Anyone know what justifies this uncited claim: "best known as [...] and for her unconventional views on her profession"

Everything librarian-related on that page (anti-censorship, pro-free-speech, pro-privacy) is standard librarian culture that I remember since I was young.

When that article was originally written I think it had to do with coming out very strongly against the USA PATRIOT Act which seems like pretty standard stuff now but in the wake of 9/11 being really mouthy about it was less typical.

I also enjoyed this interview: https://medium.com/tilty/transcription-jessamyn-west-technol...

HN Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14982844

So it’s not “a librarian”, but someone with lots of money, education, connections, time...

Sometimes librarians are also those things.

Thank you for your work at Metafilter. Can’t believe I’ve been reading it for like 17 years now. Over half my life!

The title makes it sound like she’s some random Joe. Random Joes don’t have Wikipedia entries.

Average Joe has one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_Joe

You are replying to said librarian, fyi.

Jessamyn isn’t a random Joe. But any random Joe can in fact make a Wikipedia entry, as long as it comes with verifiable facts, that’s kind of the point of Wikipedia.

There are almost a million pages for living people, according to this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Living_people They’re not all famous, they just usually have publications by them or about them.

That's what I wish Wikipedia was, but unfortunately it's not so: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(people...

I borrowed books from her library once

Seems librarianish