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

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

[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]