[WikiEN-l] WikiWomen (was Partial deletion)

Thu Jul 17 19:34:10 UTC 2003

--- Vicki Rosenzweig <vr at redbird.org> wrote:
> At 03:38 PM 7/16/03 -0400, Erik wrote:
> >Based on standard english practice, I address
> someone who's gender I do 
> >not know, using masculine gender.  I assume others
> do the same.  There is 
> >a page, http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWomen,
> which can be utiliZed if 
> >you wish to be identified as female.  It doesn't
> appear that most women 
> >care though.
> 
> Standard English practice is to address
> people--whether I know their gender
> or not--using the second person singular, which is
> ungendered.
> 
> What I think you're actually saying is that you
> *refer to* people whose gender
> you don't know as "he". This has never been entirely
> standard, and will annoy
> quite a few people at this epoch. Using full names,
> "they", and workarounds
> like "that person", is probably a better idea.
> 
> -- 
> Vicki Rosenzweig
> vr at redbird.org
> http://www.redbird.org

Tactic that some wikipedians don't use AT ALL.
Unfortunately.
I don't like it when someone repeatedly talk about me
saying "he claims this". Imho, this is not neutral.

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