Amy wrote:
For example, suppose a potential woman editor wants to work on an article about Charlotte
Ray, the first black woman lawyer. But there is not even a stub for Charlotte, so our
editor tries to create the article, but it is immediately tagged for deletion for
notability reasons. Having heard from many new editors, it is incredibly common that the
initial contact with Wikipedia is that their article is deleted. I'm proposing that
existing content is limited by the ideas of what the majority of the current community
believes is notable, and it is difficult for new editors to earn the reputation within
Wikipedia to influence this. So in effect the current content is limiting what new editors
can contribute, and I suspect this is a major stumbling block for new women editors
My comment:
I have noticed in occasionally reviewing people's speedy tagging incident to doing
username patrol that it seems too many newpage patrollers, particularly those using Huggle
or something like that, confuse "unreferenced" for "non-notable".
I've had to de-speedy a couple of articles where the text did make an assertion which,
if properly sourced, would demonstrate notability.
Daniel Case