Wikipedia Garfield gender debate
From February 24, 2017 to February 27, 2017, Wikipedia users debated over if the character Garfield is male or has no gender.
| Wikipedia Garfield gender debate | |
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| Date | Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 665: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
| Caused by | Dispute over whether Garfield's gender is male or if he doesn't have a gender. |
| Resulted in | Consensus that Garfield is male. |
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Background
In 2018, Mental Floss did an interview with Garfield creator Jim Davis in which Davis said "By virtue of being a cat, really, he’s not really male or female or any particular race or nationality, young or old."[1] [2]
Debate
On February 24, 2017, podcaster Virgil Texas would find the Mental Floss article about the interview with Jim Davis.[3] Virgil would then tweet about Davis' remarks regarding the gender of Garfield and he edited the Wikipedia article "Garfield (character)".[4]
Virgil's edit would be reverted by a Wikipedia editor in less than an hour of the edit being published.[1] A discussion would then start on the article's talk page about Garfield's gender.
The debate would result in the Wikipedia article being locked down.[1]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Cavna, Michael; Selk, Avi (1 March 2017). "Garfield's a boy … right? How a cartoon cat's gender identity launched a Wikipedia war". The Washington Post. Retrieved 9 November 2024.
- ↑ Feldman, Brian (1 March 2017). "Congress Has Entered the War Over Garfield's Gender". Intelligencer. Retrieved 9 November 2024.
- ↑ Schmall, Tyler (1 March 2017). "The great Garfield gender debate ends after Wikipedia edit war". Mashable. Retrieved 9 November 2024.
- ↑ McMillan, Graeme (5 March 2017). "While You Were Offline: An Age-Old Enigma, Solved: Garfield Is a Boy … We Think". Wired. Retrieved 9 November 2024.
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