[Gendergap] Kelly Wearstler, again...

[Sarah Stierch]

And I just realized it's a nomination for Kww for Arbcom, not an Arbcom 
case.

Ugh, sorry. I'm in the middle of finals and preparing to fly out of the 
country in a few hours. My brain is fried.

I'm still pissed though. ;)

-Sarah

On 12/1/11 9:37 AM, Sarah Stierch wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> A few months ago Kelly Wearstler appeared - I think on this list. I 
> had never heard of her, but, a small stink was being made on her talk 
> page about whether to feature the Playboy model infobox for her page. 
> So, I took a look, and of course got sucked in. I rewrote the article 
> and blahblabhlah. One user was claiming that only claim to fame Kelly 
> Wearstler has is being a Playboy model.
>
> Someone linked me to an interesting comment on some arbcom case. Now, 
> I'm not into getting involved in the drama llama known as Arbcom, but 
> I'm a bit irked by this guy's comments here:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2011/Candidates/Kww/Questions#Question_from_Newyorkbrad
>
> And I'm not sure the protocol to going about handling this. It really 
> irritates me, and now he's making some assumption that Kelly " 
> Wearstler herself would rather that her Wikipedia page emphasize her 
> interior design business rather than her Playmate past."  Uhhh...I 
> wrote the page, to emphasize that she wasn't just a Playboy model (and 
> consensus agreed on the talk page that it wasn't her main claim to 
> fame). I also have NEVER MET KELLY WEARSTLER let alone do I own her 
> books, nor did I know who she was (I'm just that involved in the 
> fashion industry anymore.)...
>
> So, I'm fairly aggravated that this person is claiming that it was 
> Wearstler doing the manipulating to the article and that by revamping 
> the page I'm saying (or someone is) that being a Playboy bunny is 
> inherently bad. It states it in the lead that she was Playboy of the 
> Month, and there is a section for it - 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Wearstler
>
> Her clothing and interior design items are sold at Bergdorf Goodman 
> (which is a VERY high end store - think 1% ;-) ) and she's published a 
> number of books including a LA Times best seller.
>
> Obviously I'm pissed, so how does one go about saying "Listen dude, I 
> didn't write it FOR her, and if you don't think there's more to her, 
> you need to really look a little closer," without getting sucked into 
> an Arbcom drama?  I try to assume good faith, that perhaps he's just 
> misunderstanding something, or I don't know what...
>
> It also doesn't help that I've had artist biographies I've written 
> lately speedy nominated because the speedy nominators 1) don't know 
> anything about art 2) don't do their research properly.
>
> So yeah, I'm grumpy.
>
> Sarah
>
>
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