Based on the GenderGap discussion "They want to delete First Ladies now?", I suggest that anyone with an interest in tracking and saving articles about women or LGBT people, keep the following Petscan reports as bookmarks and think about taking a look at it every now and then when they have a bit of spare wiki-time: * https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=664225 (Women biographies) * https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=664239 (LGBT+ biographies)
The report shows biography articles which have been PRODded and filters them by any with women-related categories. At the moment this gives 6 BLPs about women have been marked for potential deletion among a current total of 71 PRODs for BLPs, while there are apparently zero BLP PRODs relating to LGBT people. The numbers seem to show no special bias for deleting articles about women or LGBT people, however this is debatable. Rescuing a BLP can be as simple as finding a reliable source to add. It's not hard to adapt the Petscan report to track other minority groups, you just need to find a good parent category to search on. Keep in mind the report is not ideal as some stub articles about women may not be well categorized and so will be missed, plus there may be false matches due to poor category hierarchies. Similarly most early biographies about LGBT people will tend to not be categorized (or if they are, are likely to get speedy deleted as controversial unless well sourced). To avoid this happening, it is worth going to the parent category < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:BLP_articles_proposed_for_deletion >, opening all the relevant articles, and ensuring they have appropriate women or LGBT related categories. As alluded to in the previous GenderGap discussion, it makes a lot of sense that when a relevant edit-a-thon or prize competition is coming up, we should make a point of suggesting that participants look at the list of PRODs in addition to starting new articles. :-) Thanks, Fae -- [email protected] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list [email protected] To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
