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What does that have to do with anything?

• x5n1 10y ago
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  • johnloeber 10y ago
    I think that might just be a (perfectly reasonable) desire for privacy... he is a fairly public figure, after all.
  • tzs 10y ago
    Are you implying that he wrote his own Wikipedia page? In a 1997 article in Technology Review, the author said that Wolfram politely deflected personal questions about his wife and newborn child out of privacy concerns prompted by the Unabomber case.
    • enthdegree 10y ago
      It is not out of the question that Stephen Wolfram, if it is not he himself, does indeed have some publicists policing his Wikipedia article. Compare the edit statistics of Stephen's page: https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-articleinfo/?article=Stephen_Wolfram&project=en.wikipedia.org https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-articleinfo/?article=Stephe... ...to those of the page of an arguably even more famous research scientist, Terence Tao: https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-articleinfo/?article=Terence_Tao&project=en.wikipedia.org https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-articleinfo/?article=Terenc... Notice that, (as might be reasonable to expect of many Wikipedia articles), Terence's page experienced rapid growth a few years after it's creation, then received sustained updates over time. In contrast, Stephen's page does not display this trend at all and is rather bursty. Also notice that whereas the top editors of Tao's page are evenly distributed among many users, on Stephen's page nearly 10% of the edits and a quarter of the text comes from one editor who happens to have been affiliated with Wolfram Research. Of course this is all anecdotal evidence and eyeball statistics at best.
    • x5n1 10y ago
      thanks.