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Re:40% of Wikipedia is under threat from deletionists by kstrauser on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @02:06PM (#13979011)
> But that introduces a huge bias toward political and scientific topics and away from anything else.

Well, some scientific topics. An earlier Boing Boing article (http://boingboing.net/2017/02/14/watching-wikipedias-extinct...) references the WP page for hemovanadin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemovanadin . Two editors worked together to "speedy delete" it.

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Re:40% of Wikipedia is under threat from deletionists by empthought on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @02:50PM (#13979480)
Same author with the same bias then as now; she tried for quite some time to use Wikipedia as a platform for cosmetic services advertising and personal vendettas.

edit: til she was banned from Wikipedia for it, of course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests...

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