On 7/22/2014 8:00 PM, Kerry Raymond wrote:
I think it's "new-ness" bias and a "related content bias" and a
"popularity bias" rather than primarily a gender bias. There's loads
of new work published all the time. Lots of it will not merit a
Wikipedia article, just as many novels by the male contemporaries of
Clive Cussler don't get Wikipedia articles either. Novels that have
been around for years will have had lots of opportunity for 3^rd
parties to talk about them to establish notability. New novels have a
harder job to establish notability because they have been around for a
shorter period of time for others to write about them.
There's also the issue of whether you are an inclusionist or an
exclusionist. (I'm the former.)
Unfortunately, a lot of guy exclusionists see AfD as some sort of video
game and feel like every deletion is a point in the game. A game which
probably far more males than females want to play.
CM