Notices by Blake C. Stacey (bstacey@icosahedron.website), page 11

<<Clarice Phelps may have been the first African-American woman to help discover a chemical element. For Wikipedia, that wasn’t enough. >>

https://undark.org/2019/04/25/wikipedia-diversity-problem/

I'm not completely sold on this. Unlike the Donna Strickland case, where a draft article was turned down even though the subject obviously met Wikipedia's own "academic notability" guideline, there just wasn't a lot to read about Clarice Phelps. (The above-linked article represents a substantial addition to the corpus. And it's pretty short.) Reasonable people could make different calls in a borderline case like hers.

Apparently Undark didn't link to the deletion discourse, which you can find here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Clarice_Phelps

The writer at Undark says "Wikipedia moderators bypassed the step of calling to improve Phelps’s page and instead went directly to recommending it for deletion", but as best I can tell, "moderators" didn't do that. Some user named "Icewhiz" did, and they don't appear to be an administrator.

You know, for a serve that never really went anywhere and was "dead", there sure are a lot of websites out there that will need to update their pages to remove dead G+ links.

do you ever think about how there's some ancient thinkers whose extant writings only exist in, essentially, quote tweets dunking on them?

Grad school is a strange sort of liminal space. We’re not quite students, but not quite faculty either.

I started this like yesterday and came back and couldn't remember why

So, without explanation, please choose between:

I didn't bother opening the covers lest I lose my temper. Sexism should have no place in mathematics.

love hard :trans_heart:
run fast 🏃♀️
be kind :blobpats:

This weekend I busked enough to raise enough to cover rent (which is impressive tbh, $300 from performing while ill, I am good at what I do) but electricity bill is still at a loss.

Help me keep the power going so I can get my album released in May or something. That'd be grand:

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/osirissaline
Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/osirissaline

#TransCrowdfund #OneDollarPatreon #PoorQueerArtistsNeedToNotDieToBeHonest

My roomate wonders why I talk to the tv when I'm by myself lol

Media commentary is part of Black culture.

Its how my parents taught me how to recognize "white people/racist bullshit". This requires critical thinking skills and the ability to interpret a narrative and recognize symbolism. To teach us this, we had to talk while we watched the show/movie. Also its just too fun.

I ended up having "is this a silent watching or a live commentary hang out" check ins with all my friends once i figured this out.

Live commentary is way more fun, and less toxic than passively absorbing all that mess.

the local alley cats take *no* shit

love hard :trans_heart:
run fast 🏃♀️
be kind :blobpats:

... The thought just struck me that Wikipedia's "academic notability" guideline and its various other policies probably keep out a lot of physics crackpots, who are almost ubiquitously white men.

Silver lining!

<<Clarice Phelps may have been the first African-American woman to help discover a chemical element. For Wikipedia, that wasn’t enough. >>

https://undark.org/2019/04/25/wikipedia-diversity-problem/

I'm not completely sold on this. Unlike the Donna Strickland case, where a draft article was turned down even though the subject obviously met Wikipedia's own "academic notability" guideline, there just wasn't a lot to read about Clarice Phelps. (The above-linked article represents a substantial addition to the corpus. And it's pretty short.) Reasonable people could make different calls in a borderline case like hers.

Apparently Undark didn't link to the deletion discourse, which you can find here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Clarice_Phelps

The writer at Undark says "Wikipedia moderators bypassed the step of calling to improve Phelps’s page and instead went directly to recommending it for deletion", but as best I can tell, "moderators" didn't do that. Some user named "Icewhiz" did, and they don't appear to be an administrator.

@Siphonay Here's a start: https://www.patreon.com/posts/jordan-peterson-17972181