On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Pharos <pharosofalexandria@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Daniel and Elizabeth Case
<dancase@frontiernet.net> wrote:
>
>
> I love the idea of having articles of gender concern in a one stop shopping
> space. Going through the NPOV collection is long, painful and is filled with
> lots of advertising articles for tech companies. Blarghhhh
>
> -Sarah
> I agree with a gender-specific tag as well. NPOV is (by design) vague
> and, to me, not quite the fit we need as it is best applied to allegedly
> non-neutral use of language (in obvious cases of POV language, I just fix it
> ... there's no need to discuss). We ourselves already have {{globalize}}
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Globalize
>
> for the situation of articles reflecting only the experience of one
> particular region of the world or country. I don't see why gender bias
> couldn't be addressed the same way.

I was going suggest the Globalize template as well; it's a good model
of encouraging broader diversity (The examples and perspective in this
article may not represent a worldwide view of the subject) without the
boilerplate harsher tone of the stand NPOV template.

Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)

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