On 06/12/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 06/12/06, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
I do think there is significant systemic bias in terms of what things tend to be nominated for deletion, however. Not the biggest source of systemic bias by any means, as you point out.
I suspect it's often systematic bias, i.e. a deep conviction that certain areas of coverage should be killed and anyone disagreeing must be clueless or a troll.
*However*, it's worth noting that whilst this is a form of systemic bias, it's not usually related to the major fields where we actually worry about our systemic bias.
(By which I mean: we worry about systemic bias over non-western regions and cultures, over gender issues, etc... but our "deletion systemic bias" is about schools and Western pop-culture cruft)