Larry Wall, an Uncommon card

Larry Arnold Wall is an American computer programmer, linguist, and author known for creating the Perl programming language and the patch tool.
From the Wikipedia article

Rarity: Uncommon
Domain: Arts
ATK: 50
DEF: 29
Power: 79
Wikipedia reads a year: 28,000

Power 79 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 20 % of WikiCards cards.

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The facts on the card

The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.

Larry Arnold Wall is an American computer programmer, linguist, and author known for creating the Perl programming language and the patch tool.

Why it is Uncommon

Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Larry Wall article was read about 28,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 50 and blocks with 29: each hit it takes is cut by 12 %.

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Credits

Text : Wikipedia, Larry Wall (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Randal Schwartz from Portland, OR, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.