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Hate Crimes on Wikipedia

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This entry was posted on 08-21-2007 and is filed under uncategorized.

There's an interesting situation on Wikipedia (WP) having to do with Hate Crimes. The author of the WP article on Nireah Johnson also runs a website where he asks people to "...support the project to document anti-LGBT hate crimes on Wikipedia..."

The writer perhaps challenges WP to examine its policies about notability. Nireah Johnson was a "transgender woman, murdered in Indianapolis, Indiana by Paul Moore, after Moore discovered Johnson was biologically male." - according to WP. Besides running into a murderer with some issues, Johnson doesn't seem to be notable, and I think the case is, it's that he or she was a victim.

As an aside, I've always thought that whether one is a male or a female is not a state of mind. I must be a conservative when I write that there are certain things that only a man can do, and the same goes for women. I am disappointed that what I quoted from WP says that he was a transgender woman and a biological male. WP can be edited, so maybe that description will change? 

But back to the main point, is WP a place for this? Apparently it is, as the article on Nireah Johnson made the front page of WP according to TerranceDC, even though there are questions about its notability on its talk page.  The main author of the Nireah Johnson article certainly seems to have a cause and it's my opinion that it's usually dangerous to criticize gay issues. So what does WP do here? Maybe it cuts TerranceDC a little slack the same as society usually does, so that again WP just reflects what we are. And finally, please read the talk page for the article to see an example of the issue being addressed. TerranceDC even mentions a possible solution there, where he starts a special wiki where there would probably would not be people thinking about deleting his articles. The option of not liking Wikipedia being to start your own. 

 

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