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Recrudescence of the Kakistocrats
@reddtrain.bsky.social

It's perversely a good thing that there's nothing at all notable enough about me to warrant having a Wiki page. If there were, I believed it were real, and then it went into File 13...

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Every day, dozens, sometimes hundreds, of Wikipedia biographies—of child actors turned LA realtors, retired ambassadors, obscure soccer players—are purged from the world’s free encyclopedia. How do these poor souls take the news?

wired.comThe Tragedy of Having a Wikipedia Page—and Then Losing ItEvery day, Wikipedia biographies of living people are flagged for deletion because the subjects are not “notable” enough. How do these poor souls take the news?

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Nicholas Sarwark
@sarwark.org

I know at least one person who had a Wikipedia article created during a public campaign that raised his notability that had the article deleted a couple of years later after there was no further notable activity and the world moved on. Forgetting folks is what people do.