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Re:Academics have a duty to defend open knowledge systems li... by Viliam1234 on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @02:15PM (#50185237)
> removing everything they cannot grasp or simply deem uninteresting again.

As an example, there is an American author B.B.Alston whose popular books for children were translated into dozen languages.

He has a page on Polish Wikipedia: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._Alston

But my attempts to make him a page on English Wikipedia keep getting rejected -- failed to establish notability. The fact that he won some awards and kids read his stories on the other side of the planet is apparently not good enough for Wikipedia.

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Re:Academics have a duty to defend open knowledge systems li... by RhetoricX on Thursday October 22, 2026 @09:36AM (#50195145)
Have you checked recently? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._Alston

Looks like your drafts didn't have much in the way of sources. Someone else did a complete rewrite in September with additional sources to establish notability.

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