Female scientists’ pages keep disappearing from Wikipedia – what’s going on?
Katrina Kramer
3 July 2019
Classic Jess Wade.......
She claimed it, the press repeated it. Even though it is obvious a lie. As I have shown, most of her shitty output isn't even being spell-checked and obvious failures in matching text to source are not being spotted.Jessica Wade, a physical chemist at Imperial College London, UK, who created both Phelps’ and Tuttle’s page, says out of the 600 articles she has written so far about female, black, minority ethnic or LGBTQ+ scientists, six have been deleted as they weren’t deemed notable. But almost every single one is being scrutinised – particularly those on ethnic minority women, Wade says.
This is Wade. She's created 600+ Wikipedia biographies, and she still thinks the existence of other shite is an acceptable defence against her creating shite. Doesn't know Wikipedia policy, and doesn't fucking want to know it. She is only interested in what makes her feel good, or what makes her feel sad.When you make a page and it is disputed for deletion, it is not only annoying because your work is being deleted,’ she says. ‘It’s also incredibly intrusive and degrading to have someone discuss whether someone’s notable enough to be on Wikipedia – a website that has pages about almost every pop song, people who are extras in films no one has ever heard of and people who were in sports teams that never scored.
Wade's entire existence is one where fact is subservient to feeling. As her Twitter feed shows, facts only exist to make her happy or sad, but obviously only facts that feed into her biases. Well, it's a fact that having a whole 1% of your article creations deleted when you are manifestly incapable of doing even the basics in writing them, is not a reason to feel sad, it's a reason to thank your lucky stars that you are CLEARLY not being subjected to the sort of scrutiny that other editors with your limited abilities usually are, resulting in most, sometimes even all of their creations being wiped out on the sound policy basis that people who habitually make basic mistakes when writing biographies, are a high level threat to real people and Wikipedia's reputation.
To my best knowledge, Wade has never even been formally warned for her repeated failures to ensure source-text integrity, even though a cursory look shows it is a persistent problem with an obvious cause - haste. She cares more about nudging the % needle, still working at a furious pace of one new page a day, than whether her articles are correct. She rarely even goes back to remedy errors that are actually discovered. Lack of time, or just doesn't give a shit?
After a great many scandals, biographies are exempt from the usual Wikipedia ethos of waiting for others to come along and fix up content that can reasonably be assumed to be faulty. Another basic of Wikipedia policy that Wade either doesn't know, or does but has just disregarded, in spectacular fashion wrt Phelps.
At least this press article hasn't been polluted with Wade's Wikipedia generated false facts.....
......Wade of course having originally published in Wikipedia that Phelps.....Phelps .... is quite possibly the first female African–American scientist to be part of a team that discovered a superheavy element
....based on nothing but a private Tweet from Kit Chapman trying to promote his as-yet unpublished book. The book is now out, and it appears it does not even support this claim. Hence why Phelps still hasn't got her article, because for an encyclopedia, "possibly" having been part of a pretty small achievement in the grand scheme of scientific discovery, just doesn't cut it. First African-American women to discover an element would pass the bar, quite easily, even before people realized Wikipedia was biased against women and minorities.is the first African-American woman to identify an element
If Wade's editting didn't need scrutiny, especially for any claims she makes about the achievements of women and minorities, then her Wikipedia editing would be truth. And you do not want that. You are probably already getting it.
Wade is a scientist. Science has a lot to answer for these days. And science journalism.