The Wikipedians have a proposed solution, a very familiar one. Just pull up the drawbridge and declare that only medallists are automatically worthy of a page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... c_athletes
I want you to look at HOW LONG (or rather, how many commented) before anyone even realised this would be hella racist. It being a sad fact of the Olympics that most medallists come from a few countries.
It was only even hinted at by Canadian Paul 05:56, 27 August 2021 (UTC) and only finally explicitly stated by Wug·a·po·des 20:42, 27 August 2021 (UTC)......
In true Wikipedia fashion, where they're more about the PR than the reality, the very first commenter actually argued this would be a good thing for systemic bias, because less sportspeople means less sportsmen, which means the percentage of biographies on women goes up!No For a lot of reasons. First, modern Olympic medal awards are dominated by athletes from industrialized nations which pour insane amounts of money into these programs in order to project athletic and political power. In the all-time medal rankings we have to go down 36 countries before we get to a delegation from Africa. There are 45 delegations who have participated in at least 10 Olympic games without winning a medal, and only 5 of those are countries in Europe. Of the 18,876 medals ever awarded, 27% were won by the Anglophone nations of the US, Canada, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. 10% of medals have been won by Russia and its predecessors. 53% of all medals ever awarded went to one of ten nations: the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, China, Sweden, Australia, and Japan. The question might as well be "should we delete articles on African Olympic athletes?" Absolutely not.
These fucking people.
How long it will it before their default approach to doing anything, is, WAIT, is the thing I am about to do potentially racist or sexist.
How ironic that the "price of a cup of coffee" to help the poor little girl in Africa learn her shit, might actually first need to be poured into a formal diversity training program for old white dudes. Because leaving these dopes to figure it out themselves, might take a very long time.