On 11/27/2014 11:22 AM, Tim Davenport wrote:
Note well: in the matter of Mr. Corbett we are dealing with the issue
of CIVILITY not the matter of THE WIKIPEDIA GENDER GAP.
If you read the evidence and the GGTF page you'd see Eric Corbett was
being disruptive (while not always uncivil) because he did not want the
group to have any effective voice against incivility. Many women
consider personal attacks AND harassment to be a major issues driving
women off the site, once they sign up and start to edit.
Thus Corbett's actions are highly relevant, as are those of a whole list
of his friends and supporters and fellow travelers, on GGTF, at other
gender gap related discussions, and at the Arbitration.
Of course, we all can disagree on whether "gang bang" and "gang
bangers" are good /metaphors/ to describe their behavior at
Arbitration. I still think it is, though if I wasn't totally fed up
with Wikipedia, I probably would not use it. :-) For now, it's the
best metaphor I've got to describe what I now see as Wikipedia's
institutionalized harassment.