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Hi everyone,<br>
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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. <br>
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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:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2011/Candidates/Kww/Questions#Question_from_Newyorkbrad">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2011/Candidates/Kww/Questions#Question_from_Newyorkbrad</a><br>
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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
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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.)...<br>
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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 -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Wearstler">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Wearstler</a><br>
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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. <br>
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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...<br>
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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. <br>
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So yeah, I'm grumpy. <br>
<br>
Sarah<br>
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