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BLP / feminism / something issue

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MPS1992 (talkcontribs)

The English Wikipedia article "Anita Krajnic case" is about a female animal rights activist campaigning for the rights of pigs. The related pages feature innocently recommends "Pig-faced women" as related. Probably the latter being a Featured Article contributes to this choice. But this is the kind of result that will cause someone to make the assumption that this choice is a humorous Wikipedia editorial commentary about the BLP who is the subject of the case, and that it targets her because she is female. Results like this are a timebomb waiting to explode in a spectacular fashion similar to the "Wikipedia's Sexism Toward Female Novelists" debacle. English Wikipedia has a fairly high number of Featured Articles whose "amusing" aspects are open to misinterpretation or offence in this way, "Gropecunt Lane" is just one example.

Jkatz (WMF) (talkcontribs)

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. To put it lightly, this is far from the message our software should be conveying to the readers of Wikipedia and I appreciate your sensitivity to how this looks externally, as well. Your guess that the featured article status has something to do with it is correct! Incidentally, we are actually removing "featured status" from the selection criteria, because it was leading to too many pop articles dominating the suggestions of obscure pages. This will launch when we rollout to all mobile users (though, the current plan is to remove this beta feature from desktop) as detailed here.

As to specific instances like this, we have created a way for conscientious editors to override misleading or offensive suggestions by inserting new suggestions. Copying from our FAQ:

...editors can change the suggested articles given by adding up to 3 manually curated examples to this part of the page navigation.

{{#related:new page title1}}

{{#related:new page title2}}

{{#related:new page title3}}

For example:

On https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korur_language the related pages have been over-ridden to:

{{#related:Western Oceanic languages}}

{{#related: New Guinea}}

{{#related: Mbula language}}

I wouldn't presume to override the result for you, but let me know if I can help in another way!

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