plus 1 pharos idea!! i think might be passive but powerful way to inform people. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Pharos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pharosofalexandria@gmail.com">pharosofalexandria@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Daniel and Elizabeth Case<br>
<<a href="mailto:dancase@frontiernet.net">dancase@frontiernet.net</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
><br>
> I love the idea of having articles of gender concern in a one stop shopping<br>
> space. Going through the NPOV collection is long, painful and is filled with<br>
> lots of advertising articles for tech companies. Blarghhhh<br>
><br>
> -Sarah<br>
> I agree with a gender-specific tag as well. NPOV is (by design) vague<br>
> and, to me, not quite the fit we need as it is best applied to allegedly<br>
> non-neutral use of language (in obvious cases of POV language, I just fix it<br>
> ... there's no need to discuss). We ourselves already have {{globalize}}<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Globalize" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Globalize</a><br>
><br>
> for the situation of articles reflecting only the experience of one<br>
> particular region of the world or country. I don't see why gender bias<br>
> couldn't be addressed the same way.<br>
<br>
I was going suggest the Globalize template as well; it's a good model<br>
of encouraging broader diversity (The examples and perspective in this<br>
article may not represent a worldwide view of the subject) without the<br>
boilerplate harsher tone of the stand NPOV template.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Richard<br>
(User:Pharos)<br>
<br>
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