So today I was doing some googling and someone I know I noted has a wikipedia page but someone else I know who I felt was if not more notable didn’t so I thought it would be nice to add them and also I feel they were worthy of being included. I had recently wanted to edit Wikipedia as my work Winchester School of Art has a poor page and it had bothered me.
I did an ok job on the new person page copying from another person page also bear in mind I only recently got editing access back as my original Wikipedia username from probably 20+ years ago contained the word bot and so I was banned for a while as I tried to explain that I wanted to keep this name.
Anyway within less than 30 mins my new person page was flagged for speedy deletion. I updated my reasons on the talk page as directed. Subsequently I got no reply and the page I created is now deleted.
I remember when Wikipedia was about the idea that it wasn’t about a group of privileged white men deciding who could and couldn’t be included into the Britannica Encyclopaedia.
It seems now the case is the same but instead it’s online and not printed.
I tried to add someone that I think has contributed to very specific research and theory in the space of digital literacies and is known in this space. I would have thought digital literacy would be something Wikipedia would care about and might want to include know figures.
