In the 1990's, however, there have not been many notable debuts, notability defined in terms of the artist's re-engagement.
In other words, Wikipedia failed in both of the examined dimensions: being on Wikipedia does not signify academic notability, and being notable does not guarantee Wikipedia coverage.
Local news stories aren't considered to be notable per Wikinews' notability guidelines.
Ratio of men to women included in N language editions before 1900 (left) and since 1900 (right), as a function of N. The gender gap since 1900 is larger for people with low or medium global notability than for the global superstars.
We examined 400 biographical Wikipedia articles on academics from four scientific fields to test if being featured in the world's largest online encyclopedia is correlated with higher academic notability (assessed through citation counts).
Figure 1 shows that since 1900, the gap between men and women is indeed larger for people with low or medium level of global notability than for the 'global superstars,' compared to a baseline.
On the contrary, the inclusion of less notable men would decrease the average notability of men in Wikipedia.
Especially if we compare the number of male and female 'local heroes' (people with low levels of notability, without worldwide fame), we expect to see a larger gender gap (i.e., fewer women than men) than for worldwide 'superstars,' because fewer female 'local heroes' will be able to make it into Wikipedia.
Our analysis of the global notability of men and women in Wikipedia reveals that women are slightly more notable than men using internal and external proxy measures for notability.
Notability is in itself a thorny, contested concept.
You want that notability to create a space in your brain.
