Eugene van der Pijll wrote
One sign that en.Wikipedia is "nearing
completion", is that we have
articles about subjects before they are in the news, and before people
would want to look them up.
You make a good point. We are gradually, and I emphasise gradually, putting together the
map of academia we should want. There will still be winners of prizes in the humanities
that we don't cover.
A very large number of dead people need articles, too. In fact, arguably, one of the most
important systemic biases we have is towards people who are still breathing. There is
someone who does stats on biographies by birth date, which are striking.
Charles
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