Wikipedia removes U.S. Senate candidate's page ahead of Pennsylvania primary

Just the News ^ | May 10, 2022 | Madeleine Hubbard

[gattaca]

Wikipedia removed her page one week before the election

Dig In Wikipedia has deleted the page of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kathy Barnette, who would be the first black senator for Pennsylvania if elected, after the company said she is not a notable person.

Her page, which was last edited on May 10, redirects to a general Wikipedia page about Pennsylvania's 2022 U.S. Senate election.

Her page did "not establish notability beyond routine campaign coverage," a Wikipedia editor said in April 2021, when the discussion of removing her page began, The Epoch Times reported.

Barnette posted a photo of her deleted page on Twitter with the caption, "When they cancel me, they’re cancelling you. Wikipedia just pulled my page down with a week left to go in the election."

An InsiderAdvantage/FOX 29 poll on Tuesday showed Barnette coming in second at 20.9%. She is behind Dr. Mehmet Oz, who has a Wikipedia page and is polling at 22.5%.

Former Treasury under secretary David McCormick also has a Wikipedia page and is behind Barnette at 18.5%.

"No one said this would be easy. They don’t like giving up power," she added. "They forget that the true power is with the people, though."

Barnette remains confident that she will move on to the general election.

"Seven days from today, our movement is going to win in Pennsylvania," she tweeted Tuesday evening. "We are going to make history and prove that a movement powered by the people is far greater than the BIG money that special interests pour into politics."

[lightman]

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[Republican Wildcat]

She should have a page as a notable person under Wikipedia’s standards for being a national media personality and a previous nominee for Congress prior to this Senate race. Far more people have pages as ‘notable people’ for much less than that.

So their reasoning does not wash.

[ViLaLuz]

Wow. Infuriating!

[HamiltonJay]

Her page was there when I checked

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_Senate_election_in_Pennsylvania#Republican_primary

[daniel1212]

Seasoned WP editors know that they have an extensive list of Policies and guidelines (resulting in instruction creep and their interpretation of them in order to justify censoring edits. And thereby deter editing (Various figures involved with the Wikimedia Foundation have argued that Wikipedia's increasingly complex policies and guidelines are driving away new contributors to the siteand maintain liberal control.

*Wikipedia administrator Oliver Moran views "policy creep" as the major barrier, writing that "the loose collective running the site today, estimated to be 90 percent male, operates a crushing bureaucracy with an often abrasive atmosphere that deters newcomers who might increase participation in Wikipedia and broaden its coverage".[212] According to Jemielniak, the sheer complexity of the rules and laws governing content and editor behavior has become excessive and creates a learning burden for new editors.[7][213]