It is really shocking and shameful behavior.
To my surprise, the edit war is still going on there.....
I have put the article to my 'watch list'.
It can be a good assignment for those who want to work for the issue of
gender bias to restore the article to its original form. (At least to see
that more and more meaningful information is added) It will be learning
about rules in the process.
I dont know how much time I will be able to dedicate for this right now.
But I plan to edit the article and to fight vandalism there.
Thanks.
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Ashwin Baindur
<ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Wikipedia’s Sexism Toward Female
Novelists<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/wikipedias-se…
by Amanda Filipacchi
New York Times, Published: April 24, 2013
I JUST noticed something strange on Wikipedia. It appears that gradually,
over time, editors have begun the process of moving women, one by one,
alphabetically, from the “American Novelists” category to the “American
Women Novelists” subcategory...
Wikipedia’s
Sexism<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/wikipedias-sexis…
by Amanda Filipacchi
New York Times, Published: April 27, 2013
Early last week I noticed something strange on Wikipedia. It appeared
that, gradually, over time, the volunteer editors who create the site had
begun moving women, one by one, from the “American Novelists” category to
the “American Women Novelists” subcategory. ... s soon as the Op-Ed
article appeared, unhappy Wikipedia editors pounced on my Wikipedia page
and started making alterations to it, erasing as much as they possibly
could without (I assume) technically breaking the rules. They removed the
links to outside sources, like interviews of me and reviews of my novels....
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Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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