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Suggestion: Create a new Wikipedia article with the same Name, upload your own profile photo onto it and put a Disambiguation (Programmer/Hacker) in it so that
by romseb 5y ago
Suggestion: Create a new Wikipedia article with the same Name, upload your own profile photo onto it and put a Disambiguation (Programmer/Hacker) in it so that Google will associate it correctly.
Alternatively, add a drawing of the rapist to the original Wikipedia article.
Interestingly, for me, another Hristo (german principal investigator) appears on the right side when I google the name.
- Tenoke 5y agoYou'd be surprised to learn how hard it is to add anything to Wikipedia and have it stay accepted.
- hadlock 5y agoI added the wiki page for Kamala Harris' dad (a professor) to wikipedia (shortly after Biden announced her as his running mate in the election), and within literally 2 minutes, two different people had flagged it for deletion. One reason given was that academics need to be especially notable to warrant a wiki page, completely ignoring his relation to her daughter, which was mentioned in the original draft of the article stub. All proposals for deletion have since been removed, but I was surprised at the ferocity at which users want to delete new articles.
- ghaff 5y agoThere's definitely a deletionist cult within Wikipedia. While acknowledging that it shouldn't be a dumping ground for essentially individual web pages, it goes too far IMO for people who have clear documented credentials and public history. This favors certain occupations over others of course--including academics, journalists, etc.--who have public bios, papers/articles, and often articles about them. But deletionist tendencies in these areas tend to work against claims that it's all about verifiability.
- romseb 5y agoYes, I have seen the deletion fetish on Wikipedia first-hand many times. It made me stop contributing to it.
- ishiz 5y ago> Suggestion: Create a new Wikipedia article with the same Name, upload your own profile photo onto it and put a Disambiguation (Programmer/Hacker) in it so that Google will associate it correctly. That Wikipedia article would probably meet the criteria for Speedy Deletion and just causes unnecessary effort for the Wikipedia editors.
- xxs 5y agoNo way he'd be able to add an article about himself. He'd need to be somewhat famous/notable for the article to stick...
- ant6n 5y agoHes famous for falsely having been accused of being a serial killer by Google!
- heavyset_go 5y agoIt's against Wikipedia's rules to create articles about yourself.