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So how small of a contribution is too small? Or is a negative result still a result? The lightbulb came about through small revolutions and breakthroughs but n

by rob_c 5y ago

So how small of a contribution is too small? Or is a negative result still a result? The lightbulb came about through small revolutions and breakthroughs but nobody remembers the early ones to show the idea of the concept. I'm not saying we need 7-8Bn pages for every human, but frankly a professor has made an impact on their field of they're at that level. It's not "just another job" in the same way that a CEO gets a higher salary than a cleaner. Plus professor in the rest of the world outside of the US tends to be held to the US tenure standard from what I can tell.

crazygringo 5y ago
The answer to your question is set out in excruciating detail at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(academics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(academic...
- rob_c 5y ago
  Again. Said professor will have passed said criteria by definition of their employment and their position. If the Wikipedia editor didn't just Google the person if there were no links why didn't they go to some minor effort rather than just assuming said article is bunk. Or again, after a very quick search realise the person is senior and publish asking for more public input on the topic/atricle. The fact it was deleted instead shows either a problem with the mods or a bias among the mods. I fail to see how that isn't becoming more the case. Most conversation on this is around defending a wiki admin from not being capable of determining good from bad which is getting stupid.
  - civilized 5y ago
    No, it's definitely, absolutely not the case that every single tenured professor deserves their own Wikipedia page. That's ridiculous.
  - BeetleB 5y ago
    > If the Wikipedia editor didn't just Google the person if there were no links why didn't they go to some minor effort rather than just assuming said article is bunk. It is not their role to do so. Or put another way, it is no more their role to do it than yours. Furthermore, the admin is likely not a domain expert and it makes sense to send it back to the author who clearly knows more to say "Hey, we need citations." Which is what was done. > Or again, after a very quick search realise the person is senior and publish asking for more public input on the topic/atricle. This was more or less done: The rejection notice said more input was needed. As someone who spent time in academia: I'm definitely against creating pages for researchers who merely have published a lot. Their work has to be significant. While hers clearly was, it was not referenced. > The fact it was deleted instead shows either a problem with the mods or a bias among the mods Frankly, the fact is that you are not aware of Wikipedia's AFC submission process. Please take a look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creatio... And the guidelines for reviewers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/Reviewing_instructions#General_standards_and_invalid_reasons_for_declining_a_submission https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles... Specifically, look at the review flowchart: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a8/Flow_chart_for_AFC_3.1.png/750px-Flow_chart_for_AFC_3.1.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a8/Flow_ch... It very clearly states that if an AFC article is not reliably sourced, it should be rejected. While I can't speak for the actual biases of the admin, the article would have been rejected by any unbiased admin who follows the process. > Most conversation on this is around defending a wiki admin from not being capable of determining good from bad which is getting stupid. I agree it is stupid, but the stupidity arises from the CBC article: They chose to highlight this without doing the appropriate work to understand how Wikipedia works. While the bias they speak of may well be very real, they didn't pick a good example - opting instead for sensationalism.
    - tptacek 5y ago
      I'm beating a dead horse here, but I want to repeat myself: you don't have to use the AfC process at all. You can just create a new Wikipedia article directly, without any admin review. You go through AfC because you choose to do so, not because Wikipedia has a whole complicated flowchart that gates which new articles can be created. Before Donna Strickland was awarded her Nobel, nobody opted to do this. So the real critique here isn't that Wikipedia admins are hostile to women scientists (though, for all I know, they may be), but rather that Wikipedia volunteers don't generate articles for them spontaneously. That's a problem, but it's a different kind of problem.
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by rob_c 5y ago

crazygringo 5y ago

The answer to your question is set out in excruciating detail at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(academics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(academic...

rob_c 5y ago
Again. Said professor will have passed said criteria by definition of their employment and their position. If the Wikipedia editor didn't just Google the person if there were no links why didn't they go to some minor effort rather than just assuming said article is bunk. Or again, after a very quick search realise the person is senior and publish asking for more public input on the topic/atricle. The fact it was deleted instead shows either a problem with the mods or a bias among the mods. I fail to see how that isn't becoming more the case. Most conversation on this is around defending a wiki admin from not being capable of determining good from bad which is getting stupid.
- civilized 5y ago
  No, it's definitely, absolutely not the case that every single tenured professor deserves their own Wikipedia page. That's ridiculous.
- BeetleB 5y ago
  > If the Wikipedia editor didn't just Google the person if there were no links why didn't they go to some minor effort rather than just assuming said article is bunk. It is not their role to do so. Or put another way, it is no more their role to do it than yours. Furthermore, the admin is likely not a domain expert and it makes sense to send it back to the author who clearly knows more to say "Hey, we need citations." Which is what was done. > Or again, after a very quick search realise the person is senior and publish asking for more public input on the topic/atricle. This was more or less done: The rejection notice said more input was needed. As someone who spent time in academia: I'm definitely against creating pages for researchers who merely have published a lot. Their work has to be significant. While hers clearly was, it was not referenced. > The fact it was deleted instead shows either a problem with the mods or a bias among the mods Frankly, the fact is that you are not aware of Wikipedia's AFC submission process. Please take a look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creatio... And the guidelines for reviewers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/Reviewing_instructions#General_standards_and_invalid_reasons_for_declining_a_submission https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles... Specifically, look at the review flowchart: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a8/Flow_chart_for_AFC_3.1.png/750px-Flow_chart_for_AFC_3.1.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a8/Flow_ch... It very clearly states that if an AFC article is not reliably sourced, it should be rejected. While I can't speak for the actual biases of the admin, the article would have been rejected by any unbiased admin who follows the process. > Most conversation on this is around defending a wiki admin from not being capable of determining good from bad which is getting stupid. I agree it is stupid, but the stupidity arises from the CBC article: They chose to highlight this without doing the appropriate work to understand how Wikipedia works. While the bias they speak of may well be very real, they didn't pick a good example - opting instead for sensationalism.
  - tptacek 5y ago
    I'm beating a dead horse here, but I want to repeat myself: you don't have to use the AfC process at all. You can just create a new Wikipedia article directly, without any admin review. You go through AfC because you choose to do so, not because Wikipedia has a whole complicated flowchart that gates which new articles can be created. Before Donna Strickland was awarded her Nobel, nobody opted to do this. So the real critique here isn't that Wikipedia admins are hostile to women scientists (though, for all I know, they may be), but rather that Wikipedia volunteers don't generate articles for them spontaneously. That's a problem, but it's a different kind of problem.

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