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"The New York Times has compared her to
Edward Snowden for leaking information and because she avoids American law by residing in Russia."
I can see comparing Elbakyan to a whistleblower. You could even say she and Snowden both leak information. Whether she resides in Russia seems to be unknown, though, and I find the "avoid American law by residing in Russia" especially egregious. In Snowden's case, you have an actual American who fled the country to "avoid law", whereas Elbakyan has never been an American citizen. She lived in Russia before Sci-Hub was even an idea, so it's not unreasonable to think she might be there even without "American law" looming. And again, she might not actually even be there.
For now, I hesitate to remove this sourced statement (and its source) from such an undeveloped article, but it's something I may address in the future if no one else does. --
BDD (
talk)
21:31, 6 May 2016 (UTC)reply
The word 'pirate' is a derogatory term coined by the copyright lobby to deter infringement. While 'pirate' as a title is celebrated in the free culture and copy left circles, it definitely has a negative connotation to the general public. This directly violates Wikipedia's guidelines on biographies w.r.t. neutral portrayal of personalities.
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Biography#Opening_paragraph The article you have referenced is a robinhood romanticisation of her work which also mentions that she is not hiding from responsibility but from unfair trial. She is a hacktivist, 'pirate in hiding' should be removed.
demonshreder (
talk) Sat Oct 27 18:06:54 2018 UTC
We document what RS say, including derogatory terms. I have enclosed it in quote marks and noted that she is "described as", IOW Wikipedia is not saying she is. --
BullRangifer (
talk) PingMe18:38, 27 October 2018 (UTC)reply
After reading this discussion, I made some changes. I kept the Verge article in the body, removed the 'pirate in hiding' phrase and then moved the associated (and definitely romanticised!) reference from The Independent to the "Further Reading" section toward the end. See what you think, if that is okay.--
FeralOink (
talk)
08:58, 7 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Recently she's added a link advertising her skills on every SciHub-opened paper. I cannot share it because Wikipedia blocks it, but if you use SciHub (as I'm sure you must if you edit here), you'll find it.
A court order
[1] prohibits anybody with knowledge of the order from facilitating access to Sci-Hub as long as the site keeps violating American Chemical Society copyrights. There have been past incidents where links have been banned to prevent similar IP violations.
Vox Sciurorum (
talk)
20:32, 31 October 2020 (UTC)reply
Kashmir, even if you are not subject to the jurisdiction of US courts, English Wikipedia might be. Well, I think it is. Um, I don't know. Instead of Wikilawyering, which I am NOT qualified to do, I would suggest either 1) not adding the link; or 2) noting what
Prehistoricmanthe2nd said, that the link is on Meta's global spam blacklist and disputing it if you feel inclined to do so. I am kind of curious if the out-of-date link can be updated to a current link that is not on the spam blacklist. I will dig around a bit to see. I doubt I'll be successful though.--
FeralOink (
talk)
06:23, 7 December 2020 (UTC)reply