[jessamyn]

Sometimes librarians are also those things.

[paulcole]

Thank you for your work at Metafilter. Can’t believe I’ve been reading it for like 17 years now. Over half my life!

[bthrm]

The title makes it sound like she’s some random Joe. Random Joes don’t have Wikipedia entries.

[saudioger]

Average Joe has one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_Joe

[beart]

You are replying to said librarian, fyi.

[dahart]

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.

[icebraining]

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