I’m old enough to remember when Wikipedia was not allowed to be cited in high school papers because it wasn’t a sufficiently authoritative source. How the turn tables…

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mbirth a day ago | parent [-]

That time was also when people could just add useful information to articles without some self-declared gatekeeper/“curator” removing everything they cannot grasp or simply deem uninteresting again.

	▲	Viliam1234 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> removing everything they cannot grasp or simply deem uninteresting again. As an example, there is an American author B.B.Alston whose popular books for children were translated into dozen languages. He has a page on Polish Wikipedia: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._Alston But my attempts to make him a page on English Wikipedia keep getting rejected -- failed to establish notability. The fact that he won some awards and kids read his stories on the other side of the planet is apparently not good enough for Wikipedia.
	▲	jadar 11 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		This is true. I think the problem has changed but it still there. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think it’s a reliable academic source. I just think it’s ironic that an academic is saying it’s a moral duty to protect it.