[Gendergap] Gender neutrality template

[Sandra ordonez]

plus 1 pharos idea!! i think might be passive but powerful way to inform
people.

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Pharos <pharosofalexandria at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Daniel and Elizabeth Case
> <dancase at frontiernet.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I love the idea of having articles of gender concern in a one stop
> shopping
> > space. Going through the NPOV collection is long, painful and is filled
> with
> > lots of advertising articles for tech companies. Blarghhhh
> >
> > -Sarah
> >    I agree with a gender-specific tag as well. NPOV is (by design) vague
> > and, to me, not quite the fit we need as it is best applied to allegedly
> > non-neutral use of language (in obvious cases of POV language, I just fix
> it
> > ... there's no need to discuss). We ourselves already have {{globalize}}
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Globalize
> >
> > for the situation of articles reflecting only the experience of one
> > particular region of the world or country. I don't see why gender bias
> > couldn't be addressed the same way.
>
> I was going suggest the Globalize template as well; it's a good model
> of encouraging broader diversity (The examples and perspective in this
> article may not represent a worldwide view of the subject) without the
> boilerplate harsher tone of the stand NPOV template.
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
> (User:Pharos)
>
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