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Every 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?

buff.lyThe 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?

26/10/26, 10:04 am6 reposts55 likes

Suzanne McCain

@mccainsuzanne.bsky.social

This is appropriate.

Vitreosity

@vitreosity.bsky.social

Why post to bluesky if you never ever do a gift article. Just up front say that it is a PAYWALL article.

nomadRuss

@russlinton.com

Relieved maybe? FFS anonymize us all. Celebrity has become a cancer.

CarrieT 🗽 ⚖️ 🇺🇸 🐶 📚 🛩 🌏 🐘 🗳 ⛩️ 😆 🎶 🪙 🤷‍♀️

@uclabruin1998.bsky.social

"I had my one minute of fame!"

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@djmabeizy.bsky.social

There's a quiet cruelty to it, in fairness. Wikipedia's notability test isn't really about what you've done with your life. It asks whether independent, reliable sources have written about you in any depth, and that's an entirely different question.

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@djmabeizy.bsky.social

The editors themselves say the site runs on verifiability rather than truth, so a lifetime of good work counts for nothing if no journalist ever turned up to record it.