[WikiEN-l] Systemic bias wrt gender

Thu Dec 7 19:14:12 UTC 2006

"Andrew Gray" wrote

> > I suspect it's often systematic bias, i.e. a deep conviction that
> > certain areas of coverage should be killed and anyone disagreeing must
> > be clueless or a troll.
> 
> *However*, it's worth noting that whilst this is a form of systemic
> bias, it's not usually related to the major fields where we actually
> worry about our systemic bias.
> 
> (By which I mean: we worry about systemic bias over non-western
> regions and cultures, over gender issues, etc... but our "deletion
> systemic bias" is about schools and Western pop-culture cruft)

I don't see much of AfD these days. But I'd guess bad English in an article is probably still a cause for nominations. That would exacerbate systemic bias, for evident reasons about non-native speakers of English being contributors in areas where we are light on coverage.

Charles

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