On 6/4/07, Jeff Raymond jeff.raymond@internationalhouseofbacon.com wrote:
Well, except that it's society that's not NPOV in this direction. There's "LBGT studies" and "African American studies" and "gay cinema" and whatever else, which is just as much a reaction to the POV way society handled those groups previously.
Well, part of the point of those various "studies" is to "own" those topics away from the "oppressing" majority. YMMV, of course.
I think there is a simple notability standard which could be applied: has the religion/race/sexuality/whatever come up in public discourse about the person? It seems to me that a lot of people are being tagged whose ethnicity/etc. is at best a trivia point. Of course, that takes us to all the "alumni" categories. Or the "from" categories: according to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Kittleman
Robert H. Kittleman was "from" Nebraska and from Howard and Carroll Counties, Maryland. (If you believe the article, he was actually born in Omaha.) I suppose if you believe any of these kinds of categories are legitimate, you can pretty well argue that all of them are legitimate.
To de-emphasize these things would probably be more POV than to note them properly. Do we overdo it sometimes? Probably. But is there no place for it?
-Jeff
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