Additionally, we all have topics we dislike and may have a bias for deleting. (I control my urges by tagging articles rather than AfDing them.) It would be interesting to see if there is a pattern of certain individuals AfDing (and/or coming by to support AfDing) articles because of bias against women. If it's found, a few of us could leave them some nice notes on their talk pages about our findings. :-)On 7/22/2014 8:00 PM, Kerry Raymond wrote:
There's also the issue of whether you are an inclusionist or an exclusionist. (I'm the former.)I think it’s “new-ness” bias and a “related content bias” and a “popularity bias” rather than primarily a gender bias. There’s loads of new work published all the time. Lots of it will not merit a Wikipedia article, just as many novels by the male contemporaries of Clive Cussler don’t get Wikipedia articles either. Novels that have been around for years will have had lots of opportunity for 3rd parties to talk about them to establish notability. New novels have a harder job to establish notability because they have been around for a shorter period of time for others to write about them.
Unfortunately, a lot of guy exclusionists see AfD as some sort of video game and feel like every deletion is a point in the game. A game which probably far more males than females want to play.
CM