Hi Deanna,
There is some basic advice for people wishing to edit (or complain about)
their ownbiographies here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notable_person_survival_kit
Otherwise, drop me or some of the established women editors on this list
a private note identifying the article, along with some sources that
could be used to balance the article.
Andreas
Yes, I keep forgetting this is a publicly accessible list. Please drop me
a note if you want me to work on the problem, or use Wikipedia mail to
User:Oversight if the problem needs immediate attention.
Fred
--- On Wed, 11/5/11, Deanna Zandt
<deanna(a)deannazandt.com> wrote:
From: Deanna Zandt <deanna(a)deannazandt.com>
Subject: [Gendergap] Advice for BLP situation (possibly off-topic)
To: "Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects"
<gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Wednesday, 11 May, 2011, 17:58
Hey all,
Apologies if this isn't the appropriate list/discussion to post to; I
learned a lot by following the last BLP discussion, so I'm hoping to get
some advice here. It's a question that as a technology consultant I'm
asked a lot, and I don't have the greatest answer...
I have a friend & colleague, a popular young NYC feminist, who's got a
Wikipedia page. She's often been the subject of multiple
troll/flame/stalking/etc wars, online and off, for many years now-- she
was a favorite target of Anon and 4chan/b/ at one time, to give you an
idea. Her page is rather sparse, but often people swing by and add
inflammatory and other negative material to it. Since she's not *that*
well known, her page isn't watched/edited by enough people to keep that
in check, and she's often left frustrated that this material figures so
prominently in her profile.
I told her the best thing for her to do is find people in her community
who can add more biographical information and really flesh out her page,
so that anything negative has at least more balance to it. Since her
community is mostly women, we butt up against the gendergap issue...
there just aren't that many women (esp feminists) who are into this work.
She's asked on multiple occasions if I or other consultants can be paid
edit the page for her, but I advised that this not kosher in the
community.
So, she's feeling extremely stuck. She's not supposed to edit her own
page, she doesn't have a strong enough community to maintain her page,
and she can't pay anyone to do it. What to do? I understand, and she
understands, that negativity is just part of the Wikipedia world; but
having it be so prominent, and most of it being inflammatory, is just...
ugh. So much of her work has been extremely positive and productive, I
just hate to see her being recorded in history this way.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
dz
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