that it's well written.) Conflict of interest is already a very major >> battleground on the project, although we've not really discussed it much on >> this list. >> >> I'm sorry but I think this was a bad idea. It seriously increases the >> risk that other wikimedians will find themselves with an unwanted biography >> that will be pretty well impossible to remove from the project. That might >> be fine for some, but it's a significant concern for a lot of others, and I >> know of several wikimedians who are similarly borderline notable but who go >> out of their way to avoid media or turn down speaking engagements because >> they do not want a Wikipedia article about them. I'm afraid this low bar >> to notability is so unhealthy that it's had an effect on our own >> community. >> >> Risker/Anne >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gendergap mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > >
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