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fraencko | 5 years ago

Her name is Mileva Marić Einstein. Is there any reason to not put her name into the title?

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panny|5 years ago

please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I guess the submitter dropped the 'forgotten' as it could be considered clickbait with it.

mikelyons|5 years ago

The easy reason is that nobody would know that name and why click on something that doesn't strike your fancy?

zasz|5 years ago

Oh 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.

saagarjha|5 years ago

I’m sure “Einstein” would help people figure it out.

jacobwilliamroy|5 years ago

Well 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.

sooheon|5 years ago

The very first image caption and the first sentence of the piece begin with her name.

shortandsweet|5 years ago

Sounds like an A/B solution would work here.