At least 2 people I went to college with have bios. One became documentary filmmaker. I thought she was pleasant enough as a dormmate, but I don’t think the administration liked her much. She’s a bit nutty, but seems to have found her niche. The other is missing and presumed dead. He had a claim to notability as an academic before disappearing. He’s not someone who’d do well as a missing person. Wikipedia won’t say it without a reliable source identifying the corpse, but he’s dead and has been since the day wandered off.
I thought a third guy had a good chance at an article, but it’s just a redirect to the rodent he named himself after.
I thought a third guy had a good chance at an article, but it’s just a redirect to the rodent he named himself after.
I have sooo many questions, but I don’t want you to answer them because some things are best left a mystery.
I want them answered
Yeah @EyeBeam@links.hackliberty.org, tell us the story about the man named after a rat please!
It could be a capybara too !
It could be, but I’d put money down on it being a rat.
I’m related to someone who’s a Wikipedia admin. Admins typically have their own pages with bios, but admin bios are categorized differently from the rest of Wikipedia
Every user on Wikipedia can have their own page in the User namespace
Since I work in Bay Area tech I’ve met a bunch of people who do, like Guido van Rossum and Sergey Brin. But I only really know one, an astronomer I used to work with.
Worse.
I know someone with an Encyclopedia Dramatica article written about them.
Please do tell us more
All I am willing to say is he is in a discord server I’m also in, and his article details an… Unhealthy obsession he has with Dora the Explorer.
I think that tells me enough to not ask you more details lol
Yes.
If you’ve worked in construction, you may know people who ruined their lives playing pro sports in leagues that don’t set you up for life. An example, the CFL.
Sad. Ruined how usually? Concussions n injuries, substances…?
Depends on the person.
Even if you didn’t get injured, or sexually assaulted as part of “hazing”, or pick up a drug habit, playing a sport at a professional level will often ruin you.
During high school you spend all of your non-school time training, so no after school job and your grades probably aren’t great.
Then you get to university, where you play the sport without being paid, and you one again can’t really have a job or focus on your studies.
Then you get drafted (or just hired for some league) into the sport, and you play until your body isn’t good enough anymore. You are then discarded with no job experience, no training, and possibly moving teams/cities every couple years so you don’t really have any non-sport contacts.If you get into a league that pays insanely well, you are likely fiscally fine. That’s like the NHL, or the NFL. If you only get into the CFL, the WHL, the “minors”, or you play in a women’s league or a sport that not enough people care about, you probably were not paid enough to survive once the game is over.
So, what do you do with no job experience, no contacts, shrinking savings? You get a job that you can leverage your celebrity, like real estate or car sales, or something that you can also do if you have a criminal record or no CV, like roofing or landscaping.
Edit: not that there is anything wrong with any of those jobs, but starting to learn a new job at 40 isn’t fun. Also, if your body isn’t in top-shape anymore, roofing and landscaping is brutal.
Knees and brains usually.
Too many pro-sports leagues use a pay structure that leaves players earning far too little, and the players end their careers with injuries and no compensation.
I personally know Blake Lemoine, the Google engineer who announced publicly in 2022 that he believed Google’s LaMDA large language model was becoming sentient. He doesn’t have a whole article about him, but he’s a whole section on LaMDA’s Wikipedia article.
This sounds like a true story, bob.
Blake’s a good guy, but a little off-putting in person. He’s what my grandmother would call “a character.” I have no doubt he believes what he says, but I doubt the versatility of his claims on this.
I have a few professors who have wikipedia pages if that counts.
my uncle, he’s a fellow of the Linux foundation
A few. Most recent is my neighbour.
No, but every so often I add myself to my towns page to see how long it lasts.
I did that once on the page for my birthday. Got removed less than 24 hours.
Yeah, we used to do a podcast together:
I knew a couple athletes in college that played professionally and have pages.
A few people I work with, in the data science and environmental science fields.
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