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Re:Donna Strickland won her Nobel prize in Physics before sh... by wil_wheat_on on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @01:09PM (#18123565)
the other two winners, male, had pages https://twitter.com/clancynewyork/status/1047098079097380864, there's a broader argument about bias here
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Re:Donna Strickland won her Nobel prize in Physics before sh... by yorwba on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @01:38PM (#18123857)
I think the strongest bias in this case is favoring advisors over the students who do the work, even if they get first authorship.

For example, the Alex of AlexNet [1] fame would be Alex Krizhevsky, if he were actually famous. He doesn't have a Wikipedia page, but his advisor Geoffrey Hinton does (and is famous for the AlexNet breakthrough).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlexNet

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Re:Donna Strickland won her Nobel prize in Physics before sh... by booleandilemma on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @01:39PM (#18123864)
How can an encyclopedia that anyone can edit be biased?

Anyone could have added her page, no one did, until now.

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Re:Donna Strickland won her Nobel prize in Physics before sh... by cpeterso on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @02:00PM (#18124078)
Someone created a wiki page for her back in May, but it was deleted because a Wikipedia editor decided she wasn't "notable". Anyone can edit Wikipedia, but it still has the bias of the most recent editor.

https://twitter.com/resolvingdust/status/1047135142978801664

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Re:Donna Strickland won her Nobel prize in Physics before sh... by tda on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @02:08PM (#18124156)
Actually she had a page, but it was deleted. And then someone recreated the page, and it was rejected in review. QED
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Re:Donna Strickland won her Nobel prize in Physics before sh... by dbcooper71 on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @02:08PM (#18124152)
The editors didn’t think she was notable enough. This is an editing problem not a submission problem.
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Re:Donna Strickland won her Nobel prize in Physics before sh... by basic1 on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @01:22PM (#18123687)
I'd be curious who made those two or if it was themselves.
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