[WikiEN-l] Systemic bias wrt gender

[Matthew Brown]

On 12/6/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> I suspect it's often systematic bias, i.e. a deep conviction that
> certain areas of coverage should be killed and anyone disagreeing must
> be clueless or a troll.

Well, there's that, but there's also the 'I've never heard of it, thus
delete' category.  Thus, topics not known by your typical Wikipedian
are more likely to be nominated for deletion.  Most of these will be
saved, but the aggravation of deletion debates is an offputting
factor.

-Matt