"Andrew Gray" wrote

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I suspect it's often systematic bias, i.e. a deep conviction that certain areas of coverage should be killed and anyone disagreeing must be clueless or a troll.

*However*, it's worth noting that whilst this is a form of systemic bias, it's not usually related to the major fields where we actually worry about our systemic bias.

(By which I mean: we worry about systemic bias over non-western regions and cultures, over gender issues, etc... but our "deletion systemic bias" is about schools and Western pop-culture cruft)

I don't see much of AfD these days. But I'd guess bad English in an article is probably still a cause for nominations. That would exacerbate systemic bias, for evident reasons about non-native speakers of English being contributors in areas where we are light on coverage.

Charles

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