[WikiEN-l] don't make the other person feel they have no business there

2012-09-09 Thread Kathleen McCook
Well, it's simple. Be polite and non-confrontational and don't make the new contributor feel they have no business trying. Wikipedians are only about 20% female and the world is about 50%...so there must be some noise on this channel. Perhaps males have a higher tolerance for confrontation. Seems

Re: [WikiEN-l] don't make the other person feel they have no business there

2012-09-09 Thread Carcharoth
On 9/9/12, Kathleen McCook klmcc...@gmail.com wrote: Well, it's simple. Be polite and non-confrontational and don't make the new contributor feel they have no business trying. Good advice. Though quite why a new thread is being started each time, I'm not sure. I'm trying to be as polite and

Re: [WikiEN-l] don't make the other person feel they have no business there

2012-09-09 Thread Kathleen McCook
I don't know why either. I will send a research paper citation and stop. --Kathleen On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.comwrote: On 9/9/12, Kathleen McCook klmcc...@gmail.com wrote: Well, it's simple. Be polite and non-confrontational and don't make the new

Re: [WikiEN-l] don't make the other person feel they have no business there

2012-09-09 Thread Nathan
You just need to stop changing the subject line of your e-mail. ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] don't make the other person feel they have no business there

2012-09-09 Thread Carcharoth
On 9/9/12, Kathleen McCook klmcc...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know why either. I think it is because the subject line is being changed each time. In some e-mail clients that shows up as a new thread each time (other e-mail clients recognise some other thread identifier, I'm not quite sure of the