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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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