On 6/4/07, Jeff Raymond <jeff.raymond(a)internationalhouseofbacon.com> wrote:
Well, except that it's society that's not NPOV
in this direction. There's
"LBGT studies" and "African American studies" and "gay
cinema" and
whatever else, which is just as much a reaction to the POV way society
handled those groups previously.
Well, part of the point of those various "studies" is to "own" those
topics away from the "oppressing" majority. YMMV, of course.
I think there is a simple notability standard which could be applied:
has the religion/race/sexuality/whatever come up in public discourse
about the person? It seems to me that a lot of people are being tagged
whose ethnicity/etc. is at best a trivia point. Of course, that takes
us to all the "alumni" categories. Or the "from" categories:
according
to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Kittleman
Robert H. Kittleman was "from" Nebraska and from Howard and Carroll
Counties, Maryland. (If you believe the article, he was actually born
in Omaha.) I suppose if you believe any of these kinds of categories
are legitimate, you can pretty well argue that all of them are
legitimate.
To de-emphasize these things would probably be more
POV than to note them
properly. Do we overdo it sometimes? Probably. But is there no place
for it?
-Jeff
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