[WikiEN-l] bizarre: Women Novelists Wikipedia

[Carcharoth]

This is to do with categorisation (the article refers to categories,
but then refers to pages when those 'pages' are in fact dynamic
listings generated on the fly).

One place to raise this would be:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Categorization

It is also worth reading this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization

The issue of whether to categorise by gender or not has been debated
for a long time on Wikipedia. This is not some recent thing. See here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization/Gender,_race_and_sexuality

That is a whole page devoted to how to categorise (or not) by gender,
race and sexuality. It is also possible there was a recent discussion
on this somewhere here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion

Indeed, there is discussion here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_April_24#Category:American_women_novelists

Carcharoth

On 4/25/13, Kathleen McCook <klmccook at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Wikipedia's overwhelmingly male user-editors began the bizarre forced
> gender migration on Tuesday
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> The New York Times::
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/wikipedias-sexism-toward-female-novelists.html
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> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/25/wikipedia_moves_women_to_american_women_novelists_category_leaves_men_in_american_novelists/
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