The depressing thing to me is that the English Wikipedia community takes all of 10 minutes to work itself into a frenzy about the use of profanity in a positive, non-personal way, but if an editor on Wikipedia calls a female editor a cunt, no one dares to bat an eye.
On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
Is it a double standard? If that page hadn't been written by Keilana, would it have been published as is?
Perhaps you're right, it *is* a double standard. Just not quite the one some think it would be.
Risker/Anne
On 21 February 2016 at 08:31, Neotarf neotarf@gmail.com wrote:
Op-ed about systemic bias and articles created. Interesting double standard about profanity in the comment section.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-02-17/Op-ed
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