If anyone is interested, I wrote a blog post about the history of
Sarkeesian's WP biography last week.
Andreas
On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Christine Meyer
<christinewmeyer(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
I remembered this thread as I began my most recent
GAC-review, "Mona Sax"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Sax. Sure enough, the nominator and
main editor of this article is the same guy who was topic-banned! I only
chose it because I wanted to review an article and it's short. I know
almost nothing about gaming, but not knowing about a topic has never
stopped me from reviewing an article; I tend to choose ones that are at the
top of the queue and to expand my knowledge about stuff I don't know much
about.
I was still tempted, though, to fail it on principle, but that would be
the wrong principle. The guy doesn't come across as all that smart; plus,
English isn't his native language and he's using that as an excuse for his
weak prose. (As a second language-user myself, I tend to not accept that
as a reason to be a weak writer, since just because you're a native speaker
of English doesn't mean that you can write well in it, and plenty of
non-native speakers are good writers.) Thus far, we're being polite with
each other, although I must admit that part of me wonders how it'll turn
out and if me being a girl will come into play.
Will keep you informed!
Christine
User: Figureskatingfan
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Diff of the quoted edit, for reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Anita_Sarkeesian&diff=pr…
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
I think most people here will remember the
appalling harassment Anita
Sarkeesian suffered in YouTube and on Wikipedia.
If not, see
http://www.feministfrequency.com/2012/06/harassment-misogyny-and-silencing-…
http://www.feministfrequency.com/2012/06/harassment-and-misogyny-via-wikipe…
So now we have another ANI thread on her biography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incide…
The discussion is whether a chap who made the following comment (among
many others) should be topic-banned from her biography:
---o0o---
Now she has over 4 million views, which is a huge leap (relatively),
despite not publishing any new videos since then - these 3 million new
views, and a big fame (especially among gamers), and the notability (also
on Wikipedia), and the money (from donations), all of it was only due to
the massive trolling response to her trailer video for a Kickstarter
project, which she then *media-savy way used to start a huge moral
panic (a smooth move, I'll admit) instead of just ignoring it, or do things
like [
http://www.destructoid.com/bioware-writer-s-vagina-versus-the-internet-2222…
literally using her vagina,
* which is what Hepler did], and so this is what she is "best known
for" (note: best).
---o0o---
That guy is the most frequent editor of her biography's talk page,
having made over three times more edits to it than the next editor.
http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/Contributors.php?wikilang=en&wi…
The ANI discussion has been running for a week.
Andreas
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