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Journalist and author Judith Newman wanted to have her own Wikipedia page; she figured if Edward the Blue Engine of children鈥檚 literature fame has a Wikipedia page, why didn鈥檛 she?
But Wikipedia鈥檚 rules are that you can鈥檛 write your own page. Her self-confessed 鈥淲ikixiety鈥� led her to convince a co-worker to write her page, but it was rejected by Wikipedia editors because it was formatted incorrectly and contained unverifiable information.
After Newman wrote about the experience for the New York Times, she got a Wikipedia page, but it was almost immediately taken down when editors debated its news worthiness.
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Maia Weinstock, an editor at Wikipedia, explains the online encyclopedia鈥檚 editorial standards.
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