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by bthrm 2924 days ago
So it’s not “a librarian”, but someone with lots of money, education, connections, time...
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Sometimes librarians are also those things.
Thank you for your work at Metafilter. Can’t believe I’ve been reading it for like 17 years now. Over half my life!
The title makes it sound like she’s some random Joe. Random Joes don’t have Wikipedia entries.
You are replying to said librarian, fyi.
Jessamyn isn’t a random Joe. But any random Joe can in fact make a Wikipedia entry, as long as it comes with verifiable facts, that’s kind of the point of Wikipedia.

There are almost a million pages for living people, according to this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Living_people They’re not all famous, they just usually have publications by them or about them.

That's what I wish Wikipedia was, but unfortunately it's not so: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(people...
I borrowed books from her library once

Seems librarianish