The article was discussing the proportion of articles about specific gender and possible reasons why this situation exists. What I mentioned was simply one among many potential explanation.
James On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Eduardo Testart <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi again, > > I think the article is not related to paid editing, if you wish to discuss > that subject, you should probably open another thread. > > It would be nice if the discussion and comments can be kept on topic :) > > > Cheers, > > > El sept. 22, 2017 3:49 PM, "James Heilman" <[email protected]> escribió: > > How do we know? Those who work extensively in this topic area and are > good at picking up paid editing make an educated guess. There are well > known patterns that represent paid editing. We could likely build a > tool that could look at all BLPs and give a numerical value to the > percentage that are most likely written for pay. If you look at a > random group of new BLPs at WP:NPP you will also get a decent idea. > > James > > On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 12:22 PM, Andy Mabbett > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 22 September 2017 at 18:24, James Heilman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> We know that a sizable proportion of articles >>> about people are paid for by the individual themselves or their >>> representative. >> >> We do? How? And what size is that "sizable proportion"? >> >> -- >> Andy Mabbett >> @pigsonthewing >> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l >> New messages to: [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > -- > James Heilman > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
