I have to agree with Oliver here. Discussions of specific article/essay/etc problems belong on - not off - wikipedia as much as possible. I got spanked/blocked once in part for going off wikipedia (when I didn't know I was), so let's not encourage it.

Again, that's why need places like relevant Wikiprojects and/or Portals to post these issues and then we need to go and opine on relevant talk pages. And we may find we have very different opinions. But the important thing is to get out there an express them.

What we need is an area for karate lessons and practice for wikipedia women editors before they go out on the public mat, i.e., talk pages :-)

On 2/16/2011 10:20 AM, Oliver Keyes wrote:

How about you all contribute to the discussion proper, rather than suggesting things which, if made on-wiki, would result in an immediate block for inappropriate behaviour?

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Joseph Reagle <joseph.2008@reagle.org> wrote:

On Tuesday, February 15, 2011, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
> There are some excruciatingly naive arguments being made on the essay's
> talk page, e.g.:

Is this the sort of thing that would benefit from public pillory? For example, a posting on Geek Feminism blog or elsewhere? On one hand, I think such attitudes merit public critique, on the other, I wouldn't want such efforts to backfire and make Wikipedia even less appealing to possible contributors, particularly if this is just a rat hole.