[Gendergap] Kelly Wearstler, again...

[Sarah Stierch]

Hi everyone,

A few months ago Kelly Wearstler appeared - I think on this list. I had 
never heard of her, but, a small stink was being made on her talk page 
about whether to feature the Playboy model infobox for her page. So, I 
took a look, and of course got sucked in. I rewrote the article and 
blahblabhlah. One user was claiming that only claim to fame Kelly 
Wearstler has is being a Playboy model.

Someone linked me to an interesting comment on some arbcom case. Now, 
I'm not into getting involved in the drama llama known as Arbcom, but 
I'm a bit irked by this guy's comments here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2011/Candidates/Kww/Questions#Question_from_Newyorkbrad

And I'm not sure the protocol to going about handling this. It really 
irritates me, and now he's making some assumption that Kelly " Wearstler 
herself would rather that her Wikipedia page emphasize her interior 
design business rather than her Playmate past."  Uhhh...I wrote the 
page, to emphasize that she wasn't just a Playboy model (and consensus 
agreed on the talk page that it wasn't her main claim to fame). I also 
have NEVER MET KELLY WEARSTLER let alone do I own her books, nor did I 
know who she was (I'm just that involved in the fashion industry 
anymore.)...

So, I'm fairly aggravated that this person is claiming that it was 
Wearstler doing the manipulating to the article and that by revamping 
the page I'm saying (or someone is) that being a Playboy bunny is 
inherently bad. It states it in the lead that she was Playboy of the 
Month, and there is a section for it - 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Wearstler

Her clothing and interior design items are sold at Bergdorf Goodman 
(which is a VERY high end store - think 1% ;-) ) and she's published a 
number of books including a LA Times best seller.

Obviously I'm pissed, so how does one go about saying "Listen dude, I 
didn't write it FOR her, and if you don't think there's more to her, you 
need to really look a little closer," without getting sucked into an 
Arbcom drama?  I try to assume good faith, that perhaps he's just 
misunderstanding something, or I don't know what...

It also doesn't help that I've had artist biographies I've written 
lately speedy nominated because the speedy nominators 1) don't know 
anything about art 2) don't do their research properly.

So yeah, I'm grumpy.

Sarah


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