Talk:Heather Ford

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Essay about Wikipedia

Heather Ford has written an essay The Missing Wikipedians" in Critical point of View. A Wikipedia Reader", Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2011. I think this is worth to be mentioned here. --13Peewit (talk) 19:36, 31 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Ford is without doubt notable - and gifted, of that there is no question. She has written several publications and papers on the topic of Wikipedia, including her latest release: Writing the Revolution published on 15 November 2022. She gained her PhD from Oxford with her thesis Fact factories: Wikipedia and the power to represent. Ironically her BLP is incomplete, the sources for some claims link tp opages where she is not mentioned, and some cited sources are to her own social media sites. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 03:02, 19 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Every source except the outdated Oxford profile link from when Ford was a graduate student there, for which archived links exist, mentions her in one way or another, but I agree with the rest of your comment. One of the problem areas is that many sources are very close to the subject, are staff profiles and like you said social media profiles, and trivia like she wrote a post on GlobalVoices. She is notable in her own right, but this article needs to do a better job of showing that. The best opportunities may be in her scholarship and her 2022 book. Saucysalsa30 (talk) 22:32, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]