James Gosling, an Uncommon card

James Arthur Gosling is a Canadian computer scientist, best known as the founder and lead designer behind the Java programming language.
From the Wikipedia article

Rarity: Uncommon
Domain: Science
ATK: 63
DEF: 47
Power: 110
Wikipedia reads a year: 93,000

Power 110 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.

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The facts on the card

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Gosling was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 for the conception and development of the architecture for the Java programming language and for contributions to windowing systems.

Why it is Uncommon

Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The James Gosling article was read about 93,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 47: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.

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Credits

Text : Wikipedia, James Gosling (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Peter Campbell, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.