Emilio - thanks for the reminder of that excellent page!
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Jane Darnell <jane023(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I have a theory that it is much more difficult to
create bios of females
in whatever category due to the systemic academic bias aginst including
women's biographies in the list of "reliable sources" mostly used in
Wikipedia. I would be especially interested in comparison of male-female
ration of bios in established dictionaries of biography and how these
compare to Wikipedia, and of those, how many such bios were previously
deleted on Wikipedia and recreated.
Agreed. I think one of the most effective ways to counter this sort of
systemic bias is to find dictionaries of biography & encyclopedic histories
of women and digitize them / make them available to editors. Those sources
often do exist, though they are less commonly known or available online.
We have a decent reason for them to relicense those works, especially if we
can more actively help with the digitization as a result.
It would be a small but precise blow against systemic bias to say "the
following areas have historical & reporting bias; so we make extra effort
to find and recognize additional sources, and vary criteria in inverse
proportion to that bias".
Sam