[Gendergap] WikiProject Fashion

[Daniel and Elizabeth Case]

Nicole:
A similar area where Wikipedia is lacking is cosmetics and I don't mean in terms of how to create makeup looks or pictures of every shade of nail polish, but general information on cosmetics companies like Cover Girl and Maybelline. I think there needs to more information on the history of each company as well as criticisms. In addition, those articles are lacking in citations. 

My reply:

I was the first male user to sign on to WikiProject Fashion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:FASHION) and, as I have said every other time someone brings this up, that project is dreadfully short of editors with the time (I did a lot in the beginning, an outgrowth of the effort I put into [[The Devil Wears Prada (novel)]], [[The Devil Wears Prada (film)]] and [[Anna Wintour]], but I haven't been able to focus on it in a while. So, anyone who feels that they can contribute there is welcome ... in the "beauty" department, I am happy to see that [[Template:Cosmetics]] has grown as much as it has since I first created it in the project's early days, though perhaps I should restore the original color scheme (once denounced by an anon as sexist: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Cosmetics&diff=351849019&oldid=345846576) now that a CSS has been written to allow users who have vision problems to override navbox coloring to high-contrast defaults).

Daniel Case 
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