re: 80 percent of academics listed on the Wikipedia page American Sociologists are male, while in reality less than 60 percent of American sociologists are male. Did they count the %% for (fe)male sociologists in Encyclopedia Britannica? This phrase is constructed as if to uncover a male cabal in wikipedia. I would have believed in this if 80% of the wikipedians were our respected venerable academic sociologists themselves. But I am pretty much sure that an average wikipedian couldn't care less about a gender of a sociologist. In wikipedia our notability criteria is a major threshold. And if there is less women bios in wikipedia, this simply reflects the fact that our whole wide world wide web of academia gives less prominence to women academics, and that's it. Yes, wikipedia is a mirror of wikipedians' interests. Yes, pokemon and pornstars are better covered than sociologists of any gender or sexual orientation. But I don't believe in a sharp watershed of wikipedians' interests over "male vs. female sociologists". Staszek Lem (talk) 02:44, 4 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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