Fred,
I agree with you. Especially with handkraft information, there won't be 'references'. You can't reference what your grandmother or great-grandmother taught you. Same is true with fairytales or folklore. I'd like to post some of the Irish tales my grandmother taught me. I haven't seen them published. It would be a shame for them to die because some bonehead decided there should be a published 'reference'. Which means I won't be able to post what I know, what isn't in any of the hundreds of sewing books I own, from the 19th century til 2011. So, I'm rethinking my plans of eventual posting. I don't want to get caught in a shit storm. What I love is what I love, I don't want it spoiled by argument.
Plus Danese's article about the car wasn't self-published, so where's the catch? Let it stand...
- Susan
Message: 5 Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:48:09 -0600 (MDT) From: "Fred Bauder" fredbaud@fairpoint.net Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Woman posting on Wikipedia about knitting, needs investigating To: "Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects" gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: 40246.66.243.192.69.1302731289.squirrel@webmail.fairpoint.net Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 13:35, Sarah Stierch sarah@sarahstierch.com wrote:
Wow, the talk page is insane, and is one reason why I "gave up" in the beginning.
I might take a stab on my own userspace to re-write this article. I'm somewhat addicted fixing crappy BLP's. Perhaps I'll send it your way (here) before I post it.
Could someone say again which article and talk page we're discussing? I've looked at this one -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danese_Cooper -- but can't see the issue. Ditto with the talk page.
Sarah
Here is the removal of the information about knitting:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?title=Danese_Cooper&am...
Removed again:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?title=Danese_Cooper&am...
This is where it was put in:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?title=Danese_Cooper&am...
Seems harmless enough, and hardly requires a substantial reference.
Fred