On 8/4/2013 8:55 AM, Carol Moore dc wrote:
I happened to notice last night that the Bill Clinton article had "Allegation for sexual assault" as a subsection of "Public image".

Thinking it's a bit more than than that, I just moved it up to a full section.

Within a few hours an editor completely removed any sectioning, leaving it under public image.


...Better late than never I stuck a short note on Wikiproject feminism for anyone who wants to deal with the issue.

Another reason I've been disturbed about it is because I have seen so many biased section headers against individuals who have uttered even the slightest "politically incorrect" statement on certain groups which obviously have very active and organized supporters on wikipedia.  ("Allegations of this/that/and the other" sections abound.) I've wasted so much time dealing with their outrage over minor mis-speaks or academic opinions they don't like.

Yet when women alleged assault and it has thousands of WP:RS, it's thrown in the bottom of a "public image" section on a BLP.

It's taken me a few days to get over my disgust and address the real issue: will wikipedia women organize merely to keep from being dissed like this, even while others violate policy left and right pushing their own agendas.  (And I'm not even talking about doing things like putting sections on "allegations of sexism" in the hundreds of male BLPs that need such a section.)

I think we've seen enough surveys that show a large proportion of - or most? - women who try Wikipedia choose to boycott Wikipedia once they run into behaviors that bother them. Maybe they are taking the truly wise (and feminist) approach...     Lysistrata and all that. 

(Who said I'm organizing a woman's boycott of wikipedia... let's squash those rumors now!!)

CM