Submissions:2025/Notability challenges for pre-20th century individuals
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This submission has been noted and is pending review for WikiConference North America 2025.
Title:
- Notability challenges for pre-20th century individuals
Type of session:
- Lightning talk
Session theme(s):
- Credibility
Abstract:
This talk will briefly outline some challenges in establishing notability for individuals alive before the advent of the internet (mid-20th-century and earlier). I will discuss issues with relying on newspaper coverage and how to determine whether coverage is truly "sustained" given differences from the reporting styles of today.
Author name(s):
Wikimedia username(s):
- ThadeusOfNazereth
Affiliated organization(s):
Estimated length of session
- 10
Will you be presenting remotely?
- I will present in-person
Okay to livestream?
- Livestreaming is okay
Previously presented?
- No
Special requests: