Jessica Wade made more than 1k Wikipedia bios for unknown women scientists
&gt; However, not all of Wiki-world was happy with her. Several of her entries were deleted by other Wikimedians, as the most influential contributors and editors are called. She told TODAY.com that they said a handful of the women she wrote up were not all that well-known.<p>&gt; Wade said that’s right, that’s the problem: they should be better known.<p>This is my biggest problem with Wikipedia, it sees itself too much as an encyclopedia, when it&#x27;s clearly more than that. Wikipedia is already full of boring and random stubs, I don&#x27;t see the obsession editors have with making sure that a person is &quot;important enough&quot; to have an article. I feel like the bar should be lowered - not too low, obviously.<p>Important is fairly subjective, and you&#x27;re limiting yourself to things people in the past have written about. Original research shouldn&#x27;t be discouraged to the extent it is, as long as it is backed up with valid sources.