There are plenty! She was notable before this incident happened. She's been covered/interviewed in multiple secondary reliable sources.
-Sarah
/who always likes a challenge.
On 3/30/13 12:58 PM, Emily Monroe wrote:
On the other hand, we need a secondary source that is more reliable than Facebook or Twitter.
From,
Emily
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Jane Darnell <jane023@gmail.com> wrote:
Awesome! Nice article. I think she is OK on the notability front.
Anyone who manages to accumulate more than 4 million *science*
followers on facebook without posting regularly on sexual subjects is
definitely noteworthy enough for Wikipedia. Add to that this strange
development on the swear-word gender miscommunication and you pass on
the basis of "most bizarre gendergap content to be published in 2013".
2013/3/30, Ilona Buchem <buchem@beuth-hochschule.de>:
> Hi Sarah,
>
> I am following this discussion and it's interesting to see that deciding
> about an entry is not straight-forward even to "core insiders". I wonder
> what criteria help decide if something or someone is "worth" an article
> in WP. How do you decide? Or: What makes it worth it or nor?
>
> -Ilona
>
> Am 3/30/13 5:17 PM, schrieb Sarah Stierch:
>> Oh Michael, the bearer of bad news about people who generally want to
>> write new articles on this mailing list.
>>
>> Is there another article where we think this type of coverage or
>> content could be placed? I think we could even build an article about
>> I Fucking Love Science instead.
>>
>> I still question if it's officially not worth an article, I haven't
>> researched it yet. But, at this point I'm a "pro" at making people
>> most declare non-notable rather notable based on research. (Oh the
>> curator in me!)
>>
>> -Sarah
>>
>> On 3/30/13 6:08 AM, Michael J. Lowrey wrote:
>>> It's appalling and depressing; but if somebody were to write a
>>> Wikipedia article about it, at this point, I'd say it fails WP:NOTNEWS.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 2:52 AM, Jane Darnell <jane023@gmail.com
>>> <mailto:jane023@gmail.com>> wrote:>>> Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org>
>>>
>>> Did anyone see this? A popular blogger on Science (with more than 4
>>> million followers) is a woman. The woman herself, Elise Andrew,
>>> had no
>>> idea it was a secret, and she was "outed" when she announced her
>>> twitter account featuring a picture of herself. Apparently the bias
>>> occurred because of the swear word on her facebook page which made
>>> readers assume she was a man. Interesting conclusion! This is a
>>> facebook hype that deserves a WP page, no?
>>>
>>> article is here:
>>>
>>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/us-news-blog/2013/mar/20/i-love-science-woman-facbook
>>> facebook page here:
>>> http://www.facebook.com/IFeakingLoveScience
>>> The TV interview with Dr. Michio Kaku on CBS morning show is here:
>>> http://cbsn.ws/109mAEL
>>>
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