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All of us were always free, and are still free, to contribute to making his wiki page better!
by epgui 3y ago
All of us were always free, and are still free, to contribute to making his wiki page better!
- yau8edq12i 3y agoWikipedia editors delete pages about people not deemed notable enough. Especially women: https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/wikipedia-bias-1.6129073 https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/wikipedia-bias-1.6129073 Meanwhile, a list of supplemental roads and rural secondary highways in Kentuck (3000-3499) is encyclopedia-worthy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kentucky_supplemental_roads_and_rural_secondary_highways_(3000%E2%80%933499) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kentucky_supplemental_...
- teddyh 3y agoIf we assume that there is a group of people giving a concerted effort to acknowledge women in general, would that not lead to more articles about women being created? And, purely statistically, would not this in turn lead to more articles about women being rejected for being insufficiently notable? There is no need to assume bias in Wikipedia editors, the bias could just as well lie with those people who create the many rejected articles. Also, one criteria which Wikipedia must, by necessity, use, is “published articles in other media about the subject”. If other media are, in general, biased, this would lead to a dearth of articles in other media, which in turn would lead to Wikipedia rejecting new WP articles.
- epgui 3y agoHow is this statistical problem (which I’m prepared to acknowledge) an actual barrier preventing you from improving any given article?
- yau8edq12i 3y agoBecause I'm not going to put in the work just to see it deleted by zealous editors.
- epgui 3y agoThere is no basis in your purported belief that quality contributions that follow the rules will get deleted. Wikipedia editors are not out there to suppress women— The fact that this de facto happens is more likely a reflection of systemic social issues.
- kwhitefoot 3y agoSurely Wikipedia editors are part of society? So > is more likely a reflection of systemic social issues. contradicts > Wikipedia editors are not out there to suppress women
- yau8edq12i 3y agoThe basis for my belief that it happens is that I've seen it happen.
- teddyh 3y agoLinks or it didn’t¹. 1. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36123641 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36123641>
- yau8edq12i 3y agoHere is some starting point for your search: https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/wikipedia-bias-1.6129073 https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/wikipedia-bias-1.6129073 See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deletionism_and_inclusionism_in_Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deletionism_and_inclusionism_i...