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Breitbart / Yiannopoulos

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I think this makes a clear case for notability. Particularly, there seems to be a focus on how Breitbart / Yiannopoulous got involved early in the controversy and spread the tag, and on the leaked emails of the GameJournoPros list. Both of these topics should be in the article. Willhesucceed (talk) 14:48, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

Yiannopoulos and his role in GameJournoPros seems fair to mention but given how little impact that had on the resulting situation as well as still being an unfounded accusation (there's a big gap of logic from a mailing list of game journalists discussing their work, and purposeful collusion to censor the story as the claims have made) we can't give it a lot of weight. --MASEM (t) 15:18, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

"there's a big gap of logic from a mailing list of game journalists discussing their work, and purposeful collusion to censor the story" - which is covered by actual analysis of the actual discussion. 70.24.5.250 (talk) 08:39, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

This is something Yiannopoulos invented in his coverage of the group. Every other person who examined the list did not identify any wrongdoing by anyone. Yiannopoulos is someone who professionally stirs figurative shit for a living and the website he writes for has consistently warped the facts in various cases to make stories.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 08:43, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

That's not entirely true. Erik Kain had some concerns, as did ChinaTopix. Orland himself admitted some of his behaviour was unprofessional. Willhesucceed (talk) 17:21, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Hasn't it been established that the GamesJournoPros list doesn't mean jack squat in the long run and Yiannopoulos was acting just as he always does on Breitbart which is to say making shit up for publicity?—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 16:28, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

As some of the more mainstream summary reports of late have mentioned the discovery of this list which set some in motion some other aspects, a sentence or two mention is fine, but we don't need to dwell on it. (This arguably is also true now of TFCY issue too, it's a minor point in the larger narrative). --MASEM (t) 16:32, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

It's noteworthy. Willhesucceed (talk) 16:33, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

What they say about Breitbart/Yiannopoulos: "Yiannopoulos of Breitbart London published an article containing emails ...(in which he) suggested collusion between these journalists ... (He later) also published the full exchange of emails, which provided a more nuanced look at the situation ... All told, (the full collection of e-mails) appears to be a largely civil conversation between professionals." and "he leaked a trove of basically anodyne emails between game journalists -ironically, Yiannopoulos had little but sneering contempt for gamers before he spied a chance to make some right-wing converts.)" and "Truly odd, fascinating headline there: “Feminist bullies tearing the video game industry apart.” The mainstream response to B/Y is pretty much "yawn, nothing there", "hmmm, some presentation out of context -not exactly what you would expect from a journalist purportedly expounding on journalistic ethics" to "someone saw an opportunity to strike gold and get a rabidly tech savy audience by only reversing his opinion of them" to "yowsa! can you believe he is blaming the victims of the death threats????? " I am not really sure how you wan to fit that into the article. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 20:54, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

It's like Kain wrote in Forbes in September: "Some are crying for more ethical journalism while embracing completely biased and one-sided coverage of the event so long as it conforms to their own biases". Mr. Y seems to fit this to a T.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 21:00, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

And then there is this It is also worth pointing out that Delingpole tells his readers to search for a number of - abysmal and hateful - pieces on GamerGate by a man he employs as a columnist at Breitbart, without disclosing their relationship. The irony is noted.) -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 21:11, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

I suggest at the top of "Role of journalists" we place:

Milo Yiannopoulos was the first to cover the controversy early news coverage of the controversy, in which he criticized the politicization of video game culture, and with leaking correspondence from GameJournoPros, an email list where members of the video game press discussed industry matters. Kyle Orland, the creator of the list, responded to the leak on Ars Technica, admitting that he had acted unprofessionally in some correspondences. Most members of the press saw the list as largely benign.

References

1. Griggs, Brandon (2014-10-16). "Behind the furor over #Gamergate". CNN. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
2. "GamerGate – what is it, and why are gamers so angry?". Metro. 2014-10-15. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
3. Johnson, Eric (2014-10-10). "Understanding the Jargon of Gamergate". Recode. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
4. Lirios, Dino (2014-09-19). "Scandal in the Gaming Community: Elite Gaming Journalists Collude to Censor Stories". ChinaTopix. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
5. Orland, Kyle (2014-09-18). "Addressing allegations of "collusion" among gaming journalists". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
6. Kain, Erik (2014-09-20). "The Escapist #GamerGate Forums Brought Down In DDoS Attack". Forbes. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
7. Cooper, Ryan (2014-10-07). "Intel's awful capitulation to #gamergate's sexist thugs". The Week. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
8. Kain, Erik. (September 4, 2014). "The Escapist #GamerGate Forums Brought Down In DDoS Attack", Forbes. Retrieved October 18, 2014.
9. Kerzner, Liana (September 29, 2014). "The Darker Side of GamerGate". MetalEater.com. Retrieved September 30, 2014.
10. Dotson, carter (2014-09-26). "Escaping the echo chamber: GamerGaters and journalists have more in common than they think". Retrieved 2014-10-09.

Willhesucceed (talk) 21:13, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

kind of missing the major points of all the reliable sources coverage of his "work" , aren't you? -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 21:18, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

You are really cherrypicking the content that sheds the positive light on Yiannopoulos's writing when TRPoD has pointed out that everyone else doesn't think anything he's revealed is worth much in the long run and also how he previously referred to gamers as "nerd rapists" and "dorky weirdos".—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 21:22, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

If you want to improve it, suggest changes. Willhesucceed (talk) 21:27, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

Again, like your whole proposed addition is just singing praises and casting the whole of the list in a bad light. Yiannopoulos may have inserted himself into the debate, but it does not seem like this proposed addition accurately depicts what has happened.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 21:44, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

Your version is a bit POV there. It makes it sound like Orland copped to what Yiannopoulos was saying, when the truth is that he defended the list and said he felt it wasn't a big deal. Many commentators agreed on that front. We should note that Fudge weighed in as well, with Ryan Smith being more on the other side. We also have sources agreeing with the concerns about the list, so that should be mentioned as well.--The Devil's Advocate _{tlk. cntrb.} 22:12, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

Orland did admit he acted improperly on the mailing list in some instances. I don't know quite how to phrase it. If somebody has a better way to write the paragraph, or things they want to add, I encourage them to do so. I changed it a bit. Is it better now? Willhesucceed (talk) 22:26, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

seems to confirm that Milo has completely moved out of the role of "journalist" into the position of participant/advocate and toss any charade out the window. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 23:21, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

Since no one's commented on my suggested paragraph further, I'm going to assume it's acceptable. Willhesucceed (talk) 06:50, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

It's still not acceptable in any way. Silence does not mean consensus. Also I apologize for all the edit conflicts I just went through.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 06:53, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Would you please help me to improve it then. I believe this is my third request now. Willhesucceed (talk) 08:03, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

I don't think it should be added at all in the first place because it makes statements that are not supported by the whole of every other source out there that criticizes Milo's actions in making a mountain out of a molehill.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 08:09, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

What would you put into the article about Breitbart/Yiannopoulos instead? Willhesucceed (talk) 17:11, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Something minimal that says he leaked the list, the Ars Technica guy's response, and plenty of sources that say that the list is benign.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 17:28, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

I added another two sources. Willhesucceed (talk) 07:49, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

I agree on this Willhesucceed, GJP not being on the article is just a clear example of controlling the narrative Loganmac (talk) 15:25, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

It's not "controlling the narrative". No one other than Milo and the Gamergaters think that it's important.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 15:34, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Alright, I've loaded up on the disagreeing sources. Good enough? Willhesucceed (talk) 17:36, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Far too much detail about a point that is clearly a minor footnote in the larger narrative, looking back at what we know now. --MASEM (t) 17:38, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Could someone else post an example of what they'd want? I keep making changes to it and everyone keeps saying, "Mm, nah" without actually helping me improve it. Willhesucceed (talk) 19:22, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

It's not wanted or warranted at all. That's the issue. It's something that the supporters of Gamergate laud as something that shows that they're right about something when everyone who has investigated the list and their claims see that it's nothing. There's nothing in there other than one person saying "I probably shouldn't have said this but oh well".—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 19:46, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

You already said you'd include it if X, so show me what X is. Willhesucceed (talk) 20:30, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Arguably, a sentence like "Allegations of possible collusion in the media was drawn by Milo Yiannopoulos based an internal mailing list between several gaming journalists that had discussed how to handle the Quinn story including limiting forum discussions on the sensitive matter, but this was determined to be a manner of standard practice within the industry." --MASEM (t) 20:39, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

That's all that's needed Loganmac (talk) 23:20, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Running With Scissors, Postal devs just recently mentioned the GJP thing "they actively discuss how to coordinate their actions and which games to give coverage to" Loganmac (talk) 23:17, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

New form:

Allegations of possible collusion in the media were drawn by Milo Yiannopoulos based on an internal mailing list between several gaming journalists, that had discussed how to handle the Quinn story including limiting forum discussions on the sensitive matter, but this was determined to be a manner of standard practice within the industry.

References

1. Johnson, Eric (2014-10-10). "Understanding the Jargon of Gamergate". Recode. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
2. Kain, Erik (2014-09-20). "The Escapist #GamerGate Forums Brought Down In DDoS Attack". Forbes. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
3. Cooper, Ryan (2014-10-07). "Intel's awful capitulation to #gamergate's sexist thugs". The Week. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
4. Dotson, carter (2014-09-26). "Escaping the echo chamber: GamerGaters and journalists have more in common than they think". Retrieved 2014-10-09.

Okay, how's this? Willhesucceed (talk) 00:05, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

This still doesn't address the fact that no one thought the list was inherently wrong and criticism of Milo's accusations.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 16:12, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

This ought to be included sooner or later, Destructoid editor-in-chief just quit because of the shitstorm involving GameJournosPro and a writer getting fired and blacklisted. Don't know if I can link because it's not RS and it's borderline BLP but William Usher's blog, the oringal GJP leaker has an extensive article on this with screenshots and all Loganmac (talk) 14:02, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Mercedes Benz pulls advertising from Gawker

I really hope a media outlet mentions this, but this is as huge as the Intel thing.

It has just been confirmed a few minutes ago, obviously still no news, I'll just wait Loganmac (talk) 18:20, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

I have also seen this, but i do not think its directly correlated to Gamergate as such. This was an, excuse my language, an idiotic statement from a senior official at Gawker, where he litteraly tweets that we wants to bully some nerds. This happened on bully awareness day(month?). I do not think it will be many people supporting this, gg or anti-gg as such.--Torga (talk) 19:35, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

Eh, nah, it is definitely related to GamerGate. They were invoking it towards GamerGate and GamerGate supporters drew attention to this and bombarded advertisers with screen-caps of those tweets and those by other staff at Gawker Media.--The Devil's Advocate _{tlk. cntrb.} 20:13, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

It's not directly related. Mercedes is pulling out because of the tweets promoting bullying. I'm fairly certain that even if those tweets didn't mention GamerGate at all, Mercedes still would have pulled out, provided it was brought to their attention. 24.192.67.45 (talk) 00:14, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

If it gets attributed then it can be discussed in the article.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 20:17, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

No mainstream note of yet, just Adland.tv: http://adland.tv/adnews/mercedes-pulls-advertising-gawker-network/1636503170 2601:B:3100:5E9:5134:24FA:9465:A107 (talk) 21:28, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

Yiannopoulus seems to have confirmation. Willhesucceed (talk) 23:06, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

Also this but I'm not sure if it's admissible. Hope I did that right. AnyyVen (talk) 23:14, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

Probably not usable. And Milo is still questionable.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 23:29, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

Something tells me Erik Kain will be among the few covering this soon, it's hilarious that the guy saying bring back bullying kept on mocking people yet when Mercedes pulled of he gave a half-apology Loganmac (talk) 23:49, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

What's not hilarious is that you feel the need to discuss living persons as if this is a forum. Woodroar (talk) 00:05, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

No reliable sources have turned up to verify this, and Max Read, the current editor-in-chief of Gawker, seems to be pouring cold water on the issue, as he belives that Mercedes may not have been an active advertiser in the first place. Eventually we'll get independent confirmation one way or the other. - Bilby (talk) 00:27, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

A Jalopnik writer has stated on Twitter that Mercedes hasn't advertised on Gawker in four years. Either way, as Bilby noted, we can wait for reliable sources to comment. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 03:35, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Someone who handles some of their digital campaign states that Mercedes has ordered Gawker to be blacklisted. I wish it weren't the weekend. Willhesucceed (talk) 04:39, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Even if that's the case, it wouldn't be "pulling advertising" if such ads haven't existed in years. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 04:44, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

The EIC didn't say they weren't advertising, he said he "thinks" they weren't. Their sponsors list stated otherwise. They have now taken down their sponsors list.

This is from GamerHeadlines probably not RS "This has caused Mercedes Benz to pull out all advertising from the network, and many GG celebs such including the recently declared cancer free John Bain (aka Totalbiscuit) to set up fundraisers for anti-bullying organisations." John Bain donated more than $3000 to PARCER — Preceding unsigned comment added by Loganmac (talk • contribs) 14:44, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

GamerHeadlines is not a reliable source. This may be worth mentioning when there is independent confirmation, which I'm sure will come soon one way or the other./ It is all moot, of course, given that the article is protected, so there's no rush. - Bilby (talk) 21:25, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Still no news on the Mercedes stuff, but Gawker's certainly sweating. Jim Romenesko, journalist: link. Willhesucceed (talk) 03:50, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Looks like they were advertising, and they're advertising again. . I'd like to take these current claims of lost advertisers carefully, as the GG arguments may not have a long-term impact if the advertisers feel that they have been mislead or only received part of the story. - Bilby (talk) 03:05, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Unprotect this article

In the 7 days before this article was fully protected, the article saw this evolution, in the 7 days since, it has only seen this. This is despite Gamergate having made the front page of the New York Times. In the last week, there has been more coverage of the issue in a wider variety of sources.

With the talk pages archiving every 2 days, the entire subject of Brianna Wu's harassment has been moved almost entirely to the archives without ever having been addressed in the article.

Yes, there is going to be trolling/abuse/BLP violations/reverts - but there's already a bunch of admins watching this and there's discretionary sanctions in place. Reduce the protection level, and just get block happy. This article is the top ranked Gamergate search term, but it's out of date, it's time to let Misplaced Pages do its work. - hahnchen 19:33, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Before unprotection, there needs to be a serious (and binding) discussion about the POV tag, seeing how it was the source of the last...or if not the last then one of the recent...protections. It cannot remain like a Scarlet Letter for as long as a handful of actual editors (i.e. non-SPAs) simply disagree with the status quo but are unable to gain consensus for their changes. Tarc (talk) 20:16, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

That was probably a slight at me, but I say remove the tag 'cause fuck it. Willhesucceed (talk) 20:17, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

I would rather see us figure out what the approach needs to be, and that's going to be tied to the mediation request that is currently open. The tone of what GG is has changed, and much what is written now really is minor details, in addition to overweighing the antiGG side. --MASEM (t) 21:50, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

That Mediation request is not going to happen.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 23:01, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Not all parties have to agree to mediation for the mediation committee to accept it. I would not assume automatically it won't be accepted (doesn't mean it will, either). --MASEM (t) 23:58, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

I'm kept completely quiet waiting for one person to actually tell me what GamerGate is so that we can actually write an article. Currently this is a manifest mess of commentaries and opinions. It is very far from encyclopedic. Koncorde (talk) 22:03, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

"Gamergate is a misogynistic movement of exclusively straight white cissexual male neckbearded virgin right-wing extremist Aryans that is using the $100 000 it donated to charity and concerns over journalistic integrity as a ploy to attack women." ~ Misplaced Pages article 2014 Willhesucceed (talk) 22:42, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

I need to take a break from this article, clearly. Willhesucceed (talk) 22:45, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

For the record, what drew me into any of this was the fact that I came here first looking for a definition of Gamergate, and failed to get one, let alone a coherent one. And it does, for the record, fail to cover the myraid claims of Gamergate ("all" sides), be they legitimate or not. It is, in my opinion and now experience, fairly one-sided. I could care less about "pro" or "anti" gamergate, but there seems to be a pretty obvious and ironic bias that prevents this article from being as informative as it should be. Bad attitudes also pollute the atmosphere in several cases. People who disagree with antiGG sources seem to very quickly get branded as not only part of the movement but with several other distasteful features as well. AnyyVen (talk) 22:43, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

I've been saying since the beginning that all this article needed was what its proponents says, and what its critics say in separated paragraphs Loganmac (talk) 15:29, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

There is no real "anti" or "pro" Gamergate. That is just something the Gamergate movement wants there to be so they can make themselves victims. There are people who support the movement and those that are critical of aspects of it. There is no "bias" that can ever be solved because any negative coverage Gamergate receives for the vocal minority within its ranks it will automatically assume that there is an inherent bias against them because their preferred coverage cannot exist so long as there is no centralized movement and instead just several hundred people on Twitter saying the same thing.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 23:01, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

News flash, unbiased and proper reporting is supposed to give both sides of a controversy. When half the reporters covering this are actually part of said controversy it's bad journalism Loganmac (talk) 23:36, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

News flash: The only people deciding that there are sides and bias are the gaters like yourself.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 02:34, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

There are sides to this issue, just like there are sides to every issue that's this big. It's especially evident with the popularization of the hashtag #StopGamerGate2014. Nathan905RB (talk) 14:56, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Well, no, not per se. However, there are definitely groups for, against, and neutral to Gamergate, and those against have used a number of different tags and names including, it seems primarily, the Gamergate tag itself. So I've merely adopted that convention for ease of communication.AnyyVen (talk) 17:19, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Ryulong's hit the problem. What GG is is unknown; those that support it have not made any clear indication of what their actual goals are beyond "journalistic ethics". And because there is a minority that continue to harass women, it taints any attempt to actually define it. See all recent mainstream articles that fail to give any definition of it that is brief and to the point. --MASEM (t) 23:30, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

I don't know how much of a valid point GGers have about journalistic ethics. I freely admit that I have no clue about this, and this is only partly because it's hard to hear anything resembling reasoned argument through all the rape and murder threats. However, what you say could be said about many historic social movements. The anti-globalisation movements of the 90s had fairly vague demands at first, plus a visible minority which seemed to just want to commit vandalism. I'm sure the situation for first-wave feminism was similar, with the media concentrating on the minority of women who chained themselves to railings and blew up letterboxes.

Not that GamerGate is comparable in its demands (whatever the hell the demands are) to these social movements, of course. I'm only picking these examples because we tend to remember historical social movements which had lasting impact. My point is only that there is historic precedent for the mainstream press failing to get the point. De Guerre (talk) 03:07, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

The fact that *all* of the "journalistic ethics" issues that GamerGate raises end up boiling down to "SJW journalists are ruining games by talking about sexism" and "indie developers have Patreons to support themselves" rather than "multi-billion-dollar AAA publishers with multi-million-dollar marketing budgets are buying positive press" has not helped the movement in its quest to define itself as something other than a retrograde backlash against those seeking to diversify the video games conversation. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 23:47, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Running risk of being a forum, I would concede that the end goal of Gamergate is vague. "Ethics in journalism" is very indistinct and there's no real concerted framework for what they want to achieve. As such, seems to leave it very open to interpretation, making any "vocal minority" of harassers the most obvious target. AnyyVen (talk) 17:12, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

The protection of this article is not the issue. there are many articles under protection that evolve and grow under protection. all it takes is users instead of ineffectual slapping of yet another section and yet another link, making an actual concrete content proposal. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 17:21, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

I'm in agreement with Hahnchen that the article is embarrassingly out of date at this point. Let's lift the full protection and go to semi-protection. Keep the PoV tag on until we get things sorted, but in the meantime we can get back to editing. I'm confident that all the established editors here can proceed with restraint, taking disputed issues to the talkpage as-needed. --Elonka 19:16, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Pinging @Dreadstar: - Since you've protected the page, the talk pages have generated 400+ kb of noise without any actual content. There are already discretionary sanctions in place, there are plenty of admins watching this article, so let's open the article to productive editing and stop this pointless talk-page noise. - hahnchen 19:40, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Failure to successfully arrive at a consensus for any edit requests in all of that talk page discussion would seem to me to be an argument against unprotection. Protected does not need to equal stagnant, if there is consensus for improvements. And if there isn't, what good will unprotection serve?--Trystan (talk) 23:01, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Just because this talk page goes nowhere, doesn't mean the article doesn't. See the links at the top of the section for before and after snapshots of protection. - hahnchen 23:20, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Note that the request for unprotection was denied. But I also misread the default date for unprotection, which is only a few days away. Until then, continue wasting your time replying to the utterly pointless threads below. - hahnchen 21:32, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Harassment of Gamergate supporters

Vice

Inquistr

Kotaku

Forbes

HuffPost Live interviews with Gamergate supporters and with members of the video games press

TotalXbox

Computer Base

Reason, which Business Insider says is "sober" reading.

Techcrunch

Slate

Translated: women who support Gamergate are "stupid" and "self-hating misogynists".

Willhesucceed (talk) 07:27, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

No longer really matters, given the continuing shift away from the "but ethics" sham. Defending oneself and others from harassment is not in itself a harassing act. Tarc (talk) 12:48, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

No. Willhesucceed (talk) 15:13, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Keep swimming against the tide there, you'll only end up tired. The overwhelming majority of the rape, murder, and such type of threats have come from the advocates of gamergate. That some of those types got a smidgen of blowback is at best a footnote. Tarc (talk) 15:19, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

"Just last night I deleted a youtube comment from a user who posted my home address and said he’d kill my wife and leave me to mourn" seems hardly like "defense" and quite a lot like "harassment." This is kind of what I was getting at - this Misplaced Pages article makes the whole debacle seem very cut and dry: one side is perpetuating a campaign of misogynistic hatred and the other is comprised of women and their supporters being harassed. I can understand if no reliable secondary sources are available, and that just because there are, for instance, two sides in a controversy doesn't mean they get equal weighting, but this feels like purposeful evasion. I could understand this reasoning if participating in a debate on the topic, but not objectively documenting it. AnyyVen (talk) 15:23, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

An issue to consider is that the harassment of Quinn and others can be easily seen on Twitter, and though various means, readily shown to be coming from a small number of ppl that claim their actions under the name of GG. The harassment of proGG people, on the other hand, is far less visible, and tracking those that do it is near impossible to affirm that antiGG people are doing it. As such, while the proGG people are being harassed, we cannot say it is one side harassing the other, and that's why there's almost no sources that cover it. --MASEM (t) 15:30, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Understood - that's why I mentioned reliable secondary sources, because unless Inquistr suddenly supercedes Al Jazeera in terms of credibility, there really aren't any that address that Gamergate supporters are receiving similar threats, let alone who they may or may not be coming from. AnyyVen (talk) 15:42, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

I can understand doubting the reliability of HuffPost Live, Kotaku, Forbes, and Inquisitr, but Slate, Reason, and Business Insider? Really? The others are weak to middling sources, but Slate and Business Insider strengthen their case. Harassment is happening. Willhesucceed (talk) 16:24, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Sorry if I was unclear - my intention wasn't to discredit the sources so much as it was a reflection on the general lack of credible sources, mostly based on previous discussion, debate and outcomes. AnyyVen (talk) 16:48, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

I don't think those two really point out any particular harassment towards supporters of the movement as much as they point out harassment towards the movement's detractors in detail.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 16:37, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

"Consequently, harassment has also been directed in return at GamerGate supporters themselves, who at this point endure constant doxing and torment of their own members; hashtag searches makes finding harassment targets easy" is the direct statement, and some examples of statements/tweets/etc are given and inferred by the article to be negative or exemplary. It's not exactly a front-page article on the NYT but is one of the few examples I've seen of a media outlet even paying mention to it. AnyyVen (talk) 16:44, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

What harassment has been shown to be coming from people under the name of GamerGate? Most of the stuff that is getting publicity has not been shown to come from either side.--The Devil's Advocate _{tlk. cntrb.} 16:05, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Such a claim is so far out in left field from any of the sources that it strains all ability to assume that you are here for anything other than WP:TE. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 21:40, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

We do not present allegations as fact without confirmation. All we have is that one threat apparently mentioned GamerGate, but the ones getting the most coverage said nothing about it. People being harassed who support GamerGate is getting coverage and does warrant mention. That this is suspected to be from opponents of GamerGate also warrants mention, though we should not treat them as fact either absent confirmation.--The Devil's Advocate _{tlk. cntrb.} 02:02, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

It doesn't matter if the threats do not mention Gamergate as the impetus. There are enough sources that make the connections that we can include their claims on thsi article. I'm personally not currently convinced that we need to go "some Gamergate supporters are receiving harassment too" when they are minor aspects of the cited news articles above.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 02:15, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

My point is we don't treat it as fact anymore than we would treat these instances from alleged opponents as fact. That does not mean we exclude it or neglect to mention the allegation that it comes from opponents.--The Devil's Advocate _{tlk. cntrb.} 05:25, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

I updated the list. Willhesucceed (talk) 01:13, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

And my question was originally are these claims of harassment sent towards those in the "pro-Gamergate" camp worthy of mention overall, because it seems to be an afterthought in much of the writing.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 05:35, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Consider Basics on Structuring a Neutral Article

Hey guys, I tend to dabble in less formal sites than Misplaced Pages - smaller wikis with far less stringent rules on citing sources and with less structure in regards to how editing is done. Apologies if I violate a standard for formatting on the talk page.

However, I felt like I should weigh in just to point out that the article can fix some of its concerns with bias by adjusting the connotation and structure of the article to be more neutral. Right now, the article opens up and the first sentence says, "GamerGate is about ingrained misogyny in gaming culture". And while this is technically accurate because a lot of the controversy revolves around that debate, it's a way of opening the article that leads with the stance of one side. It's like making an article about the abortion debate and leading with a sentence that reads, "the abortion debate is a controversy concerning the death of unborn children". Again, technically true to write that, but by leading this way you make it appear as though the controversy is that kids are dying and the fight is over how to stop it. Likewise, this article makes it sound as though the gaming community is sexist and the argument is about how to deal with it.

The article then goes on to list "legitimate grievances of the Gamer Gate movement" at the very end of the article, and with no bullets within, making it appear as something of an afterthought to the article despite being at least as equally large as the fantastically detailed account of Zoe Quinn's harassment. Meanwhile, you have a section entitled "Role of misogyny and anti-feminism", and within that section you include criticism from a self-proclaimed feminist who believes gaming isn't sexist. While I understand that you're trying to make the readers informed that the commentator in that section does not agree with some Feminists, it seems a bit unfair to declare her an "anti-feminist" or include her under that header when apparently she doesn't identify as such.

Given the way you're doing this, an outside observer might be persuaded to think that the weight being added to one side of this controversy goes above and beyond the availability of reliable sourcing. Going forward, you ought to consider completely restructuring the article to have more neutral headers like "Media Response", "Twitter Activity", "Crticism", "Online Threats", and so on. That's a much more responsible approach than having headers in an abortion article that say things like "Ongoing Disputes Over Murdered Children".

All that said, I've cleaned up biased articles on smaller websites, so I know how it gets when you honestly feel that something you care about is being infringed upon. However, if you're extremely passionate about this article - or maybe if you're a very ardent feminist or Gamer Gate supporter - you should back up for a little bit and let some other people take over for a while, because you're on a side and you're being a lot more biased than you realize. YellowSandals (talk) 14:25, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages articles are based on what reliable sources say. The reliable sources say this involves misogyny and anti-feminism. We do not say that "the gaming community is sexist," we note that the overwhelming majority of reliable sources say that there are significant elements of sexism in the gaming community. These are the mainstream, predominant viewpoints on the issue and our articles are required to present these viewpoints accordingly. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 19:48, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

From the talk page, you are recognizably one of the individuals with a very strong bias. Regardless of that or the preponderance of articles for or against your side, it's still clear that the entire article is written from the point of view of a single side of the argument. If I were you, I would consider this: if you really believe that the denigration of women is a verifiable Truth that needs to be fought against, then your stance can be strengthened by neutrality and criticism. When someone analyzes the research methodology of feminist sources, that is not an attack on feminism - that's called peer review and it's crucial aspect of productive research and science. For that reason, it's disingenuous to label a critical researcher as an "anti-feminist" just because you disagree with her. I know that many articles represent Gamer Gate as an issue of harassment and sexism, but do you feel there's any evidence that Gamer Gate supporters disagree with that perspective? Do you feel supporters of the other team are willfully cruel and insensitive, and confederated towards purposefully disreputable goals? If so, your understanding of the world and its politics is based on Saturday morning cartoons - your ideological opponents are not Cobra Command, and by treating them as such you've written a very unprofessional article that has no value. YellowSandals (talk) 20:06, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Uhh, no. You are pretty off on all counts on how Misplaced Pages works. It matters not what we as individuals think and it matters not what some gamergaters may wish to achieve. since "gamergate" is not a formal membership organization and there is no recognized manifesto or set of platforms, we present gamergate solely as the reliably published mainstream sources see it and present it. And I will remind you that you also need to assume good faith that other editors are working to achieve Misplaced Pages's principles of writing an encyclopedia and not cast aspersions about their motives on this talk page]]. If someone is not editing per the WP:5P, then you will need to take your concerns about their editing to the appropriate place that handles editor behavior, such as administrators notice board and be able to specifically identify how they are acting inappropriately with specific examples , not simply wildly unjustified assertions of "you are recognizably one of the individuals with a very strong bias.". You may wish to strike such nonsense to demonstrate your good faith. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 21:12, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Being quoted in a section that discusses the well-sourced role of anti-feminism in the movement does not label that person as an anti-feminist.

It doesn't matter what I think, and there aren't "teams" here. What matters is that reliable sources have said that there are a significant number of GamerGate supporters who are, as you say, "willfully cruel and insensitive, and confederated toward purposefully disreputable goals" and that even if they are a minority, they are a vocal and vicious minority, have committed vile acts of harassment and the "movement" as a whole has either been unable or unwilling to disassociate itself from them — and that the end result is to permanently poison the well of the debate and render the entire movement non-credible. Those reliable sources are amply presented here, and their conclusion is virtually unanimous. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 21:14, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Much of bias is about little things that shape someone's views points by the subtle way things are worded, often with the same denotations but differing connotations, and proximity to other sentences that form connections. It's not all about what is explicitly stated. Halfhat (talk) 21:29, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Being quoted in a section that discusses the well-sourced role of anti-feminism in the movement does not label that person as an anti-feminist. But I repeat myself. There are over a dozen people quoted in that section, and I notice that you're not claiming that Simon Parkin, Liana Kerzner and Erik Kain are anti-feminists. You can literally read anything into anything if you'd like. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 21:35, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for your input. I think the biggest issue is that the sources are generally quite negative towards it so it's har for the result to be neutral. That said I think there is a lot of biased wording, and excessively emotive language I proposed so some stuff to try to make it better. But lets just say there was consensus to make the edits. I'm pretty new to editing Misplaced Pages so I'm not too sure. But it seems to me there are a couple of strongly anti GamerGate people here that really get in the way. We all have our opinions myself included, but these two (if you read you'll see who) really seem to be the ones opposing all the changes to do with bias, and seem not to even try to be neutral. I remember one in particular breaking into anti-GG rants on this talk page. I'm really not sure how to go forward or what excatly it should look like. I just hope some more experienced editors do, and get it done. Halfhat (talk) 21:26, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

we never strive to achieve a false "neutrality". An article meets Wikipedias WP:NPOV by matching the views of the reliably published sources and expert opinions. Since those sources are overwhelmingly "negative" towards "gamergate"; if our article is in fact "negative" towards "gamergate" ; that is a sign that we are doing our job in representing the sources. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 21:30, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Nice strawman. What I criticised is the use of emotional language and wording. Not the pointsHalfhat (talk) 21:36, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Actually no, that's not 100% true either. Hypothetical: let's say a person is suspected of a violent crime, evidence is strongly against them, etc, but the trial hasn't happened. It may be the case that the press with presume "guilty until proven innocent", a natural human instinct, but if the trial has not happened, we cannot take the opinion of the press here. This is what is happening in GG to a different degree - there are morally wrong things being done, but no one person has been charged with any type of doing it, and while the press has pretty much painted that whole side as the same, we should not be doing the same. We can report this opinion of the press, but we cannot write this article on that same unestablished notion. --MASEM (t) 21:37, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Nobody is asking you to build a false neutrality. What I'm saying is, the title itself states the issue is a controversy, and yet the article is written as if there barely is one despite this whole thing going on for, what, months now? I've been seeing it on forums all over the place. The stance of the Gamer Gate side is included and referenced, but it's listed at the bottom like it has the least significance to the entire article. Meanwhile, Somners provides some very objective criticism of the research methodology used to discuss the whole debate, and that's listed under the "anti-feminist" header. That's not rational, it's not objectives, and it's something you willfully chose to do. The available media sources did not force you to do it. You could structure this article with neutral headers, but you actively choose not to. Criticizing corollary data or the methods used to obtain them is not the same as being an enemy to an ideology - if Somners is a researcher, it's her damned job to question these things! It's what science and research is about! YellowSandals (talk) 21:40, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

I'm not really understanding your objection here. The section is titled "Role of anti-feminism and misogyny." It is indisputable that anti-feminism and misogyny play a role in the debate, as exemplified by source after source after source. The section header does not suggest that everyone quoted in that section is "anti-feminist," any more than a section header entitled "Murder" would suggest that everyone quoted in that section is a murderer. In fact, we accurately and directly describe Ms. Sommers as an "author and scholar." We quote and present her views. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 21:54, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Indisputable? You are writing an article about an ongoing controversy and debate. Somners is a researcher who made a video debating whether or not misogyny is playing a role, questioning some of the data being used to draw that conclusion. And you put her under the "anti-feminist" header even though she describes herself as a Feminist. Consider that - if questioning the research or postulates of Feminism automatically makes you an enemy of the ideology, how could anyone ever dispute? Why would people who blindly believe in the ideology question it? By definition you've created an absolute "us Vs them" trap. Your logic is circular and you've written an article on the assumption that the feminist side of the debate is beyond dispute. That's called bias, North. You're biased. I understand your position and you should hold to your convictions, but if you can't understand the debate then you shouldn't be assisting the article about the debate. I'm not asking for you to include more info in support of anyone - I just want to see more neutral headers that don't lump critics under the "misogynists and anti-feminists" section, because Misplaced Pages can't make misrepresent still-living people that way. YellowSandals (talk) 22:11, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

It is indisputable that misogyny and anti-feminism are a significant part of the GamerGate controversy; see all the reliable sources quoted here. One person claiming that it doesn't play a role does not somehow magically mean it's not — frankly, if she claims that misogyny and anti-feminism aren't involved in GamerGate, she's espousing a fringe theory far outside the mainstream of thought. Our section title accurately depicts the fact that the overwhelming consensus of reliable sources is that misogyny and anti-feminism play a role.

Again, your claim that titling a section about the issues it discusses somehow labels the people quoted in the section has no support in Misplaced Pages policy or common sense. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 22:19, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

While I cannot agree with all you've said, Yellow, I've been trying to point this type of issue out for some time - that the anti-GG quoting in this article is assuming that they (antiGGers) are "right" and to preach that side. I know we're never going to have an article that will paint the proGG side in a light that makes them look saintly, but we shouldn't be assuming the antiGG side is impeccable as well, just because that's the side the mainsteam press has taken. We can address the common points the mainstream press has given, but we need to write this much more clinically. --MASEM (t) 22:20, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Also, Christina Hoff Sommers is known for her opinions that are critical of modern third wave feminism (where many people consider her anti-feminist rather than her self-defined equity feminist). People were so insistent that we label her on this page as a registered democrat with libertarian leanings because the American Enterprise Institute is a conservative think tank because of her heavily conservative writings and leanings despite what she has said she is.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 22:27, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

You can't just defend a bias by saying it's common sense, North. The point is, there's no reason to include a "Misogyny and Anti-Feminism" header when a "Criticisms" or "Media Analysis" header would be more expansive, more convenient, and wouldn't paint the subject material beneath in a strictly negative light. There's definitely a lot more media coverage depicting Gamer Gate as a sexist movement, but I think it's because of the nature of the issue. Gamer Gate itself is, when it is led, pretty factional. It's been continually springing up in new places, and each forum, Youtube following, or game dev has a unique understanding and stance on the issue. The Feminist side, however, has been pretty unified because the things they're saying follow a common and established doctrine. It's a disorganized group in conflict with a more organized group, and consequently, the media can only present the anti-GG side with any certainty. Virtually everything in support of Gamer Gate has been informal. Things like blogs, Youtube channels, forums, and other material that aren't suited for Misplaced Pages.

In spite of that, though, it's important to structure the article in the assumption that maybe more info will come to light as the debate continues. A header titled "Role of Misogyny and Anti-Feminism" is kind of useless and it's blatantly biased. If a more consistent leader were to emerge from Gamer Gate, you could provide no additional information beneath that header, and as it is, all it's being used for is to indirectly accuse people of being anti-feminists for having this or that opinion. However, with a header like "Media Response" or "Criticism", you could add data representing any aspect of the subject. Neutral headers are better for a lot of practical reasons, and this article will never be unbiased as long is it's trying to reconcile a section that assumes one side or aspect of the argument is indisputably correct. YellowSandals (talk) 22:38, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

We're never going to structure an article around what could happen in the future, by Misplaced Pages policy. We're structuring the article around how reliable sources characterize the movement now and in the past, which is all we can do. If that changes, then we change the article. Woodroar (talk) 22:52, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

I'm not asking you to use Misplaced Pages to predict the future. I'm asking you to use unbiased headers that are more functional. Look, Gamer Gate supporters are in this thing for a variety of reasons, right? Zoe touched off a number of nerves that have been on people's minds lately. She used the DMCA to shut down discussion - it would be nice if Misplaced Pages could find an article that explained how she did that and if it was legal. She was accused of trading sex for positive reviews when people are already mad at gaming media for giving AAA games reviews for money. She made her battle into a Feminist issue while there was already controversy surrounding Anita Sarkeesian. I honestly don't think a disorganized mob of people could stay mad for this long because they're afraid of losing their masculinity or something, and among those pro-GG who have a problem with Feminism, even they don't think of themselves as misogynists.

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So I have a real problem when the entire article is structured as though none of these issues exist, and the entire debate is about "ingrained misogyny" and how to deal with it. As though GG supporters were just dealing with some Freudian, subconscious problem they refuse to admit. For goodness sake, you have a section talking about things that the Gamer Gate movement has actually done and has explained legitimate grievances about. WHY is that at the bottom? WHY do you have a header labelled from the perspective of Feminists above that, and that header is merely being used to accuse pro-GG critics of being anti-feminist?

Is there really NOTHING? Of all the grievances being expressed by the various factions of the Gamer Gate movement, Misplaced Pages can find NOTHING neutral that discusses the controversies involved with this thing, and the article needs to be structured to highlight that fact as hard as it can? Come on - people are coming to this page and they know they're not getting a full story. I see them griping about it on forums. Nobody is being fooled here. The article is just bad and needs to be fixed. YellowSandals (talk) 23:13, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

No, really, we can't, not without abandoning our sourcing policies (per WP:RS and WP:FRINGE). For example, we know that a DCMA was used to close out one discussion - that's given - but to claim it was Quinn? That's a theory without backing and that no RS has reported. Much of what I know proGGs would like to see in this (reading on the various threads at the usual places), we simply cannot support because they are the quintessential definition of fringe theories, irregardless how much "proof" they think they have on that. We're not here to be a unbias journalistic report on this, we're here to summarize reliable sources, and they are not giving us anything we can use to give more claims to the proGG side that I know they'd like us to see. --MASEM (t) 23:19, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Alright, that's fair. I've tried looking for articles myself, but they all keep repeating the same thing and none are talking about the things Gamer Gate seems to hold grievances over. Which I think is really only promoting paranoia. Still, though, I maintain the article could stand to be restructured so that it shows it's representing criticism and opinions, because so far that's all that's really coming out about this whole controversy. There are major news sources discussing it, but it's yellow journalism - they're reporting opinions, but there haven't been many, if any, facts. It's just not practical to have a structure discussing the role "misogyny and anti-feminism" play in a controversy when everyone's opinion of what misogyny and anti-feminism is can vary so much. YellowSandals (talk) 23:50, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Going back to the beginning, YellowSandals... 1. Zoe Quinn's boyfriend never wrote a review of her game, and that is settled, proven fact. The allegation at the very base of GamerGate was a false one and this tainted the movement from the start. 2. Much of the frenzy over Zoe Quinn was slut-shaming personal attacks, right down to the third-grade-level sex jokes about "Five Guys." It might have made for some lulz on 4chan, but it's hardly the way to demonstrate that your movement is seriously interested in journalism ethics. 3. Zoe Quinn is not an "AAA publisher" — she gave her game away for free on the Internet. This leads to pointed questions about the actual motivations of the movement, given the multiplicity of available targets in the industry that are much higher-profile and have done things actually clearly unethical — like buy positive coverage through advertorials. 4. Even if there *was* a journalism ethics issue involved, the person to target would have been Nathan Grayson — the actual journalist who would have done something unethical. Instead, the movement focused its attention and/or harassment on Quinn and her defenders. 5. Throughout, the discussions and hashtag were riddled with glaring, blatant, obvious and unrepentant misogyny and sexism. The use of the codephrase "SJW" reduced the movement's opponents to caricatures. Supporters demanded that, in effect, game journalists stop writing about issues of gender, race, class, culture and politics in video games. All of those factors, and others, contributed to a perception (fair or not) that the movement's claim of "journalism ethics" was little more than a pretense for attacks on women in the industry and a retrograde attempt to stop the increasingly-diverse nature of discussion and debate in video game culture.

Now I know what you're going to say, and it's exactly what every good-faith GamerGate supporter says — "That's not me, I don't support it." Unfortunately, that misses the point. The "movement," such as it is, is organized around nothing more than a hashtag. The barrier to entry to the "movement" is nothing more than the ability to type that hashtag. Anyone who claims to be a part of GamerGate by using the hashtag effectively is a part of GamerGate, whether anyone likes it or not, and the movement will end up judged by the worst people using it. Long ago, the hashtag was rendered fruit of a poisonous tree, and the only way to move forward and beyond what GamerGate is popularly associated with is to abandon it entirely, come up with something else, develop an organization and create coherent goals.

This is not my personal opinion of the issue; this is what reliable mainstream sources have said. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 00:20, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Don't cast stones from a glass house, North. Lest you be judged by the deeds of the worst Feminists. I think your intense personal stake in the controversy is a major conflict of interest here. YellowSandals (talk) 00:28, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

I stake no claim to any part in any movement and it's difficult not to notice that you declined to actually address what reliable sources have said about the issue. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 00:33, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

It's difficult to claim no stake when the bulk of your previous response appear to be subjective qualifications. To play devil's advocate (no relation), what is notable is the fact that Quinn's game was given glowing reviews across the board, despite the comparatively poor ratings it's received from its public (non-journalistic) audience at large, a la Metacritic for instance. Even then, these results were contested by various editors as to their notability and validity for inclusion in the article, despite their presence on the articles of other video games, and prior to a reliable source for the claim that trolls were responsible (despite the fact that many giving negative reviews also had several to hundreds of other reviews credited to their accounts, and that many sarcastic reviews ironically gave positive ratings). Regarding "the person to target," I don't know how to and therefore won't address that supposition as that's a bad road to travel down, that is, whom the appropriate "target" is. Indeed if this claim is made by secondary sources, perhaps a more effective method of framing would be, for example, "Sources have stated that Grayson would have been the target if journalistic integrity was an issue." You also mention that the hashtag was "riddled with glaring, blatant, obvious and unrepentant misogyny and sexism" - I fully agree, the issue is that that hashtag has been utilized by both supporters and detractors, and in the spirit of avoiding unintentional bias, that point should be made more clear, secondary sources permitting. I would argue that SJW is far less of an obvious caricature, or at the very least one on par, as that of the virginal, overweight adult white male with no social skills that has so often been used, especially in the eyes of readers of the mainstream media versus gaming journalism. Finally, I would avoid implying the associations of others, especially for instance, through use of such a heavy blanket statement of "Anyone who claims to be a part of GamerGate by using the hashtag effectively is a part of GamerGate," as that also includes Quinn, Sarkeesian, and Wu themselves, as they have used that hashtag, or at least, this is my interpretation of what you said. Remember: verifiable, not true. We're all working towards the same goal: a cohesive and accurate representation as best can be reported from reliably sourced facts. AnyyVen (talk) 01:35, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Your personal opinions no matter how dear and clear they are to your are meaningless without reliably published sources to support them. please read the policies WP:OR / WP:V / WP:RS and WP:UNDUE. We are done until you start backing your position with appropriate sources. and we are certainly done with you impugning other editors. WP:NPA / WP:AGF -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 03:02, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

I apologize if I seem untoward. However, I believe nothing I have stated is outside of the facts already published with citations on Misplaced Pages itself let alone in recognized secondary sources. I assure you I have read the policies you've offered; however, I will consult them again. Likely, any failings I've had to adhere to them are due to my own lack of experience in their usage. I would request for my own education if you would be able to assist me by showing me which policies apply to which statements I've made, or even more valuable, how, as well. Furthermore, I'm unclear as to whom "we" refers to? Finally, I would also offer that in light of the suggestion that I'm attempting to "impugn" anyone, would also like to refer you to WP:AGF as well as WP:BITE. From my view, I saw a statement with no citations, along with some elements that do not appear to be factual/are opinion. I was attempting to provide contrast (in positions, to better facilitate consensus) as there is, clearly, dispute as to neutrality in this topic. AnyyVen (talk) 03:52, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

What I'm also taking away is this seems to be confusion between arguing that Gamergate as a movement is not misogynistic versus misogyny being an issue in the debate. These are wholly different: for instance, arguing if someone is biased immediately requires that bias is a concern, whether or not they actually are. AnyyVen (talk) 22:30, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Whatever the confusion of any arguments may be, gamergate is misogynistic and there has long been an issue of misogyny in the gamer community and we have sources identifying both and identifying the former as springing from the later. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 23:31, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

I can't agree with the argument "gamergate is misogynistic" because it doesn't completely make sense. I can agree with the statements that "some participants in the gamergate controversy are misogynistic" or "have done misogynistic things," which is what many sources are very particular about stating, but this includes participants from both the proGG and antiGG sides (which apparently do not exist), and also says nothing about the harassment endured by non-female persons and entities. AnyyVen (talk) 23:40, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

One of the issues involved in this debate is whether or not Gamer Gate is sexist. Sexism is an issue, and you have opinion sources stating the opinion that Gamer Gate is sexist. For that matter, do you and I define "misogyny" the same way? What about you and the Wiki's readers. If it's the dominant opinion then you represent it, but it's still an opinion and needs to be held as one. YellowSandals (talk) 23:50, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

This seems to be the main issue on this page, TROPD you are stating an OPINION as a fact. Yes there have been misogynistic actions by a minority BUT you are brushing a whole movement as sexist because of that. (you will bring up sources but they re stating a writers opinion) Would you call all muslims misogynistic, violent criminals just because of the actions of ISIS? Retartist (talk) 01:01, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Your personal opinions are noted and noted as being contrary to multiple reliably published sources and therefore a a minority opinion AT BEST and so deserving of minimal or no coverage AT BEST and certainly not restructuring the article to minimize the fact of the misogyny and sexism. And having been addressed MULTIPLE times before and so your continued lack of clue is now heading towards the purely disruptive. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 02:16, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

First: OR does not apply in this case as i am not either editing the article or making a specific suggestion; i am refuting a point of yours. Secondly the RS's are copying the opinion of a minority of people directly involved (sure there are a lot of sources supporting your POV but the accusation that a whole movement is misogynistic based on the actions of a few is as ridiculous as saying that islam advocates violence based on isis). Thirdly BLAPS: THE ACCUSATION THAT MISOGYNY IS THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND EVERY GAMER IS AN OPINION BASED ON THE ACTIONS OF A FEW. Therefore we should treat it as an opinion not a fact, A 'SCHOLAR' has refuted that claim. Fourthly: STICK applies to you as well. FINALLY: TE, At best i violate points 2.6 and 2.13. You however violate 2.1 2.3 2.5 2.6 2.9 2.10 2.11 2.13 2.14. And see WP:AOTE because you do this to anyone who disagrees with your view. Retartist (talk) 04:05, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Literally no one is arguing "that misogyny is the driving force behind every gamer." So why are you fighting strawmen? NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 04:55, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

When i hear that gamergate is misogynistic i assume that "everyone who supports gamergate is misogynistic" is what is meant Retartist (talk) 08:43, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Well, that's a different question — not "every gamer" is part of GamerGate, not by a longshot. But no, that statement means what it says — "the movement as a whole is identified as misogynistic." #GamerGate is an identity movement, and when a person puts on a badge that says "#GamerGate," it doesn't necessarily mean they personally are misogynistic — but they are identifying as part of a movement that is misogynistic. Which taints everything they might say under that hashtag, and has permanently poisoned the well of this debate. Which is why a huge number of reliable sources have repeatedly suggested that those interested in actual sane discussions of journalistic ethics abandon the hashtag and come up with something different.

The claim that "not everyone in #GamerGate supports misogyny so the movement isn't misogynistic" fails as a matter of logic — it's effectively a version of the no true Scotsman fallacy. Which is the fatal weakness of any "movement" of largely-anonymous people with no leadership, no organization, no unified goals and no ability to gatekeep who is and who isn't part of it.NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 09:40, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Thank you kindly for clarifying this. Question however: as for the no true Scotsman argument, doesn't that work the other way as well? For instance there are some articles stating the whole movement is misogynistic whereas other articles specify that "some" or a "vocal minority" are responsible. At risk of seeming dense, how does one especially in terms of a wikipedia article counterbalance this? via WP:DUE? AnyyVen (talk) 16:26, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

I'm just going to link this, a reddit post by a Boston Globe writer that previously wrote on GG about a month ago, and has tried to dig into the proGG side and found nothing to report on, which explains why unless the proGG tactics change, we are not going to get the sourcing that we need to give the proGG a fair shake. ; not a gamer, this is the thoughts of a member of the press trying to find a story to report on. And this is probably similar to what other mainstream sources are struggling with. It fully rationalizes why while there are ways to fix parts of this article, the narrative isn't going to change. --MASEM (t) 04:36, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

I have another concern regarding the inclusion of "misogyny and anti-feminism" as it's own header. Aside from the fact that it's only the opinion of certain parties that gamers or Gamer Gate are misogynists, is there any actual proof that gaming in general is misogynistic? The insistence that Somners is an anti-Feminist because she disputes this idea kind of demonstrates that peer review for this assertion is not especially welcome. You look at something like gravity, and there are critics on the theories of gravity, but they aren't labelled as anti-gravity scientists. In other words, the assertion that gamers are misogynistic appears to be stemming from an ideology - if the ideology is using very weak research methodology and refuses peer review, then by Misplaced Pages's definition, it's fringe because it's pseudoscience. Am I understanding correctly?

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There are a lot of reporters who feel that Gamer Gate is sexist, so that opinion isn't fringe. The article should be free to mention a prevailing opinion as it is, represented as an opinion. But to say that "misogyny" plays a primary role in everyone's actions? There's no hard proof of that. Somners argues it's false specifically because the data being used to support that argument is weak. There are things that are concrete and can be said about Gamer Gate, but the notion that the industry is inherently sexist is an opinion. To assert that Gamer Gate is sexist beyond the scope of opinion, you'd need articles actually gathering data on the stances of people within the movement. Yes? Until then, the Wiki should say, "Time and numerous other publications decried Gamer Gate as a sexist movement", as opposed to using wording and structure that implies the sexism is somehow a scientifically foregone conclusion.

I understand the challenge of writing this article, but the "neutrality" tag is on this article for a reason, and if the article can't even be moved towards more neutral wording and structure then I'm not sure what else can be done for it. YellowSandals (talk) 06:13, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Your insistence on "proof" is misguided. As explained above, Misplaced Pages publishes what reliable sources say about a topic. It is not our job to second-guess the conclusions of reliable sources.

Similarly, you are perhaps misreading the article. Nowhere does this article make the claim that "gaming in general is misogynistic." Instead, this article notes, as have a wide array of reliable sources, that there are "ingrained issues of sexism and misogyny in the gaming community" (and perhaps this should be expanded to say "industry" as well.) This phrase does not state, imply or even suggest that everyone in gaming is misogynistic. This statement is supported by a wide array of reliable sources; whether they have "proof" or not is immaterial. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 06:34, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

If people are misreading it, it's not clear enough. Willhesucceed (talk) 12:08, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Or they're willfully choosing to read what they want into words that don't actually say what they want. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 12:38, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

No, they're reading exactly what the sentence says. The problem is, there's no unified definition of "misogyny". You've linked to the slut-shaming article previously, but notice the quote, "Slut shaming is defined by many...". Right there, you're seeing the article worded to allow for the fact that there's more than a single perspective on what that phrase means. Further, that article goes on to maintain neutrality with phrasing such as "accepted codes of sexual conduct", which is broad, accurate, and sensible, because the definition of "accepted codes of conduct" can vary wildly by context and community. The article does not say, "slut shaming is about ingrained misogyny" as this article does for Gamer Gate. Look at the slut-shaming article - seriously look at it. The headers are neutral and practical. "Overview", "In Literature", "In the Media", "Attempts to Stop the Practice". Nowhere in that article are headers like "Role of Misogyny" being used, because "misogyny" is a charged word with no clear definition and its use is not informative. Using a header like "Role of Misogyny and Anti-Feminism" and opening the article by saying "This debate is about ingrained misogyny" can not only be interpreted differently by a variety of readers, but it's also rather pejorative. YellowSandals (talk) 15:14, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

The aspects of misogyny, sexism, and anti-feminism have been brought up by pretty much everyone out there other than the people Gamergate defines as "not biased" which his shorthand for "totally biased in our favor". Gamergate has been defined by these words consistently but you are still all going #NotAllGamergaters when being confronted with this fact.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 16:15, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

And there has been a consistently prevailing opinion that Hitler was evil, but yet his article describes him as "an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party" because this is a factual assessment. You can't quantify evil and the perception of what evil is does vary by individual. Just like the word "evil", the word "misogyny" could mean numerous things depending on the perspective of the individual reader, and "misogyny" is not a word with anything but a negative connotation. When these sources call Gamer Gate "misogynistic", is there any evidence that they've agreed upon a definition for misogyny? I don't think so - and if they have, then Misplaced Pages should probably document what that agreed definition is so that the readers know. Otherwise, the article may as well open by saying "Gamer Gate is a controversy concerning ingrained evil within the industry". These words are just pejorative and defined by opinion. It would be better to say that Gamer Gate is a controversy concerned with gender politics, because that's broader, neutral, and conveys that mileage varies within the debate. YellowSandals (talk) 16:36, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

I'm sorry. I can't continue a conversation where the concept of "Hitler was not evil" is brought up as a means to say "Gamergate is not misogynistic".—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 16:51, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

I have to agree with Ryulong that the chosen article and issue to draw parallels with here may be a poor one. However, the Hitler article does indeed make mention that many historians and other parties consider the Nazi regime as well as Hitler himself to be evil. However, while I'm no expert, 'evil' is a far more broadly defined category that is also based upon moral implications and therefore far more subjective. Misogyny on the other hand has a much more concise definition, including mandated by law and policy, giving precedence. Additionally, I'm sure if more professional works defining Hitler as evil existed, especially as in the proportions present for Gamergate, it would be more heavily noted on that article per WP:DUE. More pertinent though is that considering that I think I can safely say the bulk of publications about Gamergate include pronounced mention of misogyny by name and harassment specifically directed at women due to their gender as well as sexism, and that the article still does use terms including "allegations," "argue" and the like, it's not out of line. The fact is, misogyny, its presence and role in this controversy, and its relationship to the status of Gamergate as a movement or some of its membership/participants, is the most prominent feature and theme present in the media. AnyyVen (talk) 16:54, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

What I'm saying is, would you agree that some people think misogyny is a form of evil? Look, I'm sorry to bring up Hitler because I know it's a joke doing so on the internet, but everyone knows who he is, which is why he's so culturally relevant. The important question, Ryūlóng, is: what is the definition of misogyny being used in these debates? Because the definition varies. Everybody knows what gender politics is, but one person's misogyny may be another person's traditional values. "Misogynistic" is not any more an objective adjective than "evil", and it would be in poor taste to open a Misplaced Pages article by describing something as "concerned with ingrained, ongoing evil". YellowSandals (talk) 16:58, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Apologies if you're asking Ryulong in specific. I think it's spurious to assert one way or the other if "some people" think misogyny is a "form of evil," because of the ill definitions and broad speculation as to "some people" and what exactly evil is, let alone a form of it. I'm gathering what you may be trying to get at is that by asserting an entity is misogynistic, it is, or will lead to the belief it is also/therefore "evil?" This is all extremely subjective. The issue here is that it isn't Misplaced Pages proposing that Gamergate is or is not misogynist, but rather reporting what secondary sources are arguing or alleging it is, so the argument is moot. On a more personal note, the topics they're relating in regards to the alleged misogyny - rape threats, death threats, bomb threats primarily against women - can hardly be construed as mistaking someone's "traditional values." AnyyVen (talk) 17:08, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

I mean, consider this as a revision. "It concerns gender politics in the gaming community and journalistic ethics in the online gaming press - particularly conflicts of interest between video game journalists and developers. The movement itself has been widely criticized as misogynistic due to ongoing hostility towards female developers and game critics."

This way your opening statement is factual, not using charged language, but it still includes the prevailing opinion expressed by the available sources. In this way, Misplaced Pages is not siding with the prevailing opinion by stating Gamer Gate is misogynistic, but simply stating that a core issue is gender politics, particularly criticisms regarding misogyny. It still conveys the exact same information, but without the bias. YellowSandals (talk) 17:15, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

The problem is that most sources don't allege the issue is gender politics, they allege it is misogyny, literally, by name, and often directly in the headline. It would be a misrepresentation to state otherwise, and an unwarranted interpretation on the article's part to infer that gender politics and misogyny are the same thing. I can't even find mention of "gender politics" on the misogyny page, so I do not think it is a safe assumption to equate the two. AnyyVen (talk) 17:23, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

I don't know. I feel like this is going nowhere. The identity politics article describes identity politics as politics shaped by culture or gender and so on. I feel like most articles have been explicitly referring to gamer culture and the identity politics of being a gamer. The politics of being a female gamer. I can't swallow this. You can't be telling me that it's not identity politics just because the prevailing opinion is that Gamer Gate is "misogynistic". If the reporting on this is really so ridiculously one-sided that it shanghais Misplaced Pages into totally lacking neutrality, then delete the article. You can fix the wording by making the change I propose, even by using the term "identity politics" instead of "gender politics". It's what the debate is about! The sources are actively discussing Gamer Gate as an issue of identity politics. YellowSandals (talk) 17:36, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages articles are founded on the principle of reliable secondary sources. This effectively restricts the material that can be used as citations to those that, by consensus, will generally be the most reputable and accurate, with general hallmarks of professional peer review and an assumed degree of expertise. Even if the reporting is one-sided, Misplaced Pages cannot conduct original research to counter the mainstream opinion. Therefore, to write the article in such a way as to cast doubt on or interpret the mainstream opinion without reliable sources is an implication of better certitude than those sources. I understand that the definition of the controversy may differ for some individuals, especially those in support of it, but unfortunately, at least at this time, that is not what the public at large believes according to mainstream sources. That's a public relations issue. As far as deleting the article, that would be biased by omission in the sense it is ignoring that by and large, mainstream sources are reporting that Gamergate has issues of misogyny. This argument is problematic in the sense that your suggestion is that if the article isn't "fixed" with your suggestions, the alternative is to delete it, which is rather all-or-nothing. Instead, I suggest finding these sources that state the issue is identity politics (and do so without interpretation), see the weighting this argument is given in respect to the accusations and implications of misogyny, and offer an introduction reflecting these weightings. AnyyVen (talk) 18:04, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

It seems that you're arguing that Misplaced Pages has to choose a side because the more reliable sources chose a side. Gamer Gate can't be identity politics because the press is saying it's "misogynistic", so therefore Misplaced Pages must call Gamer Gate "misogynistic". Open and shut case. No politics here. YellowSandals (talk) 18:09, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

The English Misplaced Pages cannot present novel material. Unless reliable sources begin referring to the subject as "identity politics", the English Misplaced Pages cannot present it as such. The English Misplaced Pages presents the Gamergate controversy as one about misogyny and sexism in gamer culture, and the movement's desire for greater ethics in journalism, which is seen as a thinly veiled cover for the inherent misogyny that spawned it and the desire to remove cultural criticism and culturally relevant topics from video games.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 18:14, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Which reliable sources are saying that Gamer Gate has nothing to do with the gamer identity. They're all saying it's about the gamer identity and culture. The gamer identity is the core of the controversy. You - you're just conveniently ignoring anything you don't like so that the article has to stay biased. YellowSandals (talk) 18:17, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Perhaps I was mistaken in omitting the concept of the expanded inclusivity of who is a gamer that those in Gamergate also want to avoid, which I'm assuming is the "Gamer is dead" articles that everyone's panties are in a twist over. But this does not mean I am biased. Remember to always assume good faith.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 18:25, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

YellowSandals, you were the first to suggest that sources are referring to "identity politics," so unfortunately the burden of proof lies on you to affirm this through sources deemed reliable. If this is indeed as widespread as the claims on misogyny, it should be trivial. Misplaced Pages is as much at the mercy of the media regarding who, what or why Gamergate is as it is at the mercy of the mainstream opinion on whether the earth is round, or whether bigfoot is a transdimensional alien being. It is not Misplaced Pages's place to affirm what the truth is nor to interpret the works of others. If most reliable sources state that Gamergate is awash in misogyny, how can Misplaced Pages reasonably argue otherwise without conducting original research? This isn't case closed, it's a matter of asking you to provide evidence for your case. AnyyVen (talk) 18:34, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

A lot of articles are discussing the issue as one of shifting demographics and the way it's impacting the gaming culture. One reference being used discusses this. "A new study from the Entertainment Software Association found that adult women are the largest demographic of gamers. As women begin to play a bigger role in the gaming community, many are calling #GamerGate a silencing tactic."

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That's just about the demographic shift, but these articles are discussing who is a gamer and how the handling of these demographics is a core of the issue. Somner's criticism concerns how the data is being used, stating that women are gaming now but gravitate towards separate genres. Are we required to find an article that explicitly uses the phrase "identity politics" to the exact letter? I mean, look, this is already in the Wiki article: "Other topics of debate have included perceived changes or threats to the "gamer" identity as a result of the ongoing maturation and diversification of the gaming industry."

How can the wiki say that the debates involve the gamer identity, but then go on to say that Gamer Gate has nothing to do with the gamer identity or the politics thereof? YellowSandals (talk) 18:49, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

How many articles state gamergate is misogynistic, demonstrates misogyny, is affiliated with it or emulates it? How many bring up the topic of the gamer identity? This is the basis of due weighting. If 99 articles say A, it's not reasonable to present 1 and say it's actually B. Depending on how much mention a topic gets determines if it gets a few words, a sentence, a paragraph, an entire section, and therefore reasonably also affiliated with the inherent definition. I don't see where it goes on to say it has nothing to do with the gamer identity; what I do see is that it has stated, somewhere in its body, that this issue has been brought up or debated. If it has more widescale coverage than what is being suggested in the article, please provide this documentation to support your position, as I'm sure support for the definition of misogyny will be provided if it hasn't already. As far as literally stating the term "gamer identity," realize that you're arguing against the use of the term misogyny, despite the fact that exact term appears in nearly every article on the topic.

Additionally, the current introduction says "concerns ingrained issues of sexism and misogyny in the gaming community." I realize this is outdated and other proposed changes have been given. What I wish to draw attention to is that it is stated concerns ingrained issues in the community, not that Gamergate is a misogynistic movement, nor that gamers are misogynists. For all that can be taken from this introduction (and even what I thought when first reading it), Gamergate could be a reaction to and/or movement against this issues. The exact relationship between the supporters of Gamergate and accusations of misogyny is defined and made clear throughout the narrative provided by the article rather than by the introduction.

Rest assured I'm not trying to tell you off nor dissuade you. Rather, I'm saying that you very likely going to need all your ducks in a row to affect a change like that. AnyyVen (talk) 19:03, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

I would also encourage YellowSandals or others to read our articles on varieties of criticism and possibly some specific forms of criticism, such as art criticism or literary criticism. These fields do have their scholars and journals (many of them even peer-reviewed) and theories, but they're not sciences in the sense that you're using it. Until supercomputers learn aesthetics and semiotics and can perform not only word counts but concept counts of millions of works of art, criticism in general will lack the methodological rigor to satisfy everyone. Until then, we have people trained to read or watch or play and comment on what they've experienced: critics. Our policies on fringe theories and pseudoscience mostly apply to actual sciences—like "alternative" gravity theorists, as you said—but they do also apply in situations where people question the official narrative, such as with moon landing conspiracy theories. The "official narrative", of course, comes from reliable sources, and that includes scholarship and news organizations. Woodroar (talk) 07:31, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

The evidence for this is clearly a lot weaker than the moon landing. The moon landing has samples, photos, and experiments can easily be done today to show mirrors have been placed on the moon. How is the evidence for the official naritive nearly this strong on GamerGate? Halfhat (talk) 15:28, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Because the overwhelming majority of reliable sources portray the GamerGate movement in a certain way. For Misplaced Pages's purposes, that is the reality we present. Woodroar (talk) 21:54, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

So Misplaced Pages will present gamergate as a completely negative movement based on main-stream media portrayal? There is nothing truth-like in that whatsoever. If Misplaced Pages had any scruples they would go to primary sources(Twitter) and do the proper research on the thing and not cheap out by saying that the New York Times is an unbiased source of what GamerGate is.

User:SmoledMan 20:23, 21 October 2014(UTC)

Misplaced Pages's articles are based on content that can be verified in reliable sources and not original research into matters.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 03:25, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Since the media is the target of the GamerGate controversy, they can't be seen as a reliable source as they have an interest in labelling GamerGate as "evil".—Awaker81 21:39, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

A reliable source does not become unreliable merely because accusations are laid against it. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 21:43, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Regarding that particular topic, yes it does. It's completely biased since it is the focus of the accusations. Using Op-Eds from "reliable" publications like Vox that are the target (through Polygon) makes no sense. The whole point of GamerGate is journalistic ethics and you are using the ones they are accusing, as "reliable" and unequivocally ethical. Using your logic of course the article will end up one sided, your main premise is that GamerGate is wrong. Awaker81 (talk) 05:53, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Arbitrary break 4

New articles

Metro.co.uk commenting that GG may have been exacerbated by the frustration of a lackluster year of game titles. --MASEM (t) 18:35, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Interestingly, this sort of thing has been the subject of study before, i.e. the correlation of domestic violence to football losses. Tarc (talk) 19:02, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

I wouldn't necessarily connect that here, but the Metro article does point out that GG has created a very recent situation that will keep psychology studies in material for years (hence why we would keep in mind that we're suffering from recentism here in focusing on some issues over others). --MASEM (t) 19:05, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Sounds like it'd be worth adding Halfhat (talk) 19:12, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Brenda Wu's op-ed in the WAPost. A few notes I'd highlight is that she like others have seen this hurting the prospects of women in the game industry, and that the long-term sexism/misogyny. Keep in mind this is her op-ed, so don't want to use too much of this. --MASEM (t) 19:41, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Actually reading through it I notice a major problem. It cites this Misplaced Pages article. I think that make it a rather questionable source for this article. Halfhat (talk) 20:04, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

It doesn't cite this article. It references that it exists.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 20:08, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

What are you talking about, the Metro article? It does not "cite" this Misplaced Pages article in the sense that it is using it as a source for information or commentary, the author of that piece simply pointed to the Misplaced Pages article as an example of another place on the internet that gets it right. Tarc (talk) 20:09, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Even if it cites the WP article for information, I'm looking at the article for "new" claims that aren't present yet (eg so we are avoiding WP:CIRCULAR). But yes, this is simply saying "you can learn more about GG by reading WP's take" and not using that as the factual basis for their points. --MASEM (t) 20:13, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

OK, pleas be careful though. Here's what I was referring to "The Misplaced Pages entry . . . shows how the whole movement is based on nothing but the ravings of a female developer’s ex-boyfriend and a level of misogyny that you’d find hard to credit existing in the Middle Ages, let alone the modern day." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Halfhat (talk • contribs) 10:53, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Well they're right.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 17:52, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Zoe Quinn on MSNBC's Ronan Farrow. Again, her take, so an op-ed for all purposes outside the bumper segments. --MASEM (t) 20:15, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

NYMag/Boston Globe writer Jesse Singal on saying that the proGG needs to come to the truth to the mainstream media if they hope to gain any traction (I might have linked their other piece earlier, definitely their attempt to sway the reddit thread)). If anything, this one can be use to positively id the "central" discussion of proGG at 8chan and the reddit KIA board. --MASEM (t) 05:37, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

WAPost on Operation Disrespectful Nod and its success (their word for it). --MASEM (t) 05:42, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

• To note, this comments on the Gawker situation and considering how the same tactics worked there. --MASEM (t) 05:43, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

A slightly slanted take at the Guardian but a point I've seen repeated at others that is tied to the culture war/death of gamer aspect - that some in the media see GG as a response by white males as losing their importance and trying to fight tooth and claw to retain their relevance, citing back to similar issues in the Internet lifestyle of 2007. --MASEM (t) 15:06, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Note: we obviously (for reasons already stated) cannot use Breitbart/Milo's stuff, but the points he claims to be making that more advertizers are going to be questioning their ad campaigns with various gaming cites in lieu of the gaming sites treating their consumer base poorly (ala the Gamasutra/Intel thing) may mean more ad pulls, which is why I'm linking this so that we know to keep an eye out for the possible existence of these articles. Per WP policy, we'll believe it when we actually see it but it is the type of thing to look for if this is how Milo is claiming the GG side is winning. . --MASEM (t) 15:10, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Wired's take, which might help collaborate a few other opinions from mainstream sources (particularly in pointing out the opinion of antiGG writers on the proGG's intentions or lack thereof.) --MASEM (t) 17:39, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

From the Wired article: "The vicious response to Alexander’s article was rooted not in objective concerns, but in the deep, persistent fear that she was right: that they weren’t the be-all and end-all of videogames anymore, that they might not always get to define what it means."

"One of the most common and disingenuous tactics used to undermine women in games is to claim that they’re not “real gamers” or that the works they produce aren’t real games..."

I'd just like to point out that the article is discussing the identity of gamers and their demographic control of the market, since previously it's been asserted that this is a lesser aspect of the controversy. Again, I feel many articles have brought up something about the identity of gamers and what it means, with this particular article declaring that Gamer Gate is scared they can no longer influence the medium they enjoy. Laura Hudson remarks on this loss of influence as a positive development the media should continue to pursue. YellowSandals (talk) 21:07, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

I definitely agree that "identity issue" should be a major part of the discussion, with articles like this and others noting this. (However, when it comes to the "death of gamers" articles, those we should make sure to avoid to segregate carefully since these aren't quite the same thing) --MASEM (t) 23:00, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

The Atlantic comparing Gamergate to the issue from the 1990s with comic books, "art vs pulp", as it transformed into a different art form. --MASEM (t) 16:45, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

NOW we can talk about Wikileaks

The Verge pointing out that WL is supporting the GG side due to the media/censorship concerns (though not proving/disproving anything). --MASEM (t) 19:35, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

What do you suggest something like

"WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange argued the alledged corruption of gaming journalism exists in all journalism, and that they should not focus their corruption and censorship concerns only on journalism within gaming."

I forgot to sign Halfhat (talk) 20:16, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

I think it's more like we can reference the AMA's existence and then point to the statements by The Verge that they seem to be leaping upon the group as an external voice to push an agenda like Adam Baldwin and the AEI did before them. Much of that article is critical of Wikileaks' involvement in Gamergate so we should present the criticism.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 20:23, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

I think the statement could be as simple as "Wikileak's founder Julian Assange has shown support for Gamergate in the efforts to highlight corruption and censorship in media." Verge's criticism is, unarguably , biased, but establishes WL has supported it. --MASEM (t) 20:30, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

We're allowed to point out the criticism, Masem.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 20:34, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Criticism that is coming from one source is FRINGE, however. (You can't have it both ways here). --MASEM (t) 20:50, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

How is it WP:FRINGE? If we're using them to say that it exists we can just as easily say that they're critical of it.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 21:49, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

The Verge's criticisms are opinions, and given that they are the only one who has espoused said opinion, it is fringe. Julian Assange supporting GG however, is not an opinion. 24.192.67.45 (talk) 00:34, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

They're the only reliable source discussing Wikileaks' now explicit support of Gamergate in the first place. How is their criticism of something they themselves are the only people reporting on in the first place a fringe opinion? All or none.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 00:39, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Mentioning that WL has expressed support is a factual statement. Commenting on that support is an opinion, and even if it is the only opinion on the matter, is undue weight on that tiny tiny part of the larger narrative. --MASEM (t) 00:43, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

FFS, Wikileaks is a tiny tiny part of the larger narrative. There is no way that we can use this Verge article as a source to state that Wikileaks has gotten involved without including its criticism of Wikileaks getting involved because the criticism is the whole reason that article was even written.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 01:06, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

I would have no objection to a paragraph dealing with censorship and the silencing of criticism. Assange's view may merit a sentence but the chief focus would, of course, be on the attempts to silence and limit the freedom of expression of Sarkeesian, Quinn et al., as noted in multiple first-rate sources. CIreland (talk) 20:38, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Different type of censorship but one that definitely can be documented as part of what the mainstream media sees the proGG action doing (harsh tactics to silence voices they don't like). --MASEM (t) 20:50, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

I see where you're coming from, you don't want to make it seem bigger than it is. But I think that's just a little off. My impression is that he agrees about its concerns, but thinks the its silly and childish to focus on gaming journalism. Halfhat (talk) 20:54, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

To me, it seems like he is trying to take an easily impressionable group (namely they will praise anyone who is on their side at this point) and bringing them to his side by using their language to his advantage.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 21:43, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

to anyone who reads the article it is clear : "'Gamergate' is not interesting," it said when I asked about its views on the movement. "That highly apolitical youth suddenly awaken to broader censorship, media ownership is." and as is clear from the earlier "#GamerGate'ers should know that the pattern of censorship & cronyism they see is mirrored at the very top. Level up:" - the whole "level up" is snide comment that their concerns haven't left the newb zone. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 01:34, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

I thought it was encouragement to follow through to the top. Though perhaps this is the issue with social progress, 140 characters at a time. AnyyVen (talk) 03:21, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Most of the wikileaks twits are verging on incomprehensible, but "'Gamergate' is not interesting," is pretty clear. there is no interest in their claimed focus gamergate, only in the general principle of being a critical consumer of mass media particularly about actually important subjects. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 03:28, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

I believe this is OR. Willhesucceed (talk) 09:50, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

I added this above to the Media criticism section. Feel free to contribute there, too. Willhesucceed (talk) 21:49, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

This is a different issue entirely, TBH.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 21:54, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

His support is extremely notable but coverage is barely if not-existant, I saw two articles that mention the AMA and cover all question except the shadowbanning/gamergate thing. Wikileaks even called out SJWs which is weird Loganmac (talk) 23:24, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

uhh, I dont know anyone who is in support of corrupt journalism and censorship. and the issue of "corrupt journalism" in relation to gamergate is repeatedly identified as merely an "ostensible". the claims of "censorship" have long been lost in the dust as anything any of the reliable sources cover when they discuss "gamergate" . and I am pretty sure that if gamergaters had two neurons that could make a synapse they would not choose someone who has been holed up for several years attempting to avoid charges of sexual harassment as the poster boy for claiming that gamergate is not about sexual harassment. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 00:09, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Chill out man. These rants only help to polarize, and stop injecting personal opinion for things other than how best to improve the article. Halfhat (talk) 10:48, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

where is any effort to improve the article? littering the talk page with yet another link and no specific content suggestions is the issue. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 12:22, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

DUE or UNDUE

• Proposal to add: Many gamergaters began following and re-tweeting comments from Wikileaks which contrasted the front page coverage given to the death threats from gamergate to the lack of media interest in covering death threats that had been issued against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. While Assange found gamergate itself uninteresting, he was encouraged that a demographic of formerly "apolitical" people was now interested in the workings of the media.

References

1. ^ Adi Robertson (October 20, 2014). "WikiLeaks is winning over Gamergate with a confusing Twitter campaign". The Verge. Retrieved 21 October 2014.

for your consideration -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 12:54, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Seems good to me. I have no objections. Halfhat (talk) 13:08, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Does not seem good to me. "Supporters of Gamergate began following and re-tweeting Wikileaks' comments, which contrasted front page coverage of death threats attributed by news outlets to Gamergate to the lack of media interest in covering death threats that had been issued against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in 2010. Assange encouraged a demographic he saw as formerly "apolitical" people, Gamergate supporters, to become interested in the workings of the media."

How about that? Willhesucceed (talk) 19:52, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

No. TRPOD's was fine. There's no reason to play down the "Gamergate is not interesting" statement quoted from Assange.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 20:15, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

"Supporters of Gamergate began following and re-tweeting Wikileaks' comments, which contrasted death threats attributed by news outlets to Gamergate to the lack of media interest in covering death threats that had been issued against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Assange said he found Gamergate uninteresting, and encouraged a demographic he saw as formerly "apolitical" people, Gamergate supporters, to focus on the workings of the media in general."

How's this? Willhesucceed (talk) 21:49, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

"While Assange found gamergate itself uninteresting" sounds really tendentious, disagree, Halfhat's idea sounds way more neutral. And yet another mention of death threats because we can't have enough. "Gamergaters" is not a term anyone uses to refer to GamerGate supporters Loganmac (talk) 14:10, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

"'GAMERGATE' IS NOT INTERESTING." is what the source found most interesting and used as a pull quote for gawdsake. That's the primary assessment from Assange about the subject of the article: gamergate. It is not "more neutral" to bury the lead or hide the third party assessment. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 15:39, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

We have other reliable sources discussing WikiLeaks in relation to Gamergate: . These should all be used in any material about WikiLeaks.--The Devil's Advocate _{tlk. cntrb.} 18:14, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

You keep bringing up the same sources like the newsweek that have been discussed multiple times and the same consensus keeps coming up: no they are not suitable - there is nothing specifically about gamergate, only WP:SYN-- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 18:31, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

There's no consensus. Stop stating that there's a consensus. Willhesucceed (talk) 20:40, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

There is absolutely a consensus that we cannot use the Newsweek article. Because there is nothing explicitly stated about gamergate it would be a blatant violation of WP:OR "This includes any analysis or synthesis of published material that serves to reach or imply a conclusion not stated by the sources. To demonstrate that you are not adding OR, you must be able to cite reliable, published sources that are directly related to the topic of the article, and directly support the material being presented." -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 20:58, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

How did I know you would ignore the other two sources in favor of focusing on the Newsweek article? The fact is, the other two sources (TechCrunch and The New Statesman) clearly connect the statement in the Newsweek article to GamerGate and all three together with this new source warrant mentioning more than what is in the suggested material above.--The Devil's Advocate _{tlk. cntrb.} 20:54, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Of course you knew that the completely dead horse of Newsweek would be treated as a dead horse. But yet you brought it out to kick it again. The prima facia evidence of your WP:TE. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 20:58, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Free Beacon

Some more politics talk. Link. Willhesucceed (talk) 07:26, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

please dont just litter the talk page with yet another source. if you dont have a specific content suggestion, doing so simply turns the talk page into a meaningless forum that results in lots of wasted time, increased frustration and no improvement to the article. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 12:19, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

I do not think there is anything that is forumy about suggesting links that could be used to improve the article.--The Devil's Advocate _{tlk. cntrb.} 18:15, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Take a look at the 9 pages of archives and the no change to the article and make the argument that the "litter the page with links" method has helped generate better encyclopedia content. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 18:29, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

It helps to identify possible approaches to improve the narrative knowing what sourcing exists to back that up. This is not a waste of space, it's just that while this is locked down, and while things are moving relatively fast, it doesn't make sense to rush into figuring out the solution. --MASEM (t) 18:32, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

The reason why the article hasn't changed in over a week isn't because the archives are full of links. De Guerre (talk) 03:31, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

It sounds like a lone solitary opinion I've never heard before, "disliking #gg because it use similar tactics that are used by the selfsame people objecting against it." If we could find more sources that say the same then we could add that to the article. But right now all this could get would be a single sentence, maybe two conjugated sentences, if even that. Currently it's just an opinion. --86.145.190.189 (talk) 19:41, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

This source could be useful in putting together a section on the increasing politicization of the debate.--The Devil's Advocate _{tlk. cntrb.} 20:58, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Adobe pulled from Gawker

Mary Sue, The Verge, Ars Technica, Adland, BoingBoing, Frisky, Recode

It wasn't advertising with them, but Gawker was using its logo anyway, so Adobe asked them to pull it.Willhesucceed (talk) 20:50, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Stop making new threads on these things.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 20:53, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Why? Willhesucceed (talk) 01:34, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Preferably keep it in one thread Retartist (talk) 06:05, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Each article I've posted is related to a specific aspect of this. Some politics, others business, others ideology, etc. I think it's better to put them in their own threads so they don't get lost. It also helps when new sources arise; then, I can just link to the old thread that's been archived instead of having to search through the now 100+ articles. Willhesucceed (talk) 06:39, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

You could still keep it all in one thread so they don't get archived individually.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 06:42, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

As you can see, I've collected all Adobe articles in this thread only. Willhesucceed (talk) 11:50, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

RealClearPolitics/Reason on SJWs

Cathy Young explains Gamergate's relationship with SJWs. It's not misogyny to take issue with grievance-mongers. This article will appear on Reason soon. Link Willhesucceed (talk) 21:15, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Is there a reason you keep making these new threads like this?—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 22:45, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

If I had to guess, it's because every source that attempts to discuss what Gamer Gate is aside from "misogyny" has been shot down. He's just tossing darts at a dart board now and waiting to see which sources don't get immediately rejected, if any. Speaking of, this article contains a fair amount of research and level-headed discussion of the pro-GG side, highlighting some of the main gripes and cultural clashes that GG perceives, including an in-depth look at some of the positive and negative influences the Feminist ideology has played. It looks pretty professional. Ironically, although Misplaced Pages's acceptable sources page does mention biased sources are not considered reliable, they are being used to accuse Gamer Gate of misogyny in Misplaced Pages's voice for this article and also being used to justify the "Misogyny and Anti-Feminism" section which frankly seem slanderous to me, but I've expressed this.

I assume this article is useless until there are as many like it to defeat the quantity of articles saying Gamer Gate is about "dead gamer culture", "ingrained misogyny", and nothing else. YellowSandals (talk) 22:57, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

No, it's more of a question as to why Willhesucceed feels the need to repeatedly create new sections on this page regarding whatever new article he has found that discusses whatever subject the header concerns. And also, what Gamergate considers "biased" is different from what Misplaced Pages considers biased.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 22:59, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

I maintain that inflammatory language that lacks clear definition and possesses an obvious negative connotation is not an objective, unbiased way to describe anything. I invite you to look a the Klu Klux Klan article, since I invited you to look at the Hitler article once before and you scoffed. Notice the Klan article doesn't open by saying the clan is a bigoted organization designed to spread evil. The opening statement describes various iterations of the organization, then distinctly states they're classified as a hate group "by the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center". Factual information. Not opinions. How is it so prohibitively difficult to choose neutral language when writing this article? Just because the plurality of sources are calling Gamer Gate misogyny, that doesn't mean Misplaced Pages's voice should be used to directly describe this controversy as one of misogyny, especially when it's clear that people can and do disagree because the definition of "misogyny" is based strictly on non-uniform opinions.

Misplaced Pages contains clear examples of controversial groups and organizations being described in a neutral tone, establishing who holds which opinions without representing those opinions as facts. This article needs to be like those. Explain why this is impossible thus far. YellowSandals (talk) 23:14, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Is there a reason you're writing essays in response to my two sentence comments? And this is not an article on a group. It is an article on a divisive controversy.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 23:22, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

It's a controversy that is being described on Misplaced Pages by using negatively connotative terms that lack universally understood definitions. The reasoning you have expressed to justify this has been that the plurality of sources say the controversy is over misogyny, in their opinions, and therefore the controversy is over misogyny as a fact. Misplaced Pages does not establish who feels this debate is over misogyny. It states, using Misplaced Pages's voice, that the controversy is over misogyny. With no clear definition what "misogyny" is actually supposed to mean here, because there is no clear definition of misogyny since it can be perceived differently by different individuals. YellowSandals (talk) 23:31, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

I should further pursue, the article also includes an entire header titled "role of misogyny". As before, with no clear definition of what misogyny is or how this word is being interpreted by Misplaced Pages. YellowSandals (talk) 23:34, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

That's because there's not much positive can be said about death threats, rape threats, etc. And Misplaced Pages has its own separate article on "misogyny" to define what it is. That doesn't have to be done on this page. And you are, like every gater editor before you, insisting that the use of "misogyny" on this page somehow means that "Gamergate is all about misogyny" when the article does not discuss that. It points out that there are misogynistic undertones and acts that can be considered misogynistic, just as it points out the desires for ethics and objectivity in games journalism rather than discussion of the plot itself. Just because one word is on this page does not define the whole of the subject by that word.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 23:46, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

I am not asking you to paint Gamer Gate in a positive light. I am asking you to maintain a neutral tone and write the article to state who holds which opinions. Misplaced Pages does not hold the stance that the KKK is a hate group. "The Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center" holds that stance. Do you understand? Misplaced Pages does not hold the stance that Gamer Gate is a controversy of misogyny. Gawker, Times, and GamaSutra hold that stance. Representing the stances of these publications as the stance of Misplaced Pages simply because that stance is in the plurality is not acceptable. YellowSandals (talk) 23:57, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

The vast majority of reliable sources paint "Gamergate" as a pile of misogynist harassment. That is why this article will reflect that. Tarc (talk) 00:00, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

That is why the article is biased. Because the plurality of sources have taken a stance, and Misplaced Pages has used that as an excuse to express the same stance. The article needs to state who holds the opinion that the Gamer Gate controversy concerns the non-specific, negatively connotative accusations. Misplaced Pages should not be openly holding this stance itself. The plurality of media sources are of the opinion that the debate is one of misogyny. A smaller slew of sources counter the controversy is over other details. Misplaced Pages, presently, has expressed an opinion on the matter by point blank stating the issue is one of misogyny. YellowSandals (talk) 00:07, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

There is no way for this article to ever be "unbiased" based on the definition used by the gamergate movement, which is a non-centralized and vaguely defined group that has no way to represent themselves to dispell the concerns that they're reactionary, misogynist, and hatefilled. And we can't do jack shit while the article is protected.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 00:38, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

It becomes unbiased by expressing opinions and stances as opinions and stances. By stating who holds those stances. Not by using Misplaced Pages to represent the stance with the greatest apparent prevalence as a fact rather than as a stance or opinion. I know the article is protected, but I think this is the core issue that needs to be resolved to remove bias. Gamer Gate is not a "debate concerning misogyny" - it's a cultural conflict involving multiple parties, and the involved parties each hold their own stances. Misogyny is a non-specific, negative accusation being levied against one side of the controversy by the greater quantity of sources, but that is not an excuse for this article to describe the controversy in those accusatory terms or to have headers describing the "role of misogyny" when it cannot be clear what is meant by "misogyny". YellowSandals (talk) 01:36, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

I'll say this once more and then move on: Neutrality on Misplaced Pages does not mean what you appear to believe it means. Neutrality does not mean we can't use descriptive words that are used by reliable sources. It would be an opinion to state that "GamerGate is misogynistic," and hence we do not so state. Rather, we state that misogyny is a part of the debate around GamerGate — that is not an opinion but an undisputed fact and Misplaced Pages will so present it. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 06:59, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Starting new threads insures the sources are noticed and can be discussed. Plus, the sources are not all related and raise different issues. Were this article unprotected it would be a simpler matter as we could immediately take action regarding the source. I believe you should stop complaining about someone posting sources that could be used in the article and try to discuss how they can be used. Her piece actually provides some great even-handed background information. This could also be of use on Sarkeesian's bio or on the Tropes vs. Women in Video Games article.--The Devil's Advocate _{tlk. cntrb.} 23:25, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

It would be a great article to help produce a level description of what Gamer Gate is about on the Gamer Gate perspective. However, because articles referring to Gamer Gate as "misogynist" or otherwise non-specifically wicked aren't deemed as biased for some reason, I assume this article's position that Gamer Gate may have more to do with a variety of concerns will get it labelled as fringe. Given the quantity of "reliable sources" accusing Gamer Gate of misogyny or of being composed of petty man-children, I worry that any article that discusses anything else will be labelled as fringe. YellowSandals (talk) 23:53, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

The reason we can't give what the GG is from the proGG , as explained several times, is that there is no central leadership voice for the proGG that the media can identify to give a concise, accurate statement of the proGG side, so they have to guess and feel around. That is not WP's fault or responsibility to try to fix if reliable sources have tried and failed to come up with something. --MASEM (t) 06:26, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

@Masem: I don't think this is quite right. There are some other sources, if weaker, that also explain what Gamergate is about, such as the HuffPost Live video. For a lack of better sources, we should use those. They're still RS. Willhesucceed (talk) 01:17, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

GamerGate concerns / campaigns

(Sorry for the length of this - I try to keep comments short, but this is a complex issue).

One of the difficulties I have in reading that article as it stands is that it is difficult to tease out what the concerns of GamerGate are. Those concerns are covered, but they're embedded in other sections - the nearest we get to a clear statement is in the lead, but that seems it cover three separate areas (sexism and misogyny with ethics in journalism in the first paragraph, ethics and threats to gamer identity in the second, and anti-feminism/social criticism in the third).

In the body, there's good stuff in "background", but as it is the background section it isn't clear to the reader how that applies to GamerGate as it stands. When we reach the allegations about Quinn, there's a statement that GamerGate is effectively concerned about close ties between developers and journalists and anti-social criticism, but the statement is bookended by comments on the harassment. The rest seems to suggest that a major issue is sexism. In the backlash section there's a statement that Baldwin highlighted the issue, however at this point I'm not sure what the issue is that he highlighted. Presumably it is what is explained in the previous paragraph, but that seems unlikely. There's also a mention of censorship in that paragraph, but as a complaint from GamerGaters, rather than a broader concern. There's a hint in "End of Gamer identity" that a concern of GamerGate is the presentation of gamers as "dying", but that isn't clear. We do hit a fairly clear statement much later in the article, when we quote Kain as saying that it incorporates a backlash against social criticism, but that is very late. In the "Legitimacy" section we get the clearest statements about their concerns, but only in the context of refuting them.

TL;DR version - I'm having trouble finding a really a single clear statement of GamerGate's concerns in the article. I understand that this in part because, as a leaderless movement, they don't present themselves well, and there is no single voice that can point to what their issues are. They also probably lack a clear focus anyway. But I think we need to make a clearer statement of the concerns as they've been reported

• Anti-feminism, or a response against social critique of games, especially in reviews, and the perceived lack of criticism of these types of critiques in gaming journalism.
• Ethics in game journalism, with the particular concerns being perceived close relationships between indie developers and journalists, and allegations of collusion in the industry.

I think we need a new section, something like "#GamerGate" positioned after the discussion of the harassment of Quinn. We move the use of the tag by Baldwin in that section, and make subsections "Concerns" and "Campaigns". The stuff from Kain about the anti-social criticism moves into "Concerns" along with the statement that the false allegations about Quinn and Grayson led to a broader discussion about ethics, and expand the section a bit with other sources on concerns regarding ethics and anti-feminism. Under "Campaigns" include Operation Disrespectful Nod, #NotYourShield and Dig Dig Dig, and possibly TFYC. Reactions and critique could follow on from this. - Bilby (talk) 23:53, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

The issue is that the Gamergate movement has no centralization or representation to present these concerns coherently in the first place. They are vaguely known (more transparency in games journalism, removing cronyism/nepotism in games journalism, less desire for cultural criticism) but there's nothing concrete.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 00:44, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

How many sources are there for this operation Dig Dig Dig? I find nothing on Bing and exactly one mention on Google.

Other than that, yes, it would be a good idea to summarise coherently somewhere Gamergate's concerns and campaigns. Willhesucceed (talk) 01:24, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

I remember a few references to Dig Dig Dig a while back, but if they're hard to find it can be dropped - it was their original plan to identify and highlight problems in game journalism, and continues to run in the background. Disrespectful Nod is the most visible one.

In regard to their concerns, I agree that the specifics are a big problem. But I was reading Jesse Singal's piece in NYMag today , and although the article is mostly talking about how hard it is to pin down their message, it covers the same two basic themes of ethics in journalism and anti-feminism, with the argument that the ethics concerns aren't very strong. Others make the same general observations: that GamerGate is concerned to anti-feminism and ethics, so I figured we could follow the sources on those two general concerns, even if we can't cover a lot of specifics. I must admit that I find the conflict between their aims an issue, but I'm not so concerned about the validity of their concerns for this section so much as a clearer statement about what they are. - Bilby (talk) 01:55, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

That seems fair, those are the two main things everyone has identified. There are other nuances that should be included as well--the effect of the internet, the culture war, etc.--so I suggest that figuring out the layout of the article is of primary importance.

I don't have time now but I'll look into that operation Digx3 thing at some point. Willhesucceed (talk) 00:37, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Ok, the top section of the really ought to summarise, somehow, that "Gamergate started as a campaign to X, and that it has started promoting A, B and C arguments, with some division about arguments C, D & E"., because it's really not clear unless you spend a while reading through the entire article and spend a little time researching it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.59.43.240 (talk) 16:32, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

We have no idea if this was the case with GG - the activism side (about journalistic ethics) happened after the allegations at Quinn, so separating out the campaigning/activision stuff from the more visible events is near impossible and why it is difficult to actually definite what GG is or what is saught for. --MASEM (t) 16:37, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

The misogyny is an internet problem (not a gaming problem)

IBTimes.

I'll link back to the previous sources. Let's figure out how to include something about this? Willhesucceed (talk) 02:17, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Nothing's been added to the article in weeks to even need to use this article to address it though.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 02:27, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Well, if we worked together, instead of against each other, perhaps we'd be able to start adding things to the article. Willhesucceed (talk) 07:41, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

The problem is we all disagree on what it should be.Halfhat (talk) 07:57, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Instead of clinging to our version of how we think things should be, we should be willing to make concessions/compromises, in order to have at least something in the article. I believe that's encouraged in WP's guidelines. I've been trying to meet people halfway. Willhesucceed (talk) 08:00, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

The problem right now is that things are moving "fast" in the situation (not that there are alot of events but there is a lot being written). So it is presently very difficult to judge how to structure the article past the initial few weeks. --MASEM (t) 15:03, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

I'm going to, in good faith, assume that my comment was deleted because I didn't structure it properly, being that it was my first on Misplaced Pages. Still, I have edited for content, in case that were the reason someone deleted me. Please do not delete me again without explaining why either publicly or privately. To reiterate...

As "fast" as things are moving, both KnowYourMeme and EncyclopediaDramatica have managed to cover the events in such a way that someone new can read their articles and come away with a sense of knowing what is going on. It is really shameful that Misplaced Pages can not, at a minimum, give people a straightforward rundown of what has happened. The problem here is that certain editors (I won't mention names) are determined to fill the article with opinion and yellow journalism, instead of just listing the facts chronologically.

Common sense says that you need a brief intro (the current one is poor, but better than most of the article), a section on the background leading up to this controversy (discussing the fight against SJWs in the atheism community would be helpful here, as that was a miniature preview of this fight - see InternetAristocrat's recent interview with Thunderf00t and Justicar for a summary), a dispassionate tick-tock of what has happened to date (without leaving out things that make your side look bad and with no quoted opinions), a section that enumerates the various goals (potentially with debunking and counterarguments inlined), and finally a section to gather reaction to and criticism of the movement. That would result in a very standard looking Misplaced Pages article, so people know where to look to find the information they want. If that can't be done, the whole page should just be blown away and replaced by external references to EncyclopediaDramatica and KnowYourMeme, as that would better serve the readers.

Finally, I think all the editors here know what has happened, even though some want to hide major parts of the story. Everyone should be looking to establish sourcing that documents the actual timeline, not just their version of it. Let readers decide what is "good" or "bad", outside of a reasonably sized section reserved for criticism. If you think pointing out death threats isn't enough to color an issue in a negative light, and feel the need to insert opinions to back that up, it might be time for you to step away from this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DownWIthSJWs (talk • contribs) 16:30, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

See the FAQ at the top of the page. What you're suggesting to replace the page with goes against policy on self-published sources. Strongjam (talk) 16:48, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

NY Mag on why social media easily contributes to such behavior that GG is said to have. --MASEM (t) 20:18, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. To reply to your comment above ('The problem right now is that things are moving "fast" in the situation'): and yet I'm having trouble even getting a sentence or two on Milo Yiannopoulos into the article. Willhesucceed (talk) 22:36, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

The Atlantic via Yahoo! News blames a large part of it on the internet, but then goes on to characterise it as a sexist reaction to the cultural shift in games.Willhesucceed (talk) 23:17, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Propose additions on pull outs

Please update the article on the following topics:

I find this article bias since it does not have a complete picture of what is going on with corporate pull outs of Gaming press.

• Adobe's view on gamer gate as consumer revolt, distancing itself from Gawker asking Gawker to remove their logo
• Mercedes Benz pulls out of GawkerSource2
• Also pull Unilever withdrawn advertising support for Polygon
• Olympus, the high-end camera company, has officially withdrawn support from Gawker Media
• Scottstrade pulls support for sponsorship for polygon
• Michigan Economic Development Corporation asked Gamasutra not to run its ads

Please add this information in somewhere. -Cs california (talk) 07:10, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Mercedes Benz has reinstated its advertising. (Edit: actually, there seems to be some confusion about this. But nothing worth mentioning yet.) I think Adobe is worth a sentence. The rest can be summarised as "X, Y, Z also pulled their advertising." That's about the weight they deserve since there aren't other sources. Willhesucceed (talk) 07:57, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

An article that could be useful for cover operation disrespectful nod

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/10/20/inside-gamergates-successful-attack-on-the-media/ It seems to cover the facts of it pretty well. Halfhat (talk) 11:51, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Keeping the article unbiased

Most Misplaced Pages pages out there are unbiased articles that take no side, provide legitimate articles of both sides, but there is no side that the article gives favor to. This article appears to be biased, as it leans on the side of the feminists. Now, although I am not in favor of feminists, I am in favor of having a article that gives legitimate reasons for both sides, but is overall, unbiased. I feel that this article is biased towards feminists as their arguments get entire sections, while the other side merely gets a subsection. I propose we try to keep this article as unbiased as possible and try to keep the article from taking any sides of the argument. Theawesome67 (talk) 14:56, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

You have no idea what you're talking about. This article reflects what the preponderance of reliable sources have to say on the subject; if those sources give credence and credibility to one "side" of a topic, then the article reflects that. Those who feel the moon landings were faked do not get equal footing in Apollo 11, nor do the opinions of deniers get to "balance" holocaust denial. Tarc (talk) 15:05, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

It's preposterous to equate the GG side of things along side moon hoaxery and holocaust denial when there is obvious systemic bias in the articles. There's numerous 'sources' that violate WP:SELFPUB but anything pro-GG is hand-waved away as not being from a reputable source. Q 16:27, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Ignoring the sources for the numerous quotes in the article, most of the coverage of GG now can be sourced primarily to non-VG, highly regarded mainstream sources, and that's still going to show very little discussion of the proGG side of the equation. (While a parody/humorous article, this clickhole article nails everything that makes reporting on GG a problem in terms of getting their side right - because no one in a position to write about it can figure it out). --MASEM (t) 16:32, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Can you give examples of these self published articles?Halfhat (talk) 16:53, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Using Kotaku as a source to say there isn't anything to the claims of ethical issues at Kotaku. Q 19:07, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Given that we can now even cite that the ex has said himself that he never inferred that Quinn was in a relationship with Grayson with the release of DQ, and that everyone else in the world trusts the editor of Kotaku and the fact no claimed review exists, this is not a point of debate. Feeding that any further is not acceptable anymore. --MASEM (t) 19:15, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Not preposterous at all. Fringe is fringe, in a variety of topics in this project. Many, many topic areas are plagued with fringe pov-pushers, from Israel-Palestine to 9/11 to Obama. This is no different. Tarc (talk) 18:14, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

The problem is that this is essentially a battle between the media and video game players, so the vast majority of the reliable sources available (written by said media) will be anti-GG. Misplaced Pages is confined to reflecting what RSes say, so most viewpoints from the Gamergate side will not be represented. —Torchiest _edits 17:03, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Plus finding out about it instead of just saying what other people tell you requires investigation and effort. Halfhat (talk) 17:09, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

You are perhaps confused as the purpose of an encyclopedia; this isn't a project that supports investigative journalism. Peruse Original Research & Synthesis of souces for starters. Tarc (talk) 18:14, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

You mean where it says 'Original research doesn't apply to talk pages?' Tutelary (talk) 20:09, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

I'm not referring to this article but the news sites. Most new is so shallow and baity, I was sort of in rant mode. Sorry. Halfhat (talk) 19:41, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

That's ok, most don't pay much attention to Tutelary's off-tangent responses. So what exactly were you saying, that the media isn't putting in effort to investigate Gamergate? Tarc (talk) 21:46, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

The justification that this article can be one sided due to a 'preponderance of reliable sources' is a fallacy in itself. The majority of articles cited on both sides of this controversy are opinion pieces. They prove nothing more then that 1 person (the author of the article) feels or believes one thing or another. By painting the opinions of some as encyclopedic fact, while labeling opinions attributed to the other side of the controversy as 'fringe', you paint your own narrative and create a non-neutral article. Using such emotionally charged topics as Holocaust denial and absurd topics as moon landing denial to belittle the other side of the debate in this talk page show a clear bias towards one view in this controversy, especially when it is such a gross exaggeration given that opinions on both sides can both be seen as having legitimacy. Here are two articles that show another side to this controversy, which are not included in this article, and could be used as reliable sources to make this article more neutral. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2014/10/17/Supporting-GamerGate-Does-Not-Make-You-a-Bully http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/10/21/Incredibly-GamerGate-is-winning-but-you-won-t-read-that-anywhere-in-the-terrified-liberal-media DarbyRM (talk) 22:26, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Breitbart is not a reliable source. Strongjam (talk) 22:33, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

How exactly can you determine that Breitbart, a 'Politics, conservative news and opinion' site with an Alexa rating of 1,159, is not a reliable source, when this article cites Kotaku, a gaming blog with an Alexa rating of 1,800, as such? DarbyRM (talk) 22:55, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Alexa ratings are a rating of traffic not reliability. As for determining reliability, the controversies section of Breitbart explains why they aren't considered WP:RS. Strongjam (talk) 23:02, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Things like editorial policies are what counts not mere popularity, unless their opinion is regarded as relevant, though I think that comment could do with a bit more justification. I think a lot of experienced users are a bit burnt out here though. Halfhat (talk) 23:07, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Controversy is not a qualifier for or against reliable sources, in fact, reliable source states 'Misplaced Pages articles are required to present a neutral point of view. However, reliable sources are not required to be neutral, unbiased, or objective. Sometimes non-neutral sources are the best possible sources for supporting information about the different viewpoints held on a subject.' Also, if a few instances of poor fact checking rules out every article published by a news outlet, then every major news organization from Fox to CNN to NBC would have to be removed from every Misplaced Pages article, as every one has had instances of such behavior. Given that many of the sources cited in this article are self published, opinion pieces being used to represent the opinions of larger groups of people, the 'readership' of such sources should also be taken into account, especially when labeling all opinions on one side of the debate as fringe. DarbyRM (talk) 23:23, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Per WP:QUESTIONABLE, "Questionable sources are those with a poor reputation for checking the facts". You're not going to get consensus that it is a WP:RS. Strongjam (talk) 23:30, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

It's not about traffic count, it's about the fact that the site has a demonstrated and well-documented history of misrepresenting facts and outright fabricating stories when it suits their political purposes. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 23:40, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Alright, I won't try to defend Breitbart as its becoming a distraction from my initial point. The point is using opinion pieces to justify a one sided article while not including many sources that take the other side. Here are two more articles from a source already cited in the article who has mostly seemed to change his mind about the movement, which can be used to shift the tone of the article to a more neutral voice. http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2014/10/09/gamergate-is-not-a-hate-group-its-a-consumer-movement/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2014/10/06/its-time-for-video-game-journalists-to-engage-with-gamergate/ DarbyRM (talk) 0:47, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

We already use his work fairly extensively.

If we have 15 sources saying one thing and 2 or 3 sources saying the other... our job is not to make it appear as if the number of sources on each side is equal. That is not "neutrality," that is in fact bias toward the minority sources. See due weight. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 01:10, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

I'd just like to throw in my two cents that, in light of the numerous major corporations pulling revenue support away from several of the "reliable sources" Misplaced Pages is using to give Gamer Gate an "unbiased" description, it might be worth considering why that is and how it reflects on Misplaced Pages to rely on opinion pieces to construe these periodicals' opinions or a stances as factual statements. Those advertisers have whole teams keeping track of the demographics involved and how these journals are responding to the controversy - I know that numerous philosophers have stated that misogyny is ingrained in our very society, but Artistotle was known to be wrong in his time, so perhaps our modern ones are wrong sometimes too. Freud was very popular and thought to be scientific, but his work has been subjected to extensive disagreements. Maybe it is prudent to once again consider re-writing the article to state who expresses which opinions, rather than stating those opinions as facts. Just re-structure with neutral headers and an intro that doesn't contain derogatory language, and explain who is on the record as saying what things about the debate.

If this were an article about one of Freud's patients accusing Freud's methods of not working, the article wouldn't describe the controversy as a "debate concerning deep, ingrained penis envy" or include a header titled "the role of penis envy and subconsciously feeling threatened by Freud" just because more secondary sources sided with Freud. A good encyclopedia would only plainly state the controversy and who holds which opinions. YellowSandals (talk) 06:04, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

We really, really don't care about what advertisers think about sources. In fact, the hallmark of many of the most reliable sources is that they don't accept advertising at all. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 06:12, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Well, it suggests that the sites losing their ad revenue have been maybe not so neutral. Maybe a bit hostile. Maybe enough so that big companies don't want to be associated with that hostility. Do you think that maybe, just maybe, when these periodicals say "misogynist", they're using the word as an insult and not as a scholarly assessment? Maybe Misplaced Pages shouldn't represent insults as though they were scholarly assessments? YellowSandals (talk) 06:15, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

You're not asking a question that we can answer. It's not up to you or I to parse what reliable sources say and decide why they're saying it or what it means. That would be original research and synthesis, which is categorically prohibited as something that Misplaced Pages is not. We weight article content based upon its prominence in reliable, published sources. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 06:18, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

I mean, it's possible that these large companies read what Gawker was saying and they felt it was insulting. You know, because "misogyny". It means you disrespect women. We all know better than that. Maybe - and call me crazy - but maybe when Gawker says these things, some of their readers feel insulted. And then when people come to Misplaced Pages and they see the insults repeated in Misplaced Pages's voice, they feel insulted again. And like, I don't know, you have this controversy that just keeps going for months, and it has no leaders or clear goals, but tons of people are angry anyway and identify through the controversy.

Call me crazy, but maybe some people don't interpret "misogyny" as a neutral, clinical word when it is applied to them, and Misplaced Pages should maybe think really, really hard if that's where some of the bias accusations are involved. Does Misplaced Pages seriously need to track down a secondary source to prove that some people think being called a "misogynist" is not an objective thing, but rather just a blunt insult? YellowSandals (talk) 06:22, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

This is not profound, honestly. Why does there need to be a header and an opening statement that contain insults against a group of people in Misplaced Pages's voice? YellowSandals (talk) 06:27, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

You're asking for something that doesn't exist. There isn't a "neutral, clinical word" for everything. We use the words that sources use.

This article does not anywhere state as an undisputed fact that "GamerGate is misogynistic." We state as a fact that GamerGate involves issues of misogyny (which it indisputably does, based upon an effectively-unanimous consensus of reliable sources) and we note that a number of writers published in a wide array of reliable sources have discussed GamerGate in the context of misogyny, and how they have discussed it. We have a section header that says "Role of misogyny and antifeminism" because the presence and role of those two concepts in GamerGate is a significant part of the debate and, based upon reliable sources, clearly the most contentious part. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 06:30, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

With a great big sigh and a heavy heart, let's crack open the Wiki article on misogyny, must we? Here we go: "Misogyny can be manifested in numerous ways, including sexual discrimination, denigration of women, violence against women, and sexual objectification of women."

Okay. Vague. Seems like it leaves a lot to interpretation. It can manifest in "numerous ways", so are there more ways than the Wiki article describes, or does the Wiki article not cover a comprehensive list of all ways misogyny can manifest? Is Gamer Gate misogynistic in ways the Wiki article maybe hasn't covered? If our readers come to this Wiki and they haven't brushed up on their clinical definitions of misogyny, should they just suck up their tears and get out? I don't think so - that's not a very professional attitude. The term "misogyny" is either jargon that will fly over the head of the uninitiated, or it's an insult because the average person would never want to be called misogynist.

You wouldn't describe a debate with Freud as an "indisputable" concern with penis envy. Why do you describe Gamer Gate as an "indisputable" controversy with misogyny? YellowSandals (talk) 06:47, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

The word means what it means. "Violence against women" and "denigration of women" are certainly an indisputable part of the controversy over GamerGate. Citing this is trivial. Whether you or anyone else likes it or not, they are the issues around which the mainstream media has focused its attention on the movement. We can sit here and argue until the cows come home why this is so, but the key is that this is so and disliking it won't change it. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 07:06, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

So at the very least we can agree that the media says this. Misplaced Pages says it because it "has to", but let's set that aside. At the least, do you find that some people would find the term "misogyny" to be derogatory? If I could find a reason to call you misogynist and I told you that you were, would you feel it was a clinical assessment? Or do you feel I was calling your moral character into question? YellowSandals (talk) 07:50, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

I'm sure people who are part of GamerGate don't like hearing from reliable sources that those sources think GamerGate is founded in misogyny. We don't take into account what people like or don't like about what reliable sources say about groups they're part of. There is no right to be thought well of or right to be portrayed as you wish to be portrayed. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 08:03, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

The KKK page describes the KKK as a hate group according to "sources x and y". If you want to describe Gamer Gate as a hate campaign, then Misplaced Pages needs to say it's described as a hate campaign according to "sources x and y". Misplaced Pages should not use its own voice to directly accuse any groups of being, misogynist, hateful, or otherwise derogatory. YellowSandals (talk) 16:08, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Do you remember when Tim Crews had advertising pulled from his newspaper for refusing to reveal a source in a police corruption case? No, probably not. Anyway, at least one of these corporations has since apologised for pulling ads. http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2014/10/04/intel-apologizes-for-pulling-ads-due-to-gamergate-pressure/ De Guerre (talk) 06:28, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Intel hasn't reinstated its ads though.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 06:34, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

They didn't bring the ads back. My point still stands, multiple advertisers are removing ads and I think it calls into question the toxicity of these articles. I'm not asking that they be stricken, but only that Misplaced Pages should reconsider repeating the accusations of these periodicals with Misplaced Pages's voice. I just want the wording changed so that it's clear the periodicals hold these opinions. The "misogyny" thing is in almost every source, and it absolutely needs to be in this article, but it needs to be stated as an opinion of these sources. YellowSandals (talk) 06:47, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Surely the allegation that Gamergate has a highly toxic aspect to it is precisely the issue? "Danny Casolaro committed suicide, so you see it *proves* he was mentally unstable!" De Guerre (talk) 07:31, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Here are a couple of articles that could be used to present more details of viewpoints sympathetic to Gamergate:

• GamerGate: Part I: Sex, Lies, and Gender Games
• GamerGate, Part 2: Videogames Meet Feminism

Both articles include the opinion of women who side with Gamergate. The first gives details about experiences the author, Cathy Young, longtime writer on feminism and gender, has had interacting with feminists in similar situations and venues, and notes the nasty responses women who disagree with progressive feminists receive from same, such as being accused of being either frigid or advocating for rape. It also has a pretty comprehensive and balanced retelling of the whole series of events. The second includes comments from a female tech writer and gamer who notes any attempt to analyze criticism from women is demonized by gaming publications. —Torchiest _edits 11:05, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

I feel like these sources have been brought up before, if only because Firefox is saying I've visited one of them previously.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 11:20, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Part 1 I've mentioned here before; Part 2 is new as of yesterday. --MASEM (t) 15:39, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

This is a tactic that one often sees in politics; when one side of an issue has a majority of some gender/class/creed grouping, the opposition will dig up a few members of that grouping who disagree, thinking that it somehow bolsters their argument. There are certainly some African-Americans who voted for Mitt Romney in 2012...a whopping 6%. That's a statistically insignificant amount, just as the handful of women who support Gamergate are. Also, yes, we've already seen the Reason link, up in the so-called "Harassment of Gamergate supporters" section. Tarc (talk)

Tarc, unlike the politically polling data, there's no evidence that only a minor 6% of women support Gamer Gate. There's really no telling how many women are involved in either side of the debate as that info is not available. Even if you go by the demographics of who's playing which games that might be affected by the debate, which we have data and discussion on in the Wiki article, it would still be hard to say which demographics are pro-GG or why because most of the sources have stuck exclusively to calling Gamer Gate misogynist and not much else. For that matter, you can't dismiss a source on the basis of gender demographics, regardless. YellowSandals (talk) 16:05, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

You're right; it's more like 0.001% here. Tarc (talk) 19:16, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

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Re-name the "Role of misogyny and antifeminism" section to "Role of misogyny". There isn't a single mention of either feminism or antifeminism in the entire rest of the article.

Laxori666 (talk) 21:55, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Yes there are. Also, new comments go to the end of the page.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 21:57, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

My apologies about the comment placement. As to feminism being mentioned, can you point out where? I did a CTRL+F of feminism and the only hits were in the section title and in the "Feminism portal" link. Laxori666 (talk) 22:00, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Oh ok never mind, "feminist" and "anti-feminist" do appear. Laxori666 (talk) 22:02, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

How about something more general like role of gender issues? Halfhat (talk) 22:22, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Just "Gender issues" would work. Willhesucceed (talk) 23:09, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

That's a very good suggestion, since a lot of articles have spoken about how Gamergate has been characterised as a white male etc. demographic. We can cover both misogyny and that under this section.Willhesucceed (talk) 23:10, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

No. The reliable sources well and truly agree that misogyny, specifically, is an important piece to the puzzle. Removing that word is right out. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 23:42, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Doesn't gender issues cover the accusations of misogyny? It's not like it'd be whitewashed out of the text. Halfhat (talk) 23:49, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Misogyny is the only real gender issue at hand, is it not?—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 23:50, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

No, there's a lot more, hence why it isn't called "Role of Misogyny" Halfhat (talk) 00:01, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

It was my impression that misogyny and antifeminism went hand in hand.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 00:14, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Very different terms, though they might share a few elements (particularly if you read misogyny as being beyond just hatred of women but including dislike or prejudice) --MASEM (t) 00:18, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Is antifeminism not a form of misogyny?—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 00:25, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

If one defines feminism as "aiming for equal treatment of women", one could be antifeminist but not strongly misogynic; the person may be indifferent to women but still feel they should not be treated as equal. They aren't synonymous, definitely. --MASEM (t) 00:30, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Let's not use this as a forum for this topic. Ryulong is correct that scholars have argued it is intrinsically misogynistic. See antifeminism for more. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 00:34, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Hatred of women (misogyny) is not required to disagree with feminist arguments and the censorship tactics used in supporting them. Therefore, no, it's not the same at all. The two things are, however, frequently linked by people pushing an agenda. That's a major source of the cries of "misogyny" throughout this issue, as discussed in the RealClearPolitics piece. In fact, the following quote, from that piece, would be great to include in the article: "There is no allowing for discussion with the kind of people writing these articles: you agree with their worldview or you are a bigot. Personally, I feel #GamerGate is a result of this shameful attitude being pushed by those in the gaming media with positions of power for a prolonged period of time." - Sabrina Harris, British tech writer DownWIthSJWs (talk) 00:40, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Feminism != women. Therefore it's not misogyny. This is very basic logic, people. Willhesucceed (talk) 00:46, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Photo change

Can we get the photo of Quinn changed now?—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 04:24, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Any suggested replacements? Kaldari (talk) 06:48, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Anything different found in commons:Category:Zoe Quinn.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 06:56, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Naah, its fine as it is. Furthermore i will suggest to not be in direct contact with ZQ in social media. She is not allowed to decide what picture to use on Misplaced Pages. --Torga (talk) 08:41, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

What is your problem?—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 08:59, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Hey, i am not the one trying to purge the users i do not like. --Torga (talk) 09:15, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Do you think if I was getting my way at all you'd still be on this page? Now answer my question below on this photo.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 09:17, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Your personal dislike of Zoe Quinn (as evidenced by rev-deleted edits to that page) has no bearing on making improvements to the article. You are certainly not allowed to decide that we won't use a better picture of Zoe Quinn out of simple spite. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 09:29, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

This article has much bigger problems, it seems odd how much focus there is on this. Halfhat (talk) 08:46, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Its because thats what ZQ wants, and some wiki-editors have been in direct contact with her on social media, thats where the pictures on her personal wiki-page comes from. --Torga (talk) 08:49, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

It's because it's a shit photo of her. They're all terrible because none of them are a plain portrait but why does it matter to you that one of the ones she gave permission to the Wikimedia Commons to host were for the sole purpose of providing a new photograph for the press to use rather than the one where she's at the games conference that she has expressed dislike over? Changing the photo should not have this much conversation because changing it to something different changes the narrative or whatever nonsense reason you're giving now.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 08:59, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Oh, she has a dislike for it? Lets just ask her what she wants to remove from the article? Is there any words or quotes that she wants changed also?--Torga (talk) 09:10, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

That's not what I meant. Because that one photo was the only free photo of her on the Internet, as far as I am aware she expressed dismay at the fact that it was the only photo that kept being used by the press so Hahnchen reached out to her on Reddit and said that she could provide different photos for people to use for free and that's how we ended up with the other two even if they're not the best for any god damn encyclopedic article. Now stop taking shit out of context and just tell me why File:Zoe Quinn - GDC 2014.jpg is a better photo to use than File:Zoe Quinn Car 2014.jpg.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 09:14, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

I'd say the first is better, look can we just have a vote or something then move on, this article could do with massive work, this seems like a non-issue Halfhat (talk) 10:23, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

It certainly wouldn't be an issue if the article wasn't fully protected unless someone actually felt the need to edit war to keep the Game Devs Awards photo in over the ones uploaded with permission of the subject.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 10:28, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

One of the editors....contacted..ZQ.... directly to ask her about how she wanted this page to look like? --Torga (talk) 09:19, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Do you see me seeing that at all? No. We wanted better photos across the project. Zoe Quinn happened to complain about File:Zoe Quinn - GDC 2014.jpg because it was constantly used by every single news outlet that didn't feel like paying anyone anything. Hahnchen sent a message to Zoe Quinn (don't use "ZQ" this isn't KotakuInAction) saying that if she provided images for free to the Wikimedia Commons, it would mean that different photos would be used in the press to depict her. We just so happen to be able to use those photos on Misplaced Pages because we regularly ask article subjects to provide free photos for us to use. Now why is the old photo better than any of the new ones?—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 09:22, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Actually, it's very standard for biographical subjects to supply their own free-use photos of themselves. See WP:AUTOPROB: If the article about you has no photo, or you can supply a better one, feel free to contribute one under a suitable free content license. Zoe Quinn said she didn't like the photo of her, it wasn't a particularly good one, she agreed to supply a better one and here we are. There is a consensus that the photo she supplied is higher-quality and more suited to a biography than the previously-available free-use photo. The fact that you don't like Zoe Quinn does not permit you to reject an article improvement. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 09:24, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

And the article about her has changed the picture. This article is NOT about her. The current picture is better because it visualise her identity better. You can see the game dev sign in the background and in her professional enviroment. --Torga (talk) 09:37, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

What does it matter that this isn't her biography? We have better photos now. One that says "Game Developers Choice Awards" in the background doesn't say jack squat about her identity, and neither does a photo where she's drinking beer say much about her professional environment. She is at a glorified party and it's not a very good photo. We can change it.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 09:40, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

I agree that changing the picture of her does not improve the article, nor that any of the pictures available are superior in context than the one currently used, regardless of motivation or the person suggesting the change, real or imagined. It is a centered, near 3/4 frontal body shot at high resolution in a reasonably suitable setting. AnyyVen (talk) 12:55, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Changing it is fine. I wouldn't use File:Zoe_Quinn_Camera_2014.jpg though since nearly her entire face is obscured. Muscat Hoe (talk) 13:48, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

I don't see anything wrong with changing the photo. Kirothereaper (talk) 16:04, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Honestly, the camera photo is the best one of the bunch despite obscuring her face. Even the other one she released seems a bit unflattering to me. None of these photos are very good, though. Perhaps someone can ask if she has a better photo she can release on a free license.--The Devil's Advocate _{tlk. cntrb.} 18:12, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Establish a consensus that the source written by Ryan Smith at medium.com is a primary source.

Can we agree that it is not a secondary source, but a primary one? This would do a lot to dispel the WP:RS controversy over the source. Grognard Chess (talk) Ping when replying 14:18, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

@Chess: What's the controversy? All I could dig up on the talk archives, Talk:Gamergate_controversy/Archive_5#Video_games_journalist.27s_opinion, Talk:Gamergate_controversy/Archive_9#Criticism_of_the_press. It does seem obvious that it's a primary source as he's being cited for his opinions. Probably be moot once the article is unprotected. There's been plenty of reliable secondary sources writing about this since the article was protected. Strongjam (talk) 14:38, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

@Strongjam: So we can completely agree that the source is primary? Grognard Chess (talk) Ping when replying 14:42, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

@Chess: I agree with you, but my opinion shouldn't be weighted very heavily, new account and effectively a WP:SPA at the moment. Strongjam (talk) 14:46, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

It's a self-published source, which means it's acceptable for citing his opinions if we think they're relevant to the article. However, considering how much commentary we have on the issue now, I don't see any reason to use it, and certainly not to give it an entire paragraph. We don't need to include the opinions of every video game journalist who's ever mentioned gamergate, and we certainly don't need to go to medium.com articles to find opinion on gamergate. Unless a source's opinion is extremely important to the subject, I don't think there's any need to resort to self-published sources. -- TaraInDC (talk) 15:07, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

He was a member of the GameJournoPros list, so his opinion is kind of important.--The Devil's Advocate _{tlk. cntrb.} 18:13, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

We're at the point now where we can probably let secondary sources decided who's opinion is important. Strongjam (talk) 18:26, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

The place of "Ethics" in the lede

It's long past time to start reworking the lede: we're currently giving serious undue weight to gamergaters' unsupported contention that their movement is about ethics and conflicts of interest. Let's look at the five sources currently following that statement in the lede.

• The sexist crusade to destroy game developer Zoe Quinn, The Daily Dot.
• GamerGate: Everyone Hates Each Other And I'm Really Tired, CinemaBlend.
• Misogyny, death threats and a mob of trolls: Inside the dark world of video games with Zoe Quinn - target of #GamerGate, The Telegraph.
• #GamerGate: Misogyny or corruption in the gaming community?, AlJazeera.
• Gamergate-related controversy reveals ugly side of gaming community, LA Times.

Of these, none go any further than saying that gaters claim that they are addressing ethical concerns in journalism, and at this point even that is the minority: more and more sources, when they mention gamergate's 'ethics' claims, will actually take the time to debunk them rather than just noting that the 'gamergate is about ethics!' claims exist. While many sources, here and elsewhere, treat gamergate's misogyny as a given, we only have sourcing here of the fact that gaters say that their movement is about corruption. I don't argue with that, but we don't merely say that it's a movement that claims to be interested in ethics, we say that it is one, and give that statement the same weight as the far better cited concerns about misogyny. As things stand now, this is not appropriate. It really never was, to be honest, but the sheer number of recent, mainstream sources that have come out and called a spade a spade in recent weeks should make that blindingly obvious. This article gives a good summary of what some of the highest-profile publications who've talked about gamergate recently have been saying.

The last time this was brought up the discussion was derailed by vague and never-supported claims of 'anti-gg bias' in the article. So POV pushers and SPAs take note: consensus is not a vote. "Nuh-uh, it's all about ethics" no matter how many of you say it, is not going to cut it here. "This article is already biased against gamergate and you want to make it worse!!!!1" is not going to do it either. Articles where journalists cite specific examples of ethical concerns in the context of saying 'there are real ethical concerns, but gamergate is for some reason ignoring them' are certainly not going to work. We're not looking for your opinions, we're looking for sources that support retaining this unsupported claim in the article. If you want to support the claim that your movement is primarily concerned with journalistic ethics, you need to find reliable, mainstream publications that are treating your actual activities as examples of pro-ethics advocacy. As it stands the only ones I've seen have commented on how much hate has been targeted at women and how bizarre it is to attempt to control what publications say about you by attacking their advertisers in the name of 'ethics.' Provide evidence from reliable sources that justify giving 'ethics' equal weight to the movement's far better cited aims of silencing women who say things its members don't like. Not just a few opinion articles: remember, you're trying to shout time the front page of the New York Times here. Let's see some evidence that shows that the current lede does not constitute a WP:WEIGHT problem. -- TaraInDC (talk) 14:56, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

New here, but looking at the sources for the 'ethics' claim it looks to me like the statement violates WP:SYN as well. Strongjam (talk) 15:27, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

I'm not sure I'm following you, but if you mean that citing genuine ethical concerns as 'proof' that gamergate is about ethics, then you're right, without anything to link those concerns to gamergate that would be WP:SYNTH. -- TaraInDC (talk) 15:46, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Sorry if I wasn't clear. I meant that the statement "as well as journalistic ethics in the online gaming press, particularly conflicts of interest between video game journalists and developers." seems to violate WP:SYNTH to me. Unless I'm missing something none of those articles say anything about conflicts of interest. I think though the discussion might be better focused on what newer WP:RS have said about Gamergate. Strongjam (talk) 16:10, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

This one http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/201409032102-0024126 doesn't support your claim at all, it's little more than a collection of the opinions of others. Halfhat (talk) 15:33, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

What claim have I made that this source doesn't support? What I'm saying is that our sources currently may say that gamergate claims to be about ethics, but they either stop there or go so far as to discredit that claim, whereas the movement's misogynistic behavior is much better supported. -- TaraInDC (talk) 15:46, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Just because there hasn't been any validation of the specific concerns that the proGG side has brought up about ethics doesn't mean it is not part of the issues. And even sources heavily biased against GG say, maybe not with the most pleasent language, that the proGG is based on the issue of exposing ethical issues, even if their tactics and motives are far from that. --MASEM (t) 15:37, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

More vague handwaving. Please tell me exactly which of our reliable mainstream sources you are freaming as 'the most heavily biased against GG.' Saying negative things about something is not necessarily 'bias.' Is saying 'drinking poison is bad for you' anti-poison bias? Most of the major publications we have to work with now are not 'anti-GG,' they are pro-reality.

But yes, even the 'most heavily biased' sources say that gamergate claims to be about corruption. But they do not go any further than that, and this article currently does. We're giving equal weight to two points of view that are not equally supported by the sources, and that is a problem. -- TaraInDC (talk) 15:46, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

The issues that there is ethical and corruption problems have been identified by game journalists themselves like Leigh Alexander, etc. They know it exists (maybe not the same problems as claimed by the proGG but they will freely admit they are too close with many publishers for their own good), they want to discuss these issues with concerned gamers and fix them. But 1) they are being attacked when they wave this flag and as a result 2) other sources use this and the fact that the GG side has appeared to overlook a very obvious one , the whole Shadows of Mordor thing that happeened during the GG events, as, per their words, this is only a front over the harassment side. So the claims of ethical problems are fully appropriate for the lead and the body as they are. --MASEM (t) 16:27, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

And as I said, the fact that ethical concerns exist does not mean that gamergate's claims that they are about ethics are in any way credible. Gamergate's actual actions, the issues they are actually working against, are well cited as having nothing to do with ethics, and in fact are often cited as being counterproductive if the movement were genuinly concerned with promoting high quality journalism. -- TaraInDC (talk) 16:34, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

It is not our place to say if their claims are credible or not; it is clear that the issue of ethics has been raisd by these events. --MASEM (t) 17:07, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Masem, you cannot keep conflating actual issues people outside of GamerGate have identified with the dubious ones GamerGate itself has been pursuing. Please stop attempting to do so. Artw (talk) 17:00, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Game journalists are involved in GG, so yes, these issues are legit in the context of "Yes, there are ethics issues, but the GG side seems to be ignoring these" that numerous recent sources have brought up. There's no conflation here, it's part of the narrative of why many of the press are getting frustrated and calling out on GG for lacking any goals beyond their campaign of harassment (as they say). --MASEM (t) 17:07, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Speaking of this, why isn't much longer our coverage of "legitimate criticism of gaming press' ethics that GG is nevertheless ignoring"? This has been a very common opinion in RSs, that there are severe problems in AAA houses, with some news venues being thinly disguised RP departments, yet GG has been centering their efforts mostly on freelancers and indie developers; many journalists have complained about this and written about it quite extensively. Diego (talk) 17:32, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

I don't follow your logic - GajerGate is about harassing games journalists so if Gakes Journalists point out problems in Gakes Journalism they are part of GamerGate? That doesn't make a lick of sense. Artw (talk) 17:38, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Wording. "Drinking poison is bad for you" vs "Drinking poison may cause medical complications or lead to death." So it is "biased" in the sense it's giving the connotation that health complications and/or death are "bad," which is vague, but negative. They aren't either: they're neutral events. AnyyVen (talk) 16:30, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Well, we don't say 'misogyny is bad,' do we? We, and our sources, say it exists, just as the health consequences of taking poison do. -- TaraInDC (talk) 16:34, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Hey, I responded to your point. I never suggested that the article said anything about "misogyny is bad." And it's one thing for the sources to say that it exists and another for them to call for the movement to stop. I'm not saying they're wrong, or bad, or any of that, I'm merely saying it's inaccurate to assume neutrality. Nor am I saying that sources need to be neutral, which they don't, but one has to at least be aware of any potential bias. AnyyVen (talk) 16:50, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Drinking poison isn't really the best parallel, but it makes an argument. Different poisons have different effects on your body, and if you know what you're doing you can ingest certain poisons safely, so for Misplaced Pages to simply describe poison as "bad" would be vague, inaccurate, and a matter determined entirely by context. Any article source using a term like "bad" while failing to go further in depth would be an opinion piece due to lack of context or factual statements. Likewise, the action of misogyny is determined by context, and there does appear to be acknowledged dispute within a number of sources. As in, "Gamer Gate says it isn't about sexism". We see that enough. Still, though, the article opens by stating "Gamer Gate is controversy concerning moral badness". Probably should be changed. I know reading me say this is getting tiring, but every time I say it, I'm told that removing the vagueness and the bias is "undue weight" somehow. It's not undue weight to just change the article to reflect that the periodicals are the ones positing Gamer Gate as a harassment campaign.

And of course, before anyone objects, I still insist the article should say, "The movement has been widely criticized as misogynist due to ongoing harassment of numerous female critics and developers". Because that is the spot-on truth that all the articles are saying. It's not a destructive change, and it doesn't undermine the information already present in the article. It just removes Misplaced Pages's voice from the accusations. YellowSandals (talk) 17:37, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Numerous sources state that it concerns ethics in gaming journalism and some are indeed included in the lede. The fact so few media outlets are willing to discuss those concerns or acknowledge GamerGate's involvement in bringing those issues to light is a consequence of the fact that the media are not keen on covering criticism of themselves. Even so, we have more than enough sources in the article and elsewhere to justify the current wording. Attempts to dilute it are a product of your own bias. Do not even entertain the notion that somehow you are not biased, because anyone who has seen your comments on this topic can easily attest to you being biased.--The Devil's Advocate _{tlk. cntrb.} 17:55, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Pull the other one, it's got bells on. Nobody has been able to show GamerGate addressing actual ethics in journalism, not you, not GamerGate, and not their right wing supporters. It's not just "the media" - NOBODY is able to show any substance to this myth. Artw (talk) 18:12, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

That's because Gamer Gate is an angry, disorganized mob of people with their own factionalized interests. When there's no one Gamer Gate, it's virtually impossible to report on what Gamer Gate is or what it wants. However, the proposal in this thread does go to show exactly how wikilawyering has allowed the article to become biased in the first place. The suggestion is to remove mention of any of Gamer Gate's more commonly expressed stances because the reliable sources are dismissing those stances. Except the reliable sources have had to acknowledge those stances to dismiss them, thereby justifying mention of those stances. This "undue weight" claim has been pursued as far as it can go to make the article as biased as possible, and it's frankly ridiculous. Critics of the anti-GG side are being listed under the "Role of Misogyny and Anti-Feminism" section for crying out loud, while the article doesn't even have a "criticisms" or "media response" section. Why? The only reason I keep hearing is "undue weight", and it's a thin argument. To be honest, I think it's undue weight to represent the anti-GG sources as the sole proprietors of factual information and the only position worth mentioning.

Does this Wiki article not terrify anyone a little? The very idea that "moral wrongness" could be the only reason people would form disorganized, angry mobs and attack people. You want to represent it as a fact that these people are morally reprehensible and attacking their fellow humans just because they overwhelmingly hate women? God save us if true. Be neutral for your own sake - everyone has their reasons and you should not drive this article to try to explain them in terms of evil and moral wrongness. YellowSandals (talk) 18:31, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Nobody has been able to show Gamergate addressing actual concerns, except for getting The Escapist, Destructoid, Kotaku, and Polygon to change their policies, pointing out conflicts of interest with Patreon, showing that the gaming press is far too buddy-buddy through revealing things like the GameJournoPros list, and getting the EIC of Destructoid to step down for <redacted> (which nobody's reporting on, I wonder why). Willhesucceed (talk) 18:42, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

There's enough sources that point to Alexander's blog post about current problems in the industry, and pointing to the Shadows of Mordor promotional thing, to show that the industry knows there are problems. They've opened up as best they can to ask proGGers to participate to help fix. There is no clear effort that shows that offer being taken that can be identified by reliable sources (I'm sure there's a number that are). Ethics are central to the proGG side, but as RS report, how much of that is a sincere concern over just a cover for the tactics otherwise used is in question. --MASEM (t) 19:13, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Felecia Day doxxing

From the Guardian, she was doxxed after posting a support piece for the antiGG side. (Also gets into the Adobe/Gawker thing) --MASEM (t) 15:35, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

A bit off topic but I'm somewhat confused as to why the Guardian has given an insane amount of coverage to this Halfhat (talk) 15:48, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Guardian from my experience tends to be a more tech-savvy paper as well as having readily adopted to the new media model, thus letting them publish more online. But we shouldn't assume that the volume of coverage from a paper that is otherwise sufficiently independent from the video game industry is unreliable or the like (just to stave off those arguments). --MASEM (t) 15:52, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Interesting, I'm yet to see any other of similar magnitude that has done more than a couple covering it. Halfhat (talk) 16:01, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Was this a serious question? A leading female figure in gaming circles who as subjected to the same misogynist crap that the rest of them have been. This is what the primary narrative of Gamergate is becoming. Tarc (talk) 15:58, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

I believe Halfhat was refering to the Guardian's overall GG coverage, not to the Day doxxing. --MASEM (t) 16:20, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

This has been covered by Think Progress too. Chris Kluwe's statement in response may be of note as well. It's also a nicely colorful statement.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 17:51, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Per discussions above, it's not at all clear that a think tank is a reasonable source for BLP related content. The Guardian source is a much higher quality source, and sufficient for establishing due weight. aprock (talk) 17:56, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

It mostly repeats the content in the article by The Guardian, and we already include content from a conservative think tank. Why should this liberal one be any different?—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 18:00, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

It shouldn't. I would suggest staying away from think tank generated content. They are in the business of persuasion, not reporting. aprock (talk) 18:13, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

This story does not warrant much attention at the moment given the minimal coverage. We could justify a sentence possibly, but even that is probably pushing it a bit. I note with interest that Ryulong is not complaining about Masem posting a link without suggesting content additions.--The Devil's Advocate _{tlk. cntrb.} 18:21, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Maybe it's because all the shit that happened yesterday made me change my approach. And the story is brand new so it makes sense that there's not that much coverage yet but it's starting to get there now. This seriously only happened within the past couple of hours. Don't dismiss it yet.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 18:28, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Yeah, and the media are looking at Kluwe's rant (which is much more scathing of proGGers) and seeing not a drop of complains from the proGG side, and drawing the conclusion in their reporting on what the actual purpose of GG is. --MASEM (t) 19:05, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

GamersGate (note spelling)

The CEO of GamersGate (a pre-existing digital storefront for games) reportingly getting inadvertently drawn into this due to the nearness of the name. Not sure if there is something to add on this once we can update the narrative. --MASEM (t) 17:19, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

The controversy has been very big on mob mentality. It might be worth changing the "Backlash and Social Media Campaign" section to read, simply, "Social Media Response". Then it can be used to add details about the crucial way social media has played into all this beyond the specific campaigns if we can find more sources that discuss it. YellowSandals (talk) 19:00, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

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