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Link: Allison Stokke's Wikipedia Entry Keeps Getting Deleted – Sports Blog
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• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allison Stokke
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allison Stokke (second nomination)

Posted Jun 1st 2007 8:58PM by Michael David Smith

You are Time Magazine's 2006 Person of the Year because 2006 was, according to Time, the year that you controlled the flow of information.

And you have made high school pole vaulter Allison Stokke a notable person. Google has 445,000 results on a search for her name, and after you made her famous, the real media followed suit: She's been featured on the front page of the Washington Post and her hometown newspaper is selling mugs with her picture on it.

So why, given her status, can't you write a Wikipedia entry for Stokke? Wikipedia is supposed to be the world's largest encyclopedia, with a wealth of information available to all, but Stokke is one notable person whose information can't be found there. If Stokke had an entry it would be here, but the entries that have been written about her have been deleted.

Why are Wikipedia users deleting her entry? One person who deleted Stokke's entry gave the laughable explanation of "no evidence of notability (except fringe Internet phenomenon)." Right. The Washington Post is a fringe internet phenomenon. Another person who deleted her entry cited her age, neglecting to mention that Stokke is an adult and there are many Wikipedia entries about people younger than her.

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