-----Original Message----- From: Sumana Harihareswara Wikimedia community member Liz Henry blogs here: http://bookmaniac.org/journalists-dont-understand-wikipedia-sometimes/ and does a little bit of digging into edit histories. "Just from these three samples, it does not seem that there is any particular movement among a group of Wikipedia editors to remove women from the “novelists” category and put them in a special women category instead. I would say that the general leaning, rather, is to stop people who would like to label women writers as women writers *in addition* to labeling them as writers, claiming there is no need for Category: American women writers at all and that it is evidence of bias to identify them by gender. ... The sexist thing we should be up in arms about isn’t labelling women as women! It’s the efforts to delete entire categories (like Haitian women writers, for example) because someone has decided that that meta-information is unnecessary “ghettoization”..." -- As a pending comment I have at her blog observes, I find it a little strange that no one, certainly not the media but (more puzzlingly) the community has bothered to look into the history of this category. Apparently, it was created by User:Gareth E Kegg last fall as part of what seems to have been a general housekeeping effort to reduce the size of many "novelists by nationality" categories. (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&offset=…) If it isn't just novelists, and it isn't just Americans, then there is an awfully large mess to clean up (which is why some people at the CfD have called for a procedural close to put all these categories up in a reopened discussion). And until I just left a comment at his talk page, no one had bothered to even let him know about this (which I would think would be the first thing you'd want to do). Daniel Case