Andreas, my preference would be to stick with the NPOV banner we have (which is pretty sufficient for all manner of non-neutrality issues), and instead encourage people who use it to actually open a discussion on the talk page when applying the template. It is all too common that someone will slap the banner on the top of an article, and move on without even mentioning what the problem is. Sometimes the banner remains for months or years without any discussion. I don't think that is particularly helpful; I would love to see people concerned with gender issues (along with many other issues) simply work on asserting their concerns in a clear and productive manner on the discussion page. Also, this might make a great discussion on-wiki discussion topic, for instance at: http://enwp.org/WT:FEMINISM -Pete On Sep 30, 2011, at 8:30 AM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: Pete Forsyth peteforsyth(a)gmail.com 503-383-9454 mobile

We also have a "controversial" template... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Controversial I love the idea of having articles of gender concern in a one stop shopping space. Going through the NPOV collection is long, painful and is filled with lots of advertising articles for tech companies. Blarghhhh -Sarah On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 10:21 AM, &lt;carolmooredc(a)verizon.net&gt; wrote: -- GLAMWIKI Partnership Ambassador for Wikimedia <http://www.glamwiki.org> Wikipedian-in-Residence, Archives of American Art<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SarahStierch> and Sarah Stierch Consulting *Historical, cultural & artistic research & advising.* ------------------------------------------------------ http://www.sarahstierch.com/

Thanks all for the feedback. I've started a discussion on-wiki, at  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Feminism#Gender_neu… Andreas --- On Sat, 1/10/11, Daniel and Elizabeth Case &lt;dancase(a)frontiernet.net&gt; wrote: From: Daniel and Elizabeth Case &lt;dancase(a)frontiernet.net&gt; Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Gender neutrality template To: "Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects" &lt;gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Date: Saturday, 1 October, 2011, 20:29   I love the idea of having articles of gender concern in a one stop shopping space. Going through the NPOV collection is long, painful and is filled with lots of advertising articles for tech companies. Blarghhhh -Sarah    I agree with a gender-specific tag as well. NPOV is (by design) vague and, to me, not quite the fit we need as it is best applied to allegedly non-neutral use of language (in obvious cases of POV language, I just fix it ... there's no need to discuss). We ourselves already have {{globalize}}   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Globalize   for the situation of articles reflecting only the experience of one particular region of the world or country. I don't see why gender bias couldn't be addressed the same way.   Daniel Case -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Just a reminder, we have a conversation started here about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Feminism#Gender_neu… I also brought up the use of some templates used for gender studies. If we can start contributing to the wiki about this, that'd be wonderful! Thanks everyone for your input and Jayen466 for taking the initiative, -Sarah On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Pharos &lt;pharosofalexandria(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote;wrote: -- GLAMWIKI Partnership Ambassador for Wikimedia <http://www.glamwiki.org> Wikipedian-in-Residence, Archives of American Art<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SarahStierch> and Sarah Stierch Consulting *Historical, cultural & artistic research & advising.* ------------------------------------------------------ http://www.sarahstierch.com/