Re: [Gendergap] Novel by Woman-Notability

2014-07-24 Thread Daniel and Elizabeth Case
>She's an African woman. She's won Yale's big prize. Which, as I’ve noted, wasn’t even mentioned in the article at the time the tag was placed. >She is notable except this guy thought she wasn't. The placing of the tag doesn’t mean (necessarily) that he doubted her notability, as Jodi just po

Re: [Gendergap] Novel by Woman-Notability

2014-07-24 Thread Kathleen McCook
She's an African woman. She's won Yale's big prize. She is notable except this guy thought she wasn't.The I LOVE THIS book site mean to show she also had a general appeal. I see how they expect so much more to justify notability for a woman of color than a male author of potboilers. It's discourag

Re: [Gendergap] Novel by Woman-Notability

2014-07-24 Thread Jodi Schneider
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 7:46 PM, Pete Forsyth wrote: > > If you're looking to have the students engage with Wikipedia's systemic > bias, I think it might be more worthwhile to have them evaluate existing > deletion debates (and similar discussions) -- rather than having them > contribute directly

Re: [Gendergap] Novel by Woman-Notability

2014-07-24 Thread Jodi Schneider
Hi Kathleen, I suppose you are writing about this revision (or thereabouts): http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=October_(novel)&direction=next&oldid=617753940 A notability tag is not a "Scarlet A": it is merely a sign that the notability of the topic hasn't been sufficiently asserted. The

[Gendergap] Novel by Woman-Notability

2014-07-22 Thread Kathleen McCook
The reason I asked to discuss here is to ascertain whether or not there seems to be a different set of notability standards by gender. I encourage students to contribute to Wikipedia. But when notability is an editor's decision with so many exceptions...how do you encourage? Really, I am careful