A little quick fact-checking, on the original Crimson article, not the
spin-off articles:
1) "Erica X. Eisen ’16, a former Crimson arts chair, beefed up the text on
the Wikipedia page on American feminism, deeming it 'too short' and what
the site considers a 'stub'...”
A quick check of "Feminism in the United States", which is a redirect of
"American feminism", shows it was in fact edited on September 7, however
not by Eisen but by someone names Acire93, who appears to be an experienced
editor, not a newbie, and who made some routine heading and link formatting
changes. The article is most certainly not a stub, and was not a stub on
Sept. 7.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Feminism_in_the_United_States&am…
2) "WikiProject page on feminism ... suggests that users delete a comic
strip stereotyping lesbian women."
Um, no, it doesn't. And a quick check of the page history shows the page
has not been changed recently. It's not on the talk page either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Feminism
3) "Users can choose to delete a page..."
*facepalm*
4) "Zhang now has her own Wikipedia page."
Read it while you can, because it looks like the event sponsors did not
explore the concept of WP:NOTABLE.
5) The rather polemical and provocative statements about “dismantling the
patriarchy” and "taking out phrasing they saw as offensive" are not linked
to anything that can be verified, and are certainly no where on the
Manifesta Magazine website, but are only sourced to an unpublished email.
Given the accuracy of the rest of the article, all I can say is {{citation
needed}}.
Someone needs to point the Harvard University student writers (and their
faculty overseers, if there are any) to this blog post: "“We were missing
1,500 women scientists [in 2013],” [Temple-Wood] says. “What’s the next
massive content gap we’re going to find because we engaged someone who
wasn’t engaged before?”
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/08/31/funding-projects-pizza-grants/
On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Rob <gamaliel8(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Saw this earlier today:
http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=6785. I
expect we will see more.
This is why we can't have nice things.
On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Carol Moore dc <carolmooredc(a)verizon.net>
wrote:
http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/24150/
"Meanwhile, these college feminist Wikipedia attacks have become
something
of a regular thing: (Conservative woman author
lists "examples")"
We'll see if they post my reply... ;-)
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