Well, it's simple. Be polite and non-confrontational and don't make the new
contributor feel they have no business trying.
Wikipedians are only about 20% female and the world is about 50%...so
there must be some noise on this channel.
Perhaps males have a higher tolerance for confrontation. Seems like that is
the case in life in general. Wikipedia is a choice for use of personal time
and if it is a place that can be (in editors' responses to
contributors) unnecessarily harsh. Fo people invested in a topic the way
Mr. Roth was treated is very telling.
I have taught male and female graduate students for many years. Both make
mistakes. It takes a lot of deliberation to be positively critical. I
generally re-write negative evaluations multiple times before I render them
to a student.Words can cause much pain.
Telling Mr. Roth he wasn't a credible source is the kind of heedless action
I mean. He had access to make his case in the *New Yorker *. Most of the
world does not.
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 5:29 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 9 September 2012 22:20, Kathleen McCook
<klmccook(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I sense the raised (ironic) eyebrow in this
question and since you know
the answer, I need not tell you,
I think it was a genuine question, and one I had too.
- d.
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