[ExI] Alexander Chislenko article on English Wikipedia in danger of deletion

[David Lubkin]

I wrote:

>>This cannot stand. Sooner or later­ preferably sooner ­Wikipedia will be
>>reformed. Or it will be re-formed, in a successor project, as we've seen
>>with many other open source efforts.

Fred replied:

>Attempting to recreate or reform Wikipedia might 
>be a bit difficult.  If the immediate concern is about what is being deleted

My concerns are many.

Another is how they handle divisive questions, 
which they're supposed to balance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view

One they handled excellently: There's a city 
known alternately as Gdansk and Danzig. It is 
currently in Poland, where it is known as Gdansk. 
The article about it uses Gdansk for those 
periods in its history when it went by that name 
and Danzig for those periods it went by that name.

Versus the article on Caitlyn ± Bruce Jenner. 
Which I think should similarly use the pronouns 
that correspond to the gender that Jenner was 
known as at the time being written about. 
Instead, female pronouns are used throughout.

Or the policies on "original research" and 
articles a contributor might have personal knowledge of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons

In my case, two in my family have articles. 
Several others could; they meet WP notability 
standards. At least twelve of us are mentioned in 
WP. I have not edited or written articles about 
any—it's not worth jumping through WP's policy hoops.


-- David.