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Suggestion: Create a new Wikipedia article with the same Name, upload your own profile photo onto it and put a Disambiguation (Programmer/Hacker) in it so that Google will associate it correctly.

Alternatively, add a drawing of the rapist to the original Wikipedia article.

Interestingly, for me, another Hristo (german principal investigator) appears on the right side when I google the name.

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You'd be surprised to learn how hard it is to add anything to Wikipedia and have it stay accepted.

I added the wiki page for Kamala Harris' dad (a professor) to wikipedia (shortly after Biden announced her as his running mate in the election), and within literally 2 minutes, two different people had flagged it for deletion. One reason given was that academics need to be especially notable to warrant a wiki page, completely ignoring his relation to her daughter, which was mentioned in the original draft of the article stub. All proposals for deletion have since been removed, but I was surprised at the ferocity at which users want to delete new articles.

There's definitely a deletionist cult within Wikipedia. While acknowledging that it shouldn't be a dumping ground for essentially individual web pages, it goes too far IMO for people who have clear documented credentials and public history. This favors certain occupations over others of course--including academics, journalists, etc.--who have public bios, papers/articles, and often articles about them. But deletionist tendencies in these areas tend to work against claims that it's all about verifiability.

Yes, I have seen the deletion fetish on Wikipedia first-hand many times. It made me stop contributing to it.

> Suggestion: Create a new Wikipedia article with the same Name, upload your own profile photo onto it and put a Disambiguation (Programmer/Hacker) in it so that Google will associate it correctly.

That Wikipedia article would probably meet the criteria for Speedy Deletion and just causes unnecessary effort for the Wikipedia editors.

No way he'd be able to add an article about himself. He'd need to be somewhat famous/notable for the article to stick...

Hes famous for falsely having been accused of being a serial killer by Google!

It's against Wikipedia's rules to create articles about yourself.

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