":In a perfect Wikiworld, she wouldn't have an article, and people like ""18 soldiers"" in ISIL beheading incidents would get names. People should only have articles if they've done something notable. Everything here is about what was done to her. If she'd have been any other American, the story would stay the same, only the bio would change. That country forbids family members from negotiating releases (counts as funding a terrorist). 

 :But we live in the real world, and so long as the press runs humanizing feature piecese about these interchangeable Western folks, it's going to seem like they were the significant ones. If things seem one way in Google News, Wikipedia will feel it. That extends way beyond ISIS or America, though ISIS and America play a part in why Google treats some propaganda as news and the other as objectionable content.   02:53, February 11, 2015 (UTC) 

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