Perhaps I'm just too new to writing BLP's (I've written five so far, and
I have spoken with 3 of the artists) ...I don't believe I can use
message boards and such to cite as sources. I know I have to limit the
self-generated sources I use, such as your blog. While I trust you,
maybe the folks on the talk page don't :-/ ?
Even if I have ten people confirm with me that you taught them how to
knit, the information could very well be removed without the appropriate
source citing.
This is a learning experience, that's for sure! And I admit, it's a bit
surreal writing the BLP for the CTO of Wikimedia. :)
On 4/13/2011 3:58 PM, Danese Cooper wrote:
Hi there...
So, first of all (since Susan who originally posted this didn't know)
I'm employed by Wikimedia Foundation. My bio page predates my
employment by 6 years, but when I started working for WMF the
Community did a "make-over" on my page and I had to re-prove many
facts of my life. This year, on roughly the anniversary of my hire, a
deletionist tried to invalidate my bio because it was mostly Open
Source folks who had edited it and therefore the deletionist claimed
Conflict Of Interest (you can see it all in Discussion and subsequent
ArbCom query)...somehow in that fracas, the knitting references were
dropped and not replaced...which I think is a pity because when it is
there many people ask me about knitting in public and I've been able
to get several programmers (of both genders) to learn to knit as a way
to deal with attention issues.
As a sidenote in case you wish to restore the whole Personal
section...here's a better link that explains my Dad really did own a
rare Alfa Romeo with my unusual name spelling.
http://forum.miata.net/vb/archive/index.php/t-382563.html
and also
http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/4406/Nardi-Danese-Alfa-Romeo-Roadster.ht…
Ours was the chassis 948-11, which is described at the bottom of the
article.
D
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi(a)gmail.com
<mailto:macoafi@gmail.com>> wrote:
Her wikipedia page is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danese_Cooper
and I believe she's referring to the Personal section which has been
edited a few times. The most recent time I can see someone putting
back the removed knitting references is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Danese_Cooper&oldid=348062767
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Danese_Cooper&oldid=348062767>
And the most recent removal is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Danese_Cooper&oldid=386051343
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Danese_Cooper&oldid=386051343>
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Sarah Stierch
<sarah(a)sarahstierch.com <mailto:sarah@sarahstierch.com>> wrote:
Maybe I'm missing something - what's her
username?
Sent via iPhone - I apologize in advance for my shortness or
errors! :)
On Apr 13, 2011, at 1:02 PM, Susan Spencer
<susan.spencer(a)gmail.com
<mailto:susan.spencer@gmail.com>> wrote:
Wikipedia editors,
Can someone look into Danese's pages please?
She probably wouldn't mind if someone contacted her directly to
find out
more.
- Susan Spencer Conklin
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Danese Cooper <danese(a)gmail.com <mailto:danese@gmail.com>>
Date: Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: Knitters and Coders: separated at birth?
To: Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi(a)gmail.com <mailto:macoafi@gmail.com>>
Cc: debian-women <debian-women(a)lists.debian.org
<mailto:debian-women@lists.debian.org>>
danese on Ravelry, as in life ;-). I've written quite a lot
about
knitting
in public, although for some reason the Wikipedia
community
won't leave
those references on my page :-(.
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