+1 Ryan.
This was one article, and no Wikipedians, readers, or article subjects were
injured as a result of its publication. I don't really have a strong
opinion one way or the other about whether using language in this way is
OK. But the main lesson to me is how much the English Wikipedia community
has come to value the Signpost as an institution. It's hard to imagine such
any Signpost column inspiring so much passion, say, five years ago. Above
all, I think this constitutes a strong endorsement of the general value of
the Signpost.
-Pete
On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 1:54 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
The depressing thing to me is that the English
Wikipedia community takes
all of 10 minutes to work itself into a frenzy about the use of profanity
in a positive, non-personal way, but if an editor on Wikipedia calls a
female editor a cunt, no one dares to bat an eye.
On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Is it a double standard? If that page hadn't
been written by Keilana,
would it have been published as is?
Perhaps you're right, it *is* a double standard. Just not quite the one
some think it would be.
Risker/Anne
On 21 February 2016 at 08:31, Neotarf <neotarf(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Op-ed about systemic bias and articles created.
Interesting double
standard about profanity in the comment section.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-02-17/Op-ed
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