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Re:40% of Wikipedia is under threat from deletionists by aanm1988 on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @02:40PM (#13979372)
> 1. An editor, usually a woman or a minority group member, writes a stub for a requested article, including references and assertion of notability.

Proof? No?

So is this true or is it just lazy writing that attempts to frame this as yet another attack on women and minorities so as to try and garner easy support?

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Re:40% of Wikipedia is under threat from deletionists by gozur88 on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @03:04PM (#13979589)
Yeah, that was lazy on the author's part and probably wrong.
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Re:40% of Wikipedia is under threat from deletionists by antisthenes on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @04:18PM (#13980277)
Should call it the "SJW effect", when it backfires, akin to the Streisand effect.
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