User talk:JGleick

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Contact about American women novelists

The best way to reach me about the whole "American women novelsits" hubbub would be to email. Hmm, I am going to put my email here. If you could please remove it once you see it that would be helpful. I might even be willing to talk with you on the phone, but I really do not want to put that in this public of a place. For the record I think people are misunderstanding a lot of what was done. Some of the women had nver been in Category:American novelists, they were only in Category:Women novelists and in no nationality category at least for novelists. I also find it odd that this one category was picked. Why not attack Category:American women writers which does the same thing? Probably because it is very long-standing, and there is a lot more precedent on its side. This category was formed by other users back in October, but I decided to build it up a few weeks ago.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:30, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia’s Women Problem

Great piece in NYR. Thank you. Andreas JN466 22:49, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Hi + a gauntlet

Mr. Gleick, I loved your book on "The Information" and "Chaos". Since you have experience with information theory, I'd like to ask if you'd be willing to take a categorization quiz, and then blog about it? This may help the wider world understand the challenges inherent in categorizing people without "ghettoizing" them - non-diffusing categories are actually very tricky to implement well - and much of this has been terribly glossed over in the media. This Category:American women novelists issue is just the tip of the iceberg, and a very easy case to boot. The instructions for the quiz are here: Wikipedia_talk:Categorization/Ethnicity,_gender,_religion_and_sexuality#Correct_categorization_quiz - all you have to do is click through the category trees, and provide a corrected set of categories for Winona LaDuke that doesn't ghettoize her (hint: she's currently ghettoized in several ways). So far, 3 people have tried, and no-one has scored above a B, and that was with extra credit. Doing this correctly, as you will find if you just try to categorize a single bio, is rather difficult, but I'd love if it you tried, and reported on the results (I will grade everyone, then we'll discuss the answer key, and come to a conclusion together on the "best" set of cats.) Let me know your thoughts - and I hope you accept the challenge! --Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 22:55, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Another idea for your consideration

Wikipedia_talk:Category_intersection#A_working_category_intersection_today - a prototype of a working, easy to use category intersection approach, which could make most of this problem (esp around gender/ethnic cats) go away. Thoughts/input welcome. --Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 17:32, 2 May 2013 (UTC)