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Apparently as a Wikimedia foundation member, you have a lower bar when it comes to getting your own page?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Stierch

From the Affiliations section:

Ada Initiative – Advisor

American Alliance of Museums – Member

Archives of American Art – Wikipedian in Residence

Museum Computer Network – Member

Open Knowledge Foundation – OpenGLAM Coordinator

Smithsonian Institution Archives – Wikipedian in Residence

Wikimedia Foundation – Community Fellow

World Digital Library at the Library of Congress –

Wikipedian in Residence

Her life and advocacy sound fulfilling and good hearted, but nothing seems to meet the (admittedly inconsistent) standard of inclusion of living persons in WP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion...

> given there were almost twice as many "keep" comments as "deletes" I am closing this discussion as a weak consensus to keep

Nothing like quantity over quality when assessing these things.

This stuck out to me as well. Her Wikipedia page reads like a vanity article.

It didn't seem any more such a thing than a LinkedIn page or a resume?

A LinkedIn page or resume posted to Wikipedia would be a vanity page.

I'm surprised there is yet no mention of her firing.

Ahhhh. The Ada Initiative. That should have been a huge warning sign to all involved.

Why? What's wrong with the Ada initiative?

They're basically a hostile lynch mob that further divides people on the issues in question and intentionally causes controversy. Many women do not consider them an ally because of the negative attention they bring to gender issues.

http://maradydd.livejournal.com/525773.html?thread=3918797#t...

Amongst other things, their approach to increasing women's participation in tech seems to involve actively trying to exclude women like Violet Blue whom they don't feel are acting in an appropriately feminine manner.

Hmm, I traced this story to http://www.securitybsides.com/w/page/35868077/BSidesSanFranc... and you're right - this account makes them look very bad.

Hmm. Damn.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5283785

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