[WikiEN-l] bizarre: Women Novelists Wikipedia

[Fred Bauder]

"Do not create separate categories for male and female occupants of the
same position, such as "Male Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom" vs.
"Female Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom"." would seem to cover not
creating such categories as women mystery writers.

Fred

> On 26 April 2013 05:19, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:
>> The thing is that if someone is in a subcategory they are then taken
>> out
>> of the category. So, if the subcategories are applied, nearly everyone
>> should be removed from the higher category such as American novelist.
>> Obviously this was not thought through well. If there is to be a female
>> novelist category there must be a male novelist category. This will
>> become more and more evident as time passes and situation equalizes.
>
> This is normally the case, but there's an explicit exemption for
> gender: at least in theory, single-gender categorisation (where we
> have just "female" without a corresponding "male" category) should not
> be "exclusive", and people should be categorised in both.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization/Ethnicity,_gender,_religion_and_sexuality#Gender
>
> Removal from the main category should (again, an aspirational
> "should") only occur when we are completely splitting it into gender
> subcategories.
>
> --
> - Andrew Gray
>   andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
>