[WikiEN-l] Troubling news on Citizendium

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On 1/16/07, Sage Ross <ragesoss+wikipedia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Last week a Citizendium participant sent out this message on h-afro-am:
>
>
> http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-afro-am&month=0701&week=b&msg=JIarw4S/UalprGLZ2cp5NA&user=&pw=
>
> The whole thing is worth reading, but the gist of it is this paragraph:
>
> "I am withdrawing from Citizendium because of the racist and sexist
> policy put in place by Larry Sanger, who claims that the disciplines
> of Ethnic Studies and Gender Studies do not belong in the list of top
> level categories in Citizendium, or as individual categories at all.
> Sanger has unilaterally decided that all race and gender topics
> should be split up under traditional disciplinary headings, so that
> there will be, for example, a sub-group of "African American
> Literature," and "African American History," but no category -- at
> any level -- in African American studies, and he embraces the same
> tactic of fragmenting other Ethnic Studies and Gender Studies.  The
> fact that his broad strokes of exclusion primarily effect women and
> minority scholars does not seem to matter to him."
>
> I'm interested to know the reactions of the Wikipedians on this list
> who've been participating in Citizendium.  This persistence of this
> kind of thing, especially entrenched at the policy level, would
> probably spell the doom of Citizendium's long-term prospects (which
> would be unfortunate in my view).
>
> -Sage
>
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