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I think the strongest bias in this case is favoring advisors over the students who do the work, even if they get first authorship.

For example, the Alex of AlexNet [1] fame would be Alex Krizhevsky, if he were actually famous. He doesn't have a Wikipedia page, but his advisor Geoffrey Hinton does (and is famous for the AlexNet breakthrough).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlexNet

How can an encyclopedia that anyone can edit be biased?

Anyone could have added her page, no one did, until now.

Someone created a wiki page for her back in May, but it was deleted because a Wikipedia editor decided she wasn't "notable". Anyone can edit Wikipedia, but it still has the bias of the most recent editor.

https://twitter.com/resolvingdust/status/1047135142978801664

The editors didn’t think she was notable enough. This is an editing problem not a submission problem.

Actually she had a page, but it was deleted. And then someone recreated the page, and it was rejected in review. QED

I'd be curious who made those two or if it was themselves.