Interestingly enough, the top Google result for "hairdresser" is the barber article  on Wikipedia.

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch@gmail.com> wrote:
Oh yeah!!! A brief history is added and some statistical data about hairdressers in the US today.

/cheer

-Sarah


On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Article started: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairdresser

Please add to it!

Ryan Kaldari

On 9/15/11 6:31 AM, Fred Bauder wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:03 AM, Sarah Stierch<sarah.stierch@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> I searched for "hairdresser" and was directed to barber.
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairdresser
>>>
>>> Kind of interesting, that it directs to barber and then discusses male
>>> barbers and men's haircutting culture.
>>>
>>> Surely I can't be the only person who finds this odd...
>> Did you take a look at the article history? Would you prefer the last
>> pre-merger version
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hairdresser&oldid=238820338)
>> over a redirect to a proper article about the same subject?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ole
> Yes, it is as simple as writing a good article.
>
> Fred
>
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