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The barrier to entry is the effort required to create a good and truthfull page.


Because people with two x chromosomes aren't capable of that?


There are many more biographies of males than of females on Wikipedia. Whatever the reason for that might be is up to debate.


Is this good or bad? Maybe because (assumption here) there are more "relevant" males throughout history?


It is not good or bad, it is what it is. Unless biographies of females are actively being suppressed, it is simply irrelevant: they are not being created because nobody cares, literally.


It's actually not that high. In the anecdote, the little page I created had two sources with citation formatting messed up and two paragraphs of text. A week later, bots had cleaned up the citation, another bot had added an infobox, and someone had added all the "Retrieved at" dates to the citations. I did so little.




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