On 04/13/2015 01:18 PM, Jane Darnell wrote:
> Actually I think it would be useful to measure all existing female bios
> vs all existing male bios for the proportion of those which have been
> previously deleted and recreated. 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.

Hi Jane, I've done comparative work on coverage bias in biographies
between WP and Britannica [1]. I've also shared my data [2] with an
author of [3] who is extending that  analysis to include structural,
lexical, and visibility bias. I think addressing deletion and recreation
wouldn't be too hard...

[1]: http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/777/631
[2]: http://reagle.org/joseph/2010/06/gender/results
[3]: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1501.06307v1.pdf

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