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Her name is Mileva Marić Einstein. Is there any reason to not put her name into the title?
by fraencko 6y ago
Her name is Mileva Marić Einstein. Is there any reason to not put her name into the title?
- panny 6y agoplease use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html I guess the submitter dropped the 'forgotten' as it could be considered clickbait with it.
- mikelyons 6y agoThe easy reason is that nobody would know that name and why click on something that doesn't strike your fancy?
- saagarjha 6y agoI’m sure “Einstein” would help people figure it out.
- zasz 6y agoOh please, it would've been extremely easy to title it "The Life of Einstein's First Wife, Mileva Marić," and thereby make it clearer she was a notable person in her own right, not for merely being Einstein's wife, to even a casual reader who didn't click through.
- jacobwilliamroy 6y agoWell if you leave out her name, then readers will never see her as an individual and will only think of her as a wife of an important man. People on HN and even the author too will go into denial about this and give you some bullshit about "recognizability" or "editorialization" but that is the real reason because they both hate women and are also too cowardly to admit it.
- shortandsweet 6y agoSounds like an A/B solution would work here.
- sooheon 6y agoThe very first image caption and the first sentence of the piece begin with her name.