Nobel scientist's deletion from Wikipedia points to wider bias

Re:Nobel scientist's deletion from Wikipedia points to wider... by tptacek on Thursday August 19, 2021 @12:55PM (#28236255)

Are we looking at different things? I just wrote a whole long comment on this after poking around on WP about it, and I'd be glad to know if I got things completely scrambled. Because what I see is a page created in 2018, and a _lot_ of intra-WP coverage of the process that led to there not being a page before 2018, all of which squares with what this article says.

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Re:Nobel scientist's deletion from Wikipedia points to wider... by jessaustin on Thursday August 19, 2021 @01:14PM (#28236525)

I'm probably misunderstanding something, but I do see some 2014 dates at the bottom of the page linked above. ISTM wikipedia was informed of this scientist in some fashion in 2014, and those contributions were deleted or set aside or whatever. I'm happy to be educated on this, but at least we can say that the process is obscure.

Of course the point is that GP's whinging about headlines is silly. Her Nobel paper was published in 1985.

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Re:Nobel scientist's deletion from Wikipedia points to wider... by tptacek on Thursday August 19, 2021 @01:25PM (#28236687)

You're right, I missed the stub from 2014. It was speedy-deleted for copyright infringement.

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