On 15 December 2016 at 23:00 Roger Bamkin <victuallers@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Deryk, there seems to be some deep feelings on this one. There seems to some suspicion that there is a conspiracy to raise the profile of women on Wikipedia..... well they are right! However that doesn't mean to say that we want to ignore the rules.

There are kind of two points:

*WP doesn't work on a concept of "prominence", beyond the Main Page, while the media work with little else.

*Gaming the usual concepts around notability is self-defeating, but prompting research that is less superficial is the opposite.

Charles