You could try to get Jodie Foster to notice you in some newsworthy way.
You could assassinate Putin, you would even get a statue and a park in your name.
Start a band and do that until you get on the billboards, do an interview and casually eat leftovers out of a Tupperware while wearing a possum costume with a sash that says “John Locke was right” and refuse to elaborate.
Liberate East Timor.
End global climate change.
Become a YouTube sensation with your Vlogs detailing every load of laundry you do while singing dubstep remixes of Chinese translated Yugoslavian nursery rhymes.
Invade tik-tok with clips of you screaming at inanimate objects with googley eyes on them, they aren’t even your real father.
End global climate change
I feel like you missed OP’s word “easiest”
Sounds like a skill issue, kids these days don’t want to do hard work.
You know all about death and equity, now the kids can learn about sweat equity.
That will come in handy due to all the warming their generation is just letting happen due to their poor work ethic.
Do something “Notable” then add yourself.
If it wasn’t for this rule, Wikipedia could have become myspace.
also isn’t there a rule you can’t add your own page? even if you do something notable?.
How would they know? Wikipedia doesn’t require proof of identity to become an editor.
yeah I’m not sure but I remember a story about Wikipedia busting a company for making edits based on IP. but also it wouldn’t be extremely hard to write a pages in yourself that was neutral point of view amd not using self published sources as you would unconsciously put in content from your recollection of events vs publishers accounts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3ABiographies_of_living_persons?wprov=sfla1
Commit a high profile crime.
Eat the Liberty Bell
This is an interesting question but it also made me ponder something related. It makes sense for Wikipedia to focus on only notable people, but why not create a WikePeople or something that aims to be comprehensive about every person we can find information on? Or does something like this exist already?
Facebook and LinkedIn sort of do this and they are complete shitshows.
Right but I was thinking with a similar rigor and citation system as with Wikipedia. So it’s pretty different in practice.
I see what you mean, I think. It would be convenient to be able to look people up in a modern equivalent of “Who’s Who” in a central location, instead of trying to find people scattered all over the web. However, I wouldn’t want to be on there myself, and would worry employers would make it mandatory. Some employers already reject candidates for having no social media.
A valid concern. I was more thinking it would be interesting if to have a comprehensive biographical database for people who have died. That way they won’t be forgotten as most people of the past have been. But I’m not sure how to create that without violating the privacy of the living.
Who’s who
Create it and cite publically available sources.
Wikipedia nerds are way too obsessive. They’ll delete it unless the person is noteworthy
You know every Wikipedia user has a user page(s) they can put whatever they like on? It’s not in the article namespace, but if you just want to put info about yourself somewhere on Wikipedia that’s the easiest way.
Worth noting, however, that there are also rules on using one’s user page as a promotional piece. It’s much more loose obviously than the criteria for what goes in an article, but you absolutely will get smacked if you use your user page exclusively for advertising.
Easiest way is to die a noteworthy death
Aim for the volcano…
…or the bushes.
I’m not a doctor or lawyer or wiki moderator.
UIm I guess message the mods to let you become a poster or whatever and just write the living shit out of yourself. Then use words that link to others and boom you are golden.
Time was you could just post one, but then all the teachers had to be like “Wikipedia isn’t a source” so society decided to say “fuck you, teach.”
