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Re:Nobel scientist's deletion from Wikipedia points to wider... by jhgb on Thursday August 19, 2021 @12:59PM (#28236309)
How do you tell before such an award is granted whether someone's work is Nobel-worthy or not? There's plenty of already-published works right now that will earn dozens of Nobels to some people in the next decade -- care to tell us which works we should be looking for?
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Re:Nobel scientist's deletion from Wikipedia points to wider... by cool_dude85 on Thursday August 19, 2021 @01:06PM (#28236383)
Luckily for me I'm not an admin on wikipedia, so I don't have to decide whose work is notable enough to justify a page. That's their problem.

And it's fine for them to get heat when they make bad decisions, or when people notice that those decisions are systematically biased. I don't have to solve the problem to say it's bad.

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