Wikipedia strikes again

[ffutures]

A couple of years ago I spent way too much time reading all of the known works of an author and adding summaries of his books to the minimal entry on Wikipedia.

Please could someone who understands Wikipedia better than I do take a look at the entry and its revisions, and explain why an article about an author has been edited to remove all references to two out of four books, with the deletions marked as "Off topic"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_William_Cole

Comments

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

I think that editor decided that the non-SF, non-milfic books were "off topic" because the intro is to Cole as an early SF and milfic author.

I also think that's ridiculous.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Pretty much my own impression.

[andrew m. kuchling (from livejournal.com)]

I sent a note to that editor using their Talk page, and that turns out to have been their reasoning. I restored the text and reworded the first sentence to say "Some of his works are early SF...". Thanks for pointing this out!

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Editorial bias indeed.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Yup.