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Yea... seems a bit immature too. Didn't address anything the wiki dude said and blamed "society at large" for not producing enough notability for wikipedia.

Also in that twitter thread she says:

"She may have discovered an element, .."

Ironically, it seems the wikieditors did more research because they posted

"Her Oak Ridge autobio says her part of the discovery of the new element was to "contribute ... to the purification of the Bk-249 used to help discover Z=117""

Using the very source that she used to create the article, it is known that she:

1) Did not discover an element

2) Wasn't even on the team that discovered it

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessine)

I really appreciate her effort and goal but with just this one article she's:

- spread misinformation (possibly deliberately)

- broke wikipedia's rules on "canvassing support"

- accused people of bigotry (for merely disagreeing)

All in all, not very helpful to her cause at all... instead of celebrating what is clearly an interesting person, we are now here debating accolades because the original author got carried away.



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