I'm not going to opine on the decision that's being voted upon by Arbcom;
I've been there, and ultimately the decision is based on the quality and
nature of the evidence that people bother to present - which often means
that the decision that ultimately gets posted, because entire "sides" of
the story are not presented by someone as evidence, seems to have very
little to do with the original reason for accepting the case. I have,
however, entered a plea that they rename the case. The decision they're
voting on now has almost nothing at all to do with the Gender Gap Task
Force, and isn't really addressing any of problematic behaviours that are
evident on the talk pages of the wikiproject. (It's obvious to me that a
significant proportion of people posting there, including ones whom I
otherwise hold in fairly high regard, just really don't get gender gap
issues. There was belittling of suggestions, an insistence that the way
things are done now is the "right" way to do them, that there's no such
thing as topics of particular interest to women....well, we all know the
story.
I've asked Arbcom to rename the case to something that doesn't include the
name of the GGTF. It's hard enough to attract editors to participate
constructively on the topic now because of all the nonsense noted above.
It will just become that much more difficult to attract editors who prefer
to work in a non-confrontational environment once this case is closed.
Note that the wikiproject will be the subject of discretionary sanctions
effective at the close of the case, as well. [1] As if that will make any
difference.
Risker/Anne
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gender_Ga…
On 25 November 2014 at 20:14, LB <lightbreather2(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I cannot believe the crap going on on that talk page
now! Having watched
this case develop over the past few weeks, I finally ventured to share my
disgust with the way things ended up, and now I'm being accused of basing
my opinion *completely* on gender. Another guy chimed in to say: "Some
people aren't happy unless they are 'the victim', as odd as this sounds.
The perpetual contrarian underdog. And no, I don't say this to be mean, it
is simply a fact in human behavior that some people are like that."
Both of these remarks were made by (male) admins.
This is the link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gend…
Lightbreather
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