https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... 1189282229
Sadly, this has not meant she has tried to raise her game to respect this woman's memory.
The whole page is replete with the usual problems, big and small, but it was hilarious to see this began as early as the sixth word....
The Wikipedia Manual of Style is clear. You don't use puffery like "distinguished". For one, it is assumed that by having a Wikipedia biography, this physicist made an important contribution. And for two, rather than use words that are open to interpretation, you should be specific and factual. Which rather exposed a more serious problem.Mary Ross Bell (1923 – 2022) was a distinguished physicist
There isn't a single part of this biography that explains why this woman was "distinguished".
These are the only parts of the entire page that even come close to expanding on that claim....
To me these don't look like anything that rises to "distinguished". Scientists are expected to be published, cited and make breakthroughs.Her research on electron and proton linear accelerators were published in Harwell reports, which were used by teams of scientists around the world.[1][8]
The detection of the W and Z particles required breakthroughs in engineering such that the antiproton beam had a density equivalent to the proton beam, reducing any thermal oscillations. In 1979 she described the electron cooling in a series of papers.
Her calculations were consistently more rigorous, reproducible and transferable to other accelerators.
Perhaps there is more to this than meets the eye.
Then again, perhaps there isn't.
It isn't like Wade hasn't previously got the entire concept of Wikipedia notability completely wrong, and has written a page merely for activist reasons.
Reading between the lines, and seeing how the references seem to focus on the famous husband, it might not be a stretch to assume this biography only exists because Wade thinks it is unfair that the wife has perhaps been overlooked by history.
That this is Wade's attempt to memorialize her in her own right.
Which makes the fact she did such a poor job of it, not even bothering to correct her usual issues with typos and capitalisation, but more importantly not even explaining what it is in Wade's mind that makes this woman so worthy of memorliaising, all the more contemptible.
