What I am taking personally is your assertion that we nominated these articles for some anti-female agenda. 

Which you continue to do by suggesting my characterisation of your argument as ridiculous is due to you being a woman.

The irony of then telling me not to take it personally is... Ah, well.. 

Of course I take personally being characterised as holding offensive views. 

The point was; I am educating you about the sorts of things that put people off editing. I am a big believer in making wikipedia a welcoming place, and your comments characterise the unfortunate low level nastiness that often puts people off. I am sure it was unintended, hence the explanation. 

Tom Morton

On 26 Aug 2012, at 17:28, Carol Moore DC <carolmooredc@verizon.net> wrote:

As a female I've been called ridiculous for having an opinion so many times I don't even know what it means anymore :-)

But seriously, it's not like the nominator said:"I'm on the GenderGap list and here's why I think this list would agree these articles should be deleted... "

Don't take rejections of AfD nominations so personally...

CM

On 8/26/2012 11:50 AM, Thomas Morton wrote:

On 26 Aug 2012, at 16:36, Carol Moore DC <carolmooredc@verizon.net> wrote:

Questionable just means one has questions.  So it's nice, unlike the other words which I was contrasting with questionable - not using to describe my specific questions on specific articles in that particular AfD list.  See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Feminism/Article_alerts

But frankly I do wonder why two people on this list nominate brand new articles related to women for deletion rather than improving them. 

HOWEVER --  the specifics should be discussed at the relevant AfD pages, so if this little dust up gets people there, goody goody!! :-)

CM


Wow. What a ridiculous way to say "yes". Ive always found you to be switched on and relevant in the past; but looking over your contributions to those AFDs it feels like your certain the aim is to remove these articles because we are anti-women. And for no other reason. 

This is the sort of thing that puts women off editing Wikipedia and I am happy to call it out. 
Tom


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