The way Wikipedia works is, for the most part, random editors patrol new articles looking for non-notable (NN) subjects. Typically, the editor intervening isn’t a subject matter expert.https://twitter.com/nikitab/status/1047493775071670273 …
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This seems terrible! It sort of is! But there’s no real alternative. If rando WP volunteers didn’t do this, WP would be overrun with articles about NN subjects, many of them false and misleading.
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There are approx. 2 bajillion credentialed academics, and WP editors are tasked with making sure WP doesn’t turn into a “Who’s Who In Academia” — which wouldn’t be so bad until every other field of human endeavor then decided WP should be THEIR “Who’s Who” too.
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It's not like "room on Wikipedia" is a precious, limited resource
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Yes, it very much is! You think of it in terms of disk space; WP thinks of it in terms of volunteer hours!
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Based on the deletionist wars over my own WP page, I would call them 'wank hours'
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That’s easy snark, but WP is self-evidently a pretty amazing phenomenon, one of the most valuable things on the Internet, which is itself one of the most valuable and impressive accomplishments of the last 50 years.
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Dude, don't try to out-laud Wikipedia on me. I was lauding Wikipedia while you were still overflowing buffers or whatever it is you do.
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Wikipedia is the blockchain of human knowledge
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Again, U2 and technology drive people apart.
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